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Three-run jack? Trey Sweeney?! Really?!

He better be named an All-Star tonight.

Dodged a bullet on this one!

Must have gotten a better offer in a part of the private sector that directly benefits from it.

I think she’d probably say the Democrats, academics, media, and/or George Soros did.

Did he also blame Democrats for gutting it? Because that would be totally on brand.

The crime rate among undocumented immigrants is much lower than that among documented immigrants, which itself is slightly lower than among American citizens.

I was out with some baseball friends last night and the Tigers had just won 2-1, and I joked with them that because Skubal was starting the third game but we practically never sweep anyone, we’re going to lose 1-0, ha ha. I really want to have been kidding.

A trade to someplace he can play every day?

Quebecios? Is that two people named Quebecio? 😉

FWIW, CAD is the official international designation for Canadian currency.

Sure, all the players will get paid in US dollars, but Canadian businesses doing business in Canada operate under the Canadian dollar, and if the value of CAD goes down, so does the value of the business. SCA: is that the Specialty Coffee Association Canada Chapter? Because that’s the main result when i search for whatever the hell that means. https://scacanada.coffee/

Allons-y Expos! (Don’t pronounce that final “s”, though.)

Sure, why not? I don’t care about Salt Lake, mainly because I know they’re going to choose a stupid minor-leaguey-type name. But I’m hoping against hope the Nashville private equity corp retains the Nashville Sounds name. Probably less than 10% chance they do. It may not even be in the consideration set. It’ll probably be the Nashville Thundering Turtles or something equally idiotic.

It also would not go over well with the other owners since less money would be flowing into the game. Flip side: contract, then re-expand into those contracted markets after a number of years. Instant windfall.

Maybe. If it’s not Salt Lake, then it would probably be Portland since they’d need a western team to balance out Nashville. But Portland is not really a sit-still-and-watch-something-in-the-summer kind of town. People move to Oregon to explore their incredible, practically unmatched outdoors environment. It’s likely a reason minor league baseball has failed multiple times there. If they build a small stadium (high 20s), under the assumption vast majority of the revenue comes from outside the stadium during game time, it would probably help the optics.

Nashville and Salt Lake.

You got it.

Related to this, I really really hate looking up stats on Reference and seeing ATH instead of OAK.

Good thing there was never a chance we were going to sign him. That would have been an Avila move.

See, this is the one you’d trade a top five not named Clark or McGonigle for. I’m not sure the Marlins are all that savvy when it comes to prospect trades.

Hopefully by other GMs.

Scott? Is that you? I can’t see Harris giving up either Clark or McGonigle, both Top 12 MLB prospects according to Pipeline, for a reliever with control problems who’s having a down year. FWIW, I also can’t see Harris adding a close-to-the-end-of-the-line veteran with an injury history and who’s due another $90 or so million into a clubhouse that relies partially on the bonhomie of scrappy kids playing to make a career for themselves, especially when deGrom would cost us at least two top 5 prospects. That’s going to be the starting bid to get deGrom from the Rangers, a team who recently won a pennant and is still within view of the playoffs this year.

Vest hadn’t pitched for three days so he needed the work. Gotta get him trigger time at some point and there’s no guarantee it’s going to be close and late tomorrow, either.

Just when I thought I was out on this game, they pull me back in and break my heart.