Squirrel

Aww ... happy anniversary! And regards to both you and Mrs. Ash ... please tell her I said so

I'm tempting fate. I'm making chicken.

Here's an article about that: https://awfulannouncing.com/radio/cleveland-guardians-tom-hamilton-fat-shamed-miguel-sano.html?fbclid=IwAR0a5eEzOCg0SDy-zJzY2ZW5dIX2NNjtGmUvPJA1Yeo6VZuU8hDFnTiiMzo

Sorry, but this seems to be working quite hard to put blame on one person. If you have to work that hard to create scenarios where he should have done things differently, for a different outcome, it's a lot of guessing and supposing because you don't know if the outcome would be the same or not. It's just ridiculous. If you have to work that hard to prove this loss was on the manager, it probably wasn't on the manager and are just looking to blame Baldelli. This loss is quite simple for one who watched most of the game. The Twins batters didn't come through, plain and simple.

BPOTT (Best Post Of The Thread)

Enjoy!

sigh. oh well. It's just a game

Last year it seemed that nothing worked at the same time until we were completely out of it ... I hope we can manage to get it together before that happens

This ... GET THE BATS GOING!!!!! Grrr ... Popping the prilosec ...

Well ... you should have written a really spicy game thread to get it going!

Are you at the game by yourself, or with your family?

That's pretty much what I'm saying ... so ... concur

I think you could argue equally, we should have won two. That said, Montas ... I'm sounding like a broken record with this, but I don't think starting pitching is one-half the problem, at all. I don't think starting pitching is even the concern. Sure, get better in that area if you can, not saying not (unless they A's still want an overpay, then definitely not) ... but I think the priority is the BP. With a better constructed BP, we don't lose the game on Wednesday, imo. That's not to say that every BP implosion results in a win vs a loss, sometimes there is just an off day, but there certainly would have been more converted wins if only. And the other half of the problem is the inconsistent offense, but that's a different thread, and I don't have a solution, right now, for that anyway. Bottom line, if we trade for Montas and we don't also get a couple of quality BP arms, there is no reason to trade for Montas at all. imo. It would be great to get both Montas and 2 quality BP arms ... but if we only go after one, we should go after the BP arms.

I agree, but without PB help I don’t think another starter makes a difference. The only way I trade for Montas is very conditional on two thing … the A’s price comes down AND we get some quality BP help. I don’t think it makes sense to trade for Montas if we don’t also shore up the BP. I mean, even Montas isn’t going to make a difference unless he’s throwing CGs every time he pitches

He didn't choose to rest his knee. This is health management and they were following the doctors' recommendations. That said, why do you even care about all-star voting or the game? I mean, eh, so what?

I'm surprised you have any skull left and your brains aren't spattered everywhere by how often you use this emoji. Self-harm is a bad thing

Yep, yep and more yep

He's out ... wouldn't be surprised if this time he is actually IL'd His knee.

A long time ago I was at a game and my then boyfriend and I had seats right behind the Twins dugout. (Seats I had gotten through work, I might add.) Bert was pitching. Struck out the 3rd batter to end the inning. As he was walking toward the dugout the catcher threw the ball back to him and as he went into the dugout he looked up at me and tossed me the ball. My then boyfriend jumped in front of me just as I was about to catch it and intercepted it. I mean, it was coming directly toward me, and I know how to catch a ball. Very classless thing to do. Glad that didn't last. I made him give me the ball, but the moment was ruined. He didn't even apologize, just claimed 'instinct'

Someone must've read the game thread and game recap yesterday ...

I don’t think it was about him being slow … he seemed to pull up like he wasn’t sure where the wall was … so yeah, positioning

I was actually thinking Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick

My performing days are long past ,,. I do other behind the scenes stuff now, which suits me fine. But at one time I was a cellist

Yes HAHAHAHAHAHA You set everyone up for that one! ?

Nope … I’m just a musician