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Italian’s been working those calves.

And brandy old-fashioneds. Can’t leave out brandy old-fashioneds.

Kerry Carpenter should get the win. He’s the guy who made it happen.

They are worse now in many ways than they were last year at this time. Through 21 games this year, they are walking less, striking out more, and have scored fewer runs than last year. There are some encouraging signs, though. They are swiping four times as many bags, their ISO is up by 25-ish points, and their BABIP is an unsustainably low .270, which should augur for a tick up in results just by doing exactly what they’re doing now. That’s OK. We all knew it wouldn’t be 100% fixed within the first 21 games of the first season of the Harris regime.

Oh, yeah, he’s still just above High A so he will hit a rough patch, and probably sooner than later. But he is showing a tremendous amount of poise for a kid of his age/experience and is coming through big in some big situations. It’s an encouraging career start.

Classic carrot/stick. You go, girl.

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Wow, another good pen performance. I’m going to be there tomorrow for the sweep!

Exactly. She’s One of the Good Ones™.

Imagine how great TORK! is gonna be once he starts getting lucky with these hard hits rather than unlucky.

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Man, is this bullpen ever a strength for us. Second straight year. I am definitely not used to that.

Bernie knows there is no other viable candidate at this time who would come as close to delivering on Bernie’s agenda as Biden is.

I’m starting to come around on Englert. The kid has really stepped up to the level in a very unexpected way. Or at least unexpected by us lay people.

I’m with you—Brandon is doing a great job—although I can see people who might otherwise vote Democratic staying home because they’re letting the media snow them into believing Brandon can’t win and shouldn’t run.

I thought I remember it being qksilver?

Out loud belly laugh that Real Women of Politics are selling something called koozies.

I’m coming round to the idea that the all-Republican government of 2017-18 was basically the dog that caught the car—not because they didn’t know what to do with it, but rather they knew it was a bad idea to do anything with it. Republicans as currently constructed is an “anti” entity—they get their power being anti-Democrats, anti-woke, anti-trans, anti-etc. So they need to be seen as being on the outside to maintain their power. If they started making decisions once they got power, they would not only be held accountable for those decisions, but they would also come to be considered insiders, which among that base would be a one-way ticket to the outside of the party. I think that’s why they did basically nothing even when they were in control: it was have been political suicide for them to do anything.

Fear and loathing gets better ratings than competence.

America the Beautiful.

The rot runs way, way deep. Gonna take a lot a lot of work to clean it up.

I just have to shake my head and chuckle at all the organizational concerns about third base and our lack of clarity about it, when for a few years there seemingly everybody Avila drafted or traded for was supposed to play third base.

It’s still April. A.J.’s got plenty of time to mix and match and see who can do what when where how. No need to land on a permanent lineup yet.