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Who brought up DD?

well let's diagnose this. For starters, you are uncoachable I guess pretty much like me. As for stupid, I'm not going to offer an assessment about you. In my case, I'm likely a little bit of both. I'm bored as well and they do offer some form of entertainment such as it is. There are only so many more golf balls for me to hit. Maybe we are just hopeful that something good could happen.

hmmm Are you stupid are you just uncoachable? Stupid at least can be worked with.lol

No question at all about that one. The hype that came along with Song and what we thought he could be was great.

You're right about that I think.

There is an old expression that sums up how I have always felt about athletics in general - What I had I gave, because what I saved I lost. They could certainly have done more and still have been very cognizant of the future.

I agree. I like Cora and i can only imagine the pressure that he is under daily. What he decides to do and say and address in that clubhouse is no business of mine.

A major rookie shouldn't make that mistake. Pretty basic baseball play.

I would never advocate for someone like Valentine but I do hate to see bad baseball. Here is a question that might be asked to that "dumbassed" base runner - Are you stupid or are you uncoachable? Stupid you can live with uncoachable not so much. You don't have to be an autocrat to get your players to pay attention to detail. Someone should have been legitimately pissed off at said baserunner or maybe even your 3rd base coach. Maybe it's ok what happened to end yesterday's game right. In this day and age we would never want to embarrass or even worse make these guys feel bad about themselves. lol My personal opinion (hope that it is ok to express this still on here without supporting it with data) is that this team is not particularly well coached even though I do still like Cora.

I like Cora in many respects but who is ultimately to blame for the absolutely stupid and undefendible play that ended yesterday's game? It is situational baseball plays like this that make a big difference between the best and the worst of them.

I would have liked to have seen Verdugo traded at the deadline. He obviously has some talent but is it possible that there might be a little too much me me me in him and not enough team?

I doubt that he does much to help us out over the winter. He may make a run at something flashy to keep interest up but signing quality top of the rotation guys costs more money than it appears is likely to be spent. Most people seem excited about what is getting stockpiled in the minors but how about the pitching?

I really do think that Bloom is looking at his current potential rotation which may or may not actually happen as being as good if not better than most - Sale- Bello - Paxton - Houck - Pivetta with everybody else in the pen could be very good. If you think that that is a pretty good group, why would you put together a trade that would cost you some pretty good players and possibly some pretty good prospects for anybody else? He has certainly added players to the farm unfortunately I don't see the next great arm down there. At some point in time, maybe not this season, some quality arms need to be added. Of the guys playing right now, Duran looks and is playing like one of the best athletes I have seen in a long time. He reminds me of a very young Yaz although just a little faster then the captain. Casas looks good and could be very good. As for anyone else, think I'd like to see them at the big league level before I go nuts over them.

Thank you for this.

I guess I should have noticed the highlighted area but now I do. I think many of the guys in the minors have potential. You obviously follow them very very closely and know much more about them than i do. If you see guaranteed greatness there, I'm all over it. I can't wait.

... one of your nasty little clips here genius or what ... I think my thoughts matter just as much as yours regardless of whether or not I could give a s*** about the things that you think are important.

Obviously not as closely as some but I try to stay in touch.

I've heard the word sustainability mentioned more than once here and of course that is likely what every GM wants. For many many years now I think that our ownership has done a pretty good job of this. I go back to the mid 60's. Right now I'm looking at a minor league system that has more players that look like they may have a future than in past years. Got to feel good about that I think. At some point in time is does have more to do with quality as opposed to quantity though. I do still happen to think that there aren't any "no brainer" guaranteed to be successful players in that pipeline right now. Hope I'm wrong but I don't see them. Some good athletes but we will have to wait and see what the future brings. We all know what one of the purposes of a stocked farm is all about - trades. Our boy in all reality chose to do nothing in that respect. It might have something to do with an overall change in philosophy from ownership. They continue to make money and lots of it. The ballpark continues to have enough attendance to carry itself and provide a profit. Maybe JH just wants to move in a different direction. I don't nor have I ever believed in this wait until next year nonsense . No crystal ball tells me that all of a sudden he is going to say lets get active again via the free agency route. I think what we are seeing is what we should have expected from Bloom to begin with.

Ain't that the truth. I wouldn't want to be that guy either.

Oh boy now you've gone and done it.

The reality of a post like this really bugs 3 or 4 of the 10 or so people that regularly post her! lol Good job.

Most high school shortstops would also be the best player at any other position on the field except perhaps catcher. And most very good high school catchers would be the best shortstops on their high school team. Oh well with all that said I would trade Verdugo yesterday and keep Duval.

Snappy is a nice way of putting it! I like that. I think that it was time for Kike to go but I appreciate everything that he did for us which was a lot.

Nasty comes in all shapes and sizes even here folks. Subtle, not so subtle. Personally I prefer the up front kind of stuff rather than the cutesy middle school read between the lines crap that we do see here everyday. Now, with that said, I'll say once again that I am a fan of whoever the current GM happens to be. I'm very happy with the array of talent in general that Bloom has gathered up for us. Looks a little like an overload of upper average kind of stuff and some could go. If any trades are made, I hope that few if any of our youngsters go. It would seem a bit hypocritical to me if anyone applauds to loudly if this happens regardless of who it brings in.

This is for sure and I don't necessarily think that that is a good thing. Playing guys out of position doesn't always work out well as we have seen.