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Thank you! I came across that when I went back to one of the Athletic podcasts just yesterday. Well, first it was 3-1/2 minutes of commercials. Then it was five minutes of talking about their own taste in music. Then at the 8:something mark they said, well, we should probably talk about baseball now. Eye roll.

I don’t listen for sports, because too much of it is guys trying to be too cute by half, but I do like news and issues oriented pods, such as On The Media, Pivot, Fresh Air, or Planet Money. I also listen to the occasional American History Hit or This American Life. I’m like Bert: I don’t have the attention span to just sit and listen to a podcast. Maybe I would have during the golden age of radio.

I guess it’s three fresh guys for tomorrow.

Didn’t Hanifee throw 30 pitches yesterday? EDIT: Maybe AJ’s idea is, if Hanifee gets us through, we still have three fresh guys for extras, and if he gives up the game here, we still have three fresh guys for tomorrow.

I get that we have a baserunning philosophy, but maybe we suspend it for Torres.

Nice range by Colt!

Sounds good, but I don’t think anyone’s trading back-of-the-bullpen guys in May.

Ooooh that particular advance was ill-advised.

All the angles on this replay are terrible. Hopefully NY has something better that gets us the call.

Thank god getting jobbed on that Bichette checked swing didn’t cost us.

That was a great strike three. Stefanic looked stupid on that.

Well, that sucks. At least Kirk couldn’t waddle all the way to second on that.

And speaking of waivers, Holton is pitching like a waiver claim pickup right now.

The only way we could trade him is if someone desperately needs a #2 catcher and they are way down the waiver claim order.

Nido’s definitely getting claimed.

Holton will come back out in the eighth and Vest will be already up and throwing when Tyler does.

Despite his outcome success yesterday, Beau did not have a clean enough two outings such that would warrant him another crack at a leverage situation anytime soon. He’s giving up too much loud contact and he’s missing the zone wildly too often. He’s barely better than garbage time at the moment. I get what AJ is trying to accomplish, because 162 games is a lot and you need to try guys in situations sometimes, but I think AJ has enough information on Beau to push him to the front of the pen.

If Beau loses Springer, he’s gotta come out.

Keith probably could’ve gotten the runner at second on that with a quick flip over there. Good attempt by Guerrero to screen the ball and good job by Keith still fielding it.

Unless they have a camera right there, that ball is foul.

Eighty-three pitches in 2025 = 110 pitches in 1995.

Ooooh, I’m not sure I like this … when I said yesterday Beau Brieske would be getting another leverage situation within the next week, I wasn’t thinking within the next 18 or so hours.

Actually, stupid question by me. The only time an umpire would himself return a ball to the pitcher is after a dead ball incident such as a foul ball—i.e., he would never take a live ball from the catcher after a pitch and then throw it back himself. And as we all know, a foul ball results in a dead ball, and the ball is not live again until the pitcher touches the pitcher’s plate (aka “the rubber”) while in possession of the ball.

Reese is pitching a Cy Young game. He’s pitched to the minimum. I would love to see him at least start the seventh.

The same thing could be said about Dan, who also does not let the broadcast breathe like some old timey guys were known for, but his style is information- and analysis-dense, which for me is like eating chocolate bonbons.