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Our new overlord stepping right into the middle of our (less so now but still) sacred game thread routine to pump off a long winning streak is really going to throw off the playoff plan.

Why aren’t you walking that guy regardless?

You get used to these stats when Fred was doing them every day, and then they go away and the fact that the Cubs and Dodgers have played almost two THOUSAND games against each other is just completely shocking.

2 bleacher tickets still available, though if we're being totally honest most of the reason they were available yesterday was because Stubhub wasn't letting me sell them and it wasn't worth the hassle to figure out another solution, so if they fixed that glitch I might just go that route. Would rather give them away to someone here.

Anyone have any interest in two bleacher tickets for tomorrow's game? Weather looks pretty perfect but going to go play golf instead. Send me a message if you're interested....they're going for pretty cheap on Stubhub right now so happy to give them away free of charge to someone here instead, just make a donation or remember me when you have an extra World Series ticket down the road.

Fixed

Does this work for FG too?

Yeah sure, totally fair. Just saying that the other options that are more or less on par financially are pretty much all in the same boat in terms of actual ability, even if they don't invoke such...frustration as someone so aggressively mediocre as Hosmer.

Zips projections: Solano: .274/.326/.381 Hosmer: .273/.329/.409 Do we need another guy who can play the infield with the rest of the roster? He hasn't played in the outfield in 10 years.

Can you name specifics? Santana put up a 102 wRC+ after two years of being a below average hitter and signed for 8x the money. Jesus Aguilar put up a .660 OPS last year in over 500 PAs. Franchy Cordero hasn't been an above average hitter since 2019. Are you talking Brandon Belt? $9m isn't 'not much more money' than $720k and kinda ruins any future Mervis has.

Not to reduce this solid article too much here, but.... "someone they were able to add for a league-minimum salary". That's kinda the whole point right? Feel like he's been lumped in with the Bellinger and Mancini deals when we are paying Hosmer a fraction of the money we're spending on those guys. The difference between any realistic Mervis projection and a very slightly above replacement level Hosmer over a few weeks stretch is essentially splitting hairs. If we're still having this conversation in the middle of May (which is contingent on Mervis continuing to mash), sure. Otherwise, we've got much bigger problems here.

Late afternoon rain storm going into the game?

I think Ross is a bad manager, and especially bad at bullpen management, though I think that's probably something that most fans would claim of their own managers and the grass isn't always greener. Having said that, I've been trying to figure out how to articulate my issue with all the bullpen optimism/positivity that we've had around here the last couple years. I'll preface by saying I don't really have a better option, so this is really just me complaining, but it feels like the last few springs we've looked at a list of a dozen potential options, and then over the course of the season two or three of them turn into pretty effective dudes, and everyone calls it another successful bullpen build. And then they get traded (for reasons I'll explain here shortly), or hurt, because pitchers break, and we start the process over again the next year. But everyone kinda ignores the 3-4 months it takes of just throwing these guys at the wall to see what sticks, and having to live with the results of the dudes that don't pan out. And so we blow a bunch of games early on and end up in a spot where we're sellers at the deadline, and the couple guys that are actually dudes go elsewhere. It's just...a frustrating cycle. And again, I don't know a better approach besides stumbling on a Hader/Williams combo somehow, minus the whole white supremacy thing.

Just an all around banner performance from Ross. Feels like the team needs to perform a little better to actually put his job at risk, but he’s got to go. Front office put an end to 2016 nostalgia when they dumped all the actual good players from that team.

Well I guess starting game thread 4 is better than starting game thread 3. Rough weekend, but hopefully the Reds and their made up players are the cure to what ails us. Although this dude, of course, last pitched on 9/30 where he went 5 1/3, 2 hit, 3 K, shut out ball against (you guessed it!) our Chicago Cubs, so who knows. Pretty pissed Succession is already off the board, and for a Sunday game with minimal activity here anyways. Though I'm guessing we'll need to start reusing ideas pretty soon here. I never watched WKRP in Cincinnati but I have spent my fair share of time in southern Ohio, amongst the people who live there, and thus I think this show is appropriate thematically: Let's go win a series.

Stro (with some help from the blessed pitch clock) is cruising.

Was it?

Sure why not. I like at least three TV shows, so should be some good options left for me.

First Mad Men gif to pop up, couldn't be more perfect

"Mercy" "What in the world" Will have those words bouncing around in my head for the rest of time.

Another request for formalizing the distinction of having spent way too much of my life here.

If anyone can figure out how to just show the threads/topics that were updated since the last time I visited, let me know. (Also checking to see if I have all the numbers at the end. Which, whatever, my name is incredibly dumb anyways.)

Anyone figured out how to duplicate the old Active Topics? Don't really want to see the most recent individual posts in reverse chronological order. Also asking to see if I got the numbers issue at the end, which I assume I do. No rush on updating/fixing this, as my user name is dumb anyways.

Yeah 2 and 7 might disqualify the bottom half of the league, maybe even two thirds, but they were never going to consider throwing this kind of money around anyways. The teams you are actually competing with are all going to be able to offer those things, and we're probably trailing most of them in the rest of your list.

The obvious shirts guys will make a fun slogan referencing you on a t shirt We will try to limit the amount of people in the bleachers reusing their old Fukudome tshirts and bandanas to a reasonable number.