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G.O.P. = GATHERING OF PEDOS

But JV and Framber are not standing together. They must have hated each other in Houston. This is a problem. Fractured locker room. Fist fights, dirty looks. Man, and I was so excited yesterday.

It's beyond lazy. He's so insulting to anyone who ever cared about the game. He really is that bad. Just go away and shut up.

I don't know. Playing in Fenway helped a lot. We'll never know. Such a horrifying injury. It had to have contributed to his early death.

I meant he was on track to be the best of all time. Not just today.

Yeah, his career might be in serious jeopardy.

What's Rick Porcello doing ?

Wait, they're signing Scherzer too? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

Scherzer too? Are you kidding me? but it hit you in the nose and now you look like Frank Zappa

Cusack wanted a Fishbone song. Um, no. I love Fishbone, but not for emotional impact.

Could be interesting if Verlander started the Home Opener. I mean, right now that would be the 6th game, so it would likely be Skubal since nobody expects a rain out in San Diego or Phoenix.

Roster move. For Valdez they'll put Jobe on the 60 day, right? Interesting that hasn't happened yet Who is gone now? I would think Trey Sweeney is a candidate. They also have 4 catchers on the roster, but they aren't dumping Liranzo. Don't know a lot about Valencia, but they'll need a third C at some point. I think Vierling has an edge over Jahmai Jones and I don't see them cutting Trei Cruz without giving him a look at the MLB level first. Sweeney is in trouble with so many potential infielders Jace, Lee, Keith, Max, Trei all in need of auditions. I guess some pitchers could be in trouble like Bailey Horn or even Gipson-Long. Or is someone else going to the 60-day?

Eva Grubb - the fake Ginger Grant from Gilligan's Island (now that is a pull on my part)

Without looking it up - what was his UNI number that day?

I am in the camp of Olson, maybe not being hurt still, but the team believing that he's not durable enough for a full season and also that they really are going to monitor Melton's innings. I kind of have mixed feelings on Melton. Because if the issue is that they think he's going to need TJ surgery (a rite of passage for MLB pitchers now), to just go ahead and get it done now and maybe he's ready to be tip top in 2028, when baseball returns after the lost year in 2027. Verlander is insurance for that. I am sure they told him that he's not promised one of the five slots. Or maybe - just maybe - the Tigers are going to a 6-man rotation at some point. I didn't expect this. I actually did last year. I guess he's pretty stoked about this. A return to the Halcyon days of his prime. Let's win this all and if Skubal walks, who cares?

Favorite ending to a movie? It's a lighter touch, not a dramatic one. I guess you could have categories for endings Mine is Say Anything. Waiting for the No Smoking light to go off in the airplane (showing you how old the movie is, you could still smoke on planes in 1989). There is something very satisfying about the way it ends. Say Anything is an extremely underrated movie.

See, people will believe anything they see online.

I saw a post where in the top frame there is an explosion and the back of Tom Hanks suit is on fire. The bottom photo shows Tom Hanks in a hospital bed with all kinds of burn wraps and a caption that reads Tom Hanks was nearly killed in a dressing room explosion. It's not even good A.I. yet comment after comment after comment was wishing him a fast recovery. They're just too stupid to know. It just floors me how easily people will fall for something. Many of these people vote. We're ****ed.

Beef Stew will probably get 10 games, but that reputation will not suffer because of it. The Bad Boys are back !!!

Pistons are only a half game behind OKC for the best record in the NBA. 39-13 two years ago they were 8-44 This is incredible.

I just wanted to take another opportunity to slam Rendon because I think he's lying about the severity of his injury. I really do. He may have been hurt, but I just don't believe him. The dude hates baseball. I mean, I know there are guys out there that are only in it for the money. To suggest that all of these guys are Kirk Gibson-win-at-any-cost guys is silly and if teams are too stupid to dig into a player and get even a hint of their true intention, that's on them, but this guy just says it out loud and that's why I can't stand him. The cost to take a family of four or five people to a baseball game is insane and you know what, those fans that go to the game deserve your best. But we know guys don't always give it. I understand that, it's a long season, it's a slog, but to be just so flippant about it when you get paid like he does - it just insults everyone. Absolutely everyone. Ya wonder why fans hate him? Fake it. He conned the Angels. From the start. And the Angels have spent stupidly for a long time (gotta be tough to watch your crosstown rival these days), but there is another angle that frustrates me about this too. You've got a guy on that ballclub who was on track to be the next superstar of the game and he can't stay healthy, but he's tried and tried. When Mike Trout first came around we were talking comparisons to Babe Ruth and Willie Mays and now it's just trying to get 110 games out of him. He got to 130 last year, but he struggled and you could see it when he tried to run. His legs are betraying him and he's still only 33. As much time as he's missed he has 404 home runs and he's still only 33. What might have been. If he'd have stayed healthy, he'd be challenging Barry Bonds career HR record before 2030. He's the opposite of Rendon. I hope the Angels to him a solid and trade him to a contender at some point, because it's not likely to be them any time soon. I just don't like frauds (when it comes to anything, not just baseball, believe me, plenty of frauds in the radio biz), and he's maybe just about the biggest in baseball history and he has NO shame about it. Screw him.

Javy is a bad contract, but he can still redeem a little of it. Justin Upton was bad. But the Miggy one, I get it. Sure, he was awful at the end, but the thought of him doing his retirement tour in another uniform didn't sit well, so it was worth the risk for the PR sake of it.

Hey, it's February 9th - Spring Training starts this week. It's time for a new thread. I was reading where Anthony Rendon won't play in 2026, but still get paid, but I guess the Angels restructured his contract so they will pay him over several years. I had nightmares NIGHTMARES that the Angels released him and the Tigers said "Hey, let's take a chance on this guy" I think I may hate this player more than Roger (Let me throw at guys heads) Clemens and Chris (Cry Baby) Sale. It's just that he so blatantly ripped off an MLB team and was just so open about it. He never wanted to play. He just took the money. I don't even believe he has a real hip injury. I wish the Angels could sue him. And I don't even like the Angels and they could be the worst team in the AL - and I kind of hope they are. We've had some bad contracts around here (Jordan Zimmermann comes to mind, Prince Fielder too, but at least we got the Rangers to swallow some of that and got a solid Ian Kinsler for him). But that Rendon contract and his attitude towards not wanting to play baseball makes it the worst - in my opinion. So many of us would just kill to be able to have the ability to do this and he just wastes it and is totally open about it. Yep, I hate him more than Rog and Sale.

Mother f----- Mut, you mother f------you, you f---- piece of s--- you big tough guy, you mother f--- keep that mother f--- here, keep him here.