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At this point even Jerry has to know it's Tony, but he'll never fire the man who he rehired to fix "the biggest mistake of his baseball career," because not only is that admitting failure, that's hurting his BFF.

Co-signed.

This OF:

I know the value has probably dropped, but I could probably get at least $20 for Tony's HoF plaque, right?

TLR: "The only way Leury can get a positive WAR is if I keep playing him."

I'm just gonna keep repeating a number of things: I've become convinced that Tony is only a Hall of Famer because of steroids and STL having Pujols/Molina I finally understand why Rick Ankiel's career went sideways.

I mean, considering the team Tony was gifted and the first half of the GarPax tenure, hard disagree. TLR was given a supposed-World Series contender. Pax built the Baby Bulls and GarPax gave us the Rose-Noah-Thibs era and the Jimmy/Rose/Pau team that should have taken out the Cavs. The collapse started with the Three Alphas. Then it absolutely cratered.

Leury will be involved.

Yeah, I can't blame him for the bottom of the ninth, but I can blame him for many other things.

But it's a part of the game!

According to the initial hiring announcement, we did!

The original list with Ramos and Co., should have made it clearer.

I'm guessing Sosa, Vera, Colas and Montgomery are safe unless a big fish can be had. 1) The FO clearly likes Sosa unlike TLR 2) Vera just got here 3) I think people are buying into a manufactured Instagram controversy way to much with Colas relative to his performance. 4) Montgomery is self explanatory. I will add Kath to that list.

Ramos, Thompson, Dalquist, and probably Yolbert all look like likely trade chips.

Good things happen when Eloy, Robert and AV hit bombs

I like home runs.

Are we phoning it in on defense?

If anyone has unironically typed "Tony's boys don't quit" this season, do you repent?

TA's f-bomb got clearly picked up by the mic. Aaaaand we're gone.

Neon Moncada makes better contact that Yoan.

This is where I'm at. It's hard to justify putting the back half of the Top 30 over a guy raking, even if he is literally a man amongst boys.

I had to make sure I opened the right game thread.

Re-sign Abreu. Cold April. Ron makes thread about Abreu's age / performance as Father Time is undefeated. Abreu begins to warm up in May. Someone bumps Ron's thread. Abreu gets red hot in June. All of us: "Yeah, we have a log jam, but like, we need this bat." Repeat the cycle until Abreu gets a number retirement ceremony, statue, etc. Begin cycle anew with Andrew Vaughn and the next White Sox first baseman.

Can we add Super Joe and Daryl Boston to the thread title.