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Wow! We tried to get our kids into it but there were no slots left. And when you tried to use the website to get on a standby list it just froze so we gave up. Glad we did. My son loves this team regardless of their record if they did that to him there'd be hell to pay. I hope the families effected let them hear it.

March

Well said. And I hope at some point that message gets to him.

Raffle it off to a fan. And watch them do a better job.

D - Only avoiding an F because he did make trades and didn't do nothing. The moves were mostly bad, save for getting rid of Eloy. And the only way out of this mess into any kind of relevance is going to be spending money on competent, major league ballplayers. Which they won't do, so I really see no hope.

I appreciate that he's gone.

Eloy to Orioles

Riordan is as big a piece of s%*# as Grifol, so grain of salt here. But nobody should be surprised that Pedro would say something this ignorant and stupid. I will take the smallest amount of pleasure in the fact that in Baseball history, Pedro Grifol will go down as one of the worst managers of all time.

Hard to feel like it's anything else honestly.

Paul Dejong to the Royals.

If that's the case, with the Fedde trade this deadline will be almost as big a disaster as the historically bad season.

I wouldve taken Norby for Fedde straight up and been happy.

I've heard lazy and uninspired from a handful of Dodger fans.

? The Chris Getz experience has been far worse than anticipated.....and nobody had high expectations.

Either way this is fucking horrendous and we can now confirm Getz is as bad as we feared. This deadline might do it for me if this is how it's gonna go.

What comes first? His 90th win or his 200th loss?

88 - 182

No, no, no. Imagine he wants to stay. Imagine he genuinely wants an extension and the powers that be low balled the hell out of him. And now if a new team takes him and wears him down in the post season he has little financial security if an injury pops up. Sox had an opportunity to work with him, they chose to sell and he took care of himself. He'd get a standing ovation from me if I dared enter that park.

Why was Pham in left?

Pedro doesn't need a closer unless it's Dennis Eckersley.

Nice to Flexen being the garbage we all know him to be.

I have always felt the idea of quantifying an exact number of wins to make up based on a current record, player WAR, X number of acquisitions is very flawed. For instance, let's say this is a 50 win team. In my opinion, Grifol has probably lost this team around 10 or 12 games. That could be low but I absolutely believe that based on what I've watched. With a better manager maybe this team right here wins 60 or 62 games instead. Now let's say they have a closer. Not a great closer mind you, but just an actual closer and maybe setup man. I think they win an extra 8 or 10 games just right there. So now you're sitting at 70 wins. (Is this an exact science? No that's my point). But you add a bat that can hit you 30 hr via free agency, promote some talent that is ready (quero, schultz, maybe montgomery) and yes I think they can approach 80 wins at that point. It's not a billion dollars. This team is just absent basic necessities right now (closer, competent manager, a starting catcher not hitting .060). So sure. You can rationalize how I have here to "make up the appropriate win numbers" but I don't think a record is ever truly indicative of how good or bad a team can be next season because of all of the x factors I mentioned. And sorry, but I'd rather they field a team that can win 80 + games right away then bank on them fielding a consistent 90+ win team in 5 years. They will fail again to do the latter.

All of this right here. Stop moving the goalposts with rebuilding bullshit. That being said if you moved Fedde for an mlb ready prospect to fill a hole and had a rotation of say Crochet, Thorpe, Cannon....and maybe Eder, Iriarte, or Schultz next season thatd be fun to watch. Use money on some bats and a closer they'd compete. Their draft pick will also be very indicative of the route they choose.

Can this turn into Fedde for Kjerstad with some additional pieces please? That kid belongs in the majors he's wasting away in the minors.

Fine. If they kept their ace and made an effort, an honest effort to extend him, fine. I'd rather that. If the fan base continues to make it okay to rebuild, spend nothing, fail and do it again they will never stop.