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He goes to left and plays alongside with Parker and, for now, Carpenter. Although Bigbie will probably get a long look this spring since he’s 24, in the AFL now, and is Rule 5 eligible after next year.

Well, that was predictable.

Oh my god, the Phillies are going to ask Gregory Soto to close out the series for them.

No? Not possible?

Jordan’s not gonna get the speakership, is he? He’s just this side of institutionable.

Wasn’t it just people with a hard-on for Jordan who scuttled it? How many of those are there?

Nick Castellanos is basically taking the Phillies to the NLCS.

I did not expect to find this out today.

Some would say there is some randomness to whether a team ends up with 85 wins or 105 wins.

lol a franchise valued at $1.4 billion is a “little guy”.

I guess I'll "root" for the Phillies if they come out of that series. If the Braves win, I won't care either way. I guess I'll "root" for the Rangers, too, because I don't want the Astros to win during the remainer of my life. The only thing I'm truly rooting for, though, is a seventh game that comes down to the tying run coming to the plate in the ninth inning.

I think casual fans are far more likely to know what place their team is in than how many games they've won, and the battle is only for the casual fan, because they already got you and me. They gave up on 12-(and 14- and 16-) team tables way back in 1968 when Joe Cronin was quoted as saying, "You can’t sell a 12th-place club."

Brush. Spray would have required complete coverage of everything around it and I don't trust myself to do that right! All the doors and trim were builder wood color with gold knobs. We wanted to update everything to white. We went back and forth on the staining and how much of the bannister to cover. She won. Happy life.

We achieved this particular color by staining first with a cherry color, then finishing it with a coffee bean color. So stipulating that it's the right color of stain, are the right parts of the bannister stained? Which would you stain and which would you paint white?

Although if anyone can get the religious right off the Israel tip, despite what their bible tells them, it's Trump. The only reason evangelicals fetishize Israel at all is because certain parts of their bible says they should, and also because Jesus was born there. But when it comes right down to it, all Jews are going to Hell anyway since they don't accept Jesus as their personal lord and savior, so fck those guys.

Nor can one preserve or protect without supporting.

This will not bother anyone who believes our country is a republic and not a democracy, not will it strike them as antithetical to the Constitution itself, since they will draw some sort of semantic distinction between "preserve, protect, and defend" and "support", a distinction they will fail to even be able to sufficiently explain.

Not difficult to do it as much as challenging to remember to incorporate it into the routine and stay on it. Thank for the input.

I hear you on all white and it would be nice. We went with dark stain because we didn’t want to make handrails all dirty across years of use.

It’s going to be eight divisions of four teams, guaranteed. No owner is going to want to finish in eighth or seventh or even sixth to fifth place anymore. Too hard to sell late in the season. Wanna take a hack at what the playoff situation would look like then?

That might be true if he gets another Astros ring this year. Despite his being out in 2020 and 21, he will be considered to have been there for all seven playoff runs, plus five pennants and three rings, versus five playoff runs, two pennants, zero rings in Detroit. Add to that two Cy Youngs there versus one here, a .756 WPCT vs .616, a 2.36 ERA vs 3.49, 179 ERA+ vs. 123, 11.1/1.6 K/BB ratio vs 8.5/2.7, and the narrative might end up being that the Astros fixed what the Tigers couldn’t fix or even broke, and how good would he have been with a great team his whole career. It’s also possible that they split the difference and he goes in with a blank hat, like Greg Maddux, although the CHC/ATL innings split for Maddux is a lot closer than for Verlander. Either way, if he wins a third ring in Houston, I think I’d be surprised if he went in with a Tiger hat despite most of his best successes coming in Houston. And this is predicated on if he were to retire right now. If he pitches until he’s 45 and stays in Houston the whole time, that might tip it even more.

Since new front office people like to hire people away from of their former employers, perhaps we end up getting Alex Cohen from the Iowa Cubs, or maybe even Johnny Doskow from the Sacramento River Cats. Holy Koudelka! Naaah, this will be Bally’s call …

Either that or stain the base down to the floor and keep the spindles white?

Interesting. What about the colors?

Willi Castro is playing center field in the ninth inning for the Twins tonight. Somewhere, A.J. Hinch is smiling.