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  1. jad
    Yeah, but look at the up-side--a VERY team-friendly $5million contract!!!! And all those years of experience. He's the poster-child of frugality.
  2. jad
    But "holding firm" on that these days means you are also "holding firm" on not signing anyone like Betts, Ohtani, Soto, Tatis, Judge, etc. etc. because that's what they want and will get on the open market. Not a good recipe for success by eliminating (1) the best players available and (2) from an economic point of view, the players fans will pay money to come and see.
  3. jad
    Well, we don't know that! Yet. His suspension saves the P's a half-year of his salary (correct?) and he has a long career ahead of him.
  4. jad
    Agree. when you're talking about putting together a contract for one of the best players in the league (Betts, Ohtani, Devers, Judge), this is NOT the time to be thinking about saving money, or making a great deal, or talking 'home-town discount' or anything of that nature.
  5. jad
    But then, in prof. sports, where 'value' is not really calculable, it doesn't matter how you and I evaluate an offer. All that matters is 'market value': and the RS did not offer him that, as the LAD offer proved.
  6. jad
    But then, that's exactly what the RS announcers (can't remember whether it was tv or radio) said about the "embarrassing" Tampa Bay lineup, i.e., the lineup that swept the lowly RS. So there's improvement!
  7. jad
    I don't know. What was your experience playing sports? I remember being 'sort of' invested in winning/losing (more invested in whether I played well or not). But I don't remember any 'carry-over' effect: you wanted to play well; it didn't matter what you'd done earlier. I think you're right about fans, although there is some evidence against this (e.g., no fan I know of killed themselves bec. their team lost).
  8. jad
    Coming to a town or city near us.
  9. jad
    One of the useless things I learned after 40 or so years in the work-force is that complex and convoluted administrations provide their apologists cover for any decision that goes wrong, in that everyone has the ready excuse: 'That's not my department'.
  10. jad
    Yeah blaming the FO for signing guys who end up with injuries would be like blaming them for bringing on a lot of guys with 'character' issues (I would say 'intangibles' but that's probably not the word to use here): Pham, that catcher (oops, wrong word again!), even Verdugo at the time he was signed. Think what bargains you can find among guys with 4 or 5 TJ surgeries in their pasts or a couple of years on probation.
  11. jad
    Totally agree. (And you just know there's going to be some troll out there who pretends to deny this.)
  12. jad
    Yeah, I was about to say that Devers really needs to be sat down for a few games. (Maybe that's why we're here, instead of making serious decisions.)
  13. jad
    If the person responsible for the roster were doing a good job, or even a decent job, it would not require a spread-cheat to demonstrate that.
  14. jad
    Unless I am completely mis-reading what you say (which is quite possible), you seem not to have understood that my post was ironic.
  15. jad
    Gee, I wonder why. Given that all the talk this year has been about trading them away for prospects, and F.O. has done absolutely nothing to quash that.
  16. jad
    I don't understand how they could have declined collectively when the morale on the team is so obviously sky-high and each guy is confident that management has their back.
  17. jad
    I am still pissed thinking of the load of prospects we could have gotten by trading those guys away.
  18. jad
    Did Cora or anyone field the question "WTF was the call there?" Was it supposed to be a safety squeeze? Did Arroyo miss the call on a suicide squeeze? I really can't see how a bunt right at the charging 3B (who beat CA to the ball!) was supposed to work. If he'd been swinging away even weak contact could have won the game.
  19. jad
    So when you go to the store, and they say "Sorry. We're out of your favorite items. But don't worry, we've got some other stuff here: you don't know a thing about it; it's not as good as what you used to buy; you'll pay the same price but it's much cheaper for us!" you're good with that?
  20. jad
    Yeah, whoever it is who blathers away while we're trying to hear Eck.
  21. jad
    Yeah, I'm not sure why some give him (or the RS) credit for a 'productive' AB even though that was labelled a hit. It was 100% negative, since his potential run was meaningless.
  22. jad
    Could we retire Youk instead?
  23. jad
    My sources say it was because the bouncer told him he was not allowed to pleasure himself in public.
  24. jad
  25. jad
    Soto and Bell to the Padres. Pham and Maguire to the Sox! ... RS also reportedly interested in a .147 hitting OFer DFA from Rays. Once again, I can only say "WE'RE SAVED!"
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