Might be Dark Tranquility's Atoma or Omnium Gatherum's Grey Heavens.

I guess it depends on who and where you are, but the environment in general is my personal number one fear (in terms of direct impact on me or my family).

When healthy, he's a 7-8 win player at least.

Doubt he stays there 5 years, would bet on him staying there 3. Seemed to really come around as a hitter the last two years out of Denver.

I think he's for real.

It's a series of unfortunate events. (I kid, Chicago.)

Nothing like that on defense. Offense, maybe, but Devers might have a chance to be a little more disciplined at a younger age than Beltre.

Don't think those claims were ever accurate.

I think consistency is the least likely outcome. I would hope for more highs and fewer lows. His approach went to shit in the World Series.

Two suggestions. One, when my daughter was younger I found that cooking vegetables with high heat, such as roasting at 450 or 475, so the sugars in them started to caramelize (brown) made her like them more. They end up sweeter and less bitter. The other is to consider making sauces that work with vegetables and that your kids like. My daughter liked the flavor of lemon early on, so I still to this day add lemon juice to lots of sauces, and often will make something more complicated like a lemon beurre blanc specifically because she likes it.

I favor the latter approach, which Al Franken said on MSNBC last night is his plan as well. Fight like hell. Don't help them.

He's been available since the summer, but it's been kind of quiet publicly. I think you'll see a dozen teams interested given his age, history, and contract. That's a three-prospect deal for me - three real prospects, plus maybe something else, but I'd be shooting for multiple high-impact prospects to get enough value and diversify the risk a little.

My wife and I have had this debate, in part while discussing the election with our daughter. My wife takes your side - many people heard what they wanted from Trump, such as promises of jobs for the less-educated part of the workforce by bringing manufacturing back, and the other stuff didn't matter to them. I take the other side - a vote for him is tacit approval of the racism, the dog-whistling, the pandering, the outright harassment and mockery. You don't get to sever. It's why I was no longer a Bill Clinton supporter after his second term: I liked some of his policies, but lying under oath before a grand jury, even over a trivial matter, told me something about his character I could not accept or ignore.

Yuliesky? He's 32. I could not compare him to a bunch of 20-22 year olds on a prospect ranking.

Albies. I know he can hit, and I believe he can play short or second.

Jumbo Shrimp is pretty bad, although when they say "batter up!" it'll be a Jacobi-level pun.

Nil. The GOP controls the House.

We live in a world where people in power - and something like half the country - denies the facts of climate change. Some similar portion of the populace denies that we evolved from lower life forms. A small fraction deny that vaccines are safe and effective and actively court ways around laws designed to make the public safe. You know how that happens? When those of us - teachers, politicians, the media - who have the chance to disseminate information play the game of false balance. I'll take the hit to my career I get from dealing strictly in facts.

Nope. Never had any interest. I wouldn't judge anyone who has them, but I don't want ink on me.

I think the fear there is some owners would just sell everything they could and punt the international market. Whatever your cap is, there would be a Loria type who would just sell it and pocket the profits every year. Maybe Liberty would do that, since the expected ROI on a million bucks in international amateur free agency is somewhere between "hard to calculate" and "who the hell knows."

Oh, I don't think it is.

If this is it with him, no more mechanical or pitch changes, then I'd put him in the bullpen as a long man to start the year and adjust his role by how he pitches, probably into a higher-leverage relief role. If there's still time to change him, though, I'd try to get him back to the longer stride he had in 2012 or so, so that his fastball isn't ending up belt-high so often.

Hellickson or Walker might. Walker's depends on his back. Trumbo ... he will probably get more than that in free agency, but there's no way I'd give him close to that much. I think everyone else declines.

That's a good question. Most of the stuff I hated doing, like the old, long previews of each playoff series, are gone. Now it's more about writing when I don't feel the spark - sometimes I have to react to a bit of news, but I don't really have a strong opinion that I can back up sufficiently with data or historical examples, and then I feel like I'm dancing on the hot-takes line. I don't want to do that; I have strong opinions naturally, so I don't ever want to feel like I'm faking it in any way.

Front offices use WAR. They use their own formulas for the components, but multiple front office people, from GMs to analytics directors, have said to me directly that they value player performance by comparing total production to replacement level.

Black is a solid choice. He was good in San Diego, with some drawbacks. Denver is a real challenge for any manager, though, and I don't know what specifically about him might be a good fit there. I don't think Alex was interviewed.

I promise you that after one session with a (good) therapist the mental obstacles you describe will start to dissolve. It feels good to vocalize some of what you're feeling and have someone make sense of it for you. Just go.

I don't think he can play 2b at all.

I wrote about their situation in some of the buyers' guides that will run this weekend, but I think Soler might be on the trade block regardless. I would try Heyward in CF if Fowler doesn't come back, though.

Pence still believes you can "convert" gay people to straight. This is arrant nonsense, the American Psychiatric Association opposes it, and it may increase the risk of suicide for these folks. If that doesn't scare you, you may have no empathy whatsoever.

I'm betting it's after next year. Number one starter. Not a position player here.

The only one I could think of was 2001. Game 6 in 1986 had as much drama but wasn't the winner-take-all game.

I think he's going to be a star. I'd be very surprised if he didn't improve his contact rate starting this year.

Nah, the hard part for him is going to be that he's just not that good any more.

I think it is optimal, but the club has to make the decision now and get him to agree it's for the best.

Yes, that was my implication just now - Bregman plays short. (I do like that the guy from Sweden wrote "Bergman," though!)

No, not Keith Law, that guy's an asshole.

Because bodily functions are embarrassing. It's why grown-ups still giggle at sexual innuendo. And lest anyone think I'm saying I'm above this, I remember being in the visitors' clubhouse at Fenway Park around 2003 or so and laughing so hard I couldn't breathe because Bobby Kielty was in the can and you would have thought he had 76 trombones in there with him.

Funny you say that - I've contemplated doing so for a while but I always get sucked into other stuff when I sit down at the computer. It would be a weird-ass mix though.

No chance right now. Angels are trying to win with Trout.

Well at some point you have to cash in some pitching for bats. This might be a good time for it. If they called Pittsburgh on Cutch, they could put something pretty compelling together. Or perhaps Arenado, who has a little more team control left, and 3b is a gigantic void in Atlanta anyway.

The whole bit about leaving the country, and celebs threatening to do so, is that this is not a costless transaction. If I had, say, dual citizenship in Italy (I could have, had my late grandfather gotten it for my mom, since he was born there), and decided, the hell with this, I'm outta here, I would have to sell my house and many of my material possessions; secure whatever documentation was necessary for my wife and daughter to live in Italy, and for myself and perhaps my wife to work there; to ensure I had sufficient savings and/or income to travel there, and probably travel back here to see my entire family as well as my wife's; and find an entirely new job because I don't think I could do this one while sitting at a cafe on the Palio in Siena. So while I want to say, yeah, I'd be terrified for me and my kids now that Trump has won and the neo-Nazis who endorsed him are feeling empowered, it's just not that easy to pick up and leave.

The Happiest Baby on the Block.

Yes, if we wait that long, the earth's climate will have changed to a grave extent.

My wife wanted one, and we had friends who needed to give this dog up because the dad was wildly allergic to her. Bella, the dog, thinks the cats are fun and likes the chase them. They do not share her enthusiasm.

If the dollar values per pick are set appropriately high, it should ensure that they're getting closer to their maximum value on draft day (instead of a deal they're locked into a year ahead of time) and they're no longer at the mercy of verbal agreements the teams can break. (Teams get the same protection.) Players would be best off in a totally open bidding market on draft day, but that never existed and I doubt it ever will.

Yes, it's possible. The EC has never gone against the results of the vote, and I don't believe it's going to happen now, even with the popular vote going towards Hillary. If it did, we might have armed insurrection, which isn't an argument against it but is a consequence to consider.

I doubt that would return any of those arms, who are all high-ceiling guys who make no money.

No, I don't, especially not Walker.

If you ask me one thing I am certain will be in the new CBA, it is a large raise in the minimum salary, to something like $800K a year or more.