#Reds - trade for Castellanos cheaply, put him in LF. Lux projected starting LF so improvement there. Castellanos bad defensively but so is Lux. Castellanos previously excelled in GABP/Cincy. Short term commitment with opportunity for cleaner payroll/big expenditure replacement next year then.

He's a mercurial personality but as a Reds fan, I remember him fondly from his time on the team. I think he just wants regular playing time and will do so for any team willing to offer it. There are too many teams that routinely pick up players like him to say its over.

If the goal is to trade Castellanos, I think many of the reasons to trade him would also apply to Garcia, unless there are clubhouse reasons.

It seems to me they should have tried for a more defensive minded outfielder with offensive upside or an offensive minded outfielder who is at least younger.

Tehran to get ready for season 3 and Meet Me in St. Louis because you have to at this time of season.

If you want an intellectual study on the Civil War, also watch The Great Courses Signature Collection lecture series on it. The professor provides an important counterpoint to Shelby Foote's controversial "The Lost Cause" theory featured by Burns. Burns is good but controversial featuring Foote.

Weirdly - The original Total Recall when the one female character wins a fight against the Sharon Stone character and the audience cheered. It seems such a strange movie to get such a strong audience reaction which I haven't seen in what would be other similar or much better expected scenarios.

1. Love them all fairly equally but if forced, would actually go 1, 2, 3 in that order. It's like picking your favorite kid though. You can have a favorite in the moment but it can change.

2. Something about Arwen's horse run across the river and then the spell gets me every time.

If only there was a show called ExtraTime where we could get some shoulder programming to get key takes. I think @mattdoyle.bsky.social and @andrew-wiebe.bsky.social would be the perfect hosts.

Doyle does write some good stuff so I'm always thankful for his reads.

That Andrew Friedman quote really made me think of my own perceptions on free agents and the more I think about it the more I realize he's right. It's very hard to think of a signing I would feel comfortable with ever but this has to be it. No more next year...

Battery just hits differently on this album

I'm not an official voter but I did a crowdsource ballot through FanGraphs and I struggled similarly. Ultimately I felt only A-Rod deserved a vote. I felt even if you lopped off a percentage of his output he still has the quality (kinda how I feel with Bonds and Clemens).

A few of my recent favorites:
*Chief of War - AppleTV
*The Wild Ones (Nature / Non-scripted) - AppleTV
*Rogue Heroes - MGM+ (not recent but recent to me)

I watched a lot of local broadcasts and it was well known. Sometimes I think the gulf between what announcers share, the lack of using a megaphone to share by the front office and mainstream news aggregation is why details like this go unknown widely.

Can't understand why Picard was on the field that whole game and why Arfsten was the guy taken out.

I like that MLS staggers the games but it sure seems they should stagger by 15 minutes more. As a Crew fan, I likely don't get to watch the end of this game if I want to watch the start of the Crew game. Same thing may happen for anybody that is a Nashville/Miami fan trying to watch Hell is Real

As a fan who started with the MLS a few seasons ago and doesn't watch other leagues, why the lack of enthusiasm for this format? I feel it works quite well.

What is Nancy seeing in Picard? I like this lineup and understand the why not run it back concept but I'm still struggling to see the Picard value other than hustle.