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DH4 pujols

SS #7 #7 jose jose jose reyes

2b #6 Howie kendrick

RF #4 Jay Bruce

RF 9 the grandyman

3b #1 Adrian Beltre

2b#3 jose altuve

put me down for miggy as #2 1b as well. let's cover all the dang bases!

3b 1 Miguel cabrera

Bochy manager 2

2b #1. Cano

tulo for shortstop #1

#1 3b is evan longoria, i think.

(do i need to wait for a scoring update, or can i guess again?)

3b. 5. David Wright. mets

i'm ok with letting citifield stand, but would certainly look to improve it somehow. maybe building out some additional fan experience areas over the loading docks. slapping some big neon baseball players on some walls somewhere. tastefully, of course. brodie can stick around for one more year. i'd want to get my feet under myself before making changes like a new GM. and maybe he's someone i can work with. or at least i pump him dry of any remaining good ideas and then cast him to the wind. i don't like reactionary, hasty, ill-tempered decisions making changes just for the sake of having claimed to have made a change, and would intend to run the franchise in the same manner.

2/3 of my kids liked it. My in laws were ok with it. To quote mmfil “Hamilton was not a hip hop kind of guy”. ummR was the primary dissenter, stating unequivocally, that he does not like singing or dancing I thought it was great, and now want to read the book

7/15 works for me.

holy shit... now i gotta figure out my draft board!

if this was clearly an argument over player safety, it would end up being fine for the game. that it is clearly, and nakedly, all about the benjamins, a shutdown this year will be crippling. it's totally true that baseball is the victim of wickedly poor timing in terms of the outbreak. but it remains a complete and total self-pwn.

i feel like the exact details of the implementation, while interesting to ponder and maybe i guess argue about, of any player-safety provisions, are nothing i terribly need to concern myself with, unless they ultimately prove ineffective at preventing any spread among players that would end the season. but really, none of that has any impact on my life, so i tend to ignore it. i mean, its interesting, and if they screw it up, sure, it might have an impact. but really, it's like wondering what any one random office or industry is planning to do. mostly, i'm going to trust them to do their best to figure it out. because it is in their interest to do so. i don't really know that the owners have it in them to be truly creative. they ted to be incredibly risk-averse in that regard. well, i say that, and then there's all those stupid monkeying around with various rules that the commissioner's office floats. which, i guess if i really think about it, are really just fiddling around the margins of the sport, compared to some of the changes i think that i see in other sports. so i think expecting something truly out-of-the-box out of them is asking a leopard to change its spots. the first part, though. i agree, that would have been good. but then, that falls into the trap of any ideas about the benefits of privatization - any private entity must be concerned first and foremost with it's own financial needs. generally those thoughts tend to run short-term, occasionally they run long-term. but never (i guess rarely) do they act for the public, or greater good. unless they can draw a direct line to their own bottom line. which, well, is the whole point of a (properly functioning and well-run) government, isn't it?

i don't hardly think that the mlbpa nor the owners are the people i want figuring out our response to the pandemic. or do you mean what they're gonna do about the pandemic as it pertains to opening up the game again? it's hard to tell what you mean sometimes. i mean, they are going to be doing different things. like limiting or eliminating attendance. cutting back on food service. drawing social distance lines and arrows on the ground. so on. so forth. and i'm pretty sure the owners are working to figure out the details of that even while they're trying to figure out just how much of the money they want to hide and keep for themselves, and looking in the mirror practicing all their poorhouse-complaints so they don't unintentionally allow their giggles to give away the lie.

oh, shit. are we in a pandemic? i totally forget. what was the name of it again? i think it might have some unknown and as-yet unknowable impacts on future events and the plannings thereof. i just.. what was the name of it? is that still happening? do you think it might affect things? like, really? sigh. of course covid. should we just not even try to think about planning or doing anything until we've got a planet-wide satellite constellation that can detect each individual virus particle from 100 miles up and blast it immediately with a (eye-safe) high powered laser beam? pew-pew! no mercy! we've gotta move forward, or at least start thinking about moving forward. and adjusting as needed. or we spiral into nothingness. yeah, baseball is stupid and it's meaningless and there's too much money in it and it makes people make bad decisions. but people enjoy it and people like it, and ... whatever. covid. it all could change overnight. some fancy new treatment could come available, or a vaccine get developed, or we learn that applying the right patterned combination of blue and orange pigment nanoparticles onto a fabric mesh effectively blocks the transmission of coronavirus particles to and from the wearer, or whatever. if we're not looking forward towards recovery and normalcy, we never get there, or we won't be ready. so, yeah, lets hope they can plan a baseball season. and if it can happen, cool. if it can't, because covid, then at least that will be the reason, and not lack of willingness to try. or stupid bad-faith negotiating but the owners. aaaaanyways... the mlbpa's "we'll play because they're telling us to" tells me all i need to know about how deep the trenches will be for the 2021 CBA. enjoy what little baseball we can get this year, fellas. i fear it may be all we get for a damned while.

yes, of course. i meant to separate out the part of the season-shortening that has thus far been beyond their control, and the subsequent shortening that will be in their own control. if the league and the players cnnot figure out how to share a 4-or-so billion dollar pie, then fuck 'em. i can like soccer instead.

yeah, but the general idea at the time was that the shortening of the season, and the greed that caused it, turned people off from baseball, moreso than it caused people to forget about baseball. now, this season, the majority of the shortening is due to non-greed factors. the extent to which the season is further shortened is certainly due to greed-factors, and the extent to which that ends up being perceived as the driving factor will greatly figure into the fan response, i think. no matter what happens, one thing is certain. nobody will give two shits about the rampant and apparent greed in the nfl, and will flock to them regardless their stated collective position about the failings of baseball.