chasfh

For us to believe we’re going to lose 100 games, we would have to believe we are a bad team no matter who’s playing on it, include Skubal, Melton, Javy, Gleyber, Carpenter, etc.

I suppose it’s possible, although I do have trouble accepting that a guy mentioned, like, 38,000 or something times in the Epstein files wasn’t involved.

That Trump was a serial abuser of children is already baked into the Epstein files equation, such that if that was all there was on Trump in those files, it could be dismissed with some form of "so what who didn't". So there has to be more than just that in the files implicating Trump, something worse than "merely" sexually abusing children on a serial basis, as though something worse than that is even possible. So I am now coming around to the idea that Trump was an executive principal in the operation. He ran the thing with Epstein from the top. Not the paperwork, of course—that would have been Epstein's job. Maybe more like procurement, dispatch, and disposal.

So, you're saying it totally worked?

The 70s was a very strange time in history during which children were routinely sexualized in popular culture, and there was even a movement afoot to make sex with children easier, such as lowering age of consent in New Jersey to 13—at the urging of the NOW, of all organizations. That was an actual thing.

You mean a guaranteed 100% for sure WS title? Sure.

If we go to the market selling now, we look desperate because we'd be selling everyone (except Riley) low. Plus, teams are not in a position to buy yet and don't even know what they need, and also, they feel no pressure to compete with other teams for us. This is a great recipe for bag-of-balls returns.

Jansen has been actually pretty good lately. Not today. 0-2 pitch. one strike from a win, snatches defeat for the jaws of victory.

ha ha so he did what a jerk i am

Nothing to say. It's simply a nightmare.

🤷🏼‍♂️

Which two Dodgers OFs?

Of course he has, but decent value doesn't apply when he's on the list, which he has been on well over 50% of the time since July 2024.

I actually asked almost this exact question in another thread, using the example of a pitcher that might actually be on the block, and not Pauk Skenes who obviously will not be. See final paragraph: No answer from anyone on that one.

Getting a few of their regulars back from the list should help some.

That’s one interpretation. 😁

I think A.J.’s job is a lot a lot more secure than that.

That makes two games tomorrow I don’t have to watch. Double the fun.

I myself escape that conclusion. We get pennies on the dollar while he is still hurt.

And he might get it if he didn't fail this test.

I promise you if Agent Orange weren't in charge, CBS Radio News would not be shuttering its doors.

The $64 question is how much any team will pay for two months of even the best guy in baseball. A lot of folks here think it would be a "haul", which I envision people here imagining to be something like an organization's best hitting prospect at the AAA or MLB level who can help us now and their best pitching prospect at the AA level or below who can help in two years and a serviceable pitcher at the AAA or MLB level who can pitch for us now plus a lottery ticket or two. Or is there a haul less than this that people are imagining and would find quite acceptable?

I don't want to be on this boat, but yet, here I am.

I might be more inclined to take a better guy who needs another year or two than a worse guy who's ready right now.

Hao-Yu Lee projects as a third basemen since the low minors, so shoehorning him into second base permanently just so he can learn it is probably a losing proposition for both sides. We could force Vierling into center for lack of a clearly better option, and he does have the range for it, but he has a noodle for a wing and accuracy issues to boot, and you don't want your everyday CF to have the worst arm in the league, necessarily. There are no good answers, I don't think.