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This is a funny offseason for pitchers. To me there is a somewhat clear set of tiers, like an easy to translate "$15" game. I guess I would put it as budget of $5, and you need to sign 2 pitchers, regardless of what you think of signing two. $4 - Bauer $3 - Morton, Gausman (I have to assume right?), Tanaka, Paxton, Quintana $2 - Walker, Minor, Odorizzi, Kluber, Archer, Lester $1 - Anything else

Thanks.

Wait did Gausman decline his QO?!

Can't wait for the gross takes at end of year about how Tony overcame adversity. Or a cool ESPN montage of Tony being released from Jail and going to the ballpark.

Every draft pick has been tied to the bulls, every trade has been tied to the bulls. In terms of drafts I have found that in football and baseball "online fan favorites" have often turned out pretty good. In nba drafts though...less so. I have a hard time believing in any of the strong opinions on this draft, even in terms of fit, I could see rationale for any of the top 10-15 guys. I like the concept of Deni - but his FT % terrifies me. I like a playmaker/length of ball. I think wiseman would be a good nba starter. Edwards looks the part, wouldn't be my favorite, but can see it. Toppin is limited, but also I could see being the guy that figures out how to over perform based on weakness. Conceptually - Killian Hayes sounds good. Halliburton people hate, but again, could see him being that overperformer in college that does same in pros. The FlaSt guy I like a lot. I really believed in Luka, luka was good. I thought Young would be good, he was good. I also thought Dennis smith would be awesome, he was maybe the worst of the top ten picks that year. I thought Porter Jr was too risky and soft, he looks pretty damn good. All drafts are crap shoots, but, I'm pretty much gonna be happy with whomever they draft and tapping out on acting like I could know if a player will be good.

Completely agree. You could just hear JR/TLR say "I only had a couple drinks, .09 is BARELY above the legal limit, I mean this isn't even a felony. Would basically be a sleepover at a friends house if I go to jail."

I was actually mad listening to it.

No, he absolutely was minimizing this, I just listened to the interview

This interview is AWFUL. Bob compares the possibility of TLR spending the night in jail during spring training to David Ross missing the first few days of spring training with the flu.

Bob should be ashamed of himself.

no party he is suing has the standing to negotiate those things.

*hmm I find these people annoying going too far in wanting to punish Tony Larussa* *types furiously* "Actually, driving impaired is a good thing..."

Nice find @southsider2k5

The reality is there are only 30 of these jobs. They are sweet jobs. It shouldn't be hard to find someone good.

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I’m confused, who didn’t anticipate how upset the fan base would be?

The reality is the acceptable list of managers for me was sooo freakin long this whole thing is just remarkable.

Let's see how the Snelius feel

man if i'm fortunate enough to see "Tony LaRussa resigning from Manager position" in my twitter feed that will be the sox fourth world series.

Brooks boyer is giving y'all the macro treatment.

It was fortunate for Tony he managed so many years in STL which thanks to anheiser busch owning the state legislature has the most liberal alcohol laws in the country. My favorite was you were allowed 1 less open containers in your vehicle than people. Do we have any belief that this was just the second time Tony put others in danger?

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It only took 7 years for that scenario to take down Paxson, so we only have 7 years to go.