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What's that like the 8th HR by the Angels today ?

The price for Manaea keeps going up and the price of Kimbrel keeps going down,

Bye Bye Burger

Between Cespedes, Colas and Adolfo those are some very strong OF arms.

Cease 3 innings 1 R , 1 H, 1BB, 5 K against mostly Seattle's regulars.

Gonna go all Caulfield here and say if Yermin got a burger named after him so can Burger. The Everything is Jake Burger burger.

But getting $15-$18M for 3yrs. might be in his best interest if he can get an opt out after the 2nd year. I'm not sure he gets an opt out after the 1st year with the draft pick attached. If he signs for 2.5 months for $10M then he had better be pretty good in that 2.5 months or WHAM! his value takes another hit.

Me too which is why I think him waiting would be just another in a series of blunders by him. After all who's going to pay him for a full season if he only plays half a season ?

That would be just another in a long series of Conforto decisions ruining his value. But I suppose at this point he might as well go full force into the prideful " I have too much confidence in my abilities to settle on what I'm being offered " mode.

Right ? He made a series of decisions that just trashed his value and is trying to recover his value or still thinks he's more valuable than he is. He didn't get vaxxed, then got Covid. He rejected the $100M offer from the Mets either before or close to the time he got Covid. Then had a bad 2021 and refused the QO. Add that all up and the possibility he still isn't vaxxed, has a draft pick attached to him and you get why he is still available.

If he sucked with the Sox the crow eating would be reversed. If they still don't get him I don't think anyone will be shoving sweet crow down anyone's throat. (OK maybe it will happen to a degree). People differed on his worth in the FA market from the beginning or if he was even as perfect a fit as others thought .Debating it is fun. Some will be right and others wrong. Nothing to feel superior about either way. Optimism vs. pessimism. Giving the owner and front office the benefit of the doubt as opposed to not doing that is all it boils down to.

Notorious Cub fan Bill Murray played Frank Cross a selfish, obnoxious and cynical TV executive in the 1988 movie "Scrooged" , a modern adaptation of the Dicken's classic "A Christmas Carol."

You of all people should know that Comiskey is to Reinsdorf as Jacob Marley was to Scrooge ! If you want I can explain why Bill Murray plays Reinsdorf too

Right the Comiskey ghost is akin to the Jacob Marley ghost who is the 1st ghost to visit Ebeneezer and just as misery and greedy.

Jerry Reinsdorf has a Press Conference and says he was visited by the ghost of Charles Comiskey and the Ghosts of St. Patrick's Days Past, Present, and Future . Signs Conforto, trades for Manea and Montas. Sox win the World Series. Bill Murray plays Reinsdorf in the movie version. And Tiny Tim Anderson, the World Series MVP, says God bless us, everyone !

Man, you're so right. What was I thinking?"

Final : Giants 9 White Sox 6

Burger 2 run HR S. Sheets was the guy on base with a walk.

Dom Smith HR but Giants keep pouring on runs.

Outside of his arm, I have no idea how he fares defensively.

Or John Lennon singing "Nobody told me there'd be days like these. Strange days indeed, most peculiar Mama.

He could be right in his prime now especially if he's 100% healthy. If he had more bat to ball skills Adolfo would be something special. He has Eloy type power.

Sheets RBI double cuts it to 6-3

I can't find it on my computer here in California. Must need the ESPN app or something.

People like us do it to all players. We all have different ways of using data. For example the most popular thing I see regarding Sheets is that his AB's were cherry picked. Yet I have never once seen a person who said that show me ,with data, that cherry picking AB's existed. Now if they wanted to say he's LH and most pitchers are RH therefore he has the same advantage as Vaughn does against LHP only on a more frequent basis I can accept that.