I think her holiday decorations are just lovely. No one has mentioned the pretzel/chocolate treats she made? Vinegar Strokes has himself a real keeper edit: thank you Joe Louis
The decorations are just fine. But there's no excuse for painting that brick white. Also, should be caramel between those pretzels, with some melted dark choc drizzled on top.
There is a follow up pic on the pretzels. She added to it. She also got four marriage proposals. It would be five but I’m not trying to step on @Vinegar Strokes’ toes
I have a grudge against popcorn ceiling. I get it when it's used as a cheap coverup for an old, damaged ceiling. But my son bought a home a few years back. It was relatively recent construction, and the cheapass builder sprayed that shit up there by choice. We installed ceiling beams in the open great room/kitchen/dining room area, and had to spend a couple days soaking/scraping that shit off. What a fucking mess.
so much for the diet. Btw I will be in Grand Rapids first week of January. I will actively be swiping right. hopefully I get to experience that couch I will bring a can of white paint with me as well to touch up that fire place.
At least these bums are better than the guys we signed last offseason. We should be able to flip these guys for a weak hitting middle infielder, or hard throwing righty with no command at the deadline.
We've learned nothing. What a waste. I don't care if they paid these guys $500k or $20M. It's not about money. It's about wasting at bats that could go to someone who might actually help you down the road in order to play someone with zero upside. I would have rather signed Schoop for $10M with a team option for a second season than for this contract, and while both of these guys have power, they have the exact same problem as the rest of our hitters: they never walk and they strike out a lot. The fact that this front office doesn't understand this problem cuts into every analytically driven hire they make to the point where they're irrelevant.
they both have walk rates less than 5%. It’s ridiculous. however I disagree with the part on them taking at bats from guys. We have nobody that can step in and play at 1B or 2nd basemen. Unless you’d rather trot Candelario out there.
It's not about who we have in the system. It's about the players we're targeting. We're wasting our time looking for guys to take our money for 1 year when we should be searching the earth for younger assets who might be able to make something of 500 ABs and potentially become a long term asset. We're in "year 3 of the rebuild," as Al loves to say, and we're throwing 1300 plate appearances down the drain at 1B and 2B on purpose by giving them to players whose only chance of a long term future here is if they play well and we have to pay them over market price to retain them.
btw, CJ Cron hit 25 HR last season. 7 of them came against the Tigers. It's like signing a PED user right before they started testing for it.
Current Opening Day roster projection: C - Romine, Greiner IF - Cabrera, Cron, Schoop, Goodrum, Candelario, H. Castro, Lugo OF - Stewart, Jones, Reyes, Demeritte SP - Boyd, Zimmermann, Turnbull, Alexander, Norris RP - Jimenez, B. Garcia, Farmer, Agrizal, R. Garcia, Schreiber, McKay, Soto Line-up Projection: Goodrum, ss Schoop, 2b Candelario, 3b Cabrera, dh Cron, 1b Stewart, lf Romine, c Reyes, rf Jones, cf Cameron improves and comes up sometime in May or June. Fulmer is back around the all-star break. I'm hoping sanity prevails and Mize is up by Memorial Day, but a lot of people on Twitter saying they might keep him down until September or something. Rogers is up by June if he hits at all in Toledo because Greiner is awful. So... 55-60 wins. Maybe they avoid 100 losses if Fulmer and the kids can do anything in the second half.
They might sign one. I don't think they'll sign two unless they trade Boyd. Barring trades, they won't do anything to take away from Boyd, Turnbull or Norris, and I can't see Ilitch allowing them to dump Zimmermann's salary in spring training so that's 4. Alexander was decent enough last year that I can see them thinking he can do the same (spoiler: he won't). Agrizal is already kind of in the 5b spot competing with him. I'd like to see us sign Smyly and put him in the pen, or maybe take a shot at Taijuan Walker, but I'm sure there are a bunch of other teams trying to do the same.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Shaw was atrocious last season and maybe he'll continue to be that bad, but you're basically getting a free look at a former above average 3b with another year in your pocket if it works out. Granted, they probably would have had to pay more for Shaw because no one should want to play here, but we also could have traded nothing for him and given him a little more than this through arb. I don't understand why they weren't all over those non-tender guys like Shaw if they're going to keep giving money to guys like Schoop, Cron, Mercer, etc.
It's Morosi so it's probably not true, but even if it is we don't know who mentioned him. I would trade Boyd for Marsh straight up. I think Marsh is at least as good as Drew Waters from the Braves' system, even though Waters is ranked much higher by a lot of people. Marsh was really good last season, and then one of the best players in the AFL. I think he's a top 50ish prospect.