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The reason for this is simple: they want to make us a country of stupid people, because stupid people are easier to control.

We have 30 teams now versus 20 in the mid-60s, but the US population is double what it was then, there's a more active pipeline from Latin America than there was, and the best players from Japan are coming over to play here. So I would say the opportunities for a larger pool of potential players are fewer than they were, which should accrue to better depth, which I believe we do see. As for the idea that the pool of potential players is way down from what it was in the 60s because kids aren't playing as much baseball, that's an open question, but any paucity might effectively be back-filled by Latin America, where soccer-style academies are training kids to be much more technically skilled ballplayers to a degree not only not available to Latin American kids 60 years ago, but also to American kids even today. So, I am dubious about the idea that players are on balance worse today than 60 years ago due to dilution through more opportunities to play big league ball. I'd bet an team of the very best bench and back of the rotation/bullpen players from 2025 could be very competitive over 1,000 games versus actual All-Star teams from 1965. No way to know that for sure, of course.

Riley went on record a week or so ago saying he knows he is out of sorts when it comes to swing and miss and he's got to work on it. I feel pretty confident he'll fix it, although it may not be soon enough to satisfy us.

If they could succeed in getting them to secede, the US could then declare war on California and start carpet bombing them.

Less accountability is a feature for this administration.

Implying that MLB teams have to go deeper into the population pool to find players for their teams so they have to play relatively worse players now than they did back then?

It’s probably matchup dependent, as in, Holton matches up better with the front half of the Cubs’ order so he gets the first time around; then Montero comes in for the back half of the order and gives the front of their order a different look for their second time through.

Followed by a loud out. Who comes in for the second?

Crap on a stick.

Because of how events are rapidly evolving, I now have an active hope that I do not die at the hands of someone who is opposed to my principles, ethics, morals, or beliefs.

Can’t win if you don’t put in the work beforehand.

Some teams have learned, I bet. I’m thinking we’re probably one by now.

In the last 125 seasons? Lol, so there was better ratio in 1886 or something? I think we can comfortably conclude “ever”.

Nineteen-sixty-one here. I have been categorized both as late Boomer and first-year X. However, I did learn late in life that we are both part of a subgeneration called “Generation Jones”, which differentiates our cohort of Boomers from the cohort of hippie Boomers who either protested or went to ‘Nam, neither of which characterized our experience.

Captions that only paraphrase movie or TV dialogue rather than transcribing it. They do that with Full Metal Jacket and they miss a lot of interesting turns of phrase that way.

What a great game for a national audience to get a good look at a really good team that is still flying under everyone’s radar even with the best record in baseball.

WIN! Where was this team when I was at Tuesday’s and Thursday’s games?

He is definitely the executive who implemented whatever system they have that identifies exactly the skills and makeup needed to win the way they want the game played, and then went out and exploited the hole in the marketplace to bring in affordable guys who can do it.

Not trying to take anything away from Carp because it was a great catch for him. I’m just saying a good fielder would have tracked the ball a little better and not have to fully extend to catch the ball.

Jahmai ****ing Jones!

That was exactly the kind of phenomenal catch a bad fielder would make!

There doesn’t have to be an actual strategy for this to be a purposeful distraction. A reaction in the moment is good enough to serve the same purpose.

Yes, but all of a sudden, it’s big news today.

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All this feels like such old news, which I'm sure is part of the design to turn us into a fascist autocracy de jure as well as de facto.