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glad this happened. I wonder if it was part of the negotiation.

but it didnt

I think the one thing I wanted more than any other was Luhnow just had to be forced out of Astros. The one year ban that is a season long ban is a joke. He'll probably be whatapping the crap out of everyone anyway.

I am shocked the one they all pointed their fingers at was the one...no longer in their org.

What does this mean? Dotson is still here, so if he died going from Zalesky to Dotson ...

That isn't particularly rosy.

I would really like the author of Astroball to go back to his chapter of Beltran bragging about him picking up Darvish's signs and follow-up with whether this was actually just him looking at a monitor and communicating it to players.

Then they should just force the pitcher to announce what he is about to pitch before throwing it. Fans would love it.

The integrity of the game being in question is much more detrimental to the pocketbook and product than financial happenings in international free agency which the casual fan can't even really fathom.

And they were not allowed to participate in intl for what, 4 years?

And this was a punishment within the game, so...I don't see the issue.

so second round we pick are one pick higher ?

The penalties handed out to ATL were harsher.

If I was John C I'd be appealing the shit out of this now. He created issues that messed with some teams budgets, this was systematic in game cheating.

I am disappointed in this, this is hardly anything at all.

Either fired or not retained. The optimist in me will believe we are seeing the slow motion move to align the minors toward a more centralized front office set-up. Johansen gets hitting coordinator role. Jirschele continues to move up, older school managers see the door.

That's correct.

I do not know that sox believe in Mendick as SS. As it stands sox do not really have a backup 3b or SS. I know the answer is "leury" but I don't think sox believe that.

I wanted Iglesias because he could also spell TA at SS. I do not like Leury as a SS, and I don't think the sox like Yolmer's arm as a SS. Ideally we get a guy that has more versatility to the left side of the infield. I'd take Yolmer over Gennet. Miller has spelled SS. I don't know what answer is, perhaps they'd move madrigal over to SS, but anyway, I still wish we'd have signed Marwin Gonzalez last year. Could have been the Mazara platoon, madrigal lead in, and versatile bench guy. I would be pro Holt but I wonder at this point if he's angling for starter jobs. Jordy Mercer is another guy, but arrows to me are pointing to Yolmer.

I like how high they are on bailey but "already became one of the top prospects of the DSL" isn't really that amazing. Very likely he's in AZL but can't freakin wait until he's in Kanny and we can get real notes on him (also hope that he destroys AZL.

I just think Gems should have gotten Sandler an Oscar nom. It's not really a classic oscar best picture, I think it will hold up more than most though. This was a great year though, so much better than last. I really appreciate, maybe more than most, when directors can take something that has been genred to death (the 19th century well off) and boxed into just focusing on all of the Victorian fetishes, and actually tap into the real concepts of the books in their contemporary period. The excitement/ambition/frustrations of little women just become "look how people used to live" and I think Gerwig got past that. Like, if anyone could actually make great gatsby more than "look at these dope parties and cool cars" they'd deserve a best director nom from me.