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jays can hope Ohtani is run down tomorrow.

The Empire Strikes Back (tie game)

If you are adding up wasted money, don't forget to add the ~$30M UM has cost itself in fines. Who gets those $ I wonder?

Funny number: They bested Cle on treys by one attempt 11/34 vs 11/35. Go figure.

I can see one guy from that core being moved, but otherwise for good or bad, that's it. If I'm going to play armchair GM, and I feel I have to move a core player for some pitching, the guy I'd like to move would be Carpenter. I'd have to buy out most of Javy's deal to move him, besides he's my safety net in CF. If you get a catcher who can receive and throw, and even hit some, you hold onto that for dear life, so I'm not even answering the phone about Dingler. Torkelson might bring back something of value but I'd just have to turn around and shop for a RH bat to replace his production. That leaves Greene and Carp and I think Greene crimped his value last season. I'd rather risk that he gets back on track than sell low. That last part is the gamble. I'd rather know all that the coaching staff knows about Greene's season from the inside before making that call.

It's such a huge hole still in his game with three full seasons under his belt. Just too many points given away.

Trailing after the 1st Q. Piston's have 'em right where they want 'em. 🙄

to be replaced by?

McGonigle's OPS is 1000, but 19 players have OPS >900 and 9 have more walks than K (like McG). Not a trough league for hitters.

It would be nice if more on-ball time for Ausar translates into fewer TO's for Cade, but not so far. 🫤

The frogs are in the pot and the water is getting warmer.

Ha! 🤷‍♀️

Tigers strike out so much any opposition announcer probably has to a lot of phrases for it researched and ready....

I don't know if I'm happier that Rodgers is losing or that any team that would wear a uniform as ugly as whatever the Steelers are wearing is.

Thereby hangs a tale though. In the pre-NIL days, it was at places like LSU where it was both easier and more necessary to use money under the table. With everyone having money out in the open now, those are the places that will be hurt.

Have you been to Baton Rouge? Chemical plants and garages rented to store MardiGras floats for NoLa. Being totally over fixated on LSU football not hard to figure. The college version of GreenBay. 🏈👑

1st half leads have to be pretty big in a regular season NBA game before they mean much.

NBA officials making themselves the game again.

that bests his point total from last year already.

Good for him!

17 it was. 29-12 I think.

and even more fundamentally, no-one voting for a mayor should give a damn what he thinks about international affiairs - that's not what you are hiring him to do. Mamdani is running on a platform of making things work. That's the judgement that the people who vote for or against him need to make. There may be nothing in American today more destructive of functioning democracy than voter inability to focus on the nuts and and bolts of what they are voting for instead of the faux reality TV aspects of the modern political contest.

America is wierd place. It's like we're a nation where time has stopped and no-one moves on from anything. Nobody in the US was still bringing up Pearl Harbor to Japanese Americans 25 yr after Pearl Harbor.

look like Aryan Nation to me.

It's like Mantha all over again but worse. He'll give a good shift or two that shows what he could do, and then disappear again. Hockey is a game where you spend a lot of time at the edge of total exhaustion but hockey players seldom show it. Rassmussen *always* looks and moves like he's already exhausted out there. I try not to accuse players of lack of heart (though Rassmussen has driven me to that on occasion) because you don't know what they are actually going through. In Ras's case, he clearly has a level of skill, but it looks like somewhere along the line he lost the physical capacity to generate the energy needed to play hockey in the NHL.