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Full slot?! Don’t they just have to pay full slot for pick 5? Hmm. Oh well. I wasn’t that big a fan, so obviously I’m going to nitpick. Would have been nice to get one more high school guy.

Tigers have lost 11 in a row to get right back into this thing. Thank god we have sucked against them head to head.

Fathom, you are correct, sir. I am just sick of watching mediocre retreads that we hope to trade. I don’t even want to watch him in Charlotte. When is Burdi supposed to be ready to see game action?

He’s another lefty, though.

I want Jose Ruiz or Ian Hamilton, or even Thyago Viera, but I am sure we’ll be seeing more Gregory Infante.

Oh that’s not fair. Our Lady of Lourdes couldn’t fix Rondon.

Joe West has been guessing all game.

Hopefully he’s fine, but he really has been hurt a lot. It seems like whenever he’s just about to get his timing back, he gets hurt again. Pretty frustrating

True. Ricky loves Omar. Can’t see why.

I’ve watched a lot of Collins. He is not good. But his glove is way quieter than Narvaez.

Yeah. Why does Narvaez have a job in the majors and guys like Rob Brantley are stuck in AAA their entire lives. It’s a mystery. Collins will not be worse than Narvaez.

Betts and Benintendi can both play center. Pick one and put Avi in that corner spot.

Or with JBJ’s struggles, I bet they look at Avi.

Winston-Salem up 4-1. Rutherford 2 hits off a left hander. No Luis Robert tonight.

Didn't they just promote Lambert?

Yeah, but an adverb without a verb? Aren't we better than that as a nation?

The immigration issue is going to be a continuing problem because of the country’s declining birth rate. Without substantial immigration, U.S. economy is going to stagnate/decline. We have easily absorbed millions of immigrants for just that reason. There are people in business who argue that the U.S. is underpopulated to compete with the E.U. and China; that the population should be much closer to 400 million. Now, it would be easy to attract that many people by simultaneously opening up our legal immigration channels to somewhat match demand while making it tougher for illegal immigrants to find work. Unfortunately, that would be extremely unpopular with roughly 25% of the population. These people, mostly rural folks, want to restrict even legal immigration, mostly for cultural reasons. They’d prefer we attract Trump’s mythical Norwegians. But because our system isn’t particularly democratic, they wield outsize power, especially when it comes to immigration policy. So what we have done is to create a black market in immigration and now we’ve launched the equivalent of prohibition or the War on Drugs on immigrants. I believe it’s not going to work in a million years and is going to get waaay uglier than it is now.

Rutherford and Curbelo?

Collins got a double. Is the curse broken? Also, Luis Gonzalez continues to tear it up for W-S. But they lost cuz 0-17 w RISP.

Nice video on Future Sox Twitter of Eloy talking about his homer and game winning hit in English. His English is pretty darned good.

This is also what Carlos looked like during his rehab stint. He was throwing a ton of strikes.

Stolen base call is HUGE in this inning.

Just saw the replay: Bomb over 400 feet to center.

HR Eloy Jimenez!

I was struck by this too, but it makes some sense. Only someone whose public morality track record was unassailable could weather the criticism, and a born-again Christian may look at second chances differently. Personally, I don't want the Sox to sign him and the whole thing makes me queasy, but you can see where Moore might be exactly the guy to take this kind of risk.