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Curious why you believe this?

While he may never become a top of the order hitter, I am reasonably confident Sweeney will eventually hit better than he does now, considering both his first-round-draft pedigree and that he hasn't even logged 200 big league plate appearances yet. If he can be a 100 OPS+ hitter with a decidedly plus glove, that would get him over 3 WAR. I think that's within his upside, and quite possibly within the next two or three seasons.

Here's another Old Friend of Ours. Minor-League Transactions: Cubs signed RHP Michael Fulmer to a minor-league contract.

I think that's a big part of it, yes.

And I already found a few things not there, like pretending not to have heard about PA Gov mansion fire and then offering no condolences.

It has been not quite 100 days and while we are still getting blasted by his fire hose, it's hard to really appreciate just how hard the spray has been. So I picked up this list of his "de-complishments" from another website and thought I would share it here as a reminder. And this list will be out of date by end of business today. When you see the scope of what he has done all listed in one place, it is absolutely gasptaking. Pardons all violent Jan 6th criminals 2 Israeli ceasefires collapse Ukrainian ceasefire collapse/fail to launch War with Houthis; Signalgate 1.0 and 2.0 Let’s Houthis shoot down 10+ reaper drones Threatens invasion of partner countries; alienates allies (Greenland, Canada, Mexico and Panama) Threatens war with Iran Threatens NATO alliance Does Russia’s bidding against Ukraine: propaganda, pulling aid, intel, capitulation to land demands Mark Fogel released for Russian cyber criminal Dismantles foreign cyber crime defense Multiple aviation accidents/blames DEI DEI historical removals like Jackie Robinson, Enola Gay Releases millions of gallons of water in CA to wrong place after fires Addresses none of deadly tornadoes in central plains (busy winning his own golf tournament) Markets down 10-20%; worst month since depression/market manipulation Blows up his own trade deals and erases trillions from the market with dollar down 9% Giant tariff tax, global trade war, tariffs on everyone including penguins but not on Russia Crypto scams: Trump and Melania coins Pardons Silk Road creator and crypto crooks Pardons Pete Rose and pressures MLB to reinstate him US boycotts, travel warnings, prolonged detainment Froze NIH research grants and preventing federally funded scientists from traveling or talking about their work. Gutted USAID wasting billions in aid and costing thousands of lives Cuts funding to public media like NPR and PBS Took over Kennedy Center Hangs mug shot in White House Lets Elon's kid put a booger on resolute desk Hosts Kid Rock dressed like a rodeo clown after supporter in media slagged Zelenskyy's attire during WH visit DOGE chainsaw to Fed agencies with no DoD cuts and an actual increase in federal spending /mass “DEI firings” Stops loans and programs like Farm to School Invites dictators to the White House Loss of 1st and 5th amendment rights/deportation for opinions/due process/deporting homegrown "criminals" El Salvadorian detention camps, Guantanamo Bay failure Threatens loss of 14th amendment - birthright citizenship Threatens 16th amendment rights- congress setting tax rules Threatens 19th amendment - save act/women’s voting rights Threatens 22nd amendment - 3rd term Weaponizes justice department; Tesla vandalism = terrorism/ Jan 6 revenge Measles + bird flu Wasted 30k real eggs on Easter F-47 jet and proposals for his image on currency, Rushmore, airport naming Canceled Ebola prevention funding Eliminates FDA regulations on food Opens federal forests for logging and opens protected ocean space for fishing, drilling White House = Tesla dealership Golf trips EVERY weekend and some weekdays Wastes taxpayer millions attending Super Bowl, NASCAR, UFC events Trump Gaza; wants to create golden idols of himself Attacks and sues private, state, and federal entities over constitutional rights = extortion Attacks on trans, including troops Attacks the independence of the FED Pro repeal of child labor legislation Gets rid of price caps on medicine like insulin Reverses student loan forgiveness Tries to reverse overdraft fee protection Reverses climate legislation, guts EPA Violation of Separation of powers; criminal contempt Mass Deportations of Undocumenteds Masked secret police kidnapping of people on street in plain view Revoked citizenship for hundreds of thousands of refugees Mass protests in all 50 states Didn’t know about dead soldiers in Lithuania/golfed with Saudis instead of being there for dignified transfer of bodies Refuses release of Epstein Files Says “these things happen” after Florida school shooting Welshed on “no tax on tips/overtime” Brain worm autism theory; persons list Fruit Loops made with real colors SOH gets robbed and does glam shoot with foreign prisoners DOI lies under oath "A1" sauce, secretary of education Trump GOLD card for Russian oligarchs Announces military parade for his birthday “Got rid” of PaPer straWs Made shower heads Great Again Baby bonus/mommy medals 100ft flag pole at the White House GulF of AmEriCA

They have been so far, but we all know his limitations, and last night was one of them.

Yeah. photos don't render particularly well when you upload them to most websites, this one not excepted.

So, Old Friend of Ours had a rough go: six innings, ten hits plus a walk, only four strikeouts, and six runs yielded. And he still got credit for a Quality Start. Why? Because only three of the six runs he gave up were earned, because he himself made an error to extend the inning and all three subsequent runs, including a bomb he gave up, went into the books as unearned. Baseball!

I don't think anyone's arguing Workman has no future whatsoever. It's probably not a future as an everyday major leaguer. And that's fine, not everyone can be that. Who knows, maybe he'll surprise us. I wouldn't place any action on that prop, though.

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I did a presentation a few years ago maintaining that the American Leaguer was a tougher, stronger, better league than the national league, full stop. That was before universal DH, which I think had a greater effect on the disparity than people at the time were willing to admit.

Gage Workman was in the Tigers system for four years and never even made it to AAA, so, no surprise he washed out of Wrigley Field within a couple weeks. Maybe he’s salvageable and can have some kind of big league career, or, maybe he’s simply an organizational soldier type which, that’s cool, there aren’t enough actual prospects to fill every position in the minors, so maybe he can still get on field work for a few years before he goes into coaching.

TBF, i don’t think anyone voting that day saw Eric Adams as a red hat in normie’s clothing.

Gotta love those devils you know. 😉

What’d i tell ya? 😉

Sweeney has 15-20 homer potential and can take a walk. He’s never going to be Mookie at short—I mean, who is?—but he could be a 3-4 win player for a couple seasons somewhere down the line, which might make him 50 Ms or so in his career. I see his upside as Dansby Swanson lite, with a somewhat better stick and a level below on defense but still with a plus glove.

I get that recognition by the national baseball media doesn’t matter when taken against winning, and if I had to choose one over the other, I would definitely choosing winning over recognition ten times out of ten. It’s just a personal preference I have to want my team be respected on the national stage, and I get a charge of pride out of it when it happens. And it did happen during the MLB Tonight segment before tonight’s games, so I was happy to see it. If any of the cool kids think that makes me pathetic, then I plead guilty as charged.

Wait until they start overturn entire amendments to the constitution, specifically, I, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XIX, and especially XXII.

Old friend of our starting for the Cubs tonight.

We don’t have to take him, do we? 😏

I think the players being so young with very little MLB experience is a factor in players buying in to Harris and Hinch’s program. They’re not far enough along in their careers to have egos so big that they can reject it. And the one guy who might be best suited to do that was so terrible the past couple of years that he could not reasonably fight them on it and come off looking good.

While I think he might still lose enough votes on the margin that he'll lose to what white cis "Christian" man the Republicans run, especially if that man is not Trump (which would bring center right voters who bailed on this election back to their ticket), I do admit that 2028 may be a different animal from what 2025 is now, so it's wait and see for me. I do think it's willful to ignore that too much of the American electorate votes against immutable identifications they don't like for no other reason than that.

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Two out of three from the “best” team in the National League. And we put up a six-spot against the lowest-run-allowing pitching staff in baseball. AND we shut them out. AND Reese Olson. AND we’re shorthanded so many regulars. I mean to tell ya … We’ve got to start getting serious national media love for this, don’t we?