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Kevin Love is no Scottie Pippen.

Porcello has pitched into the 8th both games against the Rays giving up 3 earned runs each time. May need a couple of extra runs tonight just to be sure!

Snell vs the Sox this year: 13 innings, 2 earned runs, 11k, 3 bb, 0.846 WHIP. Snell has a 1.07 ERA at home (25.1 innings, 3 earned runs). Third time is a charm!

Maybe they ease Pedey in 7th for a few days? IDK. Pedey is definitely better than Hanley at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cleveland_Cavaliers_head_coaches Cavs have always cornered the market on bad coaches. How do you have the best player alive and not win multiple championships?

Lue has always been an idiot. I'm still surprised his a coach.

Not a bad way to go. It's the only way I'd ever catch up to Jacko's post count.

Third in the order isn't a big deal. He's been better than Nunez/JBJ/Vaz. If they got more from one of the bottom third, Hanley could be moved down. To me, the bigger case is just to play Moreland more.

How would you give Swihart a fair shake moving forward? How would you get Pedroia back onto the roster?

If we lose tonight, it's because we have a 1.000 winning percentage when banning someone. Need to ban someone every day until we lose.

Mess around with it in the minors and get the kinks out.

DH/1B guys are dime a dozen. They are the easiest players to replace at the deadline. Wasting $20M on one is stupidity. I'm just hoping for a season ending injury.

He's said ever since he was hired that he loves Hanley. He's going to give Hanley a long leash for better or worse. I think he believes Hanley will hit his way out of it.

I ain't got time for that!

It's too bad that Cleveland never found Lebron a Scottie Pippen. He would have never left for Miami and he'd have more rings.

So? I thought his glove was good enough that one play would make all the difference?

Why would Price opt out? It'd be insane for him to. What kind of value does Moreland have via trade? Same with JBJ? Why let your second best bullpen arm go? You don't have the pieces to bring Votto in via trade. If you sign Machado and Harper you're kissing Betts goodbye (who I'd rather have).

Thank you.

My thoughts were, it's tough to make the case to sit someone as they near the plate appearances goal in a pennant race no matter what. That's why I wanted to DFA in the offseason so that you could find a replacement and not have to worry about $20M next year.

Sinking and rescue Under the command of Captain George Harris, the ship departed from Liverpool on March 18, 1841 for Philadelphia with 17 seamen and 65 passengers, mostly poor Scottish and Irish emigrants. At about 10 p.m. on the night of April 19, William Brown struck an iceberg 250 miles (400 km) southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland and sank. The captain, eight seamen, and one passenger made it to the jolly boat (to be picked up six days later by a French fishing vessel), while nine crewmen and 32 passengers occupied the longboat. One person had died earlier on the voyage, and 31 passengers, many of them children, went down with the ship.[1] Before the two boats parted ways to increase their chances of being found, Captain Harris placed the first mate, Francis Rhodes, in charge of the crowded, leaking longboat. At about 10 p.m., 24 hours after the sinking, the wind picked up, sending water over the longboat's gunwales, and it began to rain heavily. The first mate shouted, "This . . . won't do. Help me, God. Men, go to work."[1] When the crewmen did nothing, he stated, "Men, you must go to work, or we shall all perish."[1][2] Then, the seamen, among them Alexander Holmes, forced 12 men out of the boat. Two women also went into the frigid water, though they may have voluntarily followed their brother, Frank Askin. Early the next morning, two men were found to be hiding and were also jettisoned. All of the male passengers, except for two married men and a young boy, had been sacrificed,[1] while all of the crewmen remained aboard. Later that day, the survivors were picked up by the American ship Crescent and taken to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Maritime, France.[3] Trial When some of the passengers finally reached their destination of Philadelphia, they filed a complaint with the District Attorney. Holmes was the only crewman to be found in the city, so he was the only one charged. He was accused of murdering Frank Askin. A grand jury before Supreme Court Justice Henry Baldwin refused to indict him on that charge, so it was reduced to manslaughter. In the case of United States v. Holmes, the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to six months in jail and a $20 fine.[2] None of the other crewmen were ever brought to trial. Films The 1937 film Souls at Sea, with Gary Cooper, George Raft, and Henry Wilcoxon, is somewhat based on the disaster, changing the cause of it to a fire accidentally set by a little girl. A story involving abolitionists against the slave trade is involved, but the conclusion has Cooper's character forced to jettison passengers out of the overcrowded lifeboat, and facing a trial for murder as a result. The 1957 film Seven Waves Away (renamed Abandon Ship! in the USA), was also loosely based on the incident, with Tyrone Power starring as "Alec Holmes". A 1975 made-for-television version, The Last Survivors, featured Martin Sheen.

Some of the RF grandstand seats don't face the infield, they face the outfield so you spend a lot of the game with your head turned. Just not very comfortable. My least favorite part of the ballpark. I know they fixed some of the seats, but I still believe there are some that haven't been corrected.

Hanley isn't going to hit like it's April again. He's going to reach the plate appearances. We'll be stuck with him next year. And a lot of you people were fine with that before the season. Oh well.

I just did games played.

He's the worst.