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I disagree. It reminds me of Petco in Sandiego with grass seating and probably a small park that can be used by the public when the team is out of town. Builds fans of kids who play there.

Alaska is a fun place. Spent part of a summer there with a college league team.

Can't wait for those threads as you are correct.

Part of that dysfunctional FO.

He put him 3rd in the order in response to Hahn telling him not to play him so much.

Ever been to or seen Mt. Rushmore

Hard core punk. The runaways would have been priceless. I'm jealous.

I saw them at the aragon brawlroom. It was either 1980 or 1981.

The talking heads were phenomenal live. The other one off the top of my head that was drastically better live was the Ramones. They played everything at 3 times the normal speed. It was something like 25 songs in 40 minutes the last time I saw the. Throw in Blondie and there's nothing better than the old CBGBs lineup.

Its always possible. But if you are talking likelihood with injuries it's a different story.

That's what it soulds like from previous comments.

Do you really think they will lose 110? Are they that much worse than last year?

Any injury is never a good sign. But to go from never a good sign to we don't know if he will pitch this year is a pretty big leap.

They would need to build him up for back to backs. However with his injury history you never know.

Interesting. He could be.

OK. So you are going with once in how many years and trades and hanging your hat on that? Plus a shoulder injury is much different than an elbow. I'm not saying he won't have other issues even possible surgery as elbow issues tend to escalate. However it rarely progresses from inflammation to not pitching. There are steps in the middle.

So once in how many decades and you are going with that? And I believe he did pitch. No doctors aren't infallible hence it's called the practice of medicine. I'll wager he pitches this year.

Don't you think Seattle checked the medicals prior to agreeing to the trade?

I disagree that we know Getz doesn't value power. He doesn't value it right now with a barren team and a poor minor league system. This is just his first year of a significant change in the FO. I think we can all agree this was a bad defensive team and acquiring defense fist players is cheaper and a quicker way to start retoolong the team. As was stated above. This is year one. Let's see what his targets are as he progresses.

Actually it seems like a move where they talked about Cease with some of these names but couldn't get a deal done with bigger names so they settle on the lesser names deal.

I highly doubt they were all signed for that specific reason. It's more about who is gone than who is new.

All of this means that the character guys were not character guys. The clubhouse environment is by the players not the organization as a whole. Most managers have usially allow the veterans to run it. Especially, in today's game. Very few managers try to control the clubhouse and get a terrible rep if they do. The managers will talk to the veterans about what they want done but not to the whole clubhouse.

However they can get motivated. Lord knows some of the others should take note.

If you read stories from around the league, nearly all of them are calling the off season underwhelming. I wonder if they all look at what the dodgers can spend and think the only way they can compete is through player development. Or if they all are refusing to play the game with Boras as he Co trolls the best players left. Interesting off season.

No reason to open the books until the union agrees to a salary cap.