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You will know if this real or only a PR gloss by whether a couple thousand people are let go.

Maybe under the old roster rules you let guys come up and get acquainted in Sept, but definitely not so much anymore.

boo-hisss!

Dodger stat page says Snell has only worked 4.2 innings in ST. Expect a short start?

and it's worse than that, because the way American corporate governance works - extracting every nickel quarter to quarter, US corps won't do what the Japanese did and plow those profits from a protected market back into building world class cars to sell around the world. Nope, what will happen is 1974 all over again - poorly built, behind the times tech, crappy cars in the us market. Coming to a dealer near your soon:

So, Diane?

Got a point there.

yup - when I counted the roster earlier I forget to subtract Madden and thought they still had one more guy to cut.

Stock market bouncing up and down almost every day driven by the administration's tariff plan de jour. It they had done some of this in an orderly manner....

I don't mean to pick on you in particular, but I'm tired of hearing about how close Florida or Tx might be. When the GOP loses one in either place I'll pay attention.

Petzold reporting that Chafin is going to go to Toledo and try to work his way back. I wondered if he would hang 'em up if he didn't make the team.

So I've got 13 position players: Dingler, Rogers Carpenter, Greene, Kreilder, Margot Ibanez, Baez, Sweeney, Keith, Torres, Torkelson, McKinstry and they still need to get the pitching down to 13.

I saw the news about Malloy (out) and Kreidler (in) in the Freep, didn't see about Chafin. Thought he had a chance based on this last two outings. Petzold's panties will be in a bunch - he wanted Malloy over Torkelson. I hate to have to tell him that Torkelson is a better 1B than Malloy is an OF. If Malloy goes to Toledo and learns to do something useful with the shoe leather on his left hand he can still be a good piece.

ABSOLUTELY, the annual adds of young players have gone, are going well. They’ve all done well except maybe Bergrenn, who is pretty ‘meh’. The margin of failure is exactly the poor performance with the NHL moves.

dropping margins are nice, but the Dems need wins.

i'm still thinking they take 14 position players for the 1st couple of series - or maybe until Baez proves he is or isn't hitting any better.

Kreidler in no hurry to go to Toledo - but alas, Dingler can't bring him home.

This exhibition season has passed its sell-by date.

So they take Javy out before he gets the chance to make a throw to the plate. Hard to say if Kreidler's throw was bad or not as it looked like it hit the mount/rubber - which is just bad luck.

violating the first formality of an interview with a translator - don't talk to the translator.

as in 'comeback to Toledo'?

A RUN!

Casey shrugs off the double. I like this new found composure.

yup - now we need to see him on one he has to run for. Mize replaces Jobe to get a little work. I think the question with Jobe remains command/concentration. The stuff is great but like any pitcher he can't get behind with non-competitive pitches.

he did, and made a good, pitch, but then lost him on the next