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Paul Swydan

4:38

What is tonight's best 6-7 pm ET matchup?

OAK (Gray) vs. CLE (Bauer) (17.9% | 27 votes)

NYY (Severino) vs. BAL (Tillman) (17.9% | 27 votes)

ARI (Ray) vs. PIT (Nova) (35.8% | 54 votes)

LAD (Maeda) vs. STL (Wacha) (21.9% | 33 votes)

CIN (Wojciechowski) vs. TOR (Happ) (0.7% | 1 vote)

MIL (Davies) vs. NYM (Pill) (0.7% | 1 vote)

PHI (Velasquez) vs. MIA (Nicolino) (0.7% | 1 vote)

SEA (Miranda) vs. COL (Anderson) (4.6% | 7 votes)

Total Votes: 151

4:40

What is tonight's best 8 pm ET or later matchup?

TB (Andriese) vs. TEX (Martinez) (0% | 0 votes)

BOS (Sale) vs. CHW (Quintana) (75.6% | 124 votes)

HOU (Fiers) vs. MIN (Berrios) (9.1% | 15 votes)

DET (Verlander) vs. KC (Skoglund) (0.6% | 1 vote)

ATL (Colon) vs. LAA (Bridwell) (3.7% | 6 votes)

CHC (Butler) vs. SD (Lamet) (4.3% | 7 votes)

WAS (Gonzalez) vs. SF (Samardzija) (6.7% | 11 votes)

Total Votes: 164

4:44

What June movie are you most excited to see?

Wonder Woman (6/2 release) (33.3% | 42 votes)

Capt. Underpants (6/2) (5.6% | 7 votes)

The Mummy (6/9) (10.3% | 13 votes)

All Eyez on Me (6/16) (4.8% | 6 votes)

Rough Night (6/16) (1.6% | 2 votes)

Cars 3 (6/16) (8.7% | 11 votes)

47 Meters Down (6/16) (1.6% | 2 votes)

Baby Driver (6/28) (11.9% | 15 votes)

Despicable Me 3 (6/30) (9.5% | 12 votes)

Other (say in comments) (12.7% | 16 votes)

Total Votes: 126

4:46

If a manager challenges a call in the first three innings, what is your reaction?

Great job! Get every call you can! (25.3% | 39 votes)

Good job, I think we'll get that one. (20.8% | 32 votes)

Meh (36.4% | 56 votes)

Bad job, we need to save that challenge (3.2% | 5 votes)

My manager is an idiot, so this is probably a bad challenge (14.3% | 22 votes)

Total Votes: 154

9:00

Hi everybody!

Jeff Zimmerman

9:00

Parker Bridwell

9:00

How awesome is my name? If I make it, can you call me Clifford?

9:01

(the dude who wrote the Clifford series was Norman Bridwell, if that helps)

Paul Swydan

9:01

For the record, I did know this. Also for the record, yes, I approve of this nickname.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:01

It's OK, how did you do in the name bracket challenge?

Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe

9:02

Swapped Dylan Bundy (finally) and Jedd Gyorko for Sonny Gray, Jose Ramirez, and a pair of low round draft picks. Feeling good about that, but still having trouble convincing myself that Ramirez is a must start over LeMahieu at second base (OBP league). Talk me into my senses!

Paul Swydan

9:02

I don't dislike the deal at all.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:03

Depends on what you need. Now Ramirez does have OF eligibility which I've needed in Tout Wars a few times.

Paul Swydan

9:03

Their RoS wOBAs are identical - .334 for LeMahieu, .335 for Ramirez. So you can just mix and match depending on matchups/hot streaks, etc.

Joe Blow

9:04

What do you see CarGo's numbers looking like at the end of the season? He's been terrible so far this year....any hope?

Paul Swydan

9:04

One year around this time, I wrote that CarGo was over the hill and the Rockies would never get anything good for him in trade. Then in June he hit like 78 homers. Never lose faith in CarGo.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:05

I would be about 10% to 20% lower than his projections.

Los

9:05

Am I crazy to trade Mookie for Trout in a H2H league where I know I will make the playoffs. If it makes any difference, I have won 3 times in the last 5 years and finished 2nd the other two times.

Paul Swydan

9:05

If you're that good, why do you need our advice?

9:06

Seriously though, I think a full season of Mookie probably outweighs 2 months of Trout. But if you only need him for the playoffs...maybe.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:06

I would just make sure you can make the playoffs without Mookie.

Paul Swydan

9:06

I guess my concern would be that Trout isn't 100% and the Angels shut him down early because they fall out of playoff contention without him.

Hobbs

9:07

Only have Trout in dynasty leagues. Would you even consider selling? Have an offer of Blackmon and Stras for him. Sitting in 1st. Top 4 teams make playoffs.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:07

There is that chance

Paul Swydan

9:07

No, if you have Trout in a dynasty league, hold on to him. You're getting trade offers because your league mates think you are stupid. Don't be stupid.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:07

I would, but it would take more than those two. It would have to two other first rounders.

9:08

Adam Frazier worth to keep in 12 team H2H league?

Paul Swydan

9:08

Would need more info than that, sorry. Specifically, the number of players per team, and if your league uses MI or CI slots, etc.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:08

Probably very borderline

Hannah Hochevar

9:08

Movies: putting in a vote for some indie fare (especially after this last run of superhero movies has been so bad) - The Bad Batch looks excellent. The Big Sick; Beguiled; and Beatriz at Dinner also. (I promise I like movies whose names don't begin with B sometimes too.)

Paul Swydan

9:09

Fair enough Hannah. I have heard of The Big Sick, but I stuck to movies that everyone would know about.

Chris Sale in trouble here. Ducks on the pond for Abreu.

Hannah Hochevar

9:09

Hot take on Sam Travis? Obviously haven't seen much yet, but I know there's a Sox fan among you...

Paul Swydan

9:10

No hot takes yet. He made a nice defensive play yesterday, but it was mostly positioning.

Lenny

9:11

Care to guess what the sale price of the Marlins will be? Greater or lesser than 1 billion dollars?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:11

I think he'll be underwhelming .... not good enough for the Red Sox fans.

Paul Swydan

9:11

Oh, I think it'll be more than $1 billion.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:11

Really no idea

Paul Swydan

9:11

The only reason it wouldn't is because unlike art dealers, businesspeople don't want to deal with Loria.

9:12

Was offered Sale and Stanton for Godley, Cueto and Trout. good trade?

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