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lol good call idiot

factually incorrect opinion but let taylor get a muff or give it to them on the 8 over santos missing the kick and them getting it on the 40

again, don't leave this to santos

Arizona Phil with a report today saying the Angels actually turned down a Detmers trade (for Wiggins and likely Rojas) because they didn't like Wiggins medicals. So basically would have have Wiggins, Rojas, Ballesteros, McGwire for Detmers and Zeferjahn. And then the Diamondbacks were going to trade their top prospect for Holmes but that fell apart because the Mets didn't like the medicals on the prospect (Crisantes). So then the Mets and Cubs pivoted to Holmes/Rojas.

lol. david hamilton. why not

i'd like megill to show those flashes of vulnerability here just so the series can continue. more baseball is better than less baseball.

Still insane. You need 2 runs to win the game. lol tucker, lol brewers magic, lol everything

Sacrifice bunting with a guy on second, nobody out, down 1, in the bottom of the 7th is some incredibly loser horsefeathers

Being unaware of Marlins Man in 2026 is an ignorance I truly and deeply aspire to having

I mean, it's hard for me to blame the people of Milwaukee (again, generally cool) for cheering for the closest football team to them. Agree that the rest of the state, with a couple exceptions, are filled with backwoods weirdos, but whatever reason the Brewers seem pretty centric to Milwaukee, whereas the Packers have this whole Wisconsin-wide vide, if not bigger....I'm sure everyone in Chicago knows a couple people who are weirdly Packers fans.

It's accurate in that everyone understands it's the present value of the contract. The Dodgers have to put the amount of money into an escrow account that, with some sort of standard interest rate, will mature into the $70m they owe him yearly. They could have paid Shohei $46m up front and he could have done the same thing. They aren't like, tricking the players or anything. If I offer you $50 now or $70 10 years from now, you should take $50 now. Now, you could argue the Dodgers, as part of the larger Guggenheim shenanigans, are uniquely (and/or unfairly) able to outgain the standard interest rate, and so keeping the money on hand and invested in whatever is advantageous to them. But it wasn;t like Shohei was considering a $50m/year offer with no deferrals and then was like 'oh, $70m is bigger than $50m'

Add in the fact that MIlwaukee (the town) rocks and is filled with generally cool people and St. Louis is a garbage town filled with garbage people. I've generally softened my hatred of 'rivals' over the years, and as Jason said, it's more fun when there's someone to compete against. But the Cardinals and their seemingly unending ability to generate NPC outfielders that hit 34 goateed home runs in a season while praising the troops and then never be heard from again deserve all of the criticism they get, and then some.

1. The Brewers don't uniquely have some pitch tipping pickup ability, come on guys, players move between organizations all the time, what did they swear a blood truce or something 2. PCA runs basically the whole diamond with his chest out to the crowd and does multiple things between third and home, drawing a line in the sand on the fact that Contreras is stopping for a few seconds is pretty soft. I hate the Brewers and their batted ball profile is definitely making me rethink some basic underlying beliefs of how to be good at offense, but the Dodgers have also been annoying as hell for years, so...whatever.

Yeah....in his career, 640 PAs, 98 wRC, slightly overperforming the xwOBA and slightly above water defensively, gives you 2.2 fWAR. Certainly not terrible. But when you think about how a total of 9 full time corner outfielders gave you positive defensive value this year, and how Ian Happ, while almost assuredly being a negative player against LHP, still put up 2.6 fWAR in total....still seems better to at least go the platoon route.

Fair points in the top two paragraphs. To the last point....that's why I keep coming back to it being square peg round hole. Since ASB 2025 he's a 98 wRC against RHP. Setting aside the fact that he was a lot worse in 2026, and setting aside that the expected metrics on the whole think he's been overperforming, league average-ish, good against LHP, can competently handle one or two defensive positions that give you positive value add....that's a plenty valuable player. We just....don't have those openings. He's not blocked by a theoretical Michael Conforto. He's blocked by Nico and Bregman. I know it's not as simple as swapping him out for a version of Matt Shaw that can't play defense but can hit RHP, so I'm fine keeping him around to take the starts against LHPs opposite Happ/Conforto and also being the backup infielder while only taking up one bench spot. But the most likely result of Shaw getting 500+ ABs in a COF spot is average defense and below average offense, and I think we can do better by going down a couple different paths.