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Speaking of bonus players, re the updates above on Robert Hassell, he was regarded as the best pure hitter that came over in the trade and he absolutely stunk last year. But he dealt with a hamate injury for the better part of two years, and was still recovering from it most of last season. Having dealt with a hamate type injury before, it takes absolutely forever to regain strength in your hand/wrist in a way that is sufficient to handle the amount of torque generated by swinging a baseball bat. Glad to see him picking back up and raking now.

He's a bonafide superstar in the making and man, what a great surprise after his rocky first season here. 12 years combined of team control for Abrams + Wood are a MUCH better bargain than 3 expensive years of Soto playing for a losing team. Anything else we can from any of the other prospects is just a bonus. Oh and one of those "bonus" players is currently in our rotation sporting a 3.12 ERA.

calling my shot now

Finally diving into some of our picks and I feel really good about the quality players we landed in round 2-3. That's the range Peters has been known to dominate. Looking at our rosters, there's reason to be optimistic that almost all of them will be immediate contributors (if not starters).

Unrelated to Sinnott but in watching his highlights, keep an eye on Will Howard (Kansas State's QB who just transferred to Ohio State). If he wins the starting job at OSU this season he will end up getting his name called on Day 1-2.

Cool we’re at .500 nearly through the end of April. A quick glance at the schedule indicates the road gets tougher for the next six weeks. We don’t play a team that’s currently more than a game under .500 until the next time we get the Marlins on June 14, and there’s a bunch of quality teams mixed in during that stretch as well. It does get a bit easier after that, so if we’re aiming for let’s say a 75 win season, it could still be doable even if we’re not on track for it by the start of July.

All great arguments for therapy to help learn to accept and love themselves. That's definitely covered by insurance fwiw. edit to add: Body Dystrophic Disorder can also be treated by therapy. Or if the patient really feels like they need it, they can get a cosmetic procedure (which is not covered by insurance)

If theoretically a person can be a woman despite having a penis, why should we (taxpayers/health insurance payers) have to fund their expensive! efforts to transform their penises into… well… something that at least kinda looks like a vagina.

I watched his challenger put up one of his signs on the road near my house. Big meathead looking dude with a trailer full of signs and Trump flags towed behind a Ford Raptor.

I’ll take “cases that will be overturned by SCOTUS” for $1. In all seriousness though, kinda weird to me this isn’t just considered a cosmetic procedure.

Jinxed it. 🤦‍♂️

Bears are going to be annoyingly good for the foreseeable future.

Eh I would absolutely not say that. 2012 we had Trent Williams at LT, an aging but still productive Santana Moss plus a very good prime Pierre Garcon at WR. Run game had a 1600 rusher in Alfred Morris. Plus Kyle Shanahan >>> KK. Terry and Dotson are good but not great, RBs have more skill, Oline is definitely worse. I think the 2012 team was better. Idk what to expect with Daniels. I was so ****ing excited for Robert Griffin and remember there was so much said pre draft about his mature passing game. "Not just a runner." Gonna have to take a "believe it when I see it" approach. Honestly I might not fully buy in until he makes it through a full season or even two, bothj unscathed and productive.

I flew American last week for the first time in a bit and noticed they now charge you to pick ANY seats. Used to be you could get to pick a seat toward the back included in your ticket cost. Now you have to pay them $10 per flight just to not end up in the ****ing middle seat. You can check in without picking a seat but they will auto assign you to wherever they want.

There is no way that dude is 200lb.

Agreed. All the media reports are that league scouts and teams have a significant preference for Daniels. They view him as 1B to Caleb’s 1A (with a handful thinking Daniels is the 1A). If Washington doesn’t pick him, it’s one of two reasons: -either the narrative is dead wrong and just silly season BS or -something about Daniels spooked us (medicals, interview, etc) I think there’s too much out there from reliable reports to think the narrative is BS. So I fully expect the pick to be Daniels, but if it is not, it’s probably not based on that is on tape.

Also, I'm starting to get really excited for the Nats. Pitching was still a huge potential gap for the rebuild but if guys like Irvin and Parker can both turn into decent rotation pieces, suddenly you've got a lot of wiggle room with Cavalli coming back (as well as the potential to add a FA top of the rotation arm when we are ready to really compete). I also suspect we will see Wood and Crews later this year. Winker will make a nice trade piece at the deadline and will clear the way for Wood. Crews might be a Sept call up and get some good playing time the last few weeks of the season. I think both will be opening day starters for us next year. It's happening!

I’d like to get Ruiz more DH work when he gets back. I really like Riley Adams and I’m curious how much better Ruiz could be at the plate if he caught less.

JJ is Drew Brees with wheels, Kirk Cousins with clutch, and he will lead us to many championships. There, you now are covered. Unless the Bears take Daniels and we're forced to settle for Caleb Williams.

I’m to the point that I am 100% ok with any of our options. Even McCarthy, who I think has a decent chance at being the best QB from this draft. The main thing I’m interested in on Thursday is whether the Giants strike out in their attempt to draft a QB. I don’t want them to end up with any of these guys.

Man, what a wave of uh.. nostalgia 👀

This is actually a really good point.

I've said this before (ironically as a defense of Robles when he has had tough stretches), but we got a little spoiled with Bryce and Soto starting and doing well in their age 19 seasons. Not everyone develops at the same pace. Garcia turns 24 next month. He's definitely getting to the age now where you will know what you've got, but a lot of guys show well defined improvement as they get into their mid to late 20s and hit their athletic peak.

He’s still young and needs regular playing time that he would not have gotten now that Senzel is back.

Caps showing a lot of resilience and grit. Dominant game. Unfortunately Detroit scored two third period goals to force OT. That’s still going on… tbd if it will be one point for them or two. edit- Detroit won. They remain tied with the Caps. We will need two points tomorrow.