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  1. USAFChief
    Thank you very much.
  2. USAFChief
    Well this has started well.
  3. USAFChief
    Rosario got caught flat footed on that fly ball. Show us something, Berrios. K this guy.
  4. USAFChief
    Tremendous LF defense already.
  5. USAFChief
    Nope, Who was drafted decades ago. We took Rolls Royce Lewis. EDIT: whoops. Per Ash, Larnach. I'm off by a year. Often the case.
  6. USAFChief
    fair enough. Except the part about Ramos.
  7. USAFChief
    Sloppy. Sloppy baseball. Wild pitches, passed balls, stolen bases nearly uncontested. Godawful 0-2 pitches. Indifferent ABs. Some really bad baseball. Garver in particular is really playing poorly behind the plate.
  8. USAFChief
    Fugly.
  9. USAFChief
    The third base ump just did.
  10. USAFChief
    Gordon doesn't run like he used to. LOL Looked like he was pulling a plow going after that Polanco pop fly.
  11. USAFChief
    If you're gonna PH Polanco for Aye-Ray, why wouldn't you do it with bases loaded, 1 out, down 2?
  12. USAFChief
    I'm not a big fan of using hindsight to judge trades. I understand things can change, but it's hard for me to give credit for things that happen years from now. I think you judge be what's known at the time of the trade. I wouldn't hold it against the Twins if Alcala gets hurt, you can't know that in advance. But I also am reluctant to give a whole lot of credit if he turns into a valuable reliever. You can't know THAT, either. Judged by how it affected the teams at the time of the trade, and the year or two after, it was a pretty awful trade, IMO. Unnecessary, also.
  13. USAFChief
    He's been trying to use his best relievers when he's ahead, and his other relievers when behind, IMO. And he's had a lot of innings to cover from his pen. He's gotten, what, TWO six innings starts all season? Today, for example, he needed six innings. If Thorpe can't pitch to the bottom of the KC lineup, there's no other place to use him. He can't just keep running the same four guys out there. I don't blame him for using the guys he has, but let's be honest...the talk of the great and deep pen was a little optimistic, if you ask me. On the other hand, I don't understand still putting Garber at the top of the lineup, even against a leftie, and Kepler shouldn't be at the top either against a leftie. I also don't like all the days off for his regulars, but I admit it's a pet peave of mine and he did win 101 games last season doing the same thing.
  14. USAFChief
    For those keeping score, that's two pitches off Garver's glove, just in this Solar AB.
  15. USAFChief
    I've been putting off getting a haircut due to the whole Covid thing, but Mrs Chief got tired of looking at me, so I finally went to my favorite barber this afternoon. After the obligatory exchange of "how ya doing"s and "Long time no see!"s he got down to business, which is telling stories. He told me he had a cop in the other day, and he didn't charge the guy. "Your money is no good here," he said. "You're keeping us all safe." And my friend the barber said the next morning, he found a dozen doughnuts on his doorstep, from the cop. A day or so later, the barber told me he gave a priest a free haircut, and sure enough, the next morning there were a dozen bibles on his step. "Well," my barber said, "wouldn't you know it, in comes a lawyer, and I gave HIM a free hiarcut. "You're doing the work of justice,"" I said. "Next morning, sure enough....a dozen lawyers waiting for a free haircut."
  16. USAFChief
    I just never have liked Garber behind the plate. When he's putting up a .900 OPS, fine. But he's a butcher behind the plate.
  17. USAFChief
    Some ugly baseball.
  18. USAFChief
    LIttle league home run. Infiield bobble, stolen base, stolen base, wild pitch. Well played, boys.
  19. USAFChief
    Just the other day I was busted by the grammar police for "overuse of commas" and we expect a long sentence to be handed out any day now but I'm prepared for it.
  20. USAFChief
    Paul O'Niell homers to the RF porch at the stadium.
  21. USAFChief
    I'd say there's probably few years where a team would be more confident they'll be in the postseason than this one. There'll be only a month left, and there will be 8 playoff spots available. There won't be many teams that figure they're out of it--KC might be one by then--but there will be teams looking to buy.
  22. USAFChief
    Kennedy has to be another trade candidate later this month, I would think.
  23. USAFChief
    If you can't trust Thorpe against the 7-8-9 hitters in KC's lineup, two of which are LH hitters, I don't know where you can trust him.
  24. USAFChief
    yeahbut...that only gets us to the 7th. There's another leg to that sequence.
  25. USAFChief
    Figure Odo's done. Who's next?* *also my favorite album cover of all time.
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