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Are there any numbers as to business and corporate season ticket buys? It seems like (certainly before Nats) that many more tickets were purchased this way by businesses. Then with loss of DC market, Baltimore violence, the great recession, the losing, Covid etc that the attendance in Baltimore has been impacted. Baltimore has always been a limited market.. those years when Camden was new and winning teams were outliers. Just like the barely 1 million attendance years for the best baseball teams in history of the 60s and early 70s

1. Sign veteran bat(s). Preferably RH, 1b, 3b or corner. Goldschmidt, Bregman .. but likely serious overpays needed. Not opposing to it being Santander 2. Money 3. No more than 5 years 4. Pitching, pitching, pitching. A top prospect like Basallo needs to return even better than Eflin with more club control. Crochet is the high end and anyone can go for him. 5. A top 10 budget if needed to address key additions. Somewhere between 150 - 200 mil. 6. None— i think the emphasis needs to be on pitch selection and recognition . 7. Gunnar, but unlikely.. Adley.. Grayson 8. Reup McCann until Basallo ready. 9. Yes .. blue chip needed this y 10. None of the ones you mention.

From the “it could be worse” dept 10 consecutive is still way short of 18 straight .. The Minnesota Twins have finally broken out of their postseason slump. The team beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 in the wild-card round of the MLB playoffs Tuesday, their first postseason win since 2004. A lengthy drought between wins isn't unusual, but what makes the Twins' run particularly galling is that they lost 18 straight postseason games. That's three straight losses in the 2004 ALDS, four 3-0 sweeps and losses in the 2017 wild-card sudden-death game and the 2020 wild-card round

I am not inclined to sign him to an overpriced deal. Bye!

Baseball is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

KC will now go rollover for the Yankees .. sweep

Only fans happier than Royals fans are Yankee fans.

Don’t they only have 11 pitchers? Seems like they have 20

Win next 2 or go home for the winter

They certainly don’t have a Frank or Eddie type guy who get more fired up the more the pressure

Perhaps… or perhaps not. Managerial replacement is an option often taken even by winning teams that can’t get anywhere in playoffs.

“Process… yada yada… plan … yada yada” . How about results?

We shall see.

They have two pitchers.. 2 wins advances

Really? That is soooo not a good answer. If we go out tomorrow, Hyde may go too

Burnes did everything a pitcher can do.. our erratic offense folded against top pitching .

Except that hasn’t happened.. yet. We hit home runs. Except in playoffs when we don’t

Task for this franchise is to win 1 playoff game .. after 9 consecutive losses

5 straight playoff losses to KC. Is Mahomes hiding out somewhere? Another quick exit as that was our best pitcher and best performance.. they were better. This team desperately needs another consistent big bat next year particularly if Santander leaves.. we don’t have a Judge, Ohtani, Murray, Frank Robinson star type .. Gunnar is good but not yet .. Adley a disappointment..

And they are all well rested

I am starting to lean towards the find a different manager for next year unless we somehow make a deep run

Jesus… Hyde is an idiot

It this is kind of embarrassing garbage play I’d see in playoffs, i would rather they go home. Worst loss of season imho. Just a killer.

No there isn’t. That light at end of tunnel is a train coming at you.

Possible.. or he could become Nelson Cruz ..