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Jim sounds really crisp and ebullient.

Those guys have a really high ceiling. They intrinsically believe in themselves enough to know they’re worth more than that.

Eligible for free agency in 2025. I’m kind of floored by this. April Fools is over too.

Holy Moly. Austin Meadows?

How did Cal Ripken never foul a ball off his foot and break it or get the flu or food poisoning? How did he never miss a day? Maybe my crazy right wing uncle is right about “the steal“ and about the “lizard people“ who live among us. Cal Ripkin was one of the lizard people. At least Riley Greene is not a lizard person. That’s the bright side. But I think he’s wrong about George Soros financing Tom Hanks’ and Oprah‘s magical high-speed child sex trafficking tunnels. I don’t think that’s true. So that’s another thing to be optimistic about.

And to take your mind off unimportant things the 2022 Grapefruit League Oscar for the most promising team in the first two weeks of spring training goes to OMG the Detroit Tigers! That’s my team people!

I hope Greene doesn’t pout about being sent down to the minors by Lynn Henning.

@Tigeraholic1 Thanks for posting the game threads. I like gladiatorial bloodletting and this is where it occurs.

Two more weeks of ST. Heck. At least the weather may be better.

Victor Reyes packed on 20 lbs. of muscle over the off-season. The good old days are back!

The interview with AJ Hinch was good. I haven’t followed the stuff too closely until now I didn’t realize that Miggy had volunteered to DH only so they could always get Tork and Shoop the time they needed at first.

You really know baseball is back when you’re watching a spring training game, the TV crew is bantering joyfully,and mlb.com is playing erectile dysfunction ads. It is morning in America!

The TV guys are claiming that Miggy is back. Basically he “looks” like a baseball player.

Baddoo triple!

The goal of a historic ST perfect game has cleared the first hurdle.

I would never hope for someone to be injured because that would be morally corrupt. But if Correa just sucked up a storm and screwed the Twins for three years that would make me happy. I don’t want him to be hurt because I’m honestly not Evil but I will root for him to suck because it hurts the Twins.

Gamel hammers one.

Spring training, hot baseball wives.

Those were the ones I was thinking of that I didn’t like. I think that was the ‘79 World Series team. At least the hats.

He killed Keller!

Those uniforms have a quiet traditional dignity about them.

So, we are playing the NL team with whom we have been most associated for 121 years.

I am starting to get optimistic about this season. My optimism has a poor track record.

I feel like one of those Japanese soldiers after World War II who wasn’t sure that the war had ended. Is it safe to come out now?

Forget Correa. I wouldn’t authorize a 10-year deal for Jesus. Yes his first three seasons were spectacular, but he got to the show at 30 and he’s 33 years old. His inordinately high BABIP is clearly unsustainable. He hangs out with a pretty rough crowd too. I think he’s a public relations problem waiting to happen. I vote no.