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Every time he’s on screen my wife goes “shave that dirt-stache”

Ha ha ha. Thats against every rule Hinch has. 6 inning...71 pitches? Time for the bullpen!!!

You have to shoot over 50% from three when you have an Epstein file mustache like Robinson has.

https://prashanthiyer.substack.com/p/emmitt-finnie-poised-for-a-breakout?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2171106&post_id=197013634&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nkg8z&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email Some good stuff in here on Finnie (and an interesting aside on posts hit by him, Larkin and DBC)

Huerter is out and Merrill is available.

absolutely this is exactly the downside risk, and I think there is precedent in the way Dem voters failed to energize around Clinton or Harris or the 2022 Senate races.. Thankfully the ongoing poll results do seem to be moving the other way - for instance Dem enthusiasm appears to be running ahead of GOP enthusiasm in OHIO. The problem there is that primary and by-election results are not all that much to hang your hat on, even if they do point in a positive direction. It's too easy to see Trump somehow extricating himself from Iran, gas prices falling, some stupid Dem misstep, and all of a sudden all is forgiven.

I miss when games were primarily on Saturday afternoons instead of Saturday evenings. I'd rather be watching it right now while doing other things around the house, then go out tonight without feeling compelled to check my phone for scores. Also, even less of a fan of Sunday night games.

And that's fine as far as it goes. If Heyman is tweeting this because he's Boras's boyfriend, then OK, have at it. But the implication on page 12 was that Heyman was working on behalf of Boras to presumably provide him some sort of bargaining advantage, and I just don't see how that would apply here.

Maybe it's because baseball players are not cars, in that they can't be manufactured to all throw 100 miles per hour with pinpoint accuracy, and all you have to optimize and then maintain them. Most players—most people— are inherently flawed which, when fans hear a player is "flawed", they take to mean the player is just OK or kind of good at everything, when it's probably more like they are really really good at something important (e.g., hitting or defense) while being relatively very bad at something less important (e.g., throwing a bad hard and accurately, or hitting for power). So, instead of being a perennial All-Star who's a 60 hitter and 60 defender who tops out at 7 or 8 wins, they may end up with a one- or two-time All-Star who's a 60 hitter and a 40 defender who might have a 5-win season once with a bunch of seasons between 1.5 and 4.0 the rest of the time. That's probably going to be Colt (who, remember, is only 24 so still not a finished product). And for what it's worth, that's probably Tork and Riley, too. Although I do think if Tork were to ever clock a 5 WAR, I will fall out of my chair.

If guys get back, we should be okay. It just may make it tough to upgrade at the deadline.

I have to imagine it did. As far as I know it his back keeping him out, and that stemmed from the Buffalo cross check in preseason.

I don't think it's a strategic move, but rather a psychological thing where he wants to keep news about Skubal as positive as possible at all times. I don't know who he's trying to fool, but isn't that how marketing works?

Come back to the power stats his peripherals suggest he should be at. We have him on a long-term contract, but it's a super cheap contract so he is not the guy we are building around, either. If everything shakes out as hoped, he's going to be the fifth or sixth guy in importance by the time he's on the last few years of his deal. (I acknowledge it is unlikely everything will shake out as it is hoped.)

But they are not in a contract negotiation right now, so what's the hoped-for gain here? Whether Skubal comes back in late June, late July, late August, or whenever this season, he still will have to perform at a Cy Young-level to get that max contract. And if he comes out and pitches meh, will teams go back to Heyman's tweet and say, well, this here says the surgery was more than successful, so let's go ahead and give him the extra three years and $150MM? I don't see that happening. And if he were not to make it back at all this season, then Heyman's tweet will be exposed as a lie. So I'm struggling to see where the money in this tweet is for Skubal and Boras?

I agree with this. Norms of behavior change over time and are often driven by public figures such as entertainers and politicians. The president, as a representative of the United States, certainly has a role in shaping that behavior. I hear a lot of Trump suuporters say that his personailty and bahevior don't matter as long as he "gets things done". I have told Republican friends about the importance of the president as a role model and they say it doesn't matter and that children's morals and ethics come from the church. That's right, the same church that supports everything Trump does! Don't worry, I also make it clear to them that his policies suck as much as his personality.

Optimist! 😉

My concern is that with all these anti-democracy gains, the red hats are going to be super-energized and stream to the polls in November, because everyone likes backing their guy when he's so obviously winning, while everyone else is demoralized and throws up their hands and say aw **** it, we can't win, what's the use. All of a sudden it looks like Democrats may end up losing seats in both houses, and if you think it's been bad up to this point, after that it would be Katie bar the door. This is not a prediction.

And still others prefer this: BTW, this picture lives on this web page: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-oil-and-gas-development/

His eye beholds beauty differently from most of us.

We should build a package around him for Peralta. Add Briceno. A couple arms. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-trade-rumors-mets-freddy-peralta/

I do believe that Gen Z kids are more polite to their elders than certainly my Generation Jones cohort, and certainly more than Xers, and probably more than Millennials. I believe that's because that kind of behavior was reinforced through publicly-supported policies in schools such as anti-bullying initiatives, diversity and inclusion policies, focus on mental health wellness, and probably some others I'm not thinking of. They were taught to be more empathetic than we were when we were growing up, and I think it shows in their encounters with us grownups. I'm more concerned about the tail-end of Gen Alpha (b. 2020+) and the following Gen Betas (or whatever the next generation will be called), who may end up being educated within a Trumpian dog-eat-dog tough-guy regime that respects only people of means and power, and disregards everyone else as expendable.

i see johannson before asp. or wallinder/buium just because of their size.

Black in the US are more socially conservative than the average white progressive, maybe even more than the average white liberal. It comes down to the argument about "order". People suffering life in highly disordered places like US urban cores, develop an appreciation for order that can seem paradoxical to the rest of us when the agents of order are also usually the agents of repression and abuse, but life is complex. Mainstream Black America doesn't want fewer cops, they want better cops.