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We Boomers did have some pretty good music (but Top 40 was pretty bad for the most part). Some painful clothing trends and the body of cinema was pretty mediocre except for some obvious classics.

Hessman.

Olson and Allen are finalists for the 2025 National League Gold Glove awards.

Well, Dewayne Wise did save a perfect game for Mark Buehrle. In another thread, I wrote about how bench construction has changed for a variety of reasons. The only reason I mention it here is that baseball benches used to have guys like Wise on it in earlier eras. Not so much anymore.

I miss PerfectCell as well. He was a good poster.

It sounds as though Alex Bregman is going to opt out of his deal with the Red Sox after a year. Has 2 years left at $41 MM per year (a lot of it deferred. Is anyone paying Bregman more than that on an annual basis. I suppose the argument can be made that with a considerable portion of his...

It's like they are a "just enough" team. I do have to laugh that the Cubs stole Bilbo from the Brewers as their manager and Murphy has won two straight Central titles as his successor.

I wouldn't mind it if they did. Just a somewhat odd team in that they have a few B+ players on offense and solid pitching, but that's about it. They seem to grind everything out and are a throwback team of sorts.

Free agency has basically been a good thing for baseball as players continue to play with a pulse throughout the season as their performance will determine their earning power to a greater extent than it did in the pre-free agency era. But there is a downside in that some players just collect...

One Battle After Another is a pretty good movie. I don't know if it's Paul Thomas Anderson's best because he has had so many good ones, but it ranks right up there. I won't go so far as saying it might be "the movie for this generation" as one reviewer put it, but it is notable for both its...

I think it will boil down to 40-man space. A ton of guys coming off the 60-day IL and I don't know if anyone currently not on the 40-man (Burkhalter comes to mind) needs to be added to avoid be exposed to the Rule 5. I agree that it would be nice to have those guys in AAA, but what is their...

Let's all jump into 50#'s Wayback Machine (truth be told I resembled Sherman (substitute red for blond hair) and talk about bench construction. I became a serious baseball fan in the 1960s and have been so since. One of the biggest changes I have seen during my fandom is the expansion of...

Who on the staffs of the playoff teams currently still in the mix would be managerial candidates?

He did some work for the Braves for a season (or maybe two) before taking the job with the Mets. He's basically an old-school rockhead.

Very true, but some of the names on the various lists are likey on Anthopoulos' list as well.

What's Keith Lockhart doing these days? I would give him the job just to see what is on the Polaroids he has of Bobby Cox.

Life force maybe, but there's not enough baseball intelligence in Acuna's head to bother stealing. It wouldn't amount to a petty misdemeanor. In reaction to what someone posted above, I've been saying from the get-go to not discount Gibbons being in the dugout in some capacity. I saw what the...

Well, we also saw Montero crap the bed but as Sav says, your point still stands. I'm not seeing an Enyel De Los Santos type coming out of the pen for these teams.

As far as the big bucks teams go, I mind the Dodgers the least. Of course, If "Walking Eagle" Tommy Lasorda were still managing, I would vote Yankees. Former Braves' minor leaguer Justin Dean playing as a late-inning replacement for the Dodgers.

That's a big challenge. Acuna is an all-world talent, but it's almost like he's turning into Manny Ramirez between the ears. Speaking of Manny, his malingering will probably keep him out of the Hall of Fame, but 81.8 bOWAR is awfully impressive. Career 555 HR and OPS of .996. Of course, you...