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The next step in his recovery will be catching BP so he can slowly get used to interfering with live bats.

Not naming names, but someone clearly has rabbit ears.

I went to an A’s game in Oakland a few years ago. I was surprised at how decent the stadium experience was. Clearly a football stadium masquerading as a baseball stadium, but overall not bad. Outside the stadium was abysmal. We came in from SF on the train, and it is barren. I’d like to see them stay, though. It’s a club with a good history.

Exactly my thought. Many more variables at 1B. I don’t see why people keep suggesting 1B as an option for a guy who can’t even play LF with any situational awareness.

3rd best record in the AL. Biggest division lead of any team in baseball. I’ll take that.

They’ll start giving him multiple innings soon.

They need to stretch him out in July if he’s going to start next year?

Agreed. I don’t think it’s too late for the team to opt out of the season.

Trade for Story. He can move to 2b and back up SS. Start Collins at C against righties. Have Anderson catch when we face lefties.

The success of all of these scenarios depends on people doing the right thing. Unfortunately, I think we know too many people have been determined to act selfishly for the entirety of this pandemic. Here in AZ, vaccination rate is a little less than 50% fully vaccinated. Today, my wife and I donated platelets. The policy at the blood bank is masks required unless fully vaccinated. Both my wife and I are fully vaccinated. Of the other nine people donating while we were there, only one was wearing a mask. If we assume everyone was following the posted policy, that means only one of the eleven people seated in the building was not fully vaccinated. Seems kind of unlikely statistically. My wife and I chose to wear our masks.

Is it showing up the other team to put your DH in at catcher?

It would be nice if any of our starters consistently pitched into the 6th or 7th. It seems like we have 4 innings of relievers every game.

I’d pass on a ball or bat for the HR ball and ask for a few scout seats for a game.

Not to mention having to take the mitt off your left hand and transfer the ball to it Jim Abbott-style before throwing. Guys would be stealing all day.

Service time manipulation.

Most shocking? That’s easy. It the Shockmaster’s WWE debut.

So, is COVID a left wing political tool (second paragraph) or is it a real health concern (first paragraph)? I feel everyone worldwide is conspiring to keep Trump out of office.

Gordon’s evaluation of Yermin was spot on. Both YM and Vaughn are trying to pull outside pitches. Frank echoed the sentiment. I’m still a steve stone guy, and I’d rather have Wimpy back from time to time if Stone is off.

I love the way the brackets work in double elimination tournaments.

Maybe they should just raise the laces on the ball a little?

I agree. I think the reason they didn’t call up Sheets or Adolfo is mostly for defensive reasons. Without Engel and Eaton, the defense would be very sketchy. Even Goodwin takes some pretty curious routes to the ball. Vaughn has done well catching the ball, but his decisions on where to throw the ball haven’t always been great.

I hope they don’t give up much. Hopefully the Dbacks just want to unload him to their old pal TLR to save a little money.

I only watched a little this weekend, but Benetti “interviewing” his color guy gets a little old for me. I’d rather he just call the game and let the color guy comment. A little bit of silence and ambient sound isn’t the end of the world on a baseball TV broadcast.

It would be nice if our hitters who struggle against RH pitching (Yermin, AV) would think about hitting it to right field rather than trying to pull everything.

1. Lost more than 20 lbs. mostly by counting calories. I’m not fanatical about it. I pretty much eat the same stuff, just a little less. 2. I’m kind of a homebody, so staying home hasn’t affected me. I wasn’t affected at work. I was able to work the whole time in the office - teleworked once a week. 3. 401k is up, but I took a huge hit in the beginning. If I had bee proactive and moved it to something more safe early on rather than ride it out to the bottom, I’d be way better off.