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Hm...well then there's the other part of bringing up your best prospect and having them sit on and off the bench just to avoid the 130 mark. Teams may prefer more consistent playing time for the best ones? Just speculating

August 15th deadline for ROY next year, lol I have long since accepted this is how the league does things with the best prospects this close to that.

Oy...What is the big deal? Are fans just impatient to see the new toys because we wanna see a spark or what? We're talking a week and a half here...This is no different than when Gunnar was called up. And this sealone is done...so what's the difference?

If can stay like this for tomorrow morning/afternoon this'll be perfect...the reenactment I'm doing fell on the perfect week!

I don't remember seeing showers moving backwards twice in the same week...seeing a cluster move east to west on radar is weird, lol

What causes something to back to the west?

@Chris78 Here is an article from December that explains exactly what I mean: owners gave him more money to spend ($70M more, in fact)...but he seems to have a different philosophy: https://www.si.com/mlb/orioles/news/report-orioles-gm-mike-elias-unwilling-spend-against-owner-direction

I'm right here not to tell ya that he's great but to tell ya you're blaming the wrong person this time. That's where we disagree. Elias, Elias, Elias! All this is his baby (Cal said a couple weeks ago that "[Elias is the architect"] His philosophy in FA is what got us here. Now...if they don't fire Elias this off-season and he screws stuff up even more...THEN that'll be on ownership--because they have the opportunity to start completely fresh now. New manager, new GM!

I still trust nothing coming out of a Ravens 2nd round. Too much bad luck, lol So far only O-Lineman seem to work out once a decade! He would be the first defensive player...

I think that dude is either in denial and just says "la la la can't hear you", or is just doing that to troll...been the habit pretty much since this tough stretch began. All we have to go is what's happened the last 9 (and likely 10) years. The reality is just what you stated. Now whether or not we get out of the PDO cycle and we can put together a better 10-year stretch remains to be seen...but at least for now this is where we at.

My goodness that cycle lasted for 30 years?? So "decadal" isn't so much a literal decade but just however many decades it lasts? (I'm sure you would've loved it back then...lol Although the 60s were snowy for the east)

Time for a new approach this winter: If any model run shows something that hasn't happened in 10 years...ignore it

Hey at least we could check out early and just ignore this altogether till next hear, lol But oy...it amazes me how the snow completely fell off after Jan 16. I had been under the impression that change in climo was more gradual...but it's like somebody flipped a switch in 16, and the clippers disappeared and so did some of our ways of getting snow. I get changing climo but I don't understand why it happened so fast. I wish someone would study what exactly happened that year and why every year since has done, well....what we've seen.

When did it bite them in the butt? And does 2-3 weeks really make that big of a difference?

Isn't the whole preserving rookie eligibility for higher prospects a common practice in the league in general, though? (Hence why "September callups" became a thing?) Why are some of you acting like everybody doesn't do the same thing come August? Lol Teams always wanna preserve that.

I hope the gfs is right. I'll be reenacting something outside on grass next Saturday...

And out goes Charlie...to the Detroit Tigers!

Only thing that concerns me is that it's a foot...injuries in that never seem to act right for awhile after injury, smh

We've been doing pretty good the last few years...but that kind of thing is always a spin of the wheel...

Prospect? Man we'd barely get a speck!! We'd have to trade him for cash inconsiderations...

Yeah you're probably right. I just saw one of those articles, lol If there's plenty of control, it would make sense!

The only thing is that woulf make us a buyer--and we aren't exactly in a position to be that for this trade deadline. Now I could see a scenario where we package some of the prospects we get this year to buy something in the off-season.

Dang...missed out on all of that, lol

This. Talk about ownership responsibility...NOW they have a huge decision to make this off-season. If they decide to keep him and things get worse, that's gonna be on them too. I also don't have much confidence that Elias can fix this. We need to have a fresh start from GM down, imo Now funny thing about last year's trade deadline...what if Rogers really does work out? That would make it not nearly as bad, lol Efflin was also a good move but we got unlucky with his injuries (but he certainly shut it down in the playoffs).

But that's what I mean, though--they gained full control around June--just before last season started teetering. So realistically it's not like they could come in just before the second half drop off and sign everybody real quick, lol So really this past off-season was the first real opportunity to extend somebody. But...again was the timing for both sides right?