WestEddy

Unfunny when big companies do April Fools' Jokes.

Baseball's a seasonal game. Weather happens. It's not "stupid" of a sport to play a game on a cold day.

There's more guys on base. We would literally need 4 hits in an inning to score a run, most games, last year. More walks, a little more pop in the lineup - they could be a fun team 3-4 days a week.

Yah, I'm not seeing anything on Twitter about this. Was it reported by @not_rosenthal?

I believe you can figure it on a sliding scale. The first win should be worth about $7M. Depending on the FA year, subsequent wins can be worth $9M to $13M. And bringing up Quintana, that's why it's being said that age is the new market inefficiency. You can pick up these 35 year old guys who are still perfectly serviceable for low salaries.

And being a little bullish, I can see them at 17-24 after the Marlins' series.

The funny part is, looking at their schedule, aside from 6 against the Red Sox in April, their schedule doesn't really get harder than what they're playing right now until maybe the middle of May. 4/1-4/2 - Twins 4/4-4/6 - @Tigers 4/8-4/10 - @Guards 4/11-4/13 - Red Sox 4/15-4/17 - As 4/18-4/21 - @Red Sox 4/22-4/24 - @Twins 4/25-4/27 - @As 4/29-5/1 - Brewers 5/2-5/4 - Astros 5/5-5/8 - @Royals 5/9-5/11 - Marlins 5/13-5/15 - @Reds 5/16-5/18 - @Cubs

Sure. But it's like guys who fill up the newspaper comment sections of news stories about natural catastrophes, mocking the victims for living in areas where there are hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes or forest fires. "Just out-think the weather."

The team doesn't look like death warmed over. That is a great victory, and that is not premature.

Complaining about scheduling games in colder cities is pointless. They have to schedule some games in the northern cities. It's unfair to the Southern and West coast teams to give them a preponderance of games before Memorial Day, then give the Red Sox and Twins more summer games. They could just have all the teams play in their spring training sites until Memorial Day.

Do you actually feel that Bergolla is more of a "hit" than Teel? That's ridiculous.

Correct on all three milestones. Perez did a great job. People here had all three of Burke, Cannon and Davis back in the minors by June 1, Perez DFAed, Smith buried in the bullpen, and Clevenger starting. I'm going to take the under on all of that.

I was actually a little excited for the roster movement. Oh well.

Counterpoint: The pitching will be much better than this all season.

Yeah, you gotta win the days the other team doesn't show up. 5 BBs, 5 Ks for White Sox hitters. 2.08 ERA for the bullpen in 13 relief innings.

Be aware of the fielders and keep away from them.

But are they still "one of the worst teams of all time"?

Burke, Martin and Perez have all gone 6.

Another very nice AB by Vargs.

Colas isn't a major league outfielder. And he doesn't hit well enough to fill any of the other two slots open to him.

Keepin' the band back together...

I'm guessing it's May before we see Rojas. I keep refreshing Twitter watching for Gus Varland news. That could be your 40-man spot for the Can-Man.

Is there any word on Gus Varland, yet? Dude left the game holding his arm yesterday.

I always had a soft spot for Greg Norton. His father killed his mother when Greg was a child, and Greg was basically raised by his older brother. I could never boo the guy, and I'm always happy to read about him getting a hitting coach job somewhere. These are real people dealing with unbelievable pressure, on top of their own life stories. I hope there's a backlash of empathy in the LA media for Sasaki.

I don't see how they fix Canario at the major league level. Maybe they give him the runway to fail for a few weeks, then he slips through waivers. The post said Canario (plus), meaning Canario and somebody else for Thaiss. The lede of the post was to bring up Teel, where he leads the White Sox to a World Series victory, then all the players cry because it means so much to them.