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Deflecting to unimportant issues like crowd size is how they try to get you off your real game.

“Interviewing” her for a job in the administration, perhaps.

Do the players like McCosky as much as he adores them? Do they think he’s a cool stand-up kind of guy? Or is he more like the creepy assistant hockey coach in juniors? I don’t know either way.

I think we might if we could do it for 2+2 or something like that.

Dingler sat for the Hens yesterday, and Rogers caught for us.

We have an advantage with Jack because even if we keep him now and lose him this winter, we will do no worse than a 30-something overall pick next June. That gives us leverage in phone calls.

It is one hundred percent certain Dingler will start tonight.

Plenty of room on that Phillies bandwagon! All you gotta do is get that battery-flinging wing in shape!

Flaherty is the next man up, so I don’t see why he wouldn’t start. If a deal gets finalized mid-batter, though, he’s coming out.

I see, sorry, I misunderstood.

It does seem like the stars are lining up for Dingler to get hot at the deadline, doesn’t it? TBF, the guy isn’t chopped liver. He was part of one of the best catching tandems in the game. He’s already got 1.7 WAR by Fangraphs (1.0 by Reference). And he’s probably going to cost something like eight million next year so the Rangers are probably just renting him. Kelly is good right now, as good as he’s ever been (which had been twice before). That’s all the Rangers or any other team would want from him.

Harris sees something in these two particular guys. I’m going to give him a fair chance to show and prove before I pummel him. I ain’t seen him **** up a deal real bad yet.

We weren’t going to trade for Jansen. Hicks has a hit tool that could get him to the majors for a few years. Owens has a plus fastball that tops out at 99 who could be a useful piece if we can develop a second pitch for him. These guys are a decent get for someone we were going to lose for nothing at the end of the season anyway. If this turns out to be their best trade of the deadline, then I’ll be disappointed.

Carson Kelly wasn’t going to get us anything “exciting”. He wasn’t even named as one of MLBTR’s top 50 trade candidates back on July 11. I acknowledge that you and I are going to die soon and we want to see a winner before we go, but we can’t take leave of our faculties what it comes assessing what kinds of returns we should expect to see in these trades. 😉

I had a boss in the 80s who was from Massillon, Ohio and said Joe Sparma was his uncle, and I have no reason to not believe him.

I think the factthat we got two FG numbered prospects for Kelly is pretty impressive. Of course, they both have significant holes in their game right now so there’s no guarantee either is going to make an impact for us. At least trading him didn’t bork us completely at catcher. I give Harris a shoot-from-the-hip grade of B for the move.

I’m guessing we’ll find out in a few minutes what we get in return. Also, welcome to Detroit, Dillon Dingler!

That's enough for me.

I hate that we are getting to the point when we have seen the last of divisional rivals. That means we are getting late into the season and before you know it it'll be snowing and we'll be stuck watching the Pistons. 😢

Which he did. Five innings, one run for Maeda. Pretty good outing. But he’s definitely done now and Shelby Miller is next man up.

Well Vilade couldnt save Maeda on that second rip to left. Looks like he might be turning into a pumpkin now. Maybe he can gut his way to a couple more outs, including Santana.

Holy **** what a catch by Vilade to save Maeda’s bacon. And almost doubled the guy off first!

Meads with a pretty good fourth inning. Lead off double and a steal of third with one out, but a strikeout and a fly out to gut his way through it. Should be coming out for another inning.

Good for the Cubs. Although don’t bet against them finding a way to **** him up.

Maeda with a solid three innings and he’s probably ready for more.