MrTPlush

AT&T TV is another option...but its really not any better unless you cannot get cable to your house. Someone (in more recent pages) mentioned something like Uzzu(?) where you pay monthly for access. I don't know much about that.

Well yah....fans are probably worried about the short term success of a trade when it involved a former elite pitcher that is now pitching like an elite pitcher again. We are competing now, obviously people will care about short term performances. It is what it is. These non tender decisions get tougher the longer we compete and the bigger payroll crunch we find ourselves in. We simply cannot keep every guy who 'may' turn it around.

This made me instantly think of a Randy Wolf pitch. Looked up the video and the stadium gun gave it 49mph. That was in 2012.

That was a rough 16 pitches.

Went from losing to Brent Suter getting ready to defend a 5 run lead.

Just about took out the ump.

He was really the only logical option. He was the only righty remaining on the bench outside of Pina.

I have never seen such a passionate hate for an announcer before. Have you ever just muted the TV and turned on the radio or something?

Correct I don't say this often, but thank god for in-laws.

It continues to be unimaginable that Ozuna (and to a bit lesser extent, Yelich) have Gold Gloves to their name. I think it proves that no one actually watched those late 'teens Marlins teams actually play baseball. Part of the problem is the fact the went to the current set up where there are RF and especially LF gold gloves. Usually, there is a reason you are in LF and it is because of a weak arm with not great range. The quality LF applicants are not aplenty.

It’s a few days, even bad players have MVP streaks. Maybe Hiura has turned it around, but I’m guessing it’s more a hot streak until proven wrong. It’s not like he didn’t have similar stretches in his brutal 2020 season. Not trying to be negative, but a bit soon to assume Hiura has turned a corner for the long haul.

Pretty wild bounce This long of a review should be impossible, come on.

DHs know how to hit, dude better start hitting if he even wants to be an MLB player period.

I looked at a few new construction houses before I bought mine last year. The waste of space in a few of them was somewhat funny. Two instances stood out: 1) In one house the basement had a room you could finish off, but the access point was through the furnace/water heater area. Seemed really dumb. 2) Around me the builder puts these big ole electric fireplaces in the living room. Except these new builds aren’t that huge and it takes up most of the main blank wall (no windows) in the living room. So to put in your 55”+ TV in the living room required blocking the fireplace or the beautiful window in the living room. Also seems there is a massive draw these days to have the house really far off the road for curb appeal. That is great and all until your backyard sucks and all your yard space is wasted/unused.

CC has a really tough job. He has so little room for error because it is far from an offense first team. The team doesn’t put up the runs to hide manager decisions that don’t work out. I don’t think he is that bad. Maybe not a brilliant manger, but I don’t think that really exists. Either you have the offense to cover your mistakes or your team is so good they make you brilliant regardless of what you do.

I would rather have a speedy depth piece in the minors with extensive MLB experience over the typical trash that gets called up in the middle of the season for random stints. Those 27 year old AAAA players are just brutal. He isn't as fast as he once was, but he could still be somewhat helpful on the bench if he is on the roster and not in the lineup. In sporadic playing time it just feels a Dee Gordon type could give a little more value. His K rate has always been really really low. So at least he will put it in play.

I really wish we would stop calling Yelich “MVP” all the time. It’s 2021, his MVP was in 2018. Not to mention he sucked last year and has been pretty far from MVP this year. He wasn’t even a Top 10 player via WAR on his own team last year. It just sounds a little silly after awhile.

Greinke had a 33 start 5.80 ERA season.

We all said the same last year....and it ended up sucking pretty bad all year. Hopefully this year is not a repeat of that. It might be bad, but it can't be this bad. 515 OPS is almost like running 9 pitchers up to the plate every game...last year the team combined for a 702 OPS for reference. Of course, but .515 is a loooong way away from acceptable if we have aspirations of the postseason. We have to do better than last years .702 OPS. That kind of performance was 670 runs pace. In 162 games that is probably not going to cut it without incredible pitching and while our pitching is good I don't think it is that good.

Not sure he was really rushed. He had long full years at A+, AA, and AAA where he did pretty well at all three stops. He even had a second year at AAA where he didn't struggle at all. He first major look at the MLB level happened at 22...not that young for an international guy who got into the minors before 18. He is a sink or swim guy because he doesn't really have anything to prove in the minors. His OPS over 750 PAs in AAA was north of .900. Maybe he is just a guy as Briggs mentioned...or worse, a AAAA guy. His only excuse left is the fact he still doesn't have a ton of MLB experience and he really hasn't gotten a good extended look starting consistently. He is about to get that with this trade, so I wish him luck. I certainly hope he can start being a little bit more offensively adequate.

We all said the same last year....and it ended up sucking pretty bad all year. Hopefully this year is not a repeat of that.

Maybe the $5.25mil he is getting paid...$10mil would have been pretty steep.

Ban on tailgates and the sausage race...two things that were dumb to ever be banned from the get-go. The sooner both are allowed and we can forget someone actually banned them the better.

We are in the same boat - moved into our house in 2016 that was built in 2001, and it was obvious the previous owners didn't know how to run an air exchanger in the winter or do preventative maintenance on the wood-frame windows. We did the best we could over the past 5 years sanding down and sealing over what was left, but the damage was done. While we havent necessarily agreed with the blanket approach of printing money and throwing stimulus dollars at everyone within certain income thresholds regardless of whether COVID has significantly limited earnings, we've banked most of the stimulus for a window and 2 patio door replacement project....1st quote we got was insanely expensive, next two were pricey but more in line with what we were expecting. Not getting top of the line but having to do full replacements (not inserts). Increased costs for these type of projects are a combo of higher material costs due to demand/lack of supply and demand on licensed/bonded contractors. The surge in new construction homes/development is driving window prices steadily up due to that pent up demand - at least temporarily. All in we are looking at $25K for the project, but we have quite a few windows and the pair of patio doors is a big chunk, too. Thanks for the insight. When I looked at the house we bought the inside of the windows were insanely wet and had mold on them...it looked like a tropical rainstorm had happened inside the house. I would guess 24/7 365 days a year water was sitting at the bottom of the window soaking the wood. The first thing I did was plug in the air exchanger and changed the filter that hadn't been replaced since 2006. Good thing the other filter in the 2-pack bought in 2006 was sitting right there. Now it is nice and dry. I don't understand how the previous owner lived like that and all they had to do was plug a cord in to let the automated system do it's thing.

I was hoping to keep my window project under $10k (not a huge house and just a one story), but am guessing that will not be the reality. The windows would probably be fine if the previous owner had cared for them, but thus the wood crank out windows are completely garbage at this point...and I hate crank out windows. I really didn't want to take on the window project, but thus I didn't have much leverage in the 2020 real estate market. I suppose I should be happy I was able to sucker a little money after the inspection to put towards windows when in some areas of the county $20k+ over asking was happening.