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This is almost as heartbreaking as game 163 a few seasons ago.

Kody freaking Clemens……

Well, considering the way Nevin’s feetwork looked, I’ll take one out there.

Ok, how about now?

I’d like a double play, please.

Come on, Kimbrel, plunk him.

Kimbrel’s blowing up! BOOM!

Could use some more good.

It’s incredible to think this ball club had the month of May that they did.

That ain’t gonna work. The pitch comes in, he’s going to have to recognize it and then remember he has a note about that to look at, look at the note, then refocus on the pitch and swing and hit. Are you aware how fast these pitches are being thrown?

Baseball is stupid sometimes. Luis Arraez is hitting .400 despite a hard hit rate of 22.7% vs a league average of 39.0%.

It’s kind of a fail that this particular gag didn’t originate from here.

Playing chess with opener tonight I see.

Chris Ilitch makin' it rain. Eat it, h8erz!

Shouldn't'of announced it. Should'of let the Phillies see if they could figure out it was a lefty in the haze rather than a righty.

I think a lot of lists get taken as more linear than they should be. I think tiers rather than an ordinal list would make for a better report. The talent pool is more of a pyramid than it is a line. OK, so take the upcoming draft. It sounds like there are 5 guys that are interchangeable at the top. The difference between 1 and 5 is not considered the same as the difference between 5 and 6.

Plural someones would be better.

I don’t think I followed it completely, but I believe someone has a bit of angst directed at someone else?

Super 70s Sports for the win.

That sounds exactly like a game thread.

Yes & no. The stats might be similar, but Baez has $100M guaranteed coming to him after this season if he opts in. Anderson has a $14M team option or $1M buyout coming to him.

SS doesn't look like a good market this offseason. That had to be part of his calculus for an opt out after this season, right? There's an option with Tim Anderson, don't know if its his or Chicago's. I think there are some other 2nd tier guys that are having supbar seasons. But if Baez had a reasonable season this year, he probably stood a chance of cashing it in.

Isn't there a baseball quote about not being able to see the pitch, so swing at the sound?

Hinch gets credit for May. The record will be tagged onto his managerial record. The rest of the season goes to Luis Pujols.

They've got nothing on the payroll next season. Cabrera will be done. Baez ($25M) and Rodriguez ($18M) have their opt outs. Everybody else in house is arbitration or prearbitration. The current highest salary of those folks is Austin Meadows at $4.3M. While they certainly need to improve the organization via the farm system, they've got plenty of payroll room to augment to the current MLB squad.