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That's called "having a bad game." So long as this is not an often recurring issue...

Wow... the Twiniaks are on a 10-game winning streak...

Would a 26 y.o. Mason Miller work well enough?

Clark. Thank you very much.

I want Carter Bryant or Rasheer Fleming but they're out of range unless we can somehow trade for a mid 1st rounder... At 37... in the second round I'm just looking for any forward who can space the floor... If they come with "D" or any other helpful skills... bonus. Lendeborg? Toohey? Cedric Coward? (awesome name! ... "Call me Coward and them's is FIGHTIN' words!" "But that's your name.") Alex Condon? Andrew Carr?

I know this implicitly and explicitly... All too well.

****ing Morons. And not just Trump at the top. From top to bottom this Admin is filled with egregious stupidity.

Also... Heard a suggestion of a rehabilitation target for Fetters to work on: Sandy Alcantara from the Marlins. He only costs $11M/year this & next plus a club option in 2027. It'd take a couple of mid-level prospects (just a guess), not much, I would think. I'd love to see what Fetters could do with him.

Can always use extra pitching down the stretch, especially another arm for the playoffs. Reliever's I am looking at (on teams doing poorly... and the A's...): Jeff Hoffman with the Blue Jays and Mason Miller with the A's are on the top of my list. If the Guardians run out of gas... maybe Hunter Gaddis?

Hopefully he or Frazier can become the new Glasgow. If I was a bettin' man I'd put that on Frazier. They're both being cross-trained at Center. I like the idea of Mahogany at LG and Ratledge at RG better anyways. Push Glasgow to first backup at the 3 interior positions. And Frazier the "heir-apparent" to Glasgow. IMO.

I've also seen Justin Carbonneau suggested at 13, as well Carter Bear, Lynden Lakovic, Malcolm Spence, Kashawn Aitcheson (LHD), and Radim Mrtka (RHD)... There's size or toughness (or both) as well as a lot of offensive skill in there... I like our choices this year... Seems like any of them could fit...

WW3? Doesn't even qualify as gallows humor as India and Pakistan are constantly, constantly, constantly going after each other. When a nuclear weapon is actually used... Let us know.

Which is why I asked about Markannen and Kessler. Kessler could be backup C paired with Stew at PF. Markannen at PF would be paired with Duren. Starting Defensive weakness offset by lethal offense? Just asking opinions...

What about Markannen & Kessler? Instead of Stew... Harris & Ivey & Sasser plus two 1sts and two 2nds? Plus extra parts if needed to match up salaries?

And I'm perfectly fine with that!

Last five games Keith is: Hitting .286 OBP of .444 SLG of .929 OPS of 1.373 Yep! Hope his bat has turned back on and he'll be productive in the lineup for the rest of the season... He did the same thing last year...

Only because it went off HIS glove... But it was Carp's fault.

Carp should have known better. But I'm guessing he told Greene: "Couldn't hear you." That has to be the only explanation... or at least the best one out of all bad choices...

He needs to go 1 inning and that's it. If he can crank it up like he did... and that's all he's good for, is the one inning... Then just limit him to that. IMO.

Or raise the mound two inches.

This. They have 22 of the 51 critical minerals/ metals (simple like graphite or lithium, but also complex rare earth metals with a bunch of names I won't even attempt to pronounce... Oh, ALSO gas and oil fields newly developed... so HIGHLY lucrative...) required for current specialized manufacturing (military, solar, satellite, EV battery, modern electronics, etc...). In order to be a manufacturing country now, and into the future, these minerals are required. Ukraine has lots of them. Trump will find SOME way to benefit himself from this... So... Yes. It's why he wants Greenland and Canada so badly as well. Rare Earth metals. And other resources. He wants them. Any way he can get them. It's not wrong from a National Security POV. His methods, however...

I think Miggy was on the Chipper Jones/ Adrian Beltre path. Not hitting or defensive ability... just career total WAR. Trout was on the Alex Rodriguez/ Honus Wagner path. Until injuries. For both of them. Just my 2 cents.

Well in the US, he wants to corrupt everything and reap all the money into his own pockets as a lifetime dictator. Like Putin. There's no "supposed to", only "he wants". That's it. In other words, he's doing what he's "supposed to" in order to try and achieve those ends. Primarily benefitting himself. He's not going to do what he's "supposed to" according to any of our definitions. Only according to... "he wants to benefit himself." In Ukraine, he wants minerals. This also isn't about "supposed to". If he wants those minerals, and he does... then he knows what he NEEDS to do... Stand up to Putin. I'm not certain if he will or won't do that. But I'm not going to look at it with only cynicism. In fact, nothing at all. He either does what's required, or doesn't. I don't need to agonize over cynicism... it's simply wait and see what happens. I know what he needs to do.

Holmes said he tried several times to move up in the draft for a DE but it never worked out. This sounds like one of those times... I also saw somewhere where he tried to trade up for Shemar Stewart. But it takes two to tango...

If he wants the minerals... Then he knows what he has to do.