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Did anyone see Harold with radar gun in hand shouting to the heavens, “Just give Kelenic one more shot, one opportunity….Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him,”

Except Greg doesn’t waltz off with a young Courteney Cox…

Ron, who would you recommend trading? Opposing GM… ”Well, Cease or Kopech look pretty good, and you don’t have a position for Vaughn, now do you? How about throwing in Robert to sweeten the pot, he’s looking more like an opposite field singles and doubles hitter with limited patience a spotty injury history. In fact, Rick, no RHP has gone four starts in a row with over 100 pitches like Cease…he has a TJ in his past, and he’s taxing your bullpen by going just 4-5 IP each time out. The main benefit is more time for vendors and concession stands to maximize revenues during his starts.” Other than Graveman and maybe Pollock (B/C prospect), what are going to get back for the rest of the roster that nobody wants or can afford? Sell off Cueto? Gio, Lynn, Abreu and TA7 instead…? Reinsdorf won’t you let trade off the latter two, Lynn and Kelly are LaRussa favorites…so it’s basically Giolito and Graveman, pretty much the extent of it. Wait, how does that help in 2023, exactly? Which means you have to go back out in FA and spend even more $$$ replacing those two since nobody can trust him to actually work out another favorable prospect trade again at this point.

This week's turmoil signals potentially systemic issues. Investors often peg stablecoins as essential to growth in the sector, but belief in their viability is being tested. Terra's collapse shows how these tokens can have all the risk of crypto without any of the upside. Now, people are realizing there is nothing to back up the value of these tokens other than the hope that there will always be more buyers than sellers — a bleak rationale to rely on during a full-blown bear market. The move in crypto feels different this time. Rather than being sparked by an offhand comment about more regulation or a temporary skittishness among investors, this week's sell-off has roots in the underlying mechanisms of the market, which appear to be faltering. yahoo.com/finance Bitcoin already tested 20,000 and has jumped back up a bit…if the 0.75% or 1% rate hike come, who knows what the overreaction will be.

Sometimes you take away one of the most important players on the team and it can actually have a positive effect as others rally and pick up the slack, like the GS Warriors growing and maturing their roster while Klay Thompson was out… Graveman gets to go back to closing again, for example. Kelly moves to the 8th and other relievers (Lopez, Foster, Ruiz) have to cover the 7th. That said, him missing the rest of 2022 and at least half of 2023 would be a disaster of epic proportions.

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Bottom 8 out of 157 qualified hitters in OPS, all from the AL Central. Plus Avi Garcia, 9th from the bottom, haha. #157 Baez/Barfz, #156 Grandal, Schoop, N.Lopez, Candelario, Torkelson, Merrifield, #150 M.Straw Ramirez #3, Buxton #12, Arraez #19, Abreu #43 Only 4 hitters in MLB Top 69 from Central

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Not even Greg775 or Parkman are capable of this counterintuitive troll/jinx... As we speak, the Sox are going to be 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 behind the Guardians and likely just 5 behind Minny if Seattle 4-0 lead holds up out West. Everything will be much clearer 36 games from now around the TDL when we have head to head matchups with both those AL Central-leading teams. Edit: Guardians escape 1st and 3Rd no outs in Denver to go up +3 over .500 due Emmanuel Clase.

Mazara 355/762 Gonzalez 304/784

mikolas at 115 pitches and injury history going for no hitter against Pirates for DH sweep

Lopez as "closer" tonight?

$140 million?

Also thinking Willson Contreras with a 954 OPS now definitely out of Sox trade range... But at least Joe Kelly is looking really good for now.

LOL. "Will Grandal play another 10 years?" Father's Day Sox email from Scott Merkin. Will he be able to play even one more season?

Grossman robs Pollock of third hit of the game. Play of the game so far defensively.

Vest Of course, now we launched the Rangers into a hot streak. Forget about the Sox catching the Astros.

Everyone should be able to sustain their interest through the TDL. Then the obligatory 2-3 weeks complaining about trades or relative non-action. Btw, weakest pop up in terms of EV in the majors this season?

The old Gordon Beckham Special...

The tough assignment is going to be defeating RHP Alex Faedo tmrw...another former first rounder who has been on quote a roll. Finally got Reyes out.

Who would have thought the NL would be the higher scoring league by nearly 1/2 RS per game even with the DH?

Pitched to contact other than that first at-bat. Phillies and Braves continue to roll. CLE up 2-0 early in Denver.

Promote Lambert to 7th inning. Of course the Tigers might have the worst offense in baseball...don't draw any premature conclusions there.

Tigers' announcers struggling to remember the last time a starter had four consecutive 100+ outings. And barely averaged 5 IP. 319 + 108=427 Tigers scoring two runs or fewer in roughly half their games. Ouch.

Future closer in the game. Velocity is down but secondary offerings worked there...