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Looking beyond the Tigers just for a minute: Yankees need to lose two to Tampa, Boston needs to split with Washington, Seattle has to win two from the Angels, and Toronto has to win two from Baltimore. If that happens, there’s a four-way tie for two wild card spots.

I took his use of the word “retired” at face value. I also think it unlikely they just eat tens of millions of dollars and cut a future Hall of Famer who’s expected to wear the hat there.

I will never understand how people can honestly believe that Miggy is going to simply retire early and forfeit his remaining dollars for the good of the Tiger organization.

Seriously, how does one cosplaying guy with a sword overpower several presumably-armed special ops soldiers?

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Not necessary.

Just as we thought: any "fraud" they catch is coming from the Trump side.

I whiffed pretty hard on basically all my predictions, except the not-so-bold one about Manning.

Eleven categories? What are they?

The one thing Victor can do pretty well on a regular basis is run bases. He's above average in that. I think Victor's future might be in Asia, and I don't necessarily mean Japan. Or maybe Mexico would be a better fit for him. I could see him hitting around .400 there.

I think of Victor Reyes as a sort of canary in the coalmine: if he’s on your team, your team is probably not very good, and the more you have to rely on him, the worse your team probably is.

Twins owner Calvin Griffith was a few drinks in at a 1978 Lions Club function in Waseca when he started talking about why he chose Minnesota as a home for his ballclub. Minneapolis Tribune reporter Nick Coleman was in the room, and here’s what he scribbled in his notebook: “It was when I found out you only had 15,000 black people here. Black people don’t go to ball games, but they’ll fill up a rassling ring and put up such a chant it’ll scare you to death. It’s unbelievable. We came here because you’ve got good, hardworking white people here.” https://www.minnpost.com/intelligencer/2010/09/racial-justice-minnesota-twins-forgotten-battle/

Then you must be doubly happy right now.

Niko’s gonna hit four tonight. Book it.

Just a bit! 😏

Throw a Jimenez for Tatis offer at them and see if they'll bite. 😉

Along with a shit-ton of extra playoff revenue from attendance and broadcast rights

This seems pretty important to know.

Well, who knows, if things break a certain way in three years, we'll be back to making cars you could kill an elephant in a garage with! 😜

That's fine,because thanks to the impending 14+-team playoff structure, a team won't have to get to 90 wins to make the playoffs. Eighty-five should be enough.

Trading Abrams for Manning straight up would get someone in San Diego fired and maybe even blackballed from the industry, since that would constitute professional malpractice.

Huh—I don't know what I was looking at that showed Abrams only as far along as Rookie ball this year. Probably just processed it wrong. Changed my mind, then: no way Padres deal Abrams for Mize straight up.