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Well, a guy like Montero is gonna get shelled once in a while. Maybe we can score enough runs to cover it.

Padres fans can’t be happy that Trey Sweeney left the Dodgers and yet here he is hurting them.

Being called "boss" by random guys. I do a thing at this place three days a week, and as I walk in today there's a new guy, age 20 or so. We're passing by each other and I say "hey, how ya doin'?", slightly upbeat. He responds with a low intoned "'sup boss." I might have done the slightest of double takes on it before immediately interfacing with my coordinator about my job today. There's some Reddit debate about whether it's respect or patronizing. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't see it as respect. Mainly because most of the random guys who've called me "boss" looked to me in the moment like they were resentful or seething, like they wanted to kick my ass. "Oh, what, you think you're a boss? Wanna prove it?" It feels like that kind of thing. These have been people like certain car wash employees or auto repair, blue collar guys. Not all of them, not even most of them, but just the odd one here and there. And this kid presented like he's from an environment that privileges blue collar tough guys. I imagine what they're doing when they say that is trying to trick me into believing they respect me when in fact they mean it as an insult, same as when people say "bless your heart." Insults coded as compliments or flattery. Maybe it makes them feel clever. But I've never liked it, and it always makes me feel slightly on edge if I have to keep hanging around them for whatever reason. Well, at least no one I see on a regular basis does that.

Tigers, tho

I still think they might vote for Trump because they hope he's being deceitful on their behalf.

The offices of the Orioles are in the warehouse. I lived in Balto for almost a year and worked at Doner advertising out there, and I was at the Orioles' offices for a presentation. I couldn't help staring out the window at the field, even though it was January. My boss had to bark my name out, in front of the client, to snap me out of my reverie. Quite embarrassing. I was laid off a few weeks later, on, of all dates, February 29.

No way Catturd2 is not Russian or Iranian ops.

Perhaps they'll still vote for him because they think he is kidding, or even better, because they think he is lying just to suppress the libtard vote.

Not for nothing, this:

Five bucks says the Trump campaign will immediately start hammering this story to divert from the shooting in Trump country.

@cmmcosky: subreplacement lionization alert ...

And here is why the ball will probably never be deadened, and why Baseball will never encourage pitchers to to reduce their pitch speed or lay up to the bottom of batting orders.

How come a First Lieutenant is pictured with sergeant stripes? Is that normal in some way?

I hope this means that they're going to double down on New Hampshire, and while they're in the area, they should goes balls out in Vermont and Massachusetts, too.

Just another drop in the firehose of atrocities that I'd completely forgotten about.

Looks like not everyone is on board with the whole Israel Right or Wrong thing.

I know he's not sub-replacement, but he is an ex-Tiger, so how come McCosky isn't waxing idiotic about this?

I think we’d be in halfway decent shape if we could go 3-3 on this trip.

The dumb leading the ignorant.

Yes, he did. Who's going to stop him?

The game is at 6:40pm which is when the Tigers start their night games this season, but they’re playing in San Diego, so it’s a 3:40pm start time out there, which is a rather strange local time to start a game. Turns out the Padres have several holiday and getaway games, maybe half a dozen or so, starting at 3:40pm local time. Most of them are against Eastern and Central teams, which made me wonder whether they did this for TV exposure in the opponents’ market for some reason, but they did schedule a 3:40pm against Seattle one game as well. This must be something that makes sense locally, maybe a weather thing or a civic thing.

As for Navigato himself, perhaps there are holes in his game that he’s either working feverishly on, or that he can’t fix but they need still need some shortstop any shortstop to log innings at the Triple-A level. If he didn’t have holes in his game, he’d be up here right now, and if he had fewer holes in his game than Navigato, then it would be Sweeney in Toledo we’d be whining about not getting a chance in Detroit. Maybe we bring Navigato up if/when Trey Sweeney get hurts. As a 26-year-old 20th-rounder who has never been to the majors, they don’t have to be concerned about Navigato’s service time, nor do they have to baby his development in preparation for a major league career. If they have an emergency need for a shortstop in Detroit, they’ll probably just throw him in there; if they never do, they’ll let him play out the string in the bushes, or offer him as a throw-in to complete some deal. Not sure who would want an overripe minor-league lifer, though. FWIW, I also believe the Tigers might be thinking of Sweeney the same way. He’s not the future of the position for the Tigers, either. I believe some combination of McGonigle and Rainer probably is. Sweeney is simply the best of several suboptimal options in the present.

I don’t think Harris and Hinch and the front office and the coaches fall in or out of love with any player. I don’t think it’s emotional at all. I think they have a plan and a process and are following through with it, making adjustments as necessary as conditions on the ground warrant. Getting emotional and falling in and out of love with players is what fans do.