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Finally pushed his OPS at Toledo over 800 tonight on the strength of a double and 2 BB. He's filling Malloy's empty spot as the Hen's designated walker.

he hit 24 HR in low A, at high A this year he's hit 7 in 314 PA. It doesn't matter how hard you hit it unless you can hit it with some regularity.

A team whose strength going forward was supposed to be pitching now has one of the weaker staffs and less AAA depth than average and while the pitching went poof we've seen Keith look good and Perez and Malloy look like they might stick. Net/net we've lost ground for the year.

what was that about making 'X' the free speech platform. ROTFL. Zuckerberg is probably high-fiving around the office on this news. Expect Trump soon to be selling gold spray painted Teslas on Truth Social.

bottom line we are a worse MLB team as of 6:00pm than we were this morning and no-one brought on board has a high probability of making any MLB impact. Now TBH, they were going to be worse once Flahery left at the end of the season anyway, but I'm not sure anything in these returns is necessarily better than a comp pick. Like I said before, teams like the Tigers end up persuading themselves they have to make these trades while the buying teams laugh all the way to the playoffs.

Yeah - if you don't get it some tuna it's going free agency.

One for two ain't bad.....

and they were right.

One has to assume Netanyahu has gamed out his options and if Harris looks like the likely winner, he will probably make a deal on Gaza and the show up back in DC as a peacemaker the new Admin can love again.

By the last numbers I saw Threads wasn't doing much in the US but was still growing overall around the rest of the world.

maybe they are waiting to be sure Chafin agrees to report before putting the other name out there....🤷‍♀️

Be still my beating heart - too much to expect.

Stop being reasonable, we have less to two more hours to be silly.

Maybe it will come right after Donnie decides he loves electric cars?

OK, though after only one previous season we don't really have 'normal' down yet.

Rebranding is the keyword.

must be something bigger in the works to merit that?

Vlad has been known to expound about the degeneracy of western society using acceptance of LGBT rights as his theme, while holding Russia up as true successor and protector of the Orthodox leadership mantle.

Somehow I don't think he is going to be pleased. I think Dickerson said the other day he actually drives home to the farm during home stands.

Am I allowed to WEIRD again?

Flemish Giant?

That may be inevitable if Flaherty goes today. Say anything you want about the long term value, but short term the odds are very high team morale goes in the tank and they stumble/bumble their way to Oct like they did in 17' after they cleaned house.

he has 24 total bases with the bat so far in the last 2 series against the Tigers - against 2 BB. If you don't know how to get a guy out, stop worrying about walking him.

why is boxing even still a sanctioned sport for anyone?

So what does this tell us? I take it to mean that the teams trying to build are getting caught up in their own false sense of imperative to make trades in markets where the buyers are not offering fair return value.