Blummer calling for Altuve to go back in the leadoff spot and Pena in the 2-hole

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— B/R Walk-Off (@BRWalkoff) June 17, 2023

Rookies and anybody with a 5.00+ ERA

Here's Dusty's Sunday lineup for tomorrow. Gotta save those legs for the postseason.

Dubon - 2B
Peña - SS
Tucker - RF
Abreu - 1B
Julks - LF
Chas -CF
Meyers - DH
Salazar - C
Kessinger - 3B

Hello, third place.

Celebrate Father's Day tomorrow at MMP. Entertainment will be provided by Dusty Baker and The Noodle Bat Band.

W said:

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Blummer calling for Altuve to go back in the leadoff spot and Pena in the 2-hole

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Keep dreaming.

The wife and I go to Hawaii for 10 days on Friday. A mental break from this team will be nice

I expect us to go on a tear while I'm gone

tjack16 said:

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The wife and I go to Hawaii for 10 days on Friday. A mental break from this team will be nice

I expect us to go on a tear while I'm gone

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Sitting on a beach in Maui right now. Don't think I'm going to be in a hurry to get up for the 8:10 AM local start tomorrow.

Soooo how are we all feeling?

#firedustypromoteespada?

tjack16 said:

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The wife and I go to Hawaii for 10 days on Friday. A mental break from this team will be nice

I expect us to go on a tear while I'm gone

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You better have an extended stay booked just in case!

Marvin said:

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Hello, third place.

Celebrate Father's Day tomorrow at MMP. Entertainment will be provided by Dusty Baker and The Noodle Bat Band.

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Well somehow the Royals came back from 8-2 and beat the Angels

Dusty just said in the postgame conference that Altuve will get the day off tomorrow. Seriously.

And Dusty called for the Kessinger steal.

Altuve off tomorrow is "my decision to make"

PLEASE FIRE THIS RAG ASS BUM.

Gotta cool altuves bat down, don't want it to overheat.

It's time Jim. You have had 6 plus years to sit in the expensive seats and enjoy round after round of champagne. Now you get to pay the piper and make a hard choice.

Here's a concept …. Don't have "scheduled" days off

You can say "I'm going to give Jose a day off every 10 games", that's fine. But you can just use instinct to decide when that is.

This season's responsibility now shifts on Crane from here on out IMO. It's time to start demanding some accountability. Eat your slice of humble pie, and admit you chose poorly not only when you let Click walk instead of Dusty but also when you made substantial moves without an analytics-driven GM in place to evaluate said moves.

Dusty should be gone and Maldy DFA'ed by gametime tomorrow. Thanks for the memories, and best of luck.

tjack16 said:

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Here's a concept …. Don't have "scheduled" days off

You can say "I'm going to give Jose a day off every 10 games", that's fine. But you can just use instinct to decide when that is.

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Scheduled days off relies on the assumption that the other players are always going to play at their expectation level. But when they don't, you're flushing games down the toilet. Yordan being out exasperates the problem. The idea that guys need days off every week is absurd. This is baseball. It is a skill sport...not a strength or endurance sport. Get your **** together and then worry about getting guys rest.

What good is a rested Altuve going to be when his happy ass is sitting on his sofa come first week in October?

The off-season moves without a GM are not what's wrong with this team.

The only one I can think of is Montero and I guess technically Brantley.

And no Abreu doesn't count. Not many GMs would've passed on that signing.

Dusty is taunting the GM at this point. Same song, second verse.

It's time for Crane to take control of his investments.

Regardless of all the other bonehead moves...Not batting Altuve leadoff is a fireable offense.

Not bating Altuve leadoff for Julks in the leadoff spot should get you fired before the post game press conference.

I was excited about the Dana hire and gave him some time to get adjusted to his new home and take stock in what he had on this team - this WS defending team. It is mid June and I've seen nothing from him. He's been sleeping as much as Dusty. How has he not had a sense of urgency meeting with Dusty and say no more to some of his idiotic moves. How has he not told Dusty your leadoff hitter is Altuve. Your catcher is Diaz. Your struggling batters - Abreu, Bregman - need to be moved down in the line up. Your previous starting catcher is not your starting catcher anymore and certainly shouldn't be batting past the 7th inning in close games.

I guess we get the Angels headlines now:

Altuve goes 4 for 4 with 3 extra base hits and the Astros lose 10-3.

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Yes. That's still a safe bet.

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Safe? Define safe. I wouldn't drop $1000 on it.

We are throwing our franchise #7, 8 and 9 starters 3 days out of 6 with a pen that is underperforming. And we will be throwing those 2 of those three the rest of the season unless we trade for someone better. And I say that knowing full well those three arms have pitched way better than anyone would expect their 7, 8 and 9 guys could ever hope for.

We have holes at 3B, LF, and C and I still think an up in the air 1B. The MVP caliber DH/LF is injured and no one is picking up the slack. And we have a manager that flat refuses to play his best options at C and LF to plug the holes. He's literally strategically weakening his team.

Making October isn't IMHO safe. Far from it.

It can be fixed but Crane and Dana are going to have to fix it. And if Crane won't Dana can't.