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  1. Dave Borton
    Need a DP here. Noisy 34,000.
  2. Dave Borton
    All that stuff, like GM/CBO salaries, like net profit of teams, etc, is behind the curtain. Multi-year.
  3. Dave Borton
    You would need a batting coach just for Baez...
  4. Dave Borton
    Skubal is picking up right where he finished off Astros.
  5. Dave Borton
    Context: Cleve, KC, and Detroit have shed the perennial "awful AL Central" skin and Twins appear to take it on, leaving some for the WSox. Money will be ↓. Only upside I see are Ryan returning and rookie SPs with more experience under their belt. Oct '25: Pohlad calls Falvey into his office and casts evil eye at Falvey. Falvey looks over his shoulder to blame Levine, notices his absence, and yells, "Baldelli." Pohlad says, "Fine. You are both gone."
  6. Dave Borton
    The whole article was written as hyperbole to make his point: ownership failed to make good on deliverying anything other than mediocrity.
  7. Dave Borton
    Good article in Cincinnati paper re: health. Had shoulder operations and hernia repair. Said he left Guards because his health impaired him performing and he didn't want to hold any team back. Says he is ready to go. So am I. Thrall doing playing by play. Plays well with Brantley in the booth giving color and Francona on the field with a young squad. Bet the Reds fans are drooling. I just became a Reds fan.
  8. Dave Borton
    My biggest challenge tomorrow will be deciding to whom to listen for the noon Tigers/Guards? Dickerson or Hamilton are both great. Tuned into both teams frequently this year. Both announcers know the game, can help you visualize what is happening, ask the right questions. Dickerson will get the nod as he is better at engaging his cohort, Bobby Scales, in meaningful player-knowledge. Play ball!
  9. Dave Borton
    MLB is notoriously slow to action like many other institutions. What they need to do is sit down with Tony Clark and suggest that four of the most strategic thinking players reps and he join Manfred and four progressive owners to dream a 5- and 10-yr plan for MLB. The game is fading in popularity. It has the oldest demographic in all of sports. How do they shift their own thinking from a perceived captive audience and instead deal with reality. Not about expansion but to solidify the entertainment value and sports quality of the game.. Deal with economic reality but dream. Look forward rather than using myopic, parochial view.
  10. Dave Borton
    40% do.
  11. Dave Borton
    Bingo.
  12. Dave Borton
    I am harder on Baldelli as those same factors could be applied to Detroit. Very different result w/Hinch managing an injury decimated, youthful squad. David St Peter: F Couldn't agree more. St Peter should have retired years ago and gravitated back to North Dakota.
  13. Dave Borton

    So many rich topics from which to choose! Glad I am retired.

  14. Dave Borton
    Atteberry is competent but at a different function.. He did a superb, consistent job at between-innings updates. In that role, he excelled.. But Atteberry takes his own detailed interest in stats and projects it onto his broadcasts, over-talking the game to death. Gladden, on the other hand, forgets we don't have video and his style and analysis pale in comparison to Jeff Brantley (superb for the Reds) or Darrin Jackson (WSox), both former ballplayers. They and other former ballplayers provide an education and nuances of the game which Gladden fails to convey in the booth.
  15. Dave Borton
    Same approach he employed in calling his games for 12 yrs. Bright guy who can bring a crisp set of skills, honed on the field, to the FO.
  16. Dave Borton
    Skubal throwing 75% strikes, many FB in high 90s, thru 6.
  17. Dave Borton
    Been cheering Tigers all month. Love Hinch's mgt and the youthful response. I have Cleve in WS.
  18. Dave Borton
    Love to see Levine get his own CBO/GM chance. Giants?
  19. Dave Borton
    No-trade clause (can be waived), years remaining, and $$$ involved may be too high of hurdles to clear. 52 percent of payroll tied up in 3 - Buxton, Correa and Lopez.
  20. Dave Borton
    Last time I checked, Jeffers was throwing out 18-19% of runners. Way below MLB average.
  21. Dave Borton
    I picked up MLB TV on 1 Sept. What a great month of ball!
  22. Dave Borton
    Not an NL fan whatsoever but loved the game. Anyone but the "chop" team.
  23. Dave Borton
    And gets to play 3rd and SS for Atlanta today. Top of 9th, lack of range on his part and baserunner becomes tie runner before Lindor smokes one to CF.
  24. Dave Borton
    Great game. Braves stunned in 8th, 6-3 Mets.
  25. Dave Borton
    As a radio listener, very well written article. Thanks. Anyone but SKOR.
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