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I've not seen an inning of the night game west coast games, just reylo getting crushed. Nice to read of a win!

Yeah AZL really annoys me. They brought over the entire DSL roster basically from last year and are playing these 17/18yo guys like once a week. Maybe there are a ton of other baseball activities happening that make the development still better than DSL, and I don't know. But Coronado, Kleydar Sanchez, they may be garbage at end of day, but for now they are 18 year old guys who had a promising first year statistically.

Watching in the library with an mlb.tv account given to me by a soxtalk poster (whoever you were, thank you!)

I did try to dethatch, but, didn't seem like that was a large problem.

Lawngents, I'm at a loss. My nice green lawn that I was very proud of started turning brown in spots, and I thought it was a watering issue. I kept watering and watering, then realized there is no way it could be water at that point. I applied scotts broad spectrum fungicide 2 weeks ago now, and it does not seem to have stopped the spread. I applied it but did not water it right away (was not sure). Any idea what to do? Brown doesn't have spots that I have seen, just kinda browns and dies.

Yeah but you never know in the NFL. I could see the Seahawks D collapsing this year. Tough to accurately project schedule strength.

Leury actually seems like a total Jerry Dipoto target, doesnt' he? I bet seattle was taking a look too

I would actually bet that the Bears rarely will run out 4 wide sets, the TE position (even if split wide) will be a big role as it is in Philly/KC.

I think there will definitely be games where it quick sands and everyone is poorly executing and one step off, but I'm very excited. They may also just end up with a solid base of plays that can exploit the bad defenses they face but for now can't overcome the better talent defenses, that would be an improvement. Being the best bad team isn't something they've been able to do for a while, and that can also get you in the playoffs (though maybe not in this division). I guess that's basically the lions.

Judging from Instagram, Luis Robert discovered dominos and will soon be 400 lbs

So in one of the articles it talked about how when he was struggling offensively they let him “take a break” with defense and focus back on offense. He immediately was great. Have to wonder if maybe he’s back to focusing mostly on defense knowing he can hit at AA if he wants

Thank you for saving my joke ?

Don’t tell me how many he hits he has, tell me where he hit em

Game 2 in AZL was a 2016 INTL FA show with all of the offense coming from Guerrero (2-3 2 2Bs) and Coronado (1/3, 3B), also Brayant Nova with some hits. Can’t remember his class. Davis Martin pitched and Hunter Kiel had a very Hunter Kiel like of 2Ks, 4 BBS in an inning of work.

He’s had great velo, then poor velo, the decent velo this year. He’s interesting though.

Mieses with a double.

Anyone notice that Friday night games tend to be big offensive explosions?

That’s a bad example though. At that point though I have breached the lease I still have control over it. They couldn’t charge me and still rent it out. If I hire a contractor and give them a deposit, then say I found another contractor and am not firing them in breach of contract, I don’t get to them demand a portion of his next job to pay me back for the deposit.

Those sports have guaranteed contracts though. I think it’s crap that in the one contract that has guarantees they are forced into, the team gets to diversify their risk despite the fact that they have decided not to retain the services of the player.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-fringe-five-baseballs-most-compelling-fringe-prospects-116/ Mendick is back in. I paid attention to him so much more last year, largely due to the dearth of talent in W-S offensively. This year the power he has shown in birmingham has been eye-opening, though his average has risen and fell. It's starting to feel at any point like he may just figure it all out and take off.

TWO RUNS for DSL!

The NFL players union is such trash compared to mlb's it's astonishing. MLB would never let them undercut players guarantees like that.

I'm not sympathetic to this. Don't draft 7th then. There are so many ways to weasel around money in the nfl, just get the guy in camp and deal with that problem 5 years from now

Just seems kinda weird. Slots are so set in NFL now, doesn't seem like it's worth haggling over whatever it is.

I'm gonna hold my woo hoos after this year. Still fully expect this tweet Chicago White Sox August 2nd While rehabbing an oblique injury, RHP Jimmy Lambert tore his UCL aand needed Tommy John surgery, and also tore his ACL and had leg amputated. He is expected to miss 40-50 months.