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TIL: Cocksucker: OK. **** licking: not OK.

Same ****, different year ... Mike Trout is still a slam-dunk inner-crcle first-ballot Hall of Famer even if he walks off the field Moonlight Graham style right now. But he will also be the saddest what-might-have-been slam-dunk inner-crcle first-ballot Hall of Famer ever.

Yeah, I don’t trust anything Trump or DOGE say they want to do for whatever reason, even if it sounds good on the surface. Because you need only scratch the surface just a little to see the rotten real reason lurking just beneath it.

As for signing Skubal long-term, I would rather sign him for four years and 188 million than seven years and 188 million. I’m more worried about carrying a gimpy, limpy mid- to late-30s ex-fireballer during his dotage than I am about paying an out-of-range AAV. I’ve long been more scared of the years than the money. Just look back in our own recent history and you can understand why. Speaking of which, after Corbin Burnes and Blake Snell signing for $30MM+ AAVs this past offseason, I don’t think there’s much chance anyone signs Skubal for only 7/188 two winters from now.

Unless we have an anti-2024 and go something like 10-30 in the next 40 games, the chances we trade Skubal while we are in playoff contention are absolute zero, and that goes double if we are leading our division in July, and triple if we have the best record in the league. We are not the Al Avila Tigers anymore. We don’t have to scheme to get unproven birds in the bush when the bird we have in the hand now can help us win a ring this year. Good teams simply don’t trade away the top of their roster just as they start dominating their league, all because they might lose a guy two years from now. That thinking strikes me as some sort of trauma-induced anxiety. You guys, I got the name of a good therapist for you … 😉

I got Greene/Carpenter/Vierling, Baez/Vierling/Greene, Vierling/McKinstry/Carpenter across the OF; McKinstry/Vierling/Ibanez, Sweeney/Baez/Ibanez?, Torres/Ibanez/Keith, Torkelson/Keith/et al across the infield. Jung and Malloy optioned.

I just noticed for the first time that they apparently “fixed“ Jace Jung’s batting stance. Maybe they should look into unfixing it.

Javy giveth AND Javy taketh away!

OH NO YOU DI’INT JAVY!

He’s definitely going to EO a public holiday for his own birthday (which is also Flag Day) while killing off Juneteenth.

Casey’s kind of losing it right now.

Oooooh almost a legitimate 543 triple play. Slower batter, they would have had it.

Mize is giving up loud contact.

Nice moment when he handed the ball to a fan.

Down three, Pistons threw away the ball and their season on their last possession tonight. Still, it was a hell of a run.

To get an idea of how much that HBP must have hurt, put some pressure on the outside middle part of the humerus bone in your arm. Right on the bone, not around it.

And a Gleybomb for the lead!

Holy Toledo, Javy!

I feel icky for even having seen it. I’m very squeamish about watching other people get injured. I can’t watch replays where an athlete wrenches a knee or twists an ankle or otherwise suffers his body contorting in an unnatural direction. And of course I can’t rewatch the Theismann play.

I’m in the distinct minority that believes Dodger Stadium is overrrated.

By the way: Happy Labor Day, everybody. You know what I mean.

Are they slaving there? I thought they were merely getting tortured.

So, Fox News is the mainstream news? You don’t say.

Nets

Someone else pointed this out the other day, but Tork has really come crashing back down the earth. In fact this graphic indicates he is getting progressively (regressively?) worse, which is probably why he didn't start yesterday.