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Ah well, at least I’m not disappointed since I didn’t have any actual hope. Sad to lose the series, but another series starts tomorrow. Get back on the horse.

From 0-2 to base on balls for Riley! Drove the reliever out of the game. And now tying run is in the hole.

Well now they’re just losing ugly.

Or perhaps this Valdez.

Donnie Baseball!

Yesterday notwithstanding …

Happy Mothers Day!

Imagine the face to face (or voice to voice, or text to text) pressure they get from gambling interests—the kind they can’t report.

Among CPAC he is. But even so, it doesn’t have to be true for them to do this. This is an old Russian trick: lie and induce people to embrace the lie, as a litmus test of loyalty.

It’s what the boss wants.

No room at the inn here.

McCullers must have ****ed up some guys’ parlays.

Also he’s been calling more plays wrong before they happen and he has to reverse himself. Maybe we just didn’t notice it before.

This raises the question as to whether something is wrong with the incentives as they relate to competitive balance. Too many teams are happy to phone in a team because they make scads of money and increase franchise valuation substantially almost no matter what they do. I don’t know that a simple salary cap and floor will do much to solve it, since such organizations will simply spend the bare minimum of the letter of the law, and still fail to invest in the coaching, development, and performance science teams need during this era to compete effectively.

This was pre-WGN Superstation.

The Cubs called up Cade Horton, their #2 prospect, because they’ve lost Justin Steele and Shota Imanaga to injury. They started the game with an opener because, for better or worse, they did not want Horton opening up his career against Lindor, Soto, and Alonzo … ahem … right off the bat. It kinda sorta worked.

Manning is done.

Riley go BOOM!

One of the things I like about Dan calling the game on TV when Jason‘s gone is that I get to watch it on the DIRECTV satellite instead of on MLB.tv. The commercials are just so much better. Every half inning break on MLB.tv, I see a bet365 ad. It just makes my soul leave my body to see them.

Doesn’t have to be either or. Could be all of them.

Flaherty’s gotta be tipping.

I experienced the same thing for Game 163 in 2009. I was about maybe 10 minutes behind live. Tigers and Twins tied in the 12th. Twins had just intentionally walked Ryan Raburn to load the bases. Then the phone rang: it was my good baseball buddy. I knew he was calling me because the game was over and he wanted to talk about it. I let the call go. Then Inge came up and I saw the ball graze his jersey, and for a second and a half I thought, oh my god, we won, we won, he called me because we won! But then, of course, they didn't call the hit by pitch, and at that very moment I knew we must have lost. Sure enough, Inge forced Miggy at home, Gerald Laird struck out to end the inning, and I didn't even bother watching the bottom of the inning, because I knew the game was over since my buddy had called. I looked up the result and called him back and told him this story.

That is simply otherworldly.

My brother likes doing that with Lions games, too. I don't like that because then I can talk about the game with people, or follow up on something I see online, because spoilers.

Religion is a personal thing, and a social thing, for some, but for too many people, religion has become a political thing, a way to create an air of exclusivity for only a certain type of Christian, and exclusion for everyone else who will not comply.