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Seems to be the MO so far this week...

Or the free spending owner dying and the kids being cheap, something we know all too much about. They had some oddly backloaded deals the last two years. So yeah, there is some chicken coming home to roost here, even if CBT is based on AAV. There are some cash flow issues they are working around.

There are all sorts of shoulder strains.

They don't have many if any rentals.

Miller would have cost McGonigle plus then.

Sewald is being slept on and who I was referring to. Montero I could take or leave, but the price was right.

I like it. Build for October and get options in place. I still think something bigger is afoot.

Owens DFA is interesting. Almost like they have him included in a trade. Because he is on the IL, he cannot be outrighted. So if they don't find a taker for him today, they have to release him if he clears waivers.

"Controllable years" is a bit of a misnomer for a reliever. I remember saying this when the Cubs traded Scott Efross with "5 years of control." Relievers don't have a 10 year shelf life in most cases.

For the "he will re-sign after clearing waivers" crowd, I feel like I need to explain Hartlieb. Because he has been outrighted before, he had the right to declare free agency upon his outright. I don't know the terms of the contract he opted out of, but he was likely on a minimum deal or close to it. Hernandez has the same right (greater than 3 yrs service), but he has a guaranteed 7 figure deal he would be opting out of. If he had 5 years he could refuse that assignment and effectively force his release to get paid. His DFA limbo ends tomorrow. I suspect if he clears waivers, he will accept the assignment.

West coast PGA Championships in prime time because they aren't beholden to 60 minutes anymore? Sign me up!

They have the NFL. They will be fine. That has fueled some pretty crappy prime time sitcom success for a quarter century now.

Wapo ran an op-ed from Scott Bessent hawking crypto today and moderated my comment that it was a scam.

Torkmoil probably lifted from the BA tracker and didn't cite it.

There's some highlights, including a McGonigle double from the Moon Mammoths game at the end of Last Week Tonight this week.

Here to say if PASS was nationally syndicated instead of WGN, Lou Whitaker would be in the Hall of Fame instead of Ryne Sandberg.

Also. We let Alfredo Simon walk 10 years ago, so no way we have enough to go get him.

Editorials that are well researched and well cited can be just as insightful as news stories, if not more. Having said that, if you go to an opinions page and see a lot of redundancy, it makes some sense to reorganize in a lot of ways.

Tell that to Claire McCaskill, Bill Nelson, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp.

Too late. My annual subscription runs through December. I don't see myself renewing, nor do I see it being worthwhile to at that point. The list of departures is pretty amazing.

Glenn Kessler leaving Wapo might be its death knell.

I know this was a joke but for those curious, the maximum it can be was $100k. It is likely between $50k and $100k, because 50 is the waiver price and this deal bypasses waivers.

Was this a joke?

March 2029 after adults are put back in place. Nothing is going to happen here. Jizzy is going to work with his syndicate to get everything swept under the rug.

Two more promotions to Toledo without corresponding moves, meaning there are likely two more pitchers hurt that haven't been officially logged on the IL. They are four over the roster limit right now, so there are four players unavailable that we don't know about... which is why the Hartlieb's and Jackson's are coming up.