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After the first game of the DH on May 31st, (3 walks), Moncada was at a 902 OPS. 10 games later, he's fallen to a 791 (which is still not bad, obviously). Only gotten hits in TWO of the last 10 games, so they were all bunched together, and that was 4 singles and a double, so the home run stroke has PROBABLY been affected by the wrist issue/s. 5/37=.135 Just 2 RBI's during that time frame, a double, 1 walk (tonight) and 12 K's. 2 runs scored. He has gotten a few stolen bases, but he's obviously not the same player as he was the first two months of the season. Frankly, it's embarrassing a team with that amount of talent is 26-33. And yeah, turned 22 the last week of May.

On the plus side, Herrera just got rocked again (Astros), sitting at a 5.18 ERA. Make that 5.55, more inherited runners scoring. What is the closer's market right now? Watson (Pittsburgh)? Brad Hand in SD? Robertson? Melancon? Maurer? Addison Reed? Speaking of the Astros, would love to get Marisnick. Putting up excellent numbers, great defender...and they can't even find a place for him in that line-up.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 08:10 PM) Corporate tax rate at 15% and getting rid of the over 50 enployees mandate would boom the economy like I've never seen in my adult life. That over 50 employee mandate is making the poor waaaaaaaay poorer. That kind of s*** bothers me big time. That's probably my biggest gripe with The ACA. Sure they got coverage but now they can't work full time anywhere. Where has cutting corporate tax rates and individual income tax rates (disproportionately) for the top 20% worked in ANY world economy? It's simply going to lead to even more inequality/wealth gap in society...it's simply going to lead to $25-$30 trillion in debt (which means there will be NO MONEY left over for government after defense spending and entitlements like Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and interest payments on that growing debt). There's no economist in the US who believes that we can have consistent 3-4% growth, because we'll eventually have to raise interest rates. Meanwhile, pulling out of TPP, $1.3 billion in lost tourism due to travel bans/threat of bans and laptop/battery rules, pulling out of the Paris Accords...we're LOSING MONEY AS A RESULT OF ALL THESE DECISIONS!!!! Meanwhile, the Chinese are steaming ahead with the AIIB and One Belt/One Road infrastructure project (NEW SILK ROAD) that will tie 60% of the world's population together economically. We have the ridiculously inept Amtrak, while here in China the average long distance train travels 180-200 MPH, new developments are happening in quantum computers every and there are more ENGINEERS here than public school students in the entire United States. China will soon have their first commercial airlines, to go with their developments in robotics, computing and rail travel, not to mention solar/geothermal/wind turbine, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/opinion/...trade.html?_r=0 You are being foolish/naive if you think we're well-positioned to compete globally and that these tax rule changes, exemptions, etc., will boost GDP growth significantly. Companies/CEO's will simply use the extra money to invest in robotics (replacing more workers), buy back shares and finance more mergers and acquisitions, leading to more profits for Wall Street and fewer consumer options for Main Street.

Depends on how much the Royals are asking for Moustakas, who is clearly the better choice in terms of productivity...who blinks first? The Royals don't want to get stuck with nothing back, the White Sox also have a financial incentive to move Frazier. Leury now shows up at-bat when it's probably too late.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 07:59 PM) why not use Leury there instead of weak hitting catcher tandem? Punishment from Renteria for lackadaisical play?

Dammit, Yolmer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was the best chance to score that runner. Oh, well.

DOWN GOES FRAZIER. 741 OPS all of a sudden (Mr. Streaky), .206 BA needs to get to least .230ish. Avi back up to 330 and maintaining a 921 OPS. Someone made Tim Anderson mad. Maybe leading the AL (maybe majors) in errors?

McCullers through 6 now. And the Cubs are (relatively speaking) in chaos compared to where they SHOULD be with that roster. J4L has finally been quieted about LBJ.

But but but the Appellate Courts are stacked with Obama appointees out to stop Trump. (Forget that the GOP controls the SCOTUS as well). Redistricting/gerrymandering. 31 governorships. Most state houses/legislatures, etc. Jerry Brown's meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing and states are beginning to ignore federal directives to promulgate their own "rebellious" set of an environmental policies from states like CA, WA and NY. Sanctuary cities/mayors won't listen to Trump and Feds. There's no border wall. Not realizing that we have air bases and troops in Qatar, well, all he had to do was watch the Transformers movies to figure that one out on his own. The MSM is out to get him!!! Hillary. Benghazi. E-mails. Holder. Loretta Lynch. Lois Lerner. SETH RICH SETH RICH SETH RICH SETH RICH. Berkeley protestors taking away free speech from hate groups. And then wishing "bad things" to happen to Iranians when the real sponsors of that terrorism are countries like Saudi Arabia (our new besties!), UAE and Bahrain, well, it's ALL TOO MUCH.

Which wrist did Moncada hurt? There has to be something physically wrong with him to go through a streak like this...where he was well above a 900 OPS a month ago and now sub 800. The best thing to do would be to shut him down (unless they can incontrovertibly prove no more damage can be done by playing through it)...for 2-3 weeks and bring him back when he's 100% healthy. This is the kind of issue that lingers on throughout the season if you're a Paul Konerko, because he could never sit due to the team competing every year.

McCullers (early warning) throwing a no-hitter so far against KC...bottom of the 6th now. Too early to get that excited, but NOT good news for the rest of the AL. Martes just was recalled and Tucker's already in AA...everything's coming up roses for them for now (but remember the 2014 A's, lol, best team in baseball that midseason).

Leury Garcia has also been a space cadet the last two weeks as well...we saw how well Ventura turned those kinds of situations around the last 5 years. And yeah, Garcia (unless he was waved home), should have been at 3rd with one out. Bourjos made an incredible back-up, so I'd have to watch the replay to find out whether Garcia ran through a stop sign. (Another point here is that it was a BIG hit for Willy against his former organization, he probably got carried away with over exuberance to score.) At any rate, let's see Renteria's solution/s.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 06:26 PM) Well said. I'm very very independent myself. I know this isn't a popular opinion on here but I still maintain that the Clinton campaign used the Russia hacking situation as a distraction from the somehow ignored conspiracy against Sanders. That deflection has become this huge thing and I would bet my house that nobody on Trump's team including Trump is/was acting as some kind of Agent for Russia. A lot of people have already suffered and been smeared because of this. I don't like Trump but I want him to be able to get to work being President without all this baggage. Some of his ideas are bold and I'd like to see him get his shot. But it's not a good thing for America if the deck is stacked against the President, no matter who it is. Trump's gotta do his part and shut up about it too. Like you said, at some point let's get back to working on America. A whole ton of people didn't like Obama's lack of any leadership position prior to becoming President but he still got his shot. His legacy is Donald Trump like it or not. Then Trump shouldn't have surrounded himself with characters like Roger Stone, Carter Page, Flynn, Cohen, Manafort, Jeff Sessions, empowering Jared Kushner to feel like he was the 2nd coming of Camelot along with Ivanka, etc. Hubris run amok. You're probably right, it's going to be a situation where "obstruction of justice/treason/high crimes and misdeanors" as a standard of impeachment is not QUITE met, certainly not with a GOP Congress. The best thing Trump can hope for right now is that he can move on...but that's going to prove impossible while the likes of Sessions and Kushner are still serving in his administration. As we heard over and over again, there's a "cloud" hanging over Washington. Jamming through legislation like getting rid of Dodd/Frank or the health care of millions of Americans while everyone is distracted by gossip doesn't do the American people any good, either. Let's not forget that Trump's tweets (the Saturday morning one about Obama wiretapping him, bad bad guy....this time about having "tapes" of the conversations) have led to MANY of the problems currently plaguing his administration. Take Twitter away from him, and his golf clubs, and MAYBE the country would actually be able to move forward instead of whipsawing back and forth everyday with the latest bombshell. Alienating the entire media and declaring war on them hasn't exactly helped matters, has it? But yeah, as a Democrat, I'd be MORE THAN HAPPY to move on (barring criminal charges against any of the names above) as long as Kushner and Sessions were GONE GONE GONE. I think most Republicans would agree with that as well....but would Trump? Sure, with Sessions, he wants/ed to fire him for months now since his recusal (which he blames for starting the chain of events leading directly to the independent prosectur)...but will he do that to his own family? And Eric Trump is not exactly contributing to a sense of bipartisanship questioning whether Democrats are people...Donald Trump, Jr's. idiotic tweets (reminiscent of Ozzie's kids on social media) and this: In the mid 1980s, Chawla's father, Dr. V.K. Chawla, wrote a letter to Trump, asking for his financial help in opening his first hotel. In response, Trump called Dr. Chawla at his Greenwood convenience store. Trump declined to help Chawla secure the necessary capital but suggested he apply for a Small Business Administration minority loan. Chawla opened his first hotel, a Comfort Inn, in 1989, according to the family's business website. ... Originally slated as Lyric Hotel and Spa, with an estimated cost of $8 million, the Cleveland project turned into the SCION at West End with a projected cost of $15 million after Suresh Chawla met with then presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to the Mississippi Business Journal. In December 2016, Chawla told The Journal he met with Trump on a campaign stop in Jackson at Gov. Phil Bryant's request. Trump and Chawla reportedly talked about the Mississippi company's Cleveland hotel that was under construction at the time. Trump told Chawla to "think grand," The Journal reported.After their conversation, Chawla said plans changed and the vision for the hotel expanded. http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2017/06/05/hotelier-partners-trump-family/371309001/ It seems insane to me with all the problems in the US today that the Mississippi delta needs a $15 million dollar luxury hotel...and that Eric Trump can't run a charity event without most of the proceeds going back to his own family. Regardless of what you think about their politics, they're all very self-centered people who care more about themselves than the good of the country. Or care more about "branding" and "Q ratings" and being liked/adored/admired. They don't realize that if they actually ACCOMPLISHED things while in government to really help the middle class and lower middle class (many of their voters), then they would be re-elected, because the Dem's sure can't get their act together, either. I mean, they're turning their backs on the environment, on most of our historical allies since World War II in Europe, on the TPP, on pretty much everything that Obama fought for, and he's STILL at 35-40% approval numbers.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 07:02 PM) Jordan Guerrero a callup candidate? His strikeout numbers argue yes....he was 2nd in the SL to Kopech last I checked. Do his peripherals argue for more success than his rather pedestrian ERA would indicate? Haven't followed him that closely.

I think there was some facetiousness going on there...without the draft and trade deadline, we'd all be going out of our minds with boredom. At least there are the minor league games. Robert, whenever he starts his career after being shutdown for so long from game action.

On the plus side, he's still very effective against lefties...only two homers allowed to LHBers since 2012 or 13. That has value to any playoff contender, even out of the bullpen. Lots of teams could use him as a 4/5 guy for the remainder of the year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40206241 Unanswered questions remaining...

Generous double...Engel eaten up there by the fast turf. Terrible baserunning by Tampa ends inning with two outs on one play. Peter Bourjos with heads up play saves disaster for Rays, that was entertaining, at least. Willy Garcia double.

Walk, stolen base #13 for Moncada. 803 ops. 2nd ab, sharp oppo liner hit directly at the left fielder.

Or Meghan McCain...or Hannity, etc. Try watching BBC for one month, or Al Jazeera.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/com...sers/index.html Winners/Losers from today's testimony

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 04:17 PM) I don't think it's a important whether Lynch's corrupt behavior ended up hurting the left or not. If you would, since I appreciate your level headedness around here, speak to my post that precedes yours. What is the takeaway today? To me it's Loretta Lynch is as corrupt as I said she was when she had the tarmac meeting last year and John McCain needs to disappear from the public eye for good. I don't think we learned all that much today otherwise . I'd like to hear your take and I'm open to admitting otherwise, but it's a lot of he said, he said. Trump's side says this and Comey says that. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40205461 There's your BBC headline. This is the way it's playing outside the US. Then we have the two main Trump stories at Fox News. Lynch is not one of the featured talking points there, either. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/08/...bstruction.html http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/08...x-fbi-boss.html Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/comey-says-tru...-fbi-1496932512 "Trump admin defamed him and the FBI" NY Daily News (very conservative paper) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/c...ticle-1.3231773 Comey throws Jeff Sessions under the bus Sessions is going to be THE big story when he testifies next week if he doesn't get fired or resign...but still probably can't avoid it.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 04:12 PM) I think we've gotten to the point analytically where it's probably fair to say the impact these managers have on the psyches of their players, something which is entirely immeasurable, is probably far greater than the in-game strategy maneuvers. Agreed.... Same with Steverson vs. Walker, or Don Cooper's "success/non-success" the last five years or so. Only those watching from the inside on an everyday basis can make that determination properly. We only get glimpses and very very rare outspoken players (or parents/agents) directly confronting coaching staff while playing for that organization.

I would think the consistent forceful way that a sitting president was accused of lying over and over again and/or being completely ignorant or obtuse about how government works would be somewhat salient points. But Trump lies so much it doesn't matter because everything is fake news. Oh, and the Russians beyond a doubt tried to interfere with our sacred Democratic process. It's impossible from listening to both men not to side with Comey's version of events. Comey showed his human side in admitting that shock/surprise and "job security" played a bigger role in his non-reaction (directly) to Trump ("honest loyalty" and then the idea of letting good guy Flynn go) when he had the best opportunity to push back. And then the fact that there were no witnessses. Watchers of Homeland, House of Cards and Scandal know how that usually works out for those on the wrong side of the president. Look what happened to Sally Yates, for example. And will soon happen to Jeff Sessions, despite being one of Trump's biggest earliest supporters.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 03:34 PM) https://twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/872601761101488133 I have no idea who Andrew Bolt is and I'm sure he's a racist or sexist or Nazi but kudos to him here. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/pol...608-gwmx7k.html As for the last part of your post, just go to "controversies" on his Wikipedia page. And attempting to beat someone up and film it, let's just say the alt right has been killing people (or at least willing to do so) when they're unhinged, with the most recent example being Portland, as well as the mosque attack in Canada. Let's not forget how Pizza-Gate could have turned out without intervention from authorities (Michael Flynn's own son was the one pushing that conspiracy hard.) You had the African American vet in NYC killed by the alt right wielding swordsman. Dylan Roof in South Carolina, the list goes on and on. America was forced to once again reckon with the "alt-right" movement last week. Richard Collins, a black man and a Second Lieutenant in the US Army, was killed by a white college student who followed a white supremacist Facebook page. He was waiting for an Uber at a bus stop at the University of Maryland when Sean Urbanski approached him and stabbed him to death. Collins would have graduated from Bowie State on May 23. The college draped his gown and cap over a chair in memoriam Tuesday. Urbanski, who is a student at the University of Maryland, followed a Facebook group steeped in alt-right ideology, and as a result the killing is being investigated as a hate crime. https://www.attn.com/stories/17316/white-violence-goes-live When did "left wing radicals" actually kill someone since Trump announced he was running for office?