You deserve to hear that Grand Slam in French pic.twitter.com/dukysuLzyu

— Montreal Expos (@Montreal_Expos) October 5, 2025

I forgot that the blue jays could do their own broadcasts of playoff games since they're in Canada

They actually open their roof

Cynic said:

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They actually open their roof

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They actually have nice weather.

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Marvin said:

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Nothing but crickets on the Astros, huh? I hope this means that Crane is getting his ducks in a row.

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He's still waiting on Bagwell to tell him if he should re-sign Dana.

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Bagwell has to wait until Ausmus is done coaching so he can interview for the job

Crane right now is debating whether he should bring back a GM after missing the playoffs for the first time in 9 years.

What crane also needs to consider is this… our last win in the playoffs was 2 years ago (as of about two weeks from now). So just running it back again isn't the answer

Josh Naylor botches a potential double play ball and suddenly Detroit has the go-ahead run at the plate pic.twitter.com/QkcVyeQwj4

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) October 6, 2025

SPENCER TORKELSON DELIVERS AND WE’RE TIED pic.twitter.com/XSftE6nEKF

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) October 6, 2025

Spermys back up 3-2

Detwah limits the damage. Down 1 going to the 9th.

I'm thinking Crane is waiting to see if Hinch may be available.

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What crane also needs to consider is this… our last win in the playoffs was 2 years ago (as of about two weeks from now). So just running it back again isn't the answer

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What a team does in one 3 game series should have 0 impact on any decision. If it does then Crane has lost his mind and we are fracked.

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tjack16 said:

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What crane also needs to consider is this… our last win in the playoffs was 2 years ago (as of about two weeks from now). So just running it back again isn't the answer

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What a team does in one 3 game series should have 0 impact on any decision. If it does then Crane has lost his mind and we are fracked.

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I agree with that on its premise … However, we followed it up by not making the playoffs the next season. So that does impact the decision.

We actually made a lot of personnel changes the prior offseason and lose Framber this offseason so some level of changes are inherent.

If your premise is this is on the coach and more specifically the GM then I disagree. I don't really care if we make a manager changes because I don't think they matter much as long as they aren't complete idiots (Joe isn't) but the GM has had less than three years and inherited a garbage farm system. It's a position that inherently needs some patience.

I'm good with keeping Dana. I was referencing that we need coaching changes, and some key roster moves. They were too highly dependent on arms returning from serious injuries and we had no offensive depth.

They also just seemed massively unprepared for a majority of the pitchers they faced this year

tjack16 said:

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I'm good with keeping Dana. I was referencing that we need coaching changes, and some key roster moves. They were too highly dependent on arms returning from serious injuries and we had no offensive depth.

They also just seemed massively unprepared for a majority of the pitchers they faced this year

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Thanks to Crane's signings of Abreu and Montero before hiring Dana, plus his desire to sign Hader, there wasn't much salary to work with last offseason to address obvious holes in the roster.

Furthermore, the IL was full of offensive starters, as well as depth guys. There's no way you can carry enough depth to account for our losses. We had to plug AAA guys into the lineup and bat guys like Walker and Jake higher than they should have been.

If you judge the season objectively, I think we overachieved given the injuries. I think most rational fans, after losing Bregman and Tucker, had us in the 85-95 range for wins. Now if we had known Yordan would only play 48 games, I'm not sure anyone would have put us over 90 wins. Now consider all of the other injuries. It's really quite impressive that this wasn't a .500 ball club this season.

We often trotted out a lineup with only two guys with a .700+ OPS. This was not the 2019 offense struggling to score runs. It was often crap and produced results that are expected of such a lineup.

If Joe is fired, it won't be because of the results. No rational owner is going to hold a manager accountable for being dealt such a crappy hand. But there's more to managing a team than writing out a lineup card, and if they feel Joe isn't the right man to handle those responsibilities, then a change is justified.

Start at the 7 minute mark to avoid the discussion of Taylor Swift

My only bone to pick with that analysis is that our best month was the one when we were trotting out the AAAA lineup.

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EastCoastAgNc said:

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Who’s this unit at the Yankees vs Blue Jays game? #yankees #BlueJays #ALDS pic.twitter.com/1zixvcUzJT

— Vinny (@Vin_cenzo_) October 4, 2025

Looks like a video game character you create completely out of proportion

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Dungeon Crawler Carl?

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that's not a reference I expected to see on Texags! Let's go

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9 page thread on the series on the Entertainment board:
https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3483915/1#discussion

Fun books no doubt.

Wabs said:

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When's the last time the Yankees won a WS without a roider (or multiple roiders) on their roster?

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1978

Keep going...While not technically roids greenies are a banned substance and were around since the 1950s.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I remember most of those pretty well. Not to nit pick your 2004 section, but did Berkman and Beltran hit a dinger or not? You say both.

I was just commenting that our top 5 hitters were epic that year. i was trying to make the emoji with the amazed face in the bold text.

Drunken Overseas Bettor said:

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I was just commenting that our top 5 hitters were epic that year. i was trying to make the emoji with the amazed face in the bold text.

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Ohhhh...I thought you were saying they had zero home runs. It is monday...

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Bye Framber. Thanks for the good times (including the no hitter that I was fortunate to see in person). And good luck to whatever team picks you up.

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Should have traded him early in the season like I said. Got nothing for him. Luhnow is rolling over in his future grave.