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Everyone would lose their minds about it but that’s the best bet to not end up with another charity case.

I think this is honestly just the MLB bullying Oakland into that proposal in Oakland

Idk I just don't see how taking oakland and putting them in a smaller market is a good idea. The NFL works because the NFL could work anywhere in the country. NHL works because it doesn't require nearly the revenue to compete. And also the benefit of a miracle cup run. I'm just envisioning like 8,000 people a game, because where on the average person's vegas itinerary does taking in a baseball game come in?

There's almost no way baseball will work in LV

no doubt

They're already playing an entire outfield of guys who aren't really outfielders, they need to bring someone in.

Blackmon is pretty far down the list IMO. The dream would be Gallo. Bryant would be super nice. And I'd rather shoot for Tapia than Blackmon. But I agree with your overall point.

Whatever is going on with him seems to be real. Just a matter of keeping his shoulder meat attached.

Going 5 games with a slash of .000/.636/.000 is honestly insane.l

He's a three outcome guy in a run scoring environment that has been reduced to 2 outcomes. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it feels like he'd just be trading walks for fly outs by getting more aggressive.

He was bad on arruval

Not directly, but having him out there really hamstrings your options with Leury and Hamilton coming up.

You could definitely use a pinch runner but I'm not sure if you could sub abreu for hendriks and then use a pinch runner, I can't find anything definitive there. It just says "However, if the player in the batting order immediately preceding that half-inning’s leadoff hitter is the pitcher, the runner placed on second base at the start of that half-inning may be the player preceding the pitcher in the batting order" If you can, you'd use mendick and then bring Collins in to play first. This games outcome aside, Liam Hendriks absolutely cannot be running the bases two days after you already had a devastating roster hit.

I'm too young to have observed the Bevington Shit Show. How does this compare?

Burned him earlier

The double switch was not necessary, but it was to get that pitcher's spot out of the firing line of coming up that inning to make sure hendriks got another inning. If it's abreu and not hendriks on third, I'm comfortable with a squeeze play. I'm also absolutely not stealing with garcia. The infield was in, there was no DP threat. If you wanted to get a little Joe Maddon with it, you could pinch hit mendick for hamilton and hoped to god a ball didn't get hit to him the next inning. This would be a desperate move I understand.

There were 4 or 5 god awful decisions that happened in that last inning and none of them required knowing the rules.

I want my manager to be a Milford man Neither seen nor heard

Insert Shaq dunking on Chris Dudley gif here

This is also the second time a rules gaff cost them. Remember anaheim when he didn't challenge an obvious overturn in a no-loss situation because he took too long?

When they hired him I figured it'd be tolerable from on an field standpoint, and the real problems would be behind the scenes. But holy shit.

Let's also not discount the fact that even if Tony's understanding of the rule was correct, that double switch was also idiotic.

I think the implication there is not only did he not know the rule, but he had double switched to put himself in that position

Is it not Tony's job to say 'Hey (Insert Coach here) you are in charge of knowing this rule inside and out."

It's happened more than once already