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And Riley's redemption also continues apace!

I totally disagree with AJ yanking Skubal here. He had at least 20 more pitches in him still.

Trey Sweeney picked a good time for a redemptive home run.

Yeah, but he doesn’t personally get good and paid that way.

Please tell me Tarik Skubal isn’t going to pitch eight innings of one-run ball and lose the game.

Woof McStinky 😉

Then maybe it’s just different teams of broadcast production personnel making decisions suited to their sensibilities.

The wildest part about it is that just before Judge went on this epic stretch, he went through what might have been the worst month of his career.

That was bad luck where Jace hit that ball. Another foot to the fielder’s left and it’s a tie game.

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I wonder whether Fanduel didn’t show it because they did not want to be provocative, or worse, are following some mLB mandate to avoid any coverage that would cast the game or players in a bad light. Which if true is their prerogative, I guess. After all, this is all marketing, not journalism. But if that’s true, it’s weak sauce, as the kids of 2008 would say.

They didn’t do a good job of showing how it started and what led to the dugouts emptying, did they?

I’m sure he’d say what the rest of them would say: “everything is OK.”

If there’s going to be some sort of law that we have to be whatever they think patriots are, then we are so getting death camps for dissenters.

Miggy had the good fortune to hit in the pre-crazy strikeout era.

This makes sense as things stands. The main mitigating factor is whether Baseball will undertake any rules changes in an attempt to reestablish the primacy of starting pitchers. They are on record as hoping to do so.

At least Trout got to 85 WAR. On a certain level, you could say about Miggy that he was also a what-could-have-been Hall of Famer, given how big his talents were and how much he skated by on that and only that, but practically no one would ever say that about a Triple Crown-winning, 500-homer-hitting, 3,000-hit-having, big-personality alpha dog.

Well, y'know, these Trump people did tell us the RWM was going to be embedded firmly up the administration's ass as active operatives by accusing the entire MSM being operatives for Biden.

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.