Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

I think it's also apparent that it's hard for a contending team to trade for a starting catcher (barring injury) because their primary role is managing the pitching staff. Contreras is a fine hitter but not known for being a good handler of pitchers. If anything, he seemed to be a negative for some with fragile egos. I would have loved seeing him catch Scherzer...would have had potential for some entertaining fireworks.

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

Tampa Bay at the end doesn't want to spend anything.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Same with the Cubs.

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

"It started with trying to be really transparent with the players," Epstein said while remembering his early days in baseball on the Bernstein & Goff Show on 670 The Score on Tuesday afternoon. "The more you do that, it's kind of like a drug. You realize it's just easier when you're transparent. You don't have to worry about remembering your lies or your slants or your coverups.

"Then you realize it works with everyone. It works managing up, it works with the media, it works with agents, it works with your fans. It's kind of the best way to do things if you can pull it off.

"Something as simple as transparency is really scalable, because quickly impacts the culture. And the culture is something everyone feels.

"If upper management is really transparent with everyone, that has this amplifying effect. Then you tend to attract players who operate that way, on the same wavelength, and coaches and fans.

"It starts to feed upon itself, because then you can take players in, whether it's maybe a shy kid who just signed here and is new to the country or an introverted high school kid or a college kid who's had some issues in his background, you take a free agent who has a reputation for being a bad guy maybe. You can take anyone and maybe they have a chance to be impacted positively by your culture too."

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

The Chicago Cubs are a fucking embarrassment.

They have substantially more resources than than the Cardinals, and yet over the last 14 years, the Cubs have averaged 10 fewer wins. Since 2009, the Cardinals have not had a single losing season; the Cubs have had seven, and will likely have more in 2023/2024. From 2009-2022, the Cubs won more games than St. Louis in only three years (2016-2018), excluding 2020/Covid. The Cardinals had more wins in the other 10 seasons, often by 20-30 games.

The Cardinals don't bottom out, tank, or have white-flag seasons, whichever phrase you want to use. The Cubs treat the fans like shit and are a goddamn joke. Ricketts, Epstein, and Hoyer can all go fuck themselves.

Bully Hendry would have signed Harper for 2.5 Billion over 30 years

A clinic in really smart guy sounding management speak that surely left Danny with an all-day erection.

A clinic in really smart guy sounding management speak that surely left Danny with an all-day erection.

Franmil Reyes went from 30 home runs in 115 games last year to designated for assignment by Cleveland a few days ago to the Cubs via waiver claim on Monday.F

The move represents a roughly $1.5 million (for now) flyer on a 27-year-old slugger with a .478 career slugging percentage and two 30-homer seasons in the last two full MLB seasons, who has slumped miserably this year.

Reyes, a designated hitter and corner outfielder, was optioned to Triple-A last week after hitting just .213 with nine homers in 263 at-bats this season (104 strikeouts). Making $4.5 million this season with another year of arbitration eligibility, he was DFA'd soon after.

Cleveland manager Terry Francona told reporters at the time that the move allowed younger players to get the chance to play and would allow Reyes to catch on with another team via waivers.

"Franmil wasn't getting to the fastballs, and the breaking balls he hit were going for singles," Francona said. "There weren't many home runs. It was tough. It was difficult."

If Reyes, who had a career-high .846 OPS last year, isn't hitting for power he has little baseball value. When he does, he justifies the cleanup spot in the lineup he occupied for Cleveland entering this season.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.