Moose Milligan

I didn't know Fujinami was Japanese for HBP. MATEO IS DONE GET HIM OFF THE TEAM

Drilled a few in there, too.

Had him 0-2. JFC. I haven't seen a meltdown like this before.

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Oh **** Jansen kills us. I hate this bespectacled ****face.

One batter? C'mon.

****ing hit him????? JFC

Great, Chapman.

3-0. I'd have let G-Rod go after Springer here, but whatever.

And 2-0 to start off on Springer. Great.

C'mon, give him one more batter

G-Rod not gonna give in on that change up. Heater or nothing right here.

Give him another 100 letter high and I bet he goes after it.

Would be awesome to get Vlad Jr again here.

Also can't count him out, apparently.

And two big middle fingers to Kiermaier.

Are we witnessing the G-Rod ascension

Brandon Belt looks like one of the GEICO cavemen.

One of the things that frustrates me to no end on this board is when someone gets into a semantics (for a lack of a better word) debate on what someone said. And you said it right here, clearly how I FELT (the word I didn't use in my initial post) was that Prieto and Rom should have been enough. But of course I felt that way, that's what I meant when I said that. But then people are all like "derp, derp, derp, well CLEARLY THOSE TWO WEREN'T ENOUGH!" Like, no ****, obviously they weren't enough, that's why they had to include Showalter. I know that. I get that. But it's a silly thing to point out. And so yes, I think they overpaid a little bit for Flaherty. I don't think they got bent over a barrel, but I also think Showalter was a guy with upside that I'd have preferred to have kept. As I've said, I don't believe Flaherty makes us demonstrably better. I don't think he makes us that much better than more bullpen pieces could have. I can assure you that I wouldn't have been sharpening my pitchfork yesterday if it came out that we missed out on Flaherty because we didn't include Showalter. Given how well Elias done here, I would have found it odd if there was some sort of backlash for not getting this deal done yesterday.

Cause they don't like Baker.

Baker has been one of the bigger disappointments this season. He has electric stuff at times but I was ready to throw my phone at the TV the other day when he got ahead 0-2 on some chump (IKF?) and then couldn't put him away.

I wanted Bassitt. Towards the end, I wanted Eovaldi, too. Wouldn't have been thrilled about Rodon due to the injury history and while DeGrom would have been thrilling, he's an injury waiting to happen.

Fangraphs constant navel-gazing and desire to be the smartest baseball guys on the internet is one of the reasons I don't like their site. I don't love the Flaherty trade but I can see why some like it. I certainly don't think we were losers.

Yep. That's one of the reasons I've always felt this speculation and constant rehashing of deals is usually pointless and ultimately uninteresting to me; we'll never know if he'd checked in on Giolito or Sewald. I've also said that I wanted another legit reliever or two more than a starter. To your point, we'll never know if he made calls about Robertson and/or Chapman.

Fine. Swap out Cease and E-Rod with other pitchers that were rumored to have been on the market. I've said it before, I'll say it once more for everyone in the cheap seats: I don't think Flaherty moves the needle for us all that much.