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I don't know if that's true of Mets fans, and yet, he left. When I caught a high pop foul on the fly in Washington in 2017—something you almost never see—of the four broadcasts between the two teams, Josh Lewin on Mets radio was the only one to mention it on-air.

The New York Football Yankees.

Boras is setting a precedent that he is open to low-year/high-AAV contracts with opt-outs every year. Expect to see the same thing for Blake Snell, at the very least. I wouldn't bet on the other two big ones settling for the same.

I think there's a good chance TORK! clears both .500 SLG and forty bombs, even with half his games at home, based on the idea that whatever clicked in August is sustainable, especially if this coaching team is focusing on him, which I believe they will.

Josh Lewin has cycled through a lot a lot of jobs, which leads me to wonder whether he is a nightmare employee.

Oh, sorry, I thought we were limiting discussion to criminal aspects of the case, of which the judge basically determined there were none. Yeah, I agree, Bauer is a bad guy, and almost certainly a clubhouse cancer, and I wouldn't want him on my team, either, unless we're talking OOTP.

And the latest I've heard is that Vegas isn't going to be ready until 2028. As if the A's are expected to be a lame duck franchise for four years! That sure is different from how the Pilots moved to Milwaukee, which they finalized less than a month before opening day. The more incredible thing to me is that Major League Baseball, an enterprise grossing eleven figures annually and which is image-conscious to such a degree that they fire talking heads off their network for even implying that they may have ever done anything not completely 100% right, is seriously considering allowing this state of affairs to go on four years, which, at that point, they just might as well punch themselves in the eye every day for four years.

I remember maybe 12 or 15 or so years ago, on the old MTS board, certain posters arguing at the time that people must have been faking being poor to get handouts because so many of them were so fat, and how can they be so poor and so in need of the government cheese our tax dollars pay for when they already have so much presumably expensive food to eat because they’re so fat? Ah, the good ol’ days …

We do know what held up in court. https://www.foxla.com/news/trevor-bauer-and-his-accuser-lindsey-hill-settle-legal-battle

I don’t know if he’s consciously doing PR for The Man, but Dan does have a daughter in her 20s, so I could see where he simply has a visceral personal distaste for the entire sordid episode and the man attached to it. There could be a smattering of Believe The Woman at play here, too.

I agree. I love Dan as an announcer, and he was very nice and gracious and generous the time I interviewed him for my long-dead blog, but it was disappointing to see him lean on tired tropes such as Bauer somehow finagled the system to get a judge who would be sympathetic to him.

Or park on Gratiot for free. 🤫

Tigers presumably also have the horses this year to be more conservative on callups.

Shotā had better hope the prevailing wind is east for all his home starts.

It was almost certainly Dodgers or bust for Yamamoto.

Not super likely, but not zero chance: if Jung plays at an MVP level at Toledo from the jump, we can bring him up and starting sitting Gio down, and if it comes to it, release Gio and eat the pittance of remaining money.

His zingers are so abstruse at times that he might end up leaving people behind!

You can be embarrassed only if you have a sense of shame.

The biggest people between the two is in the people working behind each. They were a lot closer 2017-21 than 2025-29 would be.

Jesus, this whole A’s thing has absolutely moved beyond ****show proportions, and I don’t think they’ve hit bottom yet.

Christ Almighty, is there not one of these conservative right-wing organization leadership people who are not grifting mother****ers? Not one?

If by "they all suck" you mean "all politicians suck, full stop", then I wouldn't agree with that blanket statement at all.

Oh, well, that goes without saying. Thank you for saying that.

You're obviously no good with obvious things. 😁

Good idea. Cakes are cheaper than eggs!