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I’m not going to get mad. I’m not going to get mad. I’m not going to get mad.

This ump is garbage. I count 6 pitches so far called strikes for Kirby but not Skubal.

Their ability to foul off pitches is going to end Skubal night earlier. We don’t do that.

But who? I’m nervous. It’s the playoffs. Look what happened last night. Skubal could to 8 and we lose in a walk off. I can envision so many scenarios but the hardest to shake is a rocking stadium in the late innings and a key base hit. Last games offense gives hope but I still have trouble forgetting the last month. I’m just going to enjoy it.

Laziness. Cynical. Ratings. They don’t want to get sued. He successfully spooked the media. The Jake Tappers of the world have to keep their jobs.

So Fox’s pregame makes me think I am watching a Seattle broadcast. 4 minute segment, with sentimental music, about how poor Seattle never won a WS. Then they go in studio talking about them. I usually don’t complain about this stuff but this is a national broad at, no? A viewer not paying attention might not know who they are playing against.

I have family and friends in Portland and you are right, none of this is true. Anybody saying is flat out lying and anyone who believes it is a sap.

I bought some of this a few weeks ago. One bottle tonight. the Derek they refer to is Derek Trucks. It’s his whiskey.

There were a lot of cool and funny TikTok’s and reels produced showing her WWE style entrance at his funeral or whatever that was.

I wonder if the people who think Portland is dangerous have ever lived somewhere that didn't have a Dollar General every 1/4 mile?

I read this book a few years ago. WWII Navy Flight Training Program. This was a tough outfit that produced the best of the best, including guys who became astronauts and I think even a President. Ted Williams was one of them, along with some other well known players.

those are patriots... hell, some of them may have served in the military and as we hear from folks here, that's a free pass to support insurrection and fascism. Some may even call themselves Christian.

supporting fascists and pedos that are so warped that even far RW loonies are going after them now... wild time to be alive.

Are you suggesting the Feds should play favorites and get in cahoots with crooked judges. Is that the position you are advocating? Explain to me how Biden did what you suggested in case brought by the state of new york. I'm all ears counselor. I can't wait for that expert analysis on that one. Fish in a barrel.

Yep, the thing I read referenced that movie. I didn't realize it was based on real people, Satchel and Cool Papa Bell and Josh Gibson.

There was a discussion on "Banana ball" in one of the threads. They announced they are coming to Comerica Park next year. Reading some things I learned that there's a lineage between that format and the Negro Leagues. Those guys would barnstorm the country and were very entertaining in their play. I hadn't put that together. The founder of the league said he took inspiration from that. It sort of puts it in a new light for me.

I think it's simply muscle memory. They are conditioned to throw a certain way for a living. Having to deviate from that, especially so quickly, is hard for anyone. I think if anybody had to reptitively perform an action that required skill over and over then suddenly had to switch up the form on that, on the fly, without much warning, would screw up on a regular basis. Not an excuse but just an explanation. It's why so many pitchers will toss the ball to 1B underhand if they have time. Looking at that play again... did the runner touch the plate? If he had made a good throw it could have been a hell of an ending the other way because he beat the ball no doubt, but if he missed the plate and they went to review....

He fits right in with what that party has evolved too.

Then he’d walk the guy. Which made it a lot worse. All that just to throw it high and outside? Even his windup was slow.

The game moves fast.

No but it wasn’t official until tonight.

Remember in ‘06 when his eyeballs told him Zumaya’s pitch wasn’t 102? “Maybe 100 but not 102”.

It does speed the game up because they also have the pitch clock. But I’m on record for not liking the game sped up. I want more baseball. Not less. Baseball is leisure and pastoral. For lazy summer nights where the sun sets at 10 pm. Now it’s a mad rush to the next thing. Hurry up. Let’s go. I leave the park in the summer before sundown. That’s not a night out. That’s a trip to Lowe’s.

George Kirby replaces TBD as the SP for SEA