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And here I thought you were going with a Dick Bremer over-reacts to an infield pop up joke.

Yeah, TD gamethread comments should come with spoiler alerts.

The most depressing episode of Saved by the Bell?!?!?! You trying to doom all of us?!?!?!?

Dang, active morning here at TD today. I wonder why..........

If they win it's going to be an expensive month for you 'cause you're getting tickets for all the games.

Yeah, that was brutal.

For what it's worth, Toronto is a bottom ten team in terms of GB%. On the other hand, they're mostly right handed hitters, so that's where the groundballs will mostly be headed. Still, this doesn't seem to be an answerable question for fans as we're not privy to how his hamstring really is progressing. Which is fair, the team absolutely shouldn't be giving free information to their opponent any sooner than they need to.

Ha, and the rest of the AL Central teams made up the bottom four most power-woeful clubs. Cleveland was last, 27 behind the next worst team in the majors and 39 behind the next worst AL team, KC. And all of them are middle of the pack or worse in terms of farm system rankings. A mediocre Twins team should be able to lord over this division for the foreseeable future, like they did two decades ago.

Possibly. But Taylor Swift is going to sell more tickets next week than Cousins will. Joke notwithstanding, I have season tickets and have already sold every game I wasn't going to attend other than the Xmas Eve game, which is always a tough sell anyway. I think the Vikings have already pretty much maxed out their ticket sales, they really only should be concerned with no-shows not buying $15 beers.

Martin's minor league OBP is .30 points higher than Celestino. Add in that he has options and this seems a no brainer. Celestino was never going to be more than the 26th man on the roster. I mean if you're going to lose players, lose the players that you can easily replace in free agency (or waivers). Even if he were a capable MLB hitter, (which Celestino has shown no indication of) you can sign guys just like him for peanuts. Guys like Wade or Castro are never going to be a tough sign for the Twins, or heck, even the Pirates. As much as I'm in favor of trying out Martin in CF next year should Buxton be unable to play there, I'll likely be saying the same thing about him in 3 years should he not be able to push is OPS over .800.

If they are similar slap-hitting players, then they don't need two of them. I'd rather have the guy with options and the higher OBP.

I know it wasn't that long ago, but I do remember watching one of the ALCS games in 1987 in class. I suppose teachers don't need to do that these days since any kids who still like baseball (very few, good work dissuading interest MLB) just watch it on their phone under their desks.

Working from home, I'll take all the noon games I can get. Evenings are way busier with kid and family commitments. But I feel for everyone else.

Playing the Angels without Trout and Ohtani, you'd think they wouldn't need a pitcher, a backup catcher should suffice. Yet last night the Angels said otherwise.

Jon Gray left his start early the other day, he may be out or at least pushed back in the rotation.

Even though Chief beat me too it:

Hmmm, forgot the Bears had the Panthers pick next year. Obviously way too early to see how everything will play out, but I'd hate to look back on the season a year from now and realize that the Vikings beating the Panthers delivered Caleb Williams to Chicago. Either way, Chicago is going to have to royally mess up not to come out of next year's draft with franchise changing players.

Yet, still infinitely better than last years....

Thanks, but now my joke doesn't make sense.

Whether Lee can help the team now is one thing, but I'm not worried about losing an option year. Seems to me, guys that need to use all of their options almost never meet their potential anyway. I'm not sweating a "tough" decision on a Nick Gordon type four years from now.

That's the best looking lineup the A's have put together all season.

Yankees fans are just THE worst.

They'll wait to see what seeds the big market clubs get and will determine TV schedules based on that.

I've been waiting to see when they'd blow it up, and while the SD newspapers are saying they'd still keep a 200M payroll, we'll see: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2023-09-25/padres-payroll-juan-soto-nick-martinez-seth-lugo-michael-wacha-debt Sounds like GM A.J. Preller may get the boot, which is understandable after his repeated failures spending the owners money. And there's way more drama than just the losing according to Ken Rosenthal: https://theathletic.com/4874799/2023/09/19/san-diego-padres-disaster-season-preller/ With the suggested 200M payroll, MLBTR believes the core group of Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr., Xander Bogaerts, Yu Darvish, Ha-Seong Kim and Joe Musgrove would be retained, though Juan Soto is quite likely to be moved and they won't resign any of their free agents. (Any doubt Josh Hader is going to be the most posted about non-Twin this winter?) https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/09/padres-plan-to-reduce-payroll-to-around-200mm-front-office-changes-possible.html I have my doubts they keep the core group together though. If they do hire a new GM, and they are looking to cut costs, I'd bet they trade more than Soto, and I'd bet ownership would start over with a lower payroll than 200M. Aside from Soto and the injured Musgrove, their stars had down years last year, so I guess it's possible they could hope for a rebound and move them down the road, but Machado and Bogaerts are now over 30-years-old and have some ugly contracts coming up. If they don't turn things around, SD will have to eat most of those contracts if they gamble wrong. Anyway, I've been waiting for this soap opera to start for awhile now, hope any of these guys who don't find their way to Minnesota, stay in the NL.

The best thing that could happen to this club is get embarrassed by Carolina next week. And I'm not saying that just because I want to get a franchise QB in the draft. If they lose next week, it should remove any doubt from ownership that this organization went in the completely wrong direction about building a sustainable winning team, which was supposedly the goal when they didn't tear this thing down to the studs last off season.