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  1. The Great Hambino
    Not exactly what I had in mind but I'll take it
  2. The Great Hambino
    Trevor if you swing you're fired
  3. The Great Hambino
    Buck scoring the winning run on a play at the plate would give me my money's worth
  4. The Great Hambino
    In other news, Bride and Fedko just teamed up to allow a popup to land on the pitchers mound in St Paul. Really buying into that organizational concept
  5. The Great Hambino
    Rusty K all the way
  6. The Great Hambino
    As someone who is at least a decade away from being able to leave my two kids at home to watch themselves, I heartily approve this message! They'll never do it every game, but they've been trying to market their Sundays as family/kids days. I could see them doing this on Sundays, or at least once a month
  7. The Great Hambino
    And before it gets said, it wasn't for tanking purposes either. It was the final trade to go down. The "tank" had already been secured. The presence of Varland for two more months, given what had already gone out the door, would not have had any meaningful effect on their lottery odds. Certainly not enough to forego a still-pre-arb bullpen option - who would've easily been the best remaining bullpen option in the organization - when they were now going to need those more than ever. This trade was a fairly large bet on Rojas. That's it. In retrospect, it looks to me like Roden and France were there to balance the scales. Also another indication that there's no intention to be competitive next year. The idea that it's wise to use their scarce free agent dollars (whatever that amount ends up being) on a market-rate high leverage reliever to replace a pre-arb one given the multitude of other areas of the roster needing an upgrade is bonkers.
  8. The Great Hambino
    Has there been any reporting on that timeline? For all our sakes, I hope they're not waiting til the winter owners meeting or something like that
  9. The Great Hambino
    It's good to hear this from Buck, but I'm afraid it might not have the effect on ownership we'd like to see. Do they see this as a sign that moving Buck's contract is back on the table if they just continue to not try? Keep tanking and he'll waive it? With the way this family operates, I can't rule it out. Just to be clear, I don't want that and don't think they should do that. His contract isn't even that expensive - per year, it's well below the qualifying offer at this point. That's nothing in MLB free agency terms. But I no longer trust the Pohlads to take any course of action other than the worst one possible for fans until they prove otherwise.
  10. The Great Hambino
    It will never not be weird that they have two World Series titles and zero division titles. But to the question at hand: I think the Marlins have the best case for the title of most irrelevant franchise right now, mainly because they've been solidifying their irrelevancy for years; their kind of fan apathy (AA attendance at one of MLB's newest stadiums in what any other sports league would consider a prime market) isn't cultivated overnight. Other potential claimants to the crown have had something newsworthy recently (Skenes in Pittsburgh, relocation in Oakland, the Rangers/Diamondbacks World Series that will stump a lot of people at trivia night decades from now) to separate themselves from the Marlins. The Bomba Squad alone pushes the Twins past the Marlins for relevancy, and that was one team that won zero playoff games six years ago. Achieving lower relevance than the Marlins is a mighty high bar to clear The Marlins should be a cautionary tale for what long-term neglect from ownership can do to a fanbase. They're the Ghost of Christmas Future for miserly baseball owners
  11. The Great Hambino
    The good news is they'll do whatever they can to fix the issue of the bullpen failing to hold leads this offseason. The bad news is they're gonna do it by assembling a roster that will never have leads to blow in the first place
  12. The Great Hambino
    I might’ve over corrected a bit there. Must’ve been something I drank
  13. The Great Hambino
    Live from Chicago: McCRthy is utterly worthless. He can’t perform basic functions. Back into the abyss we go
  14. The Great Hambino
    Apparently, the Orioles are
  15. The Great Hambino
    Bobby Kielty had a minute that at least deserves an honorable mention
  16. The Great Hambino
    The irony of this thought process is that it only makes sense to keep them if they're going to be competitive within the next two years, and the only way they're competitive within the next two years is if a bunch of their internally-developed prospects become quality contributors immediately. Every quality veteran across the league has one thing in common: they were all once a prospect
  17. The Great Hambino
    I hope we don't see "Joe Ryan" and "second opinion" in the same article three days from now
  18. The Great Hambino
    Tanking your own trade value would seem counterproductive if that's true
  19. The Great Hambino
    Ryan's doing an impeccable Noah Davis impresson
  20. The Great Hambino
    They're not drawing anyone with both of them in the rotation now. Why would that be any different next year?
  21. The Great Hambino
    Yeah, team management can be indifferent, but individual players for the most part can't.
  22. The Great Hambino
    He might have a shot
  23. The Great Hambino
    Zombie John McGraw with Terry Francona and Bruce Bochy manning the base coach boxes couldn't coax a winner out of these jamokes
  24. The Great Hambino
    Minnesota's own Soul Asylum had something to say about this
  25. The Great Hambino
    Jeebus Cripes, there were seriously maybe five fans in that last wide shot of the outfield seats
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