Posts posted by hornmpa96
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Have they been offered anything?
I haven’t heard any of the moderate Rs actually make an offer to get some help from the Ds to elect a speaker.
This is all McCarthy’s fault. He is an extremely weak individual who has been enabling the zealots in the far R ever since he got to Washington. He had an opportunity to effectively neuter them at the beginning of this Congress by agreeing to some sort of coalition/power-sharing arrangement.
There are at least 5 members of the R caucus who will vote against anything reasonable/rational which meant he would always need D votes to pass any government funding bills or debt ceiling bills.
There is no reason for the Ds to help them at this point. At some point the damage will be enough that either the Rs get to 217 on their own or a speaker will be chosen with D votes/abstentions which means the Ds need to get something for that.
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5 minutes ago, WBT said:
I wonder what trade value Peña has. We'd then need to find a stopgap until Matthews is ready.
Our bench also needs to get better. I don't know if that's spending more or just doing a better job on waiver picks or what.
No more dumpster diving in the waiver wire. Let’s sign some actual major leaguers this off-season.
Peña’s OK if he’s your 9th best hitter.
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The following starters are on the roster now:
Verlander, Framber, Javier, Brown, France, McCullers, Bielak, Urquidy, Garcia and Blanco
Any thoughts on seeing what France could be traded for? Personally, I think what he provided this year was fool’s gold.
Can Framber and Javier revert to form? If they don’t, then I think this run is over unless some combination of McCullers/Garcia/Brown really step up.
We need to find an actual major leaguer who can back up 1B and 3B and pinch hit. That way we can give some days off to Bregman and Abreu.
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Houston Astros off-season thread
in Baseball
Let’s hire Sparks - we had good luck with Dierker.