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Beautiful day for a ball game. And Happy Mother’s Day!

One big difference is the run differential. Last year after 40 they had a significant negative RD. This year they are +3

The average OPS in the Florida State League so far this season is .663. Clark is fine.

Inflammation of the ERA

they won the 9th inning.

Being a baptist kid in the Detroit suburbs was weird. I always felt like I was at a disadvantage talking to all the kids who had "communions" and "cattykism" and all the kids at my church were from down south. Even so, being a northern Baptist was suspect to those folks when i went and visited my in-laws in North Carolina. I made my dog tags in the military say "Protestant No Pref" just so I could maintain my distance with all the in-crowd catholics of my youth and those doctrinaire weirdo snake handlers and megachurchers in the protestant churches i'd encountered. The single best sermon of my life was the Black chaplain whose service i attended in basic training who friggin knocked it out of the park because he spoke to what to me at the time felt like being "oppressed" as a kid in that basic training life cauldron and gave great inspiration when I was ready to have that. I don't think I've ever listened to a sermon since that had that effect on me. So, yeah, white evangelical culture: not a fan. Black evangelical culture: I get why it has great value.

Unpopular opinion: I could do without the pandering to the military at every single professional sporting event.

Guardian have now lost 3 straight to the White Sox.

Holy crap... SA came back and won it! A 10+ minute drive in the 4th qtr for a TD, then a 3-pt conversion. On the kickoff Houston fumbled, SA takes over and drives down for a Ryan Santoso FG to win it and put the Panthers into the playoffs. Yes, that Ryan Santoso...

Tork hitting a home run there was like Roy Williams celebrating getting a 1st down when the Lions are down 37-3 with 41 seconds left in the game.

been a depressing week for this team. Today I can take. It's one thing to get stoned by Verlander when he has it all working, or even losing ugly and knowing there is stuff you can fix, but continuing to fall just short of the mark in close games and have no answer is more the downer.

Why isn't there an "ewww" emoji on this thing?

Chris McCoskey is stll dreaming of sweet buck

He’s had a pretty good week. Hopefully he’s figured something out and we’re seeing this going forward. They need to lengthen the lineup out as much as possible. A rejuvenated Torkelson and a maturing Keith would really help out.

Tork! First of 40!

That's my biggest issue with the drop. I didn't think they were trading it anyway but this makes a trade far more unlikely. I hope they take more of a high floor prospect than can contribute sooner, like a choose your white shooter guy Sheppard or Knecht I guess.

So, ok, here’s the rainbow around this pile of lottery crap. The Pistons won’t improve enough to stay out of the lottery next year, and welcome to Detroit Cooper Flagg.

the real interesting news is that the pistons have already been awarded the 5th pick in the 2025 nba draft.

it is a really terrible, terrible system.

That also takes a little of the shine off the pick if they plan to trade it.

Interesting contrast - Verlander did give in to Torkelson with the middle-middle FB but Took couldn't get on top of it. EDIT: could get high enough on the line drive either......

Baez and Kelly are ready to pounce in the 8th.

So correct me if I am wrong. But they have dropped to 5th three years in a row now?

The never ending cycle continues. Not picking high enough to get good. Not good enough to get out of thr lottery.

lol 5th

Lose by 1, lose by 10 - If you don't score it doesn't matter much.

Hold on, Verlander has top seniority among active MLB players? I hadn’t thought of that, but I guess it makes sense. Damn I’m old.

Remember when they started sporting pink in ballgames on Mother’s Day? That was probably about, what, 2010 or so? Back then there was still enough of—to use a way of speaking contemporaneous to the times—the stink of gay around the color to suppress adoption of use, and I would say roughly two-thirds of players did not participate, and of those who did swing a pink bat their first time up, at least a third of them went back to their regular non-pink bats for subsequent trips to the plate. We do have a completely different generation of players in the game now, though, and a lot of them were familiar with female authority figures in the sports they grew up playing, like women coaches, umpires, girl players, and the like. There’s a lot that’s good about that in general, and one of them is the softening up toward use of the color pink as not being a commentary on your manliness.

I can’t see that their underwear is showing through so I’m assuming they’re going commando.

Alex Lyon got cut on his hand yesterday at Worlds and is out of the tournament. Trey Augustine came in and played well and looks to be the starter the rest of the way. This is very, very rare for U20 college goalie to get this kind of experience against pros at Worlds.

Never been less excited for the lottery when my team was in it.

cant wait until there is a salary cap and big boosters can go back to paying kids under the table again.

Saturday night games: Toledo Wins 1-0 over St. Paul Meadows 0-3, 2 K's 1 BB, .466 OPS Bigbie 0-3, 1 BB 1 K, .690 OPS Dingler 1-4, double, 2 K's, .731 OPS Bryce Tassin (2019-31st round, 27 yo RH'er) 3 IP's, 1 H 2 BB's 2 K's, 2.51 ERA Angel Reyes (2018-19th round, 26 yo RH'er) 3 IP's, 1 H 2 BB's 1 Ks, 2.45 ERA Beau Brieske (2019-27th round, 26 yo RH'er) 2 IP's, 0 H 1 BB 2 K's, 2.95 ERA Erie Wins 8-3 over Richmond Workman 1-4, 2 K's, .916 OPS Lee 1-2, 2 BB's, .712 OPS Trei Cruz 3-4, single-double-HR, .632 OPS Bergner (2019-9th round, 27 yo RH'er) 5 IP's, 2 H's 2 BB's 11 K's, 4.50 ERA WM Wins 4-3 over Ft. Wayne Anderson 2-4, single-HR, .730 OPS Gold 1-2, double-2 HBP's, .952 OPS Campos 0-4, 0 K's, .745 OPS Jaden Hamm (2023-5th round, 21 yo RH'er) 5 IP's, 2 H's 1 BB 6 K's, 0.94 ERA Lakeland Wins 6-0 over Daytona McGonigle 2-5, single-triple, .832 OPS Clark 1-5, .684 OPS Campbell 0-5, .674 OPS Jose De La Cruz, 3-4, 2 singles-double, .715 OPS Andrew Sears (2023-10th round, 21 yo LH'er) 5 IP's, 1 H 1 BB 9 K's, 3.10 ERA

Hamm dropped his season ERA to 0.94

Your post must have made its way down to Carp. Good job!

What’s Benetti doing today? Calling an Iowa State women’s spring volleyball game?

Not uncommon in baseball. Despite the myth among some fans that players start slacking off or malingering once they start making any money, almost all players are hardwired to be warrior competitors who are driven to excel on nothing more than its own terms. That competitiveness and drive were how players were able to rise through the ranks to the majors over lesser players in the first place. So playing through injury with an eye toward prevailing over adversity is a pretty common thing in the game, particularly among players who are one bad streak from seeing their careers end, which, if you think about it, is most players at any given moment. It may be worth noting that Foley was an undrafted free agent who bloomed after college, so I hypothesize he might be more susceptible to simply losing it than those who had elite skills since childhood. Remember, too, that he is already 28 years old and that’s about when baseball aging starts calling for many.

OK, OK, I got Monday's games.

Erie Game Highlights: https://www.milb.com/erie/video/troy-melton-fans-his-fifth-batter-in-five-scoreless https://www.milb.com/erie/video/trei-cruz-slugs-his-second-homer-of-the-season https://www.milb.com/erie/video/hao-yu-lee-s-four-rbi-game Hmmm... Uncertain why I cannot get the actual video to post...?

No way Yes way

Season 3 of The Bear comes out on June 27th. Full season will be released that day.

everything working for JV today. Just like old times, except for the uniform.

These people need an education

I am once again reminded of one of my pet peeves, while trying to plan a vacation. I asked people to let me know 1, what kind of lodging they want, and 2, how much they want to spend. The answer ranged from nothing at all, to "whatever you decide is okay with me." I'm guessing you can guess what comes next-I choose something, and all of a sudden everyone has an opinion (generally that everything about my choice is wrong). Now the prices have gone up, and it looks like it's too much now. I should know by now to plan my own vacation, and then whoever wants to come can join me.