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Interesting tidbit by Costas in the broadcast, let’s see if i remember it accurately: today was the fourth time Judge struck out four times in a playoff game. As with this time, the first three times also came against the Cleveland ballclub. Judge went 1-for-20 with SIXTEEN strikeouts in that series. You know what’s gonna happen, though, right? Go on, guess … 😁

You’re still a child. Learn the software and get the job. 😉

This is new routine I saw this morning, apparently from Gateway Pundit: It was all a setup. From Ray Epps – to opening the magnetic doors from the inside – to the dozens of fed operatives in the crowd – to Ginger Gun – to firing flash bombs and gas canisters on unsuspecting grandmas and seniors – to the mass arrests of hundreds of innocent Trump supporters who were waved into the US Capitol. Now we have the proof that it was all a setup and the entire thing was filmed by a pre-staged camera crew.

He appears to be a plus behind the plate with no stick to speak of—but he does take a crap-ton of walks.

I was lucky to have bought my car when I did. I closed the deal in March 2021, just as the vaxes were coming out but overall supply chain issues were accelerating. The only thing my car ended up missing was the adjustable lumbar for the passenger seat. I got $250 off for that. Also was lucky that I bought my car when prices were highly negotiable. You may remember that car sales tanked the prior year and dealers were forced to actually deal. I was able to knock more than $10K off the MSRP. Had I waited just one more month, I'd've been paying some amount over MSRP.

This looks not unlike James Whitmore circa Shawshank.

Nico is a four-win guy over there this year. Cubs may think they have the solution.

That’s a fair assessment. OTOH, Yankees.

Yankees could use a shortstop.

He really helped his case by staying on the field for almost 140 games and delivering five-plus wins.

I don't remember the thing with Trammell. I must have blocked it out of my memory as a traumatic event. Ivan played for the Marlins in 2003 on a 1/10 deal and won a ring with them. That offseason he told them he would be glad to keep playing for them for $10 million as long as they gave him the same contract length they'd given Mike Lowell which was four years— thus, 4/40. The Marlins let him walk, and the floor for Ivan's next deal was established. When one of the worst teams in baseball history were the only organization to offer him his 4/40, he basically had no choice but to take it. And that's how I remember us getting Ivan Rodriguez.

Jeimer was the one I was the most unsure about, but I do think he will stay, although the popular buzz out there is that he will go.

The main thing I remember about the Pudge signing was that he went on record going into the offseason that he would not sign for less than four years and $40 million. The Tigers were the only organization to offer him that much, and of course exactly that. It worked out pretty well, for a couple years, anyway.

Literal cleanup from literal lunatic in the aisle. I don't know whether she'll be able to jump-start an entire career off this, but we will definitely be seeing more of her in the next couple of weeks, anyway.

Peace in our time ...

I thought coming in that since they were riding a hot hand, the Guardians had a good chance to advance past the Yankees and maybe even Astros. But once I reminded myself of the black hole they have at the bottom of their order, I started having doubts about that.

Definitely not pocket change even to him.

I think Harold is gone. He's been sub-replacement for at least a couple years now, plus he's arb eligible, and i don't think we're gonna pay good money for another year of that.

You're right, it is Zack Short that Palacios is replacing. I think Willi will come back as our utility guy, someone who can give us slightly better than replacement level when he has to fill in for someone at any of six different spots on the diamond. Limit him to 250 or so at bats and he can be an asset at the end of the bench.

I don't see the value of giving a minor league contract to a 31-year-old pitcher who can't throw strikes, walks too many guys, and consistently gives up hard contact. He simply has no future here, which is proven by the fact that he was the first one to go. If the Tigers ever have to lean on Drew Hutchison as a fallback option next year, then they will have fallen hard.

I think this basically spells the end of the Willi Castro era. When I started reading about Palacios I was thinking at first oh hey, look, another Willi, since he too seemed to be someone with decent recent minor league performance and a bit of pop. But Palacios shows more pop at higher levels, and he was a numbered prospect—at least by Pipeline, for what that’s worth. Fangraphs wasn’t nearly as impressed, treating him as an injury depth afterthought. The important thing here is that, if Palacios doesn’t perform, he gets quickly discarded, instead of hanging on for a few years putting up AAAA numbers in repeated call ups because we fall irrationally in love with the tantalizing tools we can’t seem to unlock.

For now …

Jermaine is an interesting pickup. Better than Jackie, Tito, Marlon. Not as good as Michael.

Waaay ahead of ya ... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tulsi-gabbard-tucker-carlson-fox-news_n_62f8040be4b0288b61a5116b

That's the thing here: it's not taht we are unjustly denouncing Columbus for his genocidal behavior because we're viewing him through a 21st Century lens. He was sharply criticized in his own time for his brutality.