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Hinch taking a nap? Not sure why SGL is still out there.

that's about enough of this Sawyer....

yes. IIRC

Maybe his business starting getting too good.

I love the way SLG walks back up the mound after he misses with a pitch looking like he nothing but contempt for that baseball.

I don't either. Piston games maybe....

and SGL played it almost perfectly. He could have held the ball just a little longer and Tork doesn't have to make a throw, but pretty close to played exactly right.

Just your ordinary slo-pitch bat around in the 1st kind of game.....

the guy I couldn't place was Yonder Alonso, I had to piece together who he was from where he said he played and that he said he went to the AS game in Miami - which pinned it to 2017. They ID's everyone in the room but him. Very talkative guy.

I don't know how much more of Eric Hosmer and Manny Machado talking about cleats I can take......

sounds good to me.

OK so this not a political statement per se at all, just one about human perception in general - there are two immutable laws at work - the law of large numbers, and the law of decreasing returns. The first means you can make a lot of noise about 'waste' using numbers that seem big, but are still tiny potatoes in the total scheme, and the 2nd means that there is always a point where the cost of more thorough budget controls exceeds the dollars that control will save, ergo the 0% $ loss organization is a mirage - it's not even the target you can/should realistically aim for.

well, now it it's raining on my driveway.

Maybe Inge 2009

More DOGE budget savings evaporating. DOGE's work puts me in mind of dry ice, looks solid, but come back a little later and ...nothing.

enjoy the unnecessary recession Trump has cooked up.

Looks like this one can pull one.

Interesting when you put them side by side. Aside from his salary cost, Pettersson might cost you a lot less in players - because you're taking the bigger risk.

how many hamstrings is that in the last couple of years?

not only 27 players but also 14 pitchers so it's a pitcher that has to go.

I'm pretty sure it was George who I've seen say in interviews that one the things that drained the life out of being in the Beatles for him was when it got to where they could no longer be musicians playing music for people in venues where they could actually be musicians.

It's a fact that you see people differently when you actually see them, and not some journalist's or author's or TV scriptwriter's or Hollywood director's or your crazy uncle's version of them. I know absolutely that I am a different person for all the people I knew that I would not have known if my parents had moved to suburbia 20 yrs before they did. One of the closest I've ever come to losing it in a public place over politics was on a cross country National Parks tour we made a few years ago. We're sitting having breakfast in a restaurant close to the middle of nowhere in maybe Wyoming or Montana, and a table full of locals is carrying on about blacks and immigrants. I would give any odds no-one at that table had spoken to either in anything less than years, if ever. The urge to go tell them they didn't know WTF they were talking about was strong, but happily my sense of self-preservation was stronger, plus the SO would have driven away and left me there if I had been that dumb.....

maybe he just doesn't want his kid to disown him...

True, I believe the BA for a 100 OPS+ is dropping. Keith has gotten himself to a 105 OPS+, though it's it doesn't seem like it watching him - probably because his walk rate is pretty decent and walks tend to be pretty 'meh'