gehringer_2

Blacked out here.

KC goes against the Braves, who still have position to play for. Minny has tonight against the Marlins then goes against Baltimore who have nothing to play for but won't want to get complacent. White Sox just playing for whatever pride they have left. I don't think anyone is going to sweep either way and 50/50 we win one more than KC.

Seattle must have the tie breaker over KC otherwise they would have been eliminated today after the Det and KC wins. Or else ESPN just hasn't updated correctly yet. EDIT: There is the update. Seattle is out.

Only guy on the team that is really scuffling is Ibanez.

In the NHL it's always a balance. Your skill will get negated if you can't stand up to bigger stronger teams over 80 games.

Tyler has been used mostly as the long guy after an opener but this will be his second consecutive start. OPS platoon split is 818/748 so he's not exactly shutting down LH hitters. Tigers should be able to put up some runs.

In the end, only 82 GOP House members vote against the CR. Johnson survives and the gov is funded through the election.

Feds hand down sealed indictment of NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Fox will no doubt have a field day.

Olsen is due to round back into shape. Hard to say if formal elimination will mean the Rays are more relaxed or won't care - but it's also a getaway day for them. Nothing is a sure thing but things are aligned decently for the sweep.

Nope. Wheels fall off for Miami. Santana with bases loaded 2 out double. 8-3

Washington just hacks another throw to 1st base to give Minny a lead. EDIT sorry MARLINS

26 man roster got younger by 5 mo.

Holton, Vest, Brieske, Mize, Meada, Hurter, Madden all likely available tomorrow.

OTOH, If are parked under a ball, the other guy really shouldn’t be trying to call you off.

Well AJ has certainly shifted into hard core mode. Krieder had gotten two soft contacts, I’d probably have let him go a little longer. But you have all those guys ready, might as well use’em

No problemo

Wenceel trying to climb that depth chart.

Littell not fooling anyone.

well, Krieder should be good and loose now....

wouldn't you also think there will have to be a new league formed to be the other half of that CBA? I can't see it being the current NCAA (too broad a target) or any of the current conferences (too narrow a target). Not to take the thread into politics - but just a scenario: There could be Congressional action but it depends on the election outcome. If one party gets enough control (i.e functional working majority) that everything is not constantly in knots, there are a few people in Congress that might have interest in the issue. But it's not the kind of thing that has a chance of emerging from another contentious session - which is why we haven't seen anything in that direction that yet.

well, I might like to think so, but Randy Smith apparently could not.

and the other question is that just because it has to change, doesn't determine how much damage is done before TPTB finally act. Some kinds of institutional losses can become irrevocable if you go too far down the wrong road.

What can't go on will come to an end, it's just a matter of how long it's going to take until some adults impose some kind of order.

nothing in there we haven't rehashed here a dozen times. There is nothing wrong with holding that Avila did not do a bad job acquiring young talent but that that is only one - albeit important part, of a GM/POBOs job and that Avila was bad at almost all of the of the rest of those parts. His FA signings were on balance bad, he got his clock cleaned as a trader, and while he may have known what direction the franchise had to go coaching/technology wise, he lacked sufficient energy/urgency about getting there.

Everybody's always looking to leave here for better gig. The place 1st went to hell when Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac banked his promotion to Louisiana.