Bag O' Mail, Part I: Marmol job status, reliever pipeline, terrible prestige television, 2024 roster dreaming, dear old England, and more

Readers have questions; writer has answers, some of them possibly even correct and coherent

So robustly did you answer the plea for reader questions/comments that I’ve decided to break this mailbag up into two parts. Part 1 happens now, and that means it’s time for me to feign deep and abiding wisdom.

To set the scene, I went to DALL-E and give it the prompt “modernist painting of a cardinal opening mail.” Here’s my selected image:

That’s me i…