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Give Vogelbach a pinch hitting opportunity on opening day then release him. Then he can be a two-time Blue Jays with a total of 6 plate appearances. That has to be some kind of record.

I don't see how this in any way is a feel good signing. Maybe for the Jays as a lotto ticket and a merchandise pusher but I don't see how *he* can feel good about this.

Not that bad.

Someone made a new one a couple days ago. I assume the old one is buried along with the failed crypto and penny stocks that were talked about within it.

If Vogelbach makes this team I'm going to be replaying this Beavis and Butthead clip in my head over and over all season.

32 teams makes much more sense. I just hope they go with the NHL route regarding division breakdowns. Not the NFL route. About the only thing the NHL has done right. Also the longest period of time the league team count has stayed static since the pre-expansion era. So it's overdue.

In the age of social media, Donaldson is proving to be the one true alpha. No grandstanding or begging. No pathetic social media posts. No attempting to strike out bloggers. No minor league contract invites. No sending feelers out to pencil-necked geeks like Atkins. Just recognition that your skills are no longer marketable and time to go be alpha in some other form. He can spend the next decade plus intimidating and bullying teachers at parent-teacher meetings now.

To be fair though, about 75% of the time over the last 5 years if you asked me to name an active Rockies player he's the only one I've got. This is like a suffering bonus for him. The FO is like "yeah, sorry for the last 13 years, here's $13 million for your trouble".

The bots are scared. They don't want me sharing my penny stock picks before they load up so they are trying to bury the new investing thread.

Imagine Dean's style and length of writing mixed in with Frenchsoup's personality and posting habits.

Just checking in to mention that I was one of the first people to call out Dean's annoying behaviour weeks ago. So I want to get full credit for that.

Chapman has his teammates to blame. He was the one on the roster who looks closest to a UFC fighter while most of his teammates look like doughboys. I mean, if you're going into the locker room every day in his peak shape and look around, you can't help but feel an inflated value of self worth.

90 wins. I think this is the year where the team outperforms its run differential. Banking to be on the right side of a lot of close games.

Any goodwill that Atkins gained with me by making the Jays appear to be a serious contender for Ohtani has now been completely flushed down the toilet. I imagine most other people feel the same.

I really hope that this was a case of Matt Chapman's forearms scaring Ross Atkins too much and they Donaldson'd his way out of the city under any and every circumstance. As opposed to a result of extreme baseball and salary mismanagement. Atkins only wants flabby out of shape players so when they get into a physical fight with him, they tire out before completely kicking his ass. I want to throw every nerdy beta male white guy with those stupid black-framed glasses into the sun right now. That's it. Ross Atkins has made me hate an entire demographic of people even more than I already hated them.

Gotta feel for these guys though. Front office mindsets changed way faster than the CBA ever could. Left them behind. At least Manoah got his $3 million bonus payout or whatever it was for 2022.

^^^ Without even looking at who posted this, (a function of reading re-quoted Twitter posts) I knew exactly who posted this.

Manfred must be the dumbest ******* of all dumb *******s. He recognizes the problem surrounding pitching and three outcome baseball. But then does all of these annoying workarounds (shift limits, 3 batter minimum, extra inning ghost runners, now this) instead of getting to the crux of the problem. Limit the amount of pitchers a team can roster ALL YEAR. 15 is a good start, plus considerations for any prolonged IL stint. For the first 130 years of existence of this organized sport, teams got by just fine with 15 pitchers or less a year. Actively encourage teams to roster more Buehrles with 220 IP of 4 ERA and 0.7K/IP and less Snells with 130 IP of 2.50 ERA and 1.2K/IP and you will solve all these problems with three outcome baseball and 18 inning extra inning games. Yes teams have figured out third time around the batting order, pitchers give up more runs. FORCE them to make decisions that require give and take and strategy. Instead of allowing them the free reign on the easy decision to pull 3/5 of their starting staff in the fifth. "Okay, if we pull this guy in the fifth, we give up less runs. But we also tax our BP and can no longer manipulate our roster. Maybe we should leave this guy in and take our chances"

Oh, to what?

As a penny stock guy who is into tech startups, I see it first hand. I feel like the canary in the coal mine. S&P is making new highs daily yet all the small cap tech stocks in Canada are or near lows unless they are pump and dumps. The angel investor workshops I've been involved in have drastically changed over the last 5 years. More than half of the presenters are now international entrepreneurs who are looking for permanent residency in Canada. Without that, our entire angel investor industry would be dead. I know one guy, ONE, who I would consider a 10 out of 10 in terms of tech knowledge and business skill who wants to stay any make it work in Canada and is born here. As opposed to hopping on the first plane headed south. Luckily I'm working with that guy. People who try to defend Canada over the States are really abject fools right now. I've been asked why don't I move to the U.S.? I just really like where I live. It's not even a Canada thing. If this became part of the United States, I'd be fine with it. Nothing beats the east side GTA up into cottage country in terms of nature (I'm not a mountain guy so AB/BC doesn't do it for me), relative safety from natural disasters and climate change and just overall vibe.

I'm guessing Sault Ste. Marie has turned into such a drug den that no one wants to live there and housing and rents are relatively cheap. But there is a well known and serious problem across all of Canada's major urban centers with the cost of housing for basically an entire generation of people. I mean, I benefit from it insofar as much as the paper wealth in my house that I have no plans to sell has increased. But I recognize the problem that is creating a permanent underclass of low skilled labour while anyone under the age of 35 with any skills at all are moving to the States to be paid twice as much with a cost of living half of Canada's. Except the ones so brainwashed by left-wing dogma that they think a place like Toronto offers a better life than, say, Texas. Because of guns or health care or abortion or something. And having a bunch of those types of people with no counterbalance is going to wreak further havoc. Oh yeah, also the gender imbalance of the mass immigration which is going to lead to a rise of incel culture here. So basically a bunch of poor, far left and far right angry nutjobs while the political and upper class benefit from them fighting.

Connor is the champion troll here. 10 guys of varying levels of intelligence and all sorts of opinions, political or otherwise, teaming up on him and losing badly. You can't beat a guy with no shame and no ego who otherwise appears to be doing well. Connor is a short, bald, creepy weirdo looking for a rent-a-bride, ignorant American and ignorant about a lot of other things but smart enough in things that matter to him to get by. That's a fine list of insults except he not only accepts his position in life but takes pride in it. You guys are going to need some new material. A guy brags about going overseas to find women and is honest about so far miserably failing at it isn't going to be hurt when you bring it up. As far as getting your panties in a bunch about the C vs F thing, which is proxy for complaining about American dominance/ignorance over Canadian (and global) culture, better get used to it. You see housing prices here? You see 20 Indian TFWs being packed into a basement to enrich slumlords and supply fast food and telecom oligarchs with cheap labour? You see Canada's gap in entrepreneurship and technological innovation fall farther and farther behind the U.S.? You see the complete collapse in the health care system which has been Canada's bragging point for the last 50 years (and guns and hockey but those gaps are quickly closing too)? Canada is headed in one of two directions. Either complete housing serfdom with a permanent underclass or it'll be absorbed into the States. And Connor will be here to laugh at all of us when it happens and we will just have to take it.

This was equal parts cringe and insightful. I enjoyed his post-game pitch-by-pitch analysis but man was he ever wild and was acting like a big baby about it. I would have assumed he was putting in a half-assed effort but it sounds like he wasn't. If this was done by a guy actually in the MLB, I would have thought it was cool. But this was clearly a desperate attempt to remain relevant. Next he'll be teaming up with Jose Canseco and Gary Busey on the next Celebrity Apprentice.

Not sure what you mean by fireball here? Didn't Eichhorn throw something like 70 MPH? Opposite of fireball unless you're just talking about results. Pearson is not that far off from having to resort to trick pitching to succeed. Actually I'm surprised we don't see a lot more of that. A dude like Eichhorn who could throw 170 innings out of the pen bookended by a 95+ MPH starter and closer would be super valuable in today's baseball.