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2024 Scott wouldn’t help much if at all. 2023 Scott was one of the elite relievers in the game. If you believe the 2023 version is just waiting to break out after a bad start he makes sense, no matter where he slots in the bullpen.

They do mean different things. “The call stands” means it was too close to overturn. “The call is confirmed” means they feel the replay clearly supports the call on the field. Joe Adell was safe at 2B. They felt it was too close to overturn and said “The call stands” because it clearly didn’t support the call.

It was a joke. No trade value. No calories.

No problem.

Reposting your posts doesn’t make them any better. It’s painful. Please stop!

Haha. I obviously meant Irvin, not Akin, but I really believe that you didn’t know that.

How many people did an about face? Can you find one? For your sake, I hope it’s not more than two but I suspect it’s ZERO.

Is that as high as you can count? Everything makes sense now.

Irvin stunk for 3 starts and he’s been great for three starts. I don’t think that puts him in the conversation for our best starter the first 5 weeks of the season.

I see that you were a big supporter of Irvin in late April.

It’s some Splenda to sweeten the deal.

Well, a lot of people outside of the game thread apparently didn’t have a problem with it, for whatever that’s worth.

No. Not happy and it wasn’t stupid. It’s debatable. Also, how do you know Akin didn’t stiffen up a little. I don’t recall the inning but he was flexing his back or side one inning and I was concerned he had hurt himself. It’s stupid to call it stupid. Happy?

Nice try. I said in the off season not after Irvin’s first ST start when he looked like Warren Spahn and you got all giddy like a girl at her sweet 16 party.

I didn’t have a problem with the move at the time. Yes, his pitch count was low but the Orioles half inning before that was long and I always worry that the pitcher might lose his rhythm a little by sitting that long. I wouldn’t have been outraged if they left him in longer to see if he could finish the inning but I also had no problem with Cano coming in. You win the game that night. We might get blown out tonight or vice versa or even get rained out. Everyone except Coulombe is available. Rational people can disagree. It’s irrational people who call the move severely stupid or whatever. The game thread? The group think is never wrong in there. LOL