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I would be on board with that. It's why I was thinking about it since Friday. Stop (or at least attempt to stop) inflation in its tracks. It might cause us a mild recession though... Housing/ mortgages will get hammered. Spending will drop, at least in the short term. Causing backwash all along the supply chain... Just need to fix this refinery/ oil/ gas price issue as the final piece IMO.

I was thinking this... A full point to... make a point?

Hmmm... That one sounds familiar...

FTFY.

1 and 4 aren't showing. Otherwise, I see George Brett at #2 with a .550 OPS through 81 games and Alan Trammel at #6 with a .613 OPS, if you were looking for noteworthy names that might mean something to us.... Ah, the blurred guys... so 1 and 4 are Connie Mack and/ or John McGraw and/ or similar...

They are. Hillary was correct.

I don't think we really know that until after this season. I mean LB'ers is an obvious area of need... But everywhere else is a grey area until we learn more this season...

If a team is in position to draft Stroud or Young but already has their franchise QB (let's call them the "Jacksonville Jaguars" for arguments sake...), then they will want to trade down for whatever king's ransom they can get. If Holmes decides he absolutely has to have one of those guys... he'll have two 1st rounders in 2023, and he can add in a 2024 1st, and additional 2nds & 3rds as needed. I mean, the less he pays the better... but I see no reason why he can't/ doesn't have enough "ammunition" to move up if he wants to. So I am less worried about the cost/ ability to move up and go get a guy we want... and more invested in Holmes etal just making the correct decision. I mean I have confidence there too... I just want to see it happen for the team... And by "it", I mean go all the way to the top.

This is how Democracy Dies...

Thanks for that! (I didn't think Kim Deal would ever associate with Frank Black again... so with no possibility of that happening, of course it would need to be another bass player...) I wasn't paying attention... I'll have to check their new stuff out!

Olson had a start at Erie today... 4 innings, 9 K's. 1 Run on 4 hits and 1 BB. 77 pitches so maybe that's his pitch cap (80-ish) and why he only pitched the 4...?

The Pixies put out some new material?!

I agree... That's my main point. I'm already looking beyond this year...

Flores looks like he could become a monster prospect... he's just smokin' guys... 21 y.o. in AA already... So... aside from getting Torkelson/ Dingler/ Cabrera (Danny)/ Trei Cruz/ Gage Workman/ and Colten Keith in only 5 rounds of drafting in 2020... They also picked up Wilmer Flores as an undrafted FA pitcher right after that draft... Not a bad draft... we'll see how that finishes up...

Cisnero is already 33 and I don't see him as a long-term fixture. I'm not wishing him ill will or anything, it's not that at all.... It's just that... If it's time to move on from him... it's time. I won't sweat that. I am completely into turning the roster over to young guys. Even if they flop... I wanna see them get their chance to make it or sink it... It's why it didn't bother me to suggest moving on from Schoop and giving 2B to Clemens... Kody could completely fall on his face (he has so far...) but I don't care. Let's just move on... from Grossman, Schoop, Miggy (after this season), Barnhart (same), Cisnero, Jacob Barnes (?!?!), even Haase if he can't do any better than this... Fulmer can come back next year if he comes back cheap...

Hmm... Well, it seems Elvin has a lot of work to do if he wants to make it at the MLB level...

Something like this. His posts are nothing but pure bile.

Spoken like a TRUE ENEMY of DEMOCRACY. Go back to Russia you traitorous fascist beeotch.

I want to see some progress from this team/ multiple players... for the balance of this season. Don't care about the wins/ losses... just want to see some serious progress. And that definitely includes Baez.

On the position side, we need a couple more guys, like say Keith, Wenceel, and Dingler... to make it at the MLB level. And they're another 2 years or so away... maybe September 2023...? We need Greene to get healthy, and Tork to get better. Personally, I see hope for this team. Even as soon as the rest of this year. But the roller coaster ride seems a lot more up and down then I thought before this season started...

Faedo, Manning, Turnbull... Plus maybe Brieske and/or Wentz if they get better at the MLB level. And we still have Skubal and E-Rod. We still have a rotation for 2023, and even the balance of this year if they could get, and stay, healthy.

Mize is finally going under the knife for TJ....

Dylan Smith got rocked though. 5 Runs (3 ER) in barely over an inning...

Which sounds like a shoulder or something. Not great, but... Better then an achilles or something worse...

Concur. Otherwise... That leads to Henry Ellenson-itis. Beware the Dropping Draftee.