The Beast

I can’t understand what Hahn’s plan is with all of the relievers. Imagine if the starters they project to use get in trouble and the offense goes quiet, it doesn’t matter if they have a nasty bullpen. It made sense to go get another starter to replace Rodon and make this team on par with last year’s team. Then, get an actual right fielder who isn’t another Sheets/Vaughn/Engel type and make this team better than last year. Those moves would have made a lot more sense to me, in addition to offering Rodon the QO.

No, RH and his half assed lawyer answers and JR’s bad money being spent is a tough read. This board is bearable if you read over the tweets and don’t follow the same people who b**** at each other. Scroll for the good shit and ignore the rest. Good, two guys that never should have been on the roster last year. Just like Goodwin and Mercedes. Well, we’re waiting…

What else could he possibly want to accomplish at his age and with his career achievements?

It looks like some team is going to have to end Brady’s career the good old fashioned Bears way. https://youtu.be/ysGk7iMJZ-w

Trying to convince the owner to nut up and leave less money to his family when he croaks so he can sign Conforto and trade for a starting pitcher.

Could it be that this dude is a depth and insurance piece until Hahn makes a trade for one of Oakland’s starters? Why is Oakland trading everyone away again?

“The starting pitching market is drying up!” - Angry George Costanza

A la Mike Sirotka/David Wells.

The question is, who is he trying to get that is a Boras client? It could be anyone. Edit: Oops, I thought Schwarber and Story were Boras clients. I guess it’s probably Conforto and wish it was Bryant.

Yesterday I made donations to World Central Kitchen and to my sister in law’s coworker in Poland who is housing a Ukrainian family. It felt good to give to people who really need it.

He’s the only one that made sense to me in the list of remaining free agent starting pitchers. How many teams with postseason success relied on super subs at second base and a platoon in right field? Doesn’t it make more sense to acquire your starting roster now than wait until the deadline? It’s ridiculous that they can’t just go out and get a right fielder that is consistently starting instead of relying on Vaughn/Sheets/Engel and get an everyday second baseman, relying on Garcia and the AAAA bench player from the minors. That’s not getting them closer to a championship.

The Chris Tannehill treatment

I wonder if he’s worth anything if he’s a UFA next year, maybe for a team looking to win. I’m not sure what he would bring back. My guess is he stays for at least this year. Yeah I take that back. Jackson stays, Quinn and Montgomery might be next to go. Not sure if Quinn can get moved with his dead cap money, similar to how Jackson would have the same issue.

If they do these things and add a middle infielder, I’m satisfied.

Quinn or Jackson, my guess is Quinn is going though. There’s no need to hold onto him unless they can’t get something for him.

Do they really need the teams to get another year to strategize and understand the bases, the pitch clock and the ban shifts? If all of those go into effect in 2023. Fuck those 12 who voted against it. Finally, we won’t have to see pitchers bat ever again. Nobody wants to see that and it will make pitching in the NL a bit more difficult. Fuck the Astros, fuck the Yankees, fuck the Cardinals and fuck the Mets.

I’m fine with the deal as long as they continue to deal their other tradable assets. They need picks.

“Play ball!” - Porter from “The Sandlot”

Seems like it makes the most sense to campaign on it and forgive $10,000 a few months before the midterms to let it set in. I have no idea what they are going to do with gas prices and I am not sure why they wouldn’t try to get Mexico and Canada to pump out more oil unless they simply just can’t produce more. Seems strange to be trying to get more from Venezuela and Iran unless they need to diversify getting oil from different countries.

Out of curiosity, is anyone here donating to Ukrainian refugees or causes for Ukraine? I’d like to make a donation to help refugees but wondered where others are making donations.

Long but interesting interview with Fiona Hill. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340

What would have to happen for NATO to so coordinated missile strikes on Russian military targets? This is what I was thinking of, even if it isn’t the same conflict at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

A similar conversation was had between a Russian war boat and the Ukrainian war boat. Unfortunately, those Ukrainians lost their lives. Putin is a thug and I hope his army gets neutralized in this war. I don’t know if the U.S. and allies would consider providing air cover, but my guess is the Ukrainian army is going alone with the weapons that were provided or they already had. Lastly, this statement is embarrassing. We should all be on Ukraine’s side if we believe in a democracy. I’m not surprised that he said it, but I do hope some in his party buck him on this. "I went in yesterday, and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper."

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