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If you've never gone to a game in which you have no rooting interest, I highly recommend it. It's great to just sit and watch a game for the pure enjoyment of it.

Would this also work if he drove a run in?

Now I have the Carmen San Diego jingle in my head. I didn't catch it often, but that TV show was pretty good from what I recall. I could have done without the musical numbers half of the time, but I enjoyed the geography lessons.

Didn't we just get a really nice piece on Alex Wimmers the other day?

I hope that it was a universal GPS device because if it's Garmin exclusive, given the number of people that still use Garmin, nobody will ever know where he is.

I didn't look at the boxscore, but was Nolan Ryan pitching for S-WB? Sheesh.

I'm about as ranted out about this topic as can be. I'm typically a guy that is very patient with coaches and GM decisions and rarely actually calls for a guys head. But after sitting through 6 years of same old, same old putrid baseball without any real plan to get better, my patience is gone. For five years, instead of admitting mistakes and working to improve the team, signings largely felt as a band-aid meant to keep the team afloat, treading water if you will. Then we get last season, an unexpected winning season where the team overachieved. Instead of trying to improve upon that and fill obvious holes, the signings tried to fill holes that didn't exist. The result of this is a team that could no longer even tread water effectively, so now they're drowning. Even with TR gone, the franchise refuses to admit that they need to play for the future instead of a meaningless game in August. Decisions, call ups, and line construction don't reflect a team that is trying to build for the future. Prospects have to earn playing time as if this team is about to win 90 games instead of lose them. Guys like Logan Shafer and Danny Santana roam the outfield instead of giving a shot to the likes of Walker or Palka. Vargas and his .955 OPS get demoted to the minors because this team is apparently so stacked. All of these things have left me without patience and no confidence in this teams front office or coaching staff. A plan, even if it's a bad one, is still a plan. This franchise can't even claim that.

Agreed. I'm not into the advanced metrics as much as many, I think gut and passing the eye test is also important. Numbers are helpful, but I'm not a believer of relying on them solely. There are things that the numbers can't show that are required to make a successful major league player.

How many of that Rays FO are left though? Didn't several leave with Friedman? Or at least at the same time or since? If not, that's a great place to look. Even if some did go with Friedman, that would be a place to look too.

The only reason that I don't consider Park a bust is because I didn't expect much to begin with. In some ways, he actually surpassed my expectations given how long he was with the big club. I felt that he should have started in AAA and earned his way up, salary be damned.

The fact that they've gotten unexpectedly good to really good seasons from guys like Nunez, Dozier, Kepler, and Polanco (smaller example) makes that whole paragraph even more interesting. Strange game, this baseball.

This would be a welcome direction to head in. Also a welcome change in management structure, which should shake things up nicely.

The ASPCA agrees with half of this statement.

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It's a Constant Craving for me...

In all honesty, all of those things will likely be preferred to the wedding, and it's not even mine.

My sock drawer really could use a good sorting... Unfortunately I'll be at a wedding, so that won't happen either.

I'm not a big Rush fan either. I can't get past Geddy Lee's voice for some reason. As a music lover, I appreciate them for what they are and they are fantastic musicians. Neil Young is a constant on the turntable or Spotify when he still had his music streaming.

This was me as well except TRL was on if the Cubs weren't on TV.

Yeah, I'm not sure I could explain it in 2001, let alone today or 2025. He did have that run where he was seemingly all over the place. I was never a fan, but I did like him in Road Trip.

I pictured you as a k.d. lang fan. Who knew?

Tom Green gets my vote.