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Man I loved Hawk, but once his sight went, it was time. He just became a caricature of himself.

I would LOVE the Sox to pair Jason with pretty much anyone else but Steve Stone. Having listened to Jason doing tons of other baseball, basketball, and football games I cannot think of a single instance where I thought they were worse than the Jason/Steve combo. They don't even have the charming oddity combo like a Ed and DJ used to. You need a guy who is wanting to enjoy himself during the broadcast and Steve just isn't that guy. I think the best tribute I can pay to Jason is that he is able to sound good with pretty much anyone he sits down with, which I can tell you from experience is NOT easy. I won't put him on my Mt Rushmore of all time favorites, but he is a very good one.

The MLB investigations aren't opinion, they are fact. Trevor Bauers suspension, and Daryl Boston's lack there of aren't opinion, they are fact. My opinion is I want neither around my team or anyone important to me.

You'd have to be talking about a pretty sure fire reliever to consider it.

Some times I wonder if people really understand how bad the typical MLB announcers are around this sport.

I really think they will have to do so, otherwise the pressure on the rest of the organization's personel and players getting hounded with questions around Bauer will be too much. Think of all of the other players getting the TLR questions when TLR disappeared, except times a 100. If you sign Bauer, you will have to get your ass kicked publicly and must have him and the organization be able to publicly justify this signing, which is exactly why I think no one will do it.

Whoever signs Bauer is going to have to do a press conference, and probably many of them. You might even have a better chance at this if you had someone who was more willing to show any amount of contrition or even that they learned a lesson in all of this. But the victim blaming attitude here is going to make it nearly impossible for a team to sell Bauer to its fanbase. These owners got rich by understanding risk and the like, and I just don't see the return and negative externalities of Trevor Bauer being worth it to MLB teams in this current form.

This is a wonderful attempt at a whataboutism, but for the record, MLB suspended him for two years because of what they found in their investigation. I really hate Boston being included in the stories he was included it, but let's not pretend the background information for both is on the same level, nor was the level of what was turned up. But for the whatabout record, they could have fired Boston the day that story came out, and I would have been thrilled.

They always have such an odd list. Vera at #10 with 4 pitchers ahead of him, especially Santos? The one that really jumps out is Ryan Burrowes at #14. That is an out of no where ranking.

Plenty of lessons and none of them in this post.

I think Jerry just tripped over a stack of $100 bills reading this.

It's our next civic marketing campaign. Way better than come see our lake effect blizzards.

Oh no, I think you are spending waaaaaaay too much time getting upset over responses to random trolls making up trade proposals. I think it is all absurd and can't see having to run down tons of combinations through a trade generator to justify by these imaginary trade proposals are awful, when they were most likely intentionally awful to begin with. If you want to be upset, by all means.

And the random trade generator doesn't like the trade generator.

No one here actually suggested it initially. Some rando twitter account shared a picture of the proposal, and most everyone laughed at its absurdity. No need to come in firing the trade generator around.

I sent you a message, let me know if you need anything else.

The sunset lake cruise is outstanding, as is the Brewery scene.

Blue Chip I assume? Should be fun. If you need any suggestions, let me know.

If we are going to carry a Jake Burger, i would rather have the left handed version anyway.

Jose Ruiz has been a useable middle reliever for pennies on the dollar of free agents. He's put up 3 seasons which average out to just above a league average ERA. Baseball is full of guys like Jose Ruiz on the back of most MLB rosters. If they have been creating mlb middle relievers out of thin air for 20 years, this franchise would be in a lot better shape.

Who cares if Jimmy Lambert was better. We turned Jose Ruiz into a useful bullpen piece after being a minor league waiver claim. THAT is the part that actually matters. McClure is a AAA roster spot that anyone in baseball could have had a few weeks ago.

It is more like collecting versus playing a game with fixed options. In this game there is only one Liam Hendriks, and everyone wants him. Most want him enough that they will be willing to pay up for him. You play all of those offers against each other.

I am failing to see the bad part of this question.

If one in ten of these guys turns into Jose Ruiz, you have won. It isn't like you will ever hit on a big number of these guys, which is quite literally the point of churning the bottom of the roster to take chances on these types of guys.