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It's not like they didn't have multiple opportunities to acquire him... just passed, or weren't willing to part with the right pieces. Same with Adam Frazier.

Lambert driven into the ground early season...now what?

They have already fallen from #7/8 to 12/13...I'd even guess low 20's after this season. Ironically... we were right there with the Cubs heading into the year. Once again...efficiency of spending, versus actual dollars allocated, is the key point.

He made one defensive play this year that pretty much saved a game... but you have to send him down and give Remillard an opportunity, Erick Gonzalez, basically ANYONE else.

Buddy Bell thing too...

707 ops/.299 ba vs. .852

How can you keep Lopez when he's going to be a FA?

https://www.al.com/sports/2011/07/hot_corner_ex-baron_gordan_bec.html Hot Corner: Ex-Baron Gordon Beckham should know better Please at least don’t give Beckham the full time job when Benetti leaves…fortunately Getz doesn’t look as bad as Gordon will by today’s political lens.

Greg775? Cheaper than KC even... except for that pesky parking issue.

"Excising the pandemic-suppressed 2020 and '21 seasons, the 2022 A’s accounted for three of the 10 least-attended MLB games since the 1995 strike, and the 2023 A’s already logged a new entry in the “top 15” when 3,035 people showed up to watch a matchup with the Guardians on April 3. The next night, their 3,407-person crowd was topped by 11 Triple-A teams. That was before the relocation news dropped. Fans looking to make a point about Fisher’s poor stewardship of the club had been planning a “reverse boycott” in which they tried to fill the park — necessary since every A’s game looks like a regular boycott. Even if the A’s want to go the route of sticking around for a few more seasons, there’s some agency on the part of the city, which might not be feeling cooperative at this stage." JR would certainly never understand the humor behind a "mock sellout" to get back at him...that would never work. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/whats-next-for-the-oakland-as-as-they-plot-a-move-to-las-vegas-5-big-questions-that-will-shape-their-future-205504586.html

Maddon predicts Ohtani now much more willing to leave West Coast "Ohtani's former manager went on to say that the Japanese-born superstar may be more willing to leave the West Coast than he was when he first came to MLB. "And a part of that, I believe – and I don't have any inside information about this – is that when he first came here he said, pretty much that, he wanted to stay on the West Coast because Japan, it was new to him, everything was new," Maddon added. "I think the guy's been Americanized, he's kind of like captured the hearts of pretty much everybody in this country. I think right now you can go anywhere to play baseball and feel good about it, I do. He's adaptable anywhere right now. That opens up everything. Including Canada, I mean, he'll go anywhere I think now to play baseball. There's gonna be a lotta suitors."

Hahn, He GONE! Hahn, BE GONE! Hahn, gas (or gas him up)!!!

And with out all their regulars playing until the last week or so...

Actually holding their own against the Yankees this year, too...Joe Ryan now 5-0, pretty sure yet another former Ray. Tigers now up 3 games on the White Sox. Just wow.

Would be quite interesting to get Benintendi's and Clevinger's takes (well, maybe not HIM) after being around so many winning organizations/teams in their careers. (Well, other than the recent Royals.) Grandal as well. Giolito has been pretty quiet compared to previous years...probably just awaiting the expected June/July DDL trade. At any rate, it seems like he has taken a step back from his previous leadership role, except for fulfilling union duties.

Padres will put it together eventually on offense...but they're looking very disinterested/listless in the early going. Cubs really on a roll but they still have to get past the Brewers and Cardinals (who also look pretty bad early)...can't imagine the Pirates won't start to fade eventually.

7 if the Twins hold on against NYY again

That's even more of a punishment this year...

Iron pyrite or cubic zirconium

We are thinking of starting a side business since already have so many badminton courts here in China that can be remarked for the front zones by the net...

Reds are going to be two games up on the Sox if Edwin Diaz's brother holds it together... six run rally against TEX bottom of the 8th.

Nothing to lose at this point. Would definitely bump up attendance until the novelty wore off after a month or so.

Taylor not quite dead after all...

Second clubhouse Hahn and Sox managers have totally lost or just capitulated, along with the LaRoches Eaton Sale being the other major uprising.

Another 2-3 minute half inning coming up here on "offense."