Edman85

The changeover at WaPo has largely been on the opinion side, which definitely looks more like the WSJ opinion page these days. My understanding is that opinion and news desks are separate and independent. The complete gutting of some departments on the news side also leads to less overall getting reported.

Let's not assume everybody stays healthy. Cross that bridge when we get there. I do think Montero would be a good back-end reliever though.

We are kind of at the late stage result of that, though. The aggregators, the yahoo/huffposts of the world, are poaching the ad revenue from clicks and forcing newspapers behind paywalls as a result. Those papers and outlets are being hollowed out and there is less true coverage now. 95% of the Tigers beat is just all the outlets regurgitating what the team gives them when they arrive at the park. It would have been nice if they had the ability to blow the lid off some of the frat boy activities at ISE sooner, for example. There is still some value in news gathering and investigation. I try to subscribe to local papers both where I live and Detroit just to support them and ensure they can do their job. The cost isn't that much. Having said that, my Detroit News expires very soon... Just needed to cut some budget in the very short term (house/dog/car emergencies) and it was redundant with Freep. I went with Freep because Perzold gives some contract info I find useful that nobody else gives.

At what point is that theft?

Still got 2.7 or so more years of blanket pardons if he needs them...

Another link to an article that just reports somebody else's reporting... I mean they are citing it properly, but something is amiss.

For some reason it does irk me that the link to Stavenhagen's reporting isn't to Stavenhagen's report but to somebody reporting on his report. It's a big picture issue with media that I struggle to get my head around how to call it out or what the downside is. On that topic, I get ten Athletic gift articles a month and rarely use all ten. If there's anything you want to see behind the paywall, ping me and I would be glad to share.

Not since you hung 'em up.

For some reason MCB has tricked Google's SEO, and I have not been impressed with their current crop of writers, this one included.

Padres DFA'd him. Phillies did in March.

I'd rather have a POBO that is tougher to deal with than one easy to deal with...

And social media algorithms amplify that..

Depends on the corresponding move and the outcome of the DFA. Probably a net zero... Guys getting healthy will move the number down. I project a frozen roster the rest of the way, and players on split contracts making minor league money instead of major league moves the number down. Compare guys recently demoted and see how their number dropped.

Jones probably hitting because it's 5-0. Not to say that can't change quickly, but the Rays do have three LHP in the pen, so it's nice to have Jones in there later if it does tighten up.

Reading the negativity spewed about today's lineup right now is fun.