Jim Cowan

That was adequate.

I think Vladdie Jr might take a run at it a few times

Thanks for the Dean Green reference! I remember someone once said of him "can hurt you with his glove, even at DH".

He might have been encouraged to commit suicide, it's hard to say. It seems odd to shoot one daughter but leave the other one here.

Those 50 year old bank branch managers are 75 now.

Winning "the batting championship" would get you taken seriously back then, and he did it 7 times.

Oblique is the way to go, Jim Adduci figured it out. You get 6 weeks on the DL at full pay, and no one can tell if you are really hurt or not

I don't know if you guys have seen Boomer Esiason's syndicated interview show, I'm watching it now on one of the Buffalo network affiliates. It's not bad, he gets some good guests. I watch it at 11:30 on Sunday night. Tonight he's talking to George Will who apparently wrote a book in 1990 about "the craft of baseball", I didn't read it. I know that guys my age are supposed to be fans of George Will but, I don't know, I don't really get him. Tonight he is making bitchy comments about "26 year old guys from Princeton telling the manager where to position the outfielders". Anyway, what was interesting was that Esiason asked him which of today's players he thought understood the "craft" of playing professional baseball, which I take to mean understand the intricate elements of the game, and understand your own talents and skills and how to apply them to those intricacies, and work continuously towards the mastery of your craft. He didn't hesitate...Javy Baez. By a mile. Trout was the runnerup. The show is at least a year old, the photo of Baez was in a Cubs uniform. His two pitchers who understood the "craft": Verlander and Scherzer.

I don't get the reference?

Brent Clevlen?

These OSINT guys are impressive .

Who was that guy? I want to think of it without looking it up.

I used to hear that stuff as a child and think that I might as well not make an effort.

Cameron's OPS in Toledo is .432 so far this year.

That is exactly who I thought of

I think that he wants to keep manipulating his stock price, and he might be close to a suspension from Twitter.

Noam Chomsky is in the conversation for the Neville Chamberlain Award, but he has plenty of competition.

That's a role that is historically important, Shane Halter epitomized it.

I think that the expectations for improvement were completely justified, for the reasons that you stated.

Glad to hear it, let's get trainers and advisers from every NATO country in there. Good show UK.

The first nuclear missile from NATO should be on Putin's palace in Sochi.

Tider337 is a proponent of the "clean outing" in which your inherited runners do not score, and none of your own batters score either. The inherited runners thing is huge. There was a guy here, Zach Miner, who would come in and give up a 2 run double and then settle down and keep his own ERA nice and low. Shane Greene's greatest value, I always thought, was before he was the "closer". He was the high leverage guy who could come in with runners on and put out a fire.

Lol at Benintendi, the way that Miggy ran his arm on that medium fly ball. He'll never hear the end of it.

Yes, there are 6 guys in the lineup who are at or below the Mendoza line and he isn't one of them.

Good feature on OSINT on PBS News right now