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I thought it was cute. Too bad it was wasted on a blowhard.

I saw his car driving around once near Del Taco in Foothill Ranch. So he touches grass sometimes.

I wasn’t allowed to like the band Queen when I was going up because that would make gay.

Dude your are awesome. You are such a big part the board.  Happy birthday.

I wasn’t allowed to like the band Queen when I was going up because that would make gay.

Dude your are awesome. You are such a big part the board.  Happy birthday.

Dammit.  There were some good bargains to be had tonight.

I'm reminded of stories about despotic kings who constantly change their generals and such, because they're not happy with outcomes that ultimately have more to do with their leadership than those under them.
So my only response: It doesn't matter, at least as long as Arte has significant input. Let the baseball people do baseball. I have criticisms of Perry Minasian, but I'd like to see what he can do if given time and freedom. Let him decide on the manager, and see if he can turn things in the right direction. 

This sucks to see, but I have to admit, I laughed at the Ohtani pic at the bottom right after the Angels record was listed...
 

not at all. have you actually gone and read the information on it out there. i have, at least, so far. 
the world is a vile place, taylor, and people do disgusting things that would be unimaginable to us. perhaps more info will come out and i'll change my view accordingly, but i've seen a lot of the social media posts coming from the mom and her child, as i said originally, and they're pretty gross and definitely designed to misrepresent her age as legal age, but not her sexual availability for a few different mlb players.
based off of what i have seen so far, wander franco is going to get screwed by the legal system.

i've seen her and her mother's social media posts, and i'm going to tell you wander franco is about to get fucked over. the mom was catfishing other mlb players as well trying to get her daughter hooked up with them and she and the daughter we're saying she was 18. her social media is filled with serious booty shots, pictures of her out drinking. pictures of her driving. the problem for wander is that the state isn't going to care that he didn't know she was 14, they're going to care that he fucked a 14 year old. from everything i've seen so far, i feel real bad for the guy.

Adams should have never been here in the first place.  So what he did here is pretty much irrelevant at this point.  He was just a stop gap to get to Trout coming back, and with Moniak and Renfroe playing through minor injuries and looking tired.

Let's make it simple.
You replace Adams with Trout.
You're welcome.

I'm tellin' ya, it's because you're pasting in the x.com version of the tweet.  This site and others are very inconsistent at embedding them properly. 

Moore will turn 35 in the middle of next season.  Not a good idea to sign 35-year-old relievers to 3-year deals. 

I like the young core of this team a lot.  
There's a ton of club control for a ton of guys that seemingly range from solid contributor to very good.  With a couple in there having star potential.  
Then you look up and down the performance of those guys this year and it's lower than expected due to not being on the field or just not playing as well as we would expect.  While others are just getting started and we're hoping the performance can match the expectations.  
This team has a much better base than any in the last 9 years.  But there are legit gaps and it's gonna take a continued financial commitment to fill them.  

So it’s kind of like this board, we’re just short some smart kids.  

I disagree 

So far it doesn’t. 

Does that apply to message boards too? LOL

Studies have proven that putting the smart kids in the same classroom with the dumb kids is beneficial for both the smart and the dumb kids.

Lord knows this team needs to bolster their baseball IQ. Schanuel helps! 

You can laugh or you can cry.  Today is a nice Sunday so I’m laughing 

I fully understand that our farm ranking is what it is, but we have seen a nice little collection of talent hit the team the last few years.  So far it hasn’t amounted to more wins, but it does speak well for our future.  I know it is easier to shit all over the team in times like these, but there is enough of that all of the board and twitter.  
Position Players:
I really like our trio of guys that came up late last year and this year in Neto, O’Hoppe and Schanuel.  They don’t have to be All Stars to bring incredible value to the team.  They have to be above league average and create less question marks and less black holes in a line up.  Neto and O’Hoppe both seem to be above league average defensively, which we all know will help.  Schanuel, I have no idea how he is defensively, time will tell.  Looking at him he doesn’t look super athletic, but if he has good hands then he will be fine over at 1st base.  Mix that in with whatever Moniak brings to the table and we have some good young cost controlled players that truly help fill out a roster.  
Pitchers:
Canning, Sandoval, Detmers and Silseth are all 27 or younger and have shown the ability to get major league hitters out.  I don’t know how to unlock what Sandoval is capable of, but it feels like he is the one that might be most affected by overthinking and extra data.  Last year he had a sub 3 ERA so the talent is there.  Detmers has great stuff, finished last year better than league average.  He will be a solid left handed pitcher for a long time.  Silseth is 23 and has good stuff on the mound.  He struggles after about 75 pitches with keeping up his velocity.  I have no idea if that is something that can improve over time with better conditioning.  At the very minimum I see him as a high leverage reliever.  Canning is still only 27 years old and could be a perfectly fine 3-5 pitcher.  Again all of these guys are club controlled and very valuable parts of a team looking to compete.  
Then you have the young relievers.  Joyce, Soriano and Bachman all look to have closer stuff.  If you can have guys like that, where you don’t have to throw closer money at closers in free agency, you have a leg up on a lot of other teams.  If they continue to develop and you can shorten the game, like the Reds once had with Charlton, Dibble and Myers, you will win a ton of games.  
 
Bottom line is this team isn’t as far away from competing as most think.  A lot of the pieces are already in place.  

Hilaryous
 
 
 
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