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YES!! Kahnle does the job. This is a pretty big win after last night’s embarrassment.

Were those guys sitting on the dugout handing those pep girls dollars bills as though they were strippers??

Well, OK, now show us you really are a good team and gut out a one-run win here.

Good, there’s one. Now plate Riley and give us a little room here.

Javy makes the 60% play. Now we have to get runs, plural, because I feel very uneasy about going into the bottom of the ninth tied up or even up only one.

**** like umpire incompetence is how good teams lose games.

The only teams I can see giving Skubal ten years under today’s CBA are Dodgers, Yankees, Mets. Skubal is going to be signed after the next CBA, so who knows how or whether the landscape changes. Chances are high he’ll be unemployed through the strike, unless one of the big three takes a flyer on him and the new CBA and signs him that November.

We are really creaking here. A walk from Vest s a bad sign.

I think of the Miggy trade as a huge outlier.

I thought they’ve been doing crossing the plate at what the article would probably call a zero degree angle. That’s what I thought side-angle replays generally show and what umpires appear to call it on. Am I wrong?

People pick the things in the bible that confirm the beliefs they already have.

Dave Dombrowski emptied the system of its top prospects like Willy Adames, Eugenio Suarez, and Robbie Ray in exchange for teams that were no better than third best in the league in any given year and left the organization barren when he left. I don’t want to see that again. Al Avila’s trades of established players for prospects didn’t work out because Al Avila’s was an incompetent general manager.

This is true, but it's even worse than that, because ironically, the cruelty they visit upon whom they consider their lessers has been ordained by God to be within their purview. It's not in the Bible—at least I don't think so?—but their pastors do ratify this thinking practically every Sunday from the pulpits of perhaps as many as a couple hundred thousand churches scattered throughout all fifty states.

So, so ****ing presidential. He, of course, wants to distract us from the fact that it's going to cost the taxpayers at least a billion dollars, to completely disassemble and then reassemble that gift jet from Qatar to ensure that it is secure enough to carry the president of the United Shaysh.

Eyes lighting up made me smile. That's all.

We got a dust storm here in Chicago that we were warned about maybe an hour before it hit. I feel like pre-DOGE we would have been warned hours or even days beforehand.

FTFM

That's what I said: Baddoo. 😉😁

That's because he's not hitting the ball so much in the air anymore. Maybe if he can raise that back up he can recover some of that magic. If not, hey, it was a great run, and it was extremely useful for the first month.

I would have thought Tork would have had to improve some to be at the heart of the order this year, because I never did think Harris would just resign to running the same guy out there because of his pedigree no matter how bad he is. Probably not crushing like he is this year, but improved enough. As for McKinstry, if you told me last August he would be a starter hitting in the heart of the order, I would have thought he must be having a good run but, also, that Riley would probably have to be injured, because no way would McKinstry bat in the middle of the order if both Riley and Tork were healthy and raking. That’s what I would’ve thought back then, anyway.

Malloy sure did help his case yesterday for sticking around, didn’t he? At least in our eyes he did, anyway. Probably made no difference to Harris and AJ, who look at the whole performance and do not seem to be swayed by the anecdote at all. I will tell you what: seeing Malloy’s eyes light up as he threw the guy out at second; seeing him bounce off the field excitedly afterward; seeing him just feeling himself at the pate the following inning; and seeing him basically flip the bat after taking his walk—I was just grinning from ear to ear the whole time watching him. It’s as if I felt a little of the same thrill he must have been feeling. That’s the best of baseball right there.

FWIW we were at a 54/46 RHB/LHB split last year, and league split right now is 56/44, so by that measure, we’re more last handed this year and more left handed than the league in general. I think the big difference this year is that our right handed hitters are actually hitting. It’s been a huge boost.

Is a 51/49 right-handed/left-handed split too right-handed?

Teaching guys how to win at the minor league level is important training for the major league level.

Tapper has retweeted a whole bunch of other tweets about Biden, FWTW.