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Yeah, I'm not trading up in this draft. Glad they got 4, but it's a pretty weak draft.

I am not sure where I stand on that. I think McCann is the first catcher that made me notice game calling, in part due to how terrible it was from our catchers prior. i wanted him locked up last year but it is what it is now. He earned it. I’ll miss him for sure.

Eloy my goodness.

Can somebody send me Tim's address I don't think I saved it on my phone

Private schools do an excellent job of getting wealthier students that have more resources to accommodate a situation like this. If I was a head of public schools, I'd start running it like a business and start "cutting the fat" of students that need more resources than they put in. Don't have internet? Seeee yaaaa. No computer? Bye byeeee.

Right exactly, he’s at work! His producers were hearing this even if the audience didn’t cut in. This isn’t someone saying they heard him use it at a restaurant.

Eh, he could contribute as an asset if he is talented and desired. Get the guy you think is best. If cespedes immediately looks like a swing and miss corner outfielder, he'd probably be less valuable than a super talented 19 year old pitcher you could trade.

If I was saying anything remotely inappropriate on a conference call prior to a client hopping on, and it turned out they were on, I would be fired. If they were not on yet, it is very likely I would be fired if other reasonable people from my company were on the call. If anything he's more protected "being in the public eye" since he can cry "pc police". It's incredibly easy not to say racial or homophobic slurs at work. It's kind of a barest of minimums kind of requirement.

Not gonna lie the extremely messed up intl schedule makes it hard to get too excited about this until we figure out what sox were able to do in Jan(?) with cespedes/other guy.

ugh remind me to finalize bets faster.

This could be Robert related... could be renteria obsessing over having a super lefty lineup against two cubs RHPs.

I agree, no way that was the first time he said something like that. Just incredibly unprofessional, hot mics happen where you embarrass yourselves. This isn't a hot mic, he should be fired even if they weren't live.

Dunning's start was a huge positive, that said, really annoys me that they didn't give him the drew Anderson start a few weeks ago. We have same control now, and he would have given us a much better opener in an important game.

I'm gonna take the opposite side of that bet.

why? There's no point in having him in Schaumburg, he's not going to contribute. He was active. We aren't getting an all star pitcher. I could absolutely see him as part of a package.

Wonder if there was strong enough trade interest in Jake?

dang, I really liked the wgn pre and post game.

I agree with this. In this case the manager is wrong, but if you set up the "never do what manager says if I disagree" you are then asking the players to always be right on the field.

1) I missed that the rangers threw behind Machado after, so that's the stuff that's actually b.s., I thought the opposing manager was just salty. I think it's dumb, but I don't really feel the need to whine about an opposing manager feeling like his team was embarrassed and placing the focus off his team. 2) Having read the padres managers comments, it really seemed like he was more upset that Tatis was given a "take" sign, and he swung. Personally, I think the signs to swing or take on 3-0 are peak over-managing, but it happens. I am just annoyed by the overkill transition from the legitimate campaign to stop hitting batters after stuff like this (like TA), to at the time believing the outrage was at the opposing manager saying he doesn't like it. I think it's dumb, but not same stratosphere as trying to throw at Machado the next pitch.

thanks. The velocity was sad to hear about last august, but worse was as you said, his secondary stuff had been depleted.

He was down on velocity coming back from TJS, he's now 2 years back and velo is near highs, not a coop thing.

Yeah I think the progression for Robert will not be from his current play to trout/betts, but to continue to get smarter like Anderson in still being aggressive, but still more selection. I think he'll have more walks than Tim, but as long as he can stay in that 20% range like TA, his speed/power will be so valuable when you add in his defense.

While I think it's dumb to be mad about that, I think this also has just become an outrage topic. Bad: player hits home run and celebrates - then gets a hard object thrown at his head Not even as close to bad: player hits home run and celebrates - losing manager says "that's bad" We really gonna act like in football coaches don't get mad about a team going for it on 4th down up 21 or "running up the score"? Players should be able to celebrate without getting injured, but it feels like people are trying to get upset if the opposing pitcher or manager doesn't say "yeah that was great, we all love celebrations, I really appreciate getting to see that up close"

Have been able to watch so few games recently. Can someone tell me about Burdi? The tweets I caught sounded exciting.

Detroit is building a pretty scary rotation but we all know how much can happen before they make it to the rotation. That said, if they end up with Kumar Rocker...eesh.