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He was a year behind me in high school. We also played in little league together.

Betts would be an enormous upgrade in our biggest position of need. It only makes sense if they can sign him to an extension and if the ask doesn't involve any prospects of note, which means it doesn't really make sense. Would be a great potential move, though.

An L here with Detwiler getting shelled but a 4-4 from Timmy and homers from Moncada Eloy and Collins.

They have the talent to win 95-100 games on the offense still, and that likely won't change next year. They need a lot of pitching help though. Lester might be done, Hamels is probably a 5th starter at best, Quintana is best as a 3 or 4, Hendricks is fine, and hopefully, Darvish can continue pitching well. That's three dependable starters with only Darvish having ace potential - you could argue Hendricks but I'd need to see 30+ starts and ~200 innings before I'd give that to him. They almost definitely don't have the money for Cole but that's a great fit for them. They also don't have much trade capital to acquire an ace. I assume they'll be active in the mid to lower-tier free-agent pitching market but will that be enough for them?

This is just like the Tatis trade. Traded for Josh Fields (the reliever version) LOL

Wow. Nice play by Fuller.

Gleyber Eloy and LeMaheiu for sure. Not terrible to have a guy who can hit 40+ HRs in right field if he's one of your middle of the road players either, assuming this isn't an outlier year for Soler.

Yelich done for the year. Broken kneecap after fouling a ball off.

That Moncada sound ?

Oh my god the bunting. STOP.

I like that 1-7. The players in it, anyway. Not the order. But still that's actually a major league lineup plus giving Collins a chance.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2019-08-30/tyler-skaggs-autopsy-report-fentanyl-oxycodone-alcohol-angels-rusty-hardin

And the SOUND.

I lurked there and here for years. I had the same account name at both in 2003. Don't remember what it is. Stopped going there in '04 or '05.

You can sometimes find it available for stream and I think you can pay for it but the games are at like 5 AM our time.

My favorite part:

If you were wondering what Dayan Viciedo was up to:

I'm onboard with this. I think his cup of coffee was to see if his current approach would succeed or not. It obviously did not so he was sent back to work on what the team wanted him to do. That's paying off now but I'm assuming they want to see some sustained success and he'll be back up in Sept/next year.

McCann looks bad right now

Even though he made an out there really good at-bats by Moncada lately.

That was a hell of a play there. Time to turn this off.

All of a sudden this team can't hit. Sparkman seems to be working fast and hitting his spots but Moncada was 4 for 6 off this guy and he looks like he didn't have a chance.

So glad to leave this house of horrors.

That wasn't on the ground!

Lots of weak grounders today.