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That's probably true of anyone who devotes their lives to a single vocation or profession, to the exclusion of becoming a well-rounded, self-actualized person. In fact, I might hypothesize it's a common way someone who has profound social deficits deals with those deficiencies, by avoiding social situations they can't even begin to master and instead throwing themselves into becoming an expert in something as a solitary pursuit. Sometimes it's something innocuous and time-wasting like studying baseball. Other times it's something that's actually results in a lucrative high-revenue-producing career, like becoming a Supreme Court Justice. Either way, they are still siloed from the world and live with their heads way, way up their asses.

He might be loaded but that doesn't mean he's either smart or educated.

I think maybe a lot of it has to do with, they "learned" something that's counter to the conventional wisdom they put their faith in and are now being told to be disappointed with, and they think they now know things about the world nobody else does, and that they're the ones with clear vision, and that we're the ones being brainwashed by the MSM, when all the while all that's really happening is that all their ugliest retrograde beliefs are begin confirmed out loud, out proud, and in front of a whole world that chastised them for still having those beliefs. Basically, they're getting fluffed and it feels too good to stop.

One of Chris McCosky’s old crushes toiling away for the Iron Pigs in Allentown tonight. He gave up a bomb on the first pitch to the first hitter he saw. You can tell it’s not going well in general for him.

And still he’s pissed.

He’s pissed because he was the one who won WWII, not these capitalist dilettantes.

Not entirely. Four months means he’s out November 1.

He’s vetting for maximum loyalty for certainty of pardon, if it comes to that.

I tried to post this one last night but couldn't do so from the ballpark. Erie still loves its Tork.

Oh, people will buy his denials, all right. Hell yeah, they will. They are all in, and there's no going back now. In for a penny, in for a pound.

Nothing short of ****ing brilliant.

I can't think of any either, outside of Brandon Belt, and he's 36 and not a lock to rake, either. I don't think we can just pick up an available well-hitting first basemen at Target. In any event, if I were going outside looking for help, whether via trade or signing, I'd be prioritizing shortstop before first base.

Anyone you're thinking of in particular?

I've been wondering whether Baseball self-reported this particular incident by design because they want to characterize players betting on baseball as marginal nobodies who don't even know how to do it right, and who are not good players anyway, which certainly means they could never influence a game or a play in the service of a bet. That way, gambling seems less threatening to the integrity of the game, and Baseball gets to protect their uber-lucrative association with gambling interests. I mean, really, just look at the way we're all making fun of it. Jesus, what a doofus! He can't even break the damn rule right! What we don't know, and could probably never know, is that they may also have discovered multiple All Stars with high merchandise sales attached to their names betting on games in which they have a duty to perform, and there is exactly zero chance of our ever hearing anything like that unless it's somehow leaked to the press. I'm not saying Baseball for sure did this, and I'm not even saying that I believe they did. What I am saying is that if they ever did it, we'd never know it, because they would bury it fast and deep to protect the enterprise. Tell me why I'm wrong.

JHM! First major league hithomer!

Artist's renderng of Chris McCoskey contemplating Sub-Replacement Level Ex-Tiger Jose Urena's start tonight:

That makes sense. To take it to a ridiculous extreme, what if a pitcher wanted to warm up for 20 minutes? The umpire has to have the power to cut it off at a reasonable point.

We saw Hao-Yu Lee Jack a three-run bomb in the first.

Greetings from beautiful Erie, Pennsylvania!

OK, they definitely have to be trolling us here. Nobody makes this choice by accident. I mean, come on.

That’s makes sense on paper, although it is offset somewhat by the inherent advantage new pitchers have when they come into the game at first.

Just got an iPhone 15 Pro Max, decided to speed test the 5G, and … wow. Just … wow. Get a load of how much data the test down used. Almost 1.4 gigs. That’s “gigs” with a “g”. My first-ever computer had a hard drive that was 40 megs, with an “m”. I now have dozens and dozens of Excel spreadsheets bigger than that.

Controlling the zone does a lot better with actual good hitters.