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In fact, when I get a low liner like that, something that is about shin high, speaking only for myself, I've found that I am more successful if I slide down unto my knees, like kneeling, and catch it about belt high at that point, versus diving forward for it like Vilade did. But that's just a personal defenisve quirk.

It's not just major league fields, either. I played a hardball league championship in the Schaumburg Boomers stadium maybe a dozen years ago, and standing in left field, what startled me as how far back the backstop was from the plate. It completely ****ed my depth perception, and I had a really hard time judging balls hit to me because I simply wasn't used to the depth. On your question, though, I might put it in terms of probability percentage for the play Vilade just missed. An average major league makes that play maybe 95% of the time; an average AAA makes it maybe 80%, average AA maybe 70%, and so on. An average D1 guy makes it maybe maybe 40% of the time. I could make that play maybe one in five. I could be completely all wet on the numbers, but that's how I would frame the difference in this particular case.

Yes, this generation of very rich and powerful doesn't want "win win", and they don't even want "win". They want "win lose" because they want to vanquish and humiliate the opponents-cum-enemies. Humiliate is a big part of it because they are the Mortal Kombat generation.

If I had seen you post something like this ten or twelve years ago, I would have thought someone hacked your MTS account. 😉

All due respect, let's make sure Trump loses this election first, then let's contemplate this. Because first things first, or it won't matter.

I can vouch for this firsthand. Vilade made the right play, he simply botched it because he is not major league good.

This is definitely not implausible.

While on-duty at taxpayer expense?

Meaning he’s taken the loot and skipped town?

This is definitely J.D.’s biggest sin. Dead man walking.

If those are the three guys, they’d need to figure out whether Riley could cover the vast expanse as well as Parker, so they move Parker to right. If Parker is way better patrolling left, then they might have to live with Riley in right. If Max is a five-tool player, then by definition he has a strong arm.

He might end up moving to left for Max Clark.

It's true that CF has priority, but if the RF is camped under it, CF should not make him move just because he calls it once. That what the reaffirming call is about. I get that it sounds too complicated, but it works.

I don't rate her terrible for voting against the infrastructure bill. If she also said something objectionable about it in the process, though, I'd reconsider that. I haven't seen where she classifies Jews and "good" or "bad". I do remember about the "all about the Benjamins" comment and she was raked as antisemitic for that—is that what you're talking about? Because that comes from a hip hop song that to my knowledge has nothing to do with antisemitism.

The center fielder must take control if he is certain he has the ball, especially if he is right under it. The etiquette is, if CF calls the ball first, it’s his. If RF calls it first and CF says nothing, it’s RF. If RF calls it first then CF calls it, RF has a choice of yielding, or reaffirming a second time “I’m on it!”, meaning, he is basically right under the ball right then which, if he is, he should be allowed to catch it. Then, if CF calls it a second time over RF, RF must peel away even if he is under it, moving to his left to avoid the collision. But really, if RF calls it, CF calls it, and RF reaffirms, then CF really should peel off at that point. There should not be a big ****-waving fight over the fly ball. Am I making sense?

I liked Morgan a lot at the time because he could articulate the nuances of the game on the field in the moment better than most. There was no SABR-versus-Old School thing at the time. Jon Miller was still with the team when I lived in Baltimore in 95-96. It was cool being able to hear him any time I tuned into an O’s game.

I don’t know for sure if Omar is bad. People always say how bad she and AOC are, but I don’t see either one throwing bombs, or monkey wrenches into things to gum up the works like Cori Bush or Rashida Tlaib do. I think people just generally hate the people they are and what they stand for, because they aren’t the kind of people we grew thinking congresspeople “should” be. I also think other congresspeople in general don’t want to be seen with her because she’s visibly Muslim and they’ll lose votes and support over that.

Apropos of nothing, I loved watching Sexy Beast for that character. So fascinating. Hated the ending.

You can’t do this with phones—well, at least not iPhones—but if you have a laptop, you can direct your VPN to someplace like Chicago or New York and get the broadcast on MLB.com that way. I do that when the Tigers play the White Sox, directing the VPN to New York or Dallas.

That’s incredible to me because I first became aware of him on the ESRN baseball broadcasts of the nineties (alongside Joe Morgan—good team), and I would have sworn Jon Miller was older then 40-ish at the time.

Do you do eulogy work? 😉

And this is why obsessively trolling the waiver wire is a good thing. Forty-nine out of fifty won’t work out. But one will.

And Tyler Holton pulls our ass out of the jackpot.

Beau Brieske has got to be ****ing livid right now.

It might have to do with their feeling so marginalized and persecuted—even though Christians are a supermajority in this country—that any representation in above-ground media is like catnip they just have to keep going back to over and over.