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We have access to more information than ever. With AI, even mediocre minds can research things never before possible. And yet, John never understood WHY you'd give a 3-0 green light (or the opposite), even after asking Stone probably a dozen times over the seasons. This coming from a guy that claimed he was goin to play D1 baseball until he blew his arm out. I mean, he's a fraud. He might be a pretty nice guy, but as a baseball guy and announcer he's a fraud.

Projected arb figures from MLBTraderumors. This is a really young and cheap team. Sorta thing you dream about building in OOTP. Things can change, but man if we add some payroll..

Did he improve? Sure. Do you get the impression he likes the Sox? Yea. Did he deserve another year? No. Even with his improvement he still was bad and I get the impression Stone would have retired rather than work with him again full time. Kinda just is what it is. He's been gainfully employed with his travel expenses all comped for three seasons while taking most of the offseason off from other gigs. He'll be OK and we'll hopefully find someone better.

What about someone that was over promoted and will be just fine financially? John got a chance many better announcers never will and he blew it in various ways.

That's like 90% of fanbases tho. And probably 100% of baseball fanbases. What stadium is packed when their team sucks? I can't think of a single one. Cubs I guess but they haven't really sucked in awhile, be interesting to see what would happen if they had a 100 loss season.

2400 MLB PA and exactly zero fWAR. .2 this year. You can stick around a long time in this game being a mediocre or even bad lefty, pitching or hitting. I'm not a fan of his obviously but I'll never root against any former sock other than Nick Swisher. f*** that guy.

streamed both games, entire first one and most of the 2nd one when I wasn't getting work BS. Had zero issues. Buffered maybe twice over 15 or so innings. Wasn't even behind the paid streams based on board reactions. I'm sorry I'm not going to sub and cancel streaming services to watch baseball in 2026. If people are really dumb tech wise just install brave browser, it comes with ad block and a lot of privacy features (like anon DNS routing) built in.

Bro acting like they won 100 games. You won 85 with a barely positive differential. Send. Them. Home.

I wouldn't. I'd feel a really certain type of way being as old as I am and not seeing a single WS winner from my team. Division titles are a nice thing but they aren't in the same galaxy as winning it all. Every Tigers fan I know around my age feels similar. They'd trade places with the Sox in a heartbeat. They haven't won since 1984. All my middle age friends from Michigan don't even remember it. They were just babies or toddlers. We saw one 21 years ago, and while that's a long time, it's nothing compare to 1984 or 1948. The team that before this year I follow that most resembled Cleveland was the UM Hoops team. We've had a great run of league titles, B1G tourney titles, FFs but man we were 0-4 in my lifetime as a fan in the final before this year. I was too young for the 89 team, was just a toddler. We finally got back over the hump. If we had not, I'd still be bummed. But, we did. Cle fans have to rue that Cubs series.

Tribe fans gassing themselves up over division titles. Cool, how many WS appearances or titles you get out of that 32 years? Oh, that's right, you let the Cubs beat you in fan murdering style to blow your one appearence. 1948 is the last time you guys won jack s%*#. Division titles, who really GAF? Oh we beat a bunch of mediocre AL central teams! We need to end their fucking season. Tired of these jackoffs.

The ESPN preview is so lazy and bad. They say despite our RD, Tribe were the "class" of the Central. Wut? They won the division by one game. They don't get a flukey walkoff we win it. There was no clear class in the division. Then they quote Rogers (lol), and he says the team that just scored 13 runs in two games and that easily led the AL in runs scored is led by their bullpen. I'm pretty sure it's led by a strong young core of position players, key vets, and a mediocre patchwork, but willing to sacrifice for the team, pitching staff, in that order. They also bumped our headline for a headline on Mike Tomlin's vidya game world. WTF even is ESPN now.

People need to realize that with this coaching staff players can improve and that they are working well with the scouting staff. Doyle was ID'd as a guy that had some team control left and could be had for a bucket of balls, but also someone with some talent and someone they could hopefully improve mechanically.

People that can't occasionally laugh at themselves are the worst. I wrote so much wrong stuff on Getz and who GAF. I'd rather be wrong every fucking season and win a playoff series than be right and lose 100+.

Wonder what position he'll play. CF sorta looks covered at MLB level. Then again, so does 3B and 2B. He's not a MLB SS by anybody's grade, so this will be interesting. Good problem to have.

You get better in LF with Grichuk instead of Sam as well. It's a pretty easy decision imo. Sam will get his chance as a PH. If he was better in LF maybe you consider it, but Grichuk gives us a boost there in a pretty large LF in Clev.

Huh, seems like it would have been better to just keep the party going on the flight and get another night in Chicago but they probably decided as a team to just stay in Houston and one take one less flight.

that's actually sorta cool. so they called him down to the photo. alright, keep winning you old f***.

I mean in hindsight pulling hicks when he did last night to use him today is brilliant. he's pushing a lot of right buttons.

It is honestly insane. Dude could pass for not a day over 75.

Probably one of the more impressive performances on ABS all year, and in the highest leverage games. I will just say make it 4 per game and call it good. Let the awful umps get demoted. But keep a little human element. It rewards skill on both ump and catcher.

another mune interview: mune in heavily accented but understandable English: chases mide-rosses, he's a sow a good, [calls him small in japanese] but sooow good" don't have x on this computer but lol what a fucking guy.

No bad juju. Ron has rights until he doesn't. So far so good and I've had the guy on block for 3 years and he's been responding the entire time. I finally liked one of posts last night after a rare unhiding. Right now Ron is hot. We'll ride with him for at least one more.

This series is the first time I really thought Teel has a shot to be a star. For a catcher, he moves extremely well and it shows in his receiving too. Our pitchers had confidence to throw it in the dirt and Houston's paid a price. 5/5 on challenges too, just dominated in all facets. Also, kudos to the training staff and decision making there, they have him peaking after the unfortunate injuries. paging @ptatc