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Dan almost miscalled the Riley line drive as going into the outfield, although Story almost made an amazing catch. Maybe he should considered letting the play play out before making the call.

Gleybomb! Tigers hitters back on the horse!

Jed appears to be unclear on the nature of the major league baseball business: namely, it's a legalized monopoly that's essentially a license to print money regardless of the quality of the product.

That's what they're doing. Besides, they'll match up pretty well against those other three teams specially when they get Imanaga and Assad back, and should they get Alcantara, although really, they'd be better off pursuing back end bullpen help.

Don't know but desperate teams in active markets can do crazy things. Cubs pushed all the chips into the middle of the table for this season so they can't afford to just let it slip away without a fight.

I've been assured that Trump is far too stupid to use his power as an autocratic president to manipulate the market.

Alcantara is going to be the hottest trade target of the deadline and it would take probably more than one Pipeline numbered prospect to win him, over other suitors. The Cubs in particular are down three starters now in their 2025-or-bust win-now season, and have a ****ton of numbered guys they can offer up in trade. Would you be willing to give them two or more of ours?

Talking to you from the future ...

"You're a national security threat with your anti-Trump posts, so, yeah, that's gonna be a 'no'."

Ah well, at least I’m not disappointed since I didn’t have any actual hope. Sad to lose the series, but another series starts tomorrow. Get back on the horse.

From 0-2 to base on balls for Riley! Drove the reliever out of the game. And now tying run is in the hole.

Well now they’re just losing ugly.

Or perhaps this Valdez.

Donnie Baseball!

Yesterday notwithstanding …

Happy Mothers Day!

Imagine the face to face (or voice to voice, or text to text) pressure they get from gambling interests—the kind they can’t report.

Among CPAC he is. But even so, it doesn’t have to be true for them to do this. This is an old Russian trick: lie and induce people to embrace the lie, as a litmus test of loyalty.

It’s what the boss wants.

No room at the inn here.

McCullers must have ****ed up some guys’ parlays.

Also he’s been calling more plays wrong before they happen and he has to reverse himself. Maybe we just didn’t notice it before.

This raises the question as to whether something is wrong with the incentives as they relate to competitive balance. Too many teams are happy to phone in a team because they make scads of money and increase franchise valuation substantially almost no matter what they do. I don’t know that a simple salary cap and floor will do much to solve it, since such organizations will simply spend the bare minimum of the letter of the law, and still fail to invest in the coaching, development, and performance science teams need during this era to compete effectively.

This was pre-WGN Superstation.