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  1. Just wait until the Falklands rise up again in their tariff-free utopia.....
  2. Sure, but the metrics back the eye test. Miranda is swinging at garbage and rarely making hard contact. I defer to playing young guys, but Miranda is stretching that instinct right now.
  3. At this point.....is it really a bad call to bury Miranda? I'm usually someone that wants to invest in young players but right now he's.......not good. At much of anything.
  4. Could you imagine what right-wing talk radio would sound like the last three weeks if anyone else was overseeing this kind of mess? Woof. Also....google the way in which these tariffs were calculated under the guise of "reciprocal". It's almost too dumb to believe.
  5. I like the thinking, but Metellus and Jackson might not be a bad combo to rely on either. I'm still most in favor of trading down if possible. My second choice is get one of these stud DTs.
  6. I see a lot of effort to draw conclusions from 6 games, but even if you think you're seeing trends....those might only be the case because Lewis and Lee are hurt. (And Julien was sick) For instance...if Julien was full strength is one of the LF starts going to Castro instead of Bader? Even today, how would the lineup change if those two guys were available? It seems like the first two choices to replace them in the lineup are Julien and Bader over Miranda and whatever other stiff on the bench. I can't say I disagree at all with that.
  7. It sounds weird, but they almost pulled it off too well. Though if the runner going from 1st ws supposed to be bait, the timing wasn't great
  8. I mean...I don't know what else you want there. Wallner got to stay in against the lefty. They waited until there was two strikes and Julien definitely had the element of surprise. They forced them to balk but the umps were as shocked as the Sox and didn't make the right call. More of that. All of it.
  9. The story of Born Again is very heavily rooted in the original show. I think you'd be ok without watching it, but truth be told - it's well worth the watch. First season of Jessica Jones as well. It's simply good TV. (For the most part, half of DD season 2 was pretty mid)
  10. I know this article is a bit old now, but Gleeman had some good information over at The Athletic. Basically....from what Forbes can estimate, there is no way the team has $425 million in debt unless it was accrued almost entirely in the span from 2020-2022 or it simply isn't baseball debt. I know which one my money is on.
  11. Agreed, I really do like what they're doing on the pitching development side, but it just isn't enough to offset anything. Sadly, without an ownership change, I'm not sure how much actually gets altered.
  12. I agree with you, but most of that criticism seems to be pointing at the front office. Our pitching pipeline is starting to look pretty decent, but on the positional side it's a mess. I think the scrappy, piranha identity was more a function of necessity and the cheap owners. But at least players came up to the big leagues with a good glove and a set of skills. It feels like we're constantly rebuilding hitters into functional fielders (and hitters!) at the big league level. That doesn't seem like a viable strategy IMO. Rocco has his faults, but what seems to be ailing the team is far more systemic.
  13. I can get behind criticizing Miranda and others about terrible at-bats..... But how did Buxton get a pass? Our number 8 hitter being bad isn't on the same level of importance.
  14. Never has the team's play on the field so closely aligned with my feelings on ownership.
  15. Bats are cold, but the lineup is definitely my biggest concern with this team. You aren't going to win many games no matter how good your pitching, managing, or defense are if you're only going to scrape out 3 hits.
  16. The visits have a lot of gamesmanship to them as well. No team brings in their 30 favorite guys, there is a method to it beyond that. To be honest, that whole part of the process seems silly to me. I don't get why they have those restrictions other than to be merciful on the prospects maybe?
  17. Honestly, this is the recipe for anyone in the bottom 2/3rds of baseball in revenue and payroll. Then.....the blind luck every World Series team needs in the small sample playoffs.
  18. This was my takeaway as well. The team battled, but in the end the Cards made the margins-type plays in the field to deliver a win. But for those that didn't like things from last year there were a lot of promising developments: we stole a base in a close game to give ourselves a chance, the team went opposite field a lot, and they didn't do any crazy substitutions. It's early, but all good signs. You're gonna lose some, things happen.
  19. France has a two run double against 25 other CFers. Just how things go sometimes.
  20. Hitting approach does feel different so far too.
  21. Early returns on the infield defense are as feared....
  22. 4 seasons, one of which had dramatically reduced obligations due to a shortened season. If all 425M is baseball related: then the Pohlads are so cartoonishly stupid that I feel even more strongly they are screwing up this sale. No reasonable levels of expenses, with their pfofits, could account for that.
  23. Forbes reported that around a third or the league is over that limit all the time and aren't aware of MLB intervening very often. Again, simplest explanations and not conspiracies: perhaps the current generation of Pohlads lack the same business acumen of their predecessors. Unless the team was buying golden chairs and diamond pencil sharpeners for their front office staff, you can't account for 450M in three years in any rational way other than that money not being related to baseball operations.
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