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Yeah, the font sucks. They really shouldn't have gotten a new font.

It's a reference to the Guardians of Traffic statues in Cleveland. Dropped the ball not being the Spiders, but Guardians isn't a bad name. https://photos.clevescene.com/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-guardians-of-traffic-statues-since-you-might-be-rooting-for-the-guardians-soon/?slide=1&press-bridgestonecutters_544d1a5741

Damn, somehow no one posted the phoenix. Just using Google translate, but: Dude just probably had a really bad day. People can have those. The only reason this got amplified is because social media has removed a lot of the barrier between athletes and the public, the 3-0 pitch episode, and Yermin's outsized personality. Think of all the colorful characters baseball has had in the past. Do you honestly think none of them thought about about retiring in the middle of the season? Now imagine they grew up in an era with social media. Eventually one of them would have just posted it. Now add in a controversial moment with their manager earlier in the season that was the talk of baseball. Whether it was logical or not, everyone would connect the two.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to beat this price for Cruz when we have actual holes to fill.

Watch this have just been a combination of shitty Instagram autotranslate + Yermin's real intent be "retiring from social media" or something like that.

Is your next unbearable schtick going to be "Gogurt for Yogurt"?

Yeah, hard to see us going from names like Luke Shilling, Matt Foster, and Jace Fry to Ramos and Yolbert. If Tyler Johnson hadn't imploded, he'd be a good name to throw around.

I can see Goodwin hanging around over Sheets due to vet status and Sheets' options. That way if (god forbid) an injury happens in the playoffs, Sheets can come back up. I think Lamb is DOA at this point.

If Cruz is here, Sheets is definitely in the minors and Goodwin is as good as gone when Eloy arrives.

Well, here's the situation: LF: Vaughn / Eloy / Leury CF: Robert / Hamilton / Leury RF: Engel / Sheets / Leury DH: Eloy / Sheets / Grandal / Burger / Abreu / Vaughn / Collins (tried to sort this by playing time, but who knows) 1B: Abreu / Vaughn / Grandal C : Grandal / Collins 3B: Moncada / Burger / Mendick / Leury 2B: Leury / Mendick SS: Anderson / Mendick / Leury I know one of Burger or Sheets has to go down in this scenario, but yeah, Cruz doesn't really fill a need like a 2B does.

How did this take not basically close out the hot takes in the thread?

I'm gonna guess it's the pandemic + simultaneous release. WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki have everyone salivating. Shang-Chi and Eternals might struggle a bit as new IPs, but Spider-Man won't be getting the D+ treatment and Dr. Strange is going to be coming off of WandaVision and Loki, so I'm guessing people will be jazzed.

All things considered, I hope Yermin is doing ok mentally.

Can you imagine if Eloy and Luis' rehabs had coincided? Dash OF would have been fun as hell for a few weeks.

Because it never gets old:

Yeah, if my local theater did this (since I'm in NY and they can), I'm there in an instant. Otherwise? Nah.

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Big problem I see here is that high schoolers would be starting college. They wouldn't be playing actual games yet, but they'd be on campus and hypothetically taking classes.

The article is a hypothetical from a Pirates site, but their ask is Thompson, Sosa, and Rutherford.

I remember that my bold prediction was that Gavin Sheets (or Adolfo) would launch some bombs while playing RF. I did not think Sheets would be coming through in the clutch and be a guy that we're looking to to win games.

That's what happened, yes. But also, DA was responding to people saying they'd take Lucroy over Collins and also wanting to trade Collins and nab Lucroy.

Including, amazingly, our own. Like, our own front office picked Collins over Lucroy. Why would they about face now when Collins is the personal catcher for the best pitcher in the AL?

Lordy.

Hopefully the Sox.

This man's coming: Robert's right behind him. Grandal's playing catch. And the offense is #3 in the majors.