The Jays and we get a day off. As much as I enjoy baseball, I don’t mind days off. We are using the evening to see a National Geographic lecture. Yes, I’m that old.
So we have time for an OpenThread. Use it to chat about anything you like, within site rules. It doesn’t have to be Blue Jays or baseball.
I have been playing OOTP Baseball and got to the end of the 2026 season. Made it to the Wild Card playoffs, but lost to the Yankees. Starting spring training for the 2027 season, and a few games in,
Ricky Tiedemann is injured; Tommy John out for a year and a half. And my closer is gone for the season.
Tiedemann was in my bullpen for the 2026 season, then made four starts at the end of the season after I lost a couple of starters. The game does give you a feel for what it is like to be a GM; you think you have enough starting pitchers, and then Kevin Gausman got injured in April, and I found myself collecting any reasonable pitcher I could. It is almost like real life.
Going into the second season, I hoped to trade off some of the bigger contracts but, just like in real baseball, no one wants players making a lot of money. Likely the worst one is Andres Gimenez, who has three years at $23.5 million and is untradable, and I have Arjun Nimmala ready to join the club at the major league minimum.
Anyway, you don’t have to talk about computer baseball. But then the only other thing I want to talk about is my premier, who wants to trade clean water for dirty coal, but that’s against site rules.
Beyond that, there was a glitch in the ABS system that cost the A’s a strike that should have been a ball. It has worked so well that, I guess, we’ll have to live with the odd problem.
And the Rays, for some reason, signed Craig Kimbrel. He pitched in one game and is injured. I don’t know why they would have picked him up.
Brewers Abner Uribe was suspended for one game for (it is hard to believe I’m typing this) doing crotch chops towards the Cardinals’ bench. And he is appealing it. I know I’m old and all, but shouldn’t there be some level of decorum on the field? I’m totally ok with players celebrating on the field. I think the old ways of never showing happiness on the field is dumb. But I’d have given Uribe a long suspension for that.
Happy Monday.
