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Looks out.

Xander is beating the s*** out of the ball so far.

Did Alvarado grow up next to a power plant?

Holy f***, look at the jaw on this guy.

"yuck"

Uh-oh. Are we Padres East again?

"Import the 2017 Red Sox Season Schedule"

Kevin Cash and Alex Cora are opposing managers. I'm officially old.

Could be working Snell harder. 70 pitches through 5 isn't great.

Melancon would be proud.

Also, anyone who comes to St. Pete for a Sox game or whatever else, eat at Courtside Grille on Ulmerton near 275. Ho-lee s***. Sports bar food has no business being that good.

The game experience is good, the place gets loud (louder than I thought it would be seeing it on TV), the exterior looks great, it's clean, but they definitely need that new ballpark. The location is iffy and logistically the Trop is a nightmare. After we got to 1st Ave S (the street bordering the Trop to the north) it took about 40 minutes for us to get into the parking lot and to our space, and getting out wasn't much quicker, even though we were much closer to the exit than the entrance. It's dumb. We could have parked at Walmart on 19 and walked over and back in the same amount of time. The concourses are ridiculous, I got up to get a coke right after the Sox were done batting one inning, and got back just in time for them to start batting in the next inning. You have more personal space in your seat than you do walking through the concourse. It's been a while since I've been to Fenway but I don't remember it being this much of clusterf***. Also, 2012 called. They want their bullpen back.

I will be there.

What are you talking about? Utah's a playoff team that won 23 of their last 27 going in, and we literally beat them with our B-team. They went the entire road trip without their best player (Irving), best defender (Smart), and backup center (Theis). Two of the games (including last night) we were without Morris, basically the stand-in number one option without Irving, and last night we were without Horford. Yabusele had to start and f***ing Ojeleye played 30 minutes.

Celtics just swept a four game west coast road trip without half their team.

Jaylen takes a BAD fall after he dunks and loses his grip on the rim. Who knows how long he'll be out. I'm just happy he can walk after that, thought he broke his neck.

Celtics are really racking up the bad losses lately. Got blown out at home by Orlando a couple weeks ago, then they respond by dropping the very next game to this year's lame-duck version of the Lakers, they got obliterated in Toronto, and now last night they took the first half off against the Pacers, came back to take the lead (because the Pacers are a lousy team), then threw the game away by playing heroball and kicking out for dumb threes on fast breaks.

I wouldn't want him either, he's 33 and not worth the headache at this point. If we were some ne'er-do-well franchise like the Knicks or Sixers I'd say do it, but we're not. LeBron's turned into an insufferable shitbag ever since rejoining Cleveland. And I say that as someone who defended him vigorously during his Miami years. I don't see any way he doesn't sign with LA this summer, especially now that they're assured to have the cap space to sign him and another max player free and clear. He and the Lakers are tailor-made for each other at this point. The biggest drama queen and Spike Lee wannabe in the entire league joining the most drama-hungry franchise and obnoxiously far-left media market on the planet. We all know LeBron wants to segue into showbiz when he's done with basketball, what better place than LA to get the ball rolling on that? On the court, he gets to etch his name into the lore of one of the NBA's original-six caliber franchises and have as good a shot at a championship as he would anywhere else in the league, unless he cheesed his way to Golden State.

I'm in Florida now so I might be able to catch spring training games for the first time ever. Hooray.

They traded IT to the Lakers earlier. I'm not sure what Utah's angle is in trading Hood for Rose, they're just dog-paddling along like usual I guess. Really good day for the Cavs, clearing out the locker room cancers and highly-paid nothings and bringing back some guys that can actually help them. Reminds me of when the Sox got rid of Beckett, Crawford, and A-Gon in 2012.

Aaaaand now Cleveland just got George Hill and Rodney Hood for Jae Crowder (trash), Iman Shumpert (trash), and Derrick Rose (whatever). They also sent Wade back to Miami.

Cleveland just traded IT and Channing Frye to the Lakers for Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. Pretty good deal for both sides. IT to Clarkson is a downgrade in terms of pure talent, but IT hasn't been producing, has a major small man's complex on the court, and indications are that he was a cancer in the locker room, while Clarkson is used to a more complementary role, which will be needed among all those all-stars and former all-stars. Nance should bring some energy on the defensive end. Meanwhile both IT and Frye are expiring contracts so LA's going to have $69 million in cap space this summer. That's enough to sign two max free agents no questions asked, plus they have Deng's dead contract sitting on the roster, they can package that plus Ingram plus a draft pick or two (first rounders are increasing in value lately since nobody wants to part with them anymore, thanks in part to Danny raping Brooklyn) for any additional star/max players that become available in the offseason. The Lakers still have to close the deal in the summer but they've put themselves in a hell of a position.

I doubt Hayward's coming back this year. If he does, he's not going to be in peak basketball shape, he'll probably have the injury yips, and he'll have to be reintegrated into all the team's sets, which isn't an easy process this late in the season. I'd rather just put him on the shelf until training camp. Makes things a lot simpler. Trades are always possible but all indications are Ainge doesn't want to give up any 1st rounders for a rental, which I can't blame him for this season since I don't think we're set up to have a particularly good showing in the playoffs.

Well Detroit is 5-0 since the trade. Then again the Celtics went 11-1 after reacquiring Antoine back in 2005 and that amounted to whole lot of nothing.

Detroit must be desperate for some star power because this trade does very little for them from a basketball standpoint. They're locked up with all sorts of bad multi-year contracts so no additional help is coming unless they blackmail someone else's GM. They only gave up one first rounder by the way, has protections on it until 2021. But holy christ what a poorly-run organization they've become. The Clippers are cleaning house for either a full rebuild or to try and sign whichever star the Lakers don't bring in. Or maybe they somehow swing both. They might be able to flip Bradley and Harris to the Cavs and sucker that Brooklyn pick out of them.