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The criticism of transgender people from a transgender woman makes Caitlyn one of the good ones. Same as a black person who criticizes the blacks.

Sure it’s free. It’s the freedom for the people in charge to control other people’s personal and private lives. There’s a long and storied history of that in that part of the country.

Sadly, this is not unlikely.

Gotta have someone out there for garbage time.

To be fair, Michael Lorenzen may have been coming off injury, but he also was coming off two lackluster years, he signed with the one and only team interested in him, and he got torched in two of his first three outings for us. Now that's been put together three solid starts since, I think it's safe to jump onto the bandwagon for the moment.

I found it interesting that the Tigers have a boatload of weekday day games at home and the Cubs, the team that always celebrated sunshine baseball, have almost none. I chalk that up to the diaspora watching on TV, since the Yankees and Red Sox also don't have weekday day games outside of holidays.

Yes, in 2022, although that was after the vertigo and the ear infection, and before the Achilles problems and the mental health issues.

Maybe Matt Gaetz for MTG. No, seriously. Power couple thing. Possibly some NRA lobbyist for Machine Gun Boebert.

The way I remember it, it wasn't whether Paredes could stick in the infield at all—it was whether he could make it as a middle infielder, which I don't think anyone outside the Avila brain trust thought was a real possibility. Everyone else thought Paredes was always going to be tracked into being a third baseman. As for where we are now, not sure what that means exactly since we are in a much better spot overall than last year, but that rarely turns on one player alone in any event. I think with 20/20 hindsight we can safely conclude we would be far better off today with Paredes at third than with parade of quad-A players there. On your other point—did Tampa know something about Meadows? I've wondered that as well. I haven't found anything prior to last year that reported that Meadows was dealing with mental health issues, but then, nobody in sports ever talked about that before literally last year, so that doesn't mean nothing was happening. And even though Avila was anything but the king of due diligence, I'm not sure how that could come up even for the most diligent trader. Unlike physical health, you can't see mental health. And Meadows did play most of 2019 and 2021 with decent production. So we can probably chalk this up to weird luck, although there may always be something in the back of my mind about that.

There’s no way to actually know, maybe unless you could somehow OOTP it out, but I feel that Paredes would have done better under Hinch/Harris than under Grifol/Avila. I didn’t love the trade at the time because I thought Paredes was better than Meadows straight up so it was a lot to give up, but I also thought it was defensible based on where we were and what we were trying to do coming into the 2022 season. We all thought we were on the brink of contending, and it seemed like we needed Meadows more in left than we needed Paredes at third. But now it’s been almost a year and a half and with Paredes getting comfortable and heating up for Tampa whereas Meadows may literally never play again, we are already losing the trade by a substantial margin, and I can’t envision any scenario in which that flips around and we end up winning or even tying it. I wonder if Tampa locks up Paredes for cheap at some point, like a 7/70 deal or something.

Anyone still glad we made the Paredes deal?

I remember listening to this game on the radio while we were on our way to my grandparents’, which must have been a Sunday. I was just getting into baseball, and I had zero idea that day just how unusual getting seven hits in a game was.

Solid, workman-like win tonight. This is how good teams routinely win games, and we are playing mostly bad teams into at least early June. The next few weeks has the potential to be a very fun stretch of baseball.

Get out of here with your stupid ****ing logic, you’re making our whine sour and ruining our pity party. 😁

The league can definitely sell this. Cha-ching.

San Antonio, comeback story. Good narrative for the league.

F#@K!

The music is so precious.

I’ll be happy with top three. I think Wemby goes to Portland or San Antonio. The league would like either one. Good narrative.

Sure, it's a grotesque version of a symbiotic relationship.

There's a bit of luck to his numbers out there. His LOB is high, his BABIP is low, his HR9 is one is the lowest on that team (which plays at 3,700'), and his walk rate is over double what it was in Toledo. As a result, is FIP is 3.64, whereas in Toledo it was 3.88, which is not all that different. However, his ELP xFIP is 4.46 whereas his TOL xFIP was 3.78, which is decidedly all that different. The one possible good thing for him is that he has been beating the ball into the gorund at a 50% clip, which, still, could be SSS theater. Bottom line, thought, the Padres are a bottom ten bullpen in many key metrics, so even Drew Carlton will get a fair hearing out there.

This sounds very much like the time a poster on the old board tried to invalidate my theory that private medical insurance is basically socialized medicine by trying to trap me on not knowing or being able to explain with a risk pool was, and that argument made no sense back then, either.

This may be the most logical, believable thing you have ever posted here.

I sometimes regard myself as far too cynical, and yet this never occurred to me even once, and it simultaneously shocks me and doesn't surprise me in the least.