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It’s Margot getting replaced by Gleyber that’s being proposed. I wouldn’t agree with that one, myself. I think Colt might go back for a stint when Gleyber returns, unless Colt snaps the **** out of whatever fog he’s in in the meantime.

Who replaces him out there?

Ibanez is a RHH who hits hooks, which is a premium for this team.

*sigh*

Christ Almighty, it’s just so open and obvious.

I’m just wondering whether he is in his own head? I think Colt’s a candidate for a stint in Toledo once Gleyber comes back.

I’m sorry, Jake Rogers almost didn’t score because Colt went back to third because he couldn’t tell the ball was going to drop in? Man, Colt’s got serious cognitive issues out there.

At least he’s consistently inaccuarte.

Casey gets over his first run yielded—it’s no shame to give up an RBI to Aaron ****ing Judge—by frustrating Cody Bellinger, who slammed his bat to the ground in disgust, with a strikeout to end the inning.

I think the screwup in Seattle Colt Keith experienced on Wednesday got in his head, because he definitely had that out at second.

Anti-intellectualism is less an educational attainment issue and more an general American cultural issue. You know that. You live here.

Andy loves left-handers!

Umpire made me happy on that Kreidler ball four.

Are you in Michigan and you clicked to see the video and got the audio instead?

Margot has been perfectly serviceable replacement level so far. Anything more would be gravy. He also had the giggle-worthy slash line of .375/.353/.375 coming into the game.

They might have considered postponing were we playing a division rival who are scheduled to come back again.

Killjoys.

That’s because it’s not an enclosed dome as much as it is a stadium with an umbrella on it. And just as I was typing this, Jake picks off the runner at third!

Looks like Margot kind of short-armed his effort on that hit over his head. He may not have ever gotten it anyway, though,

I know you’re not that guy at all, but this post is stopping just short of complaining that players simply aren’t loyal to their teams and their fan bases. I know you and i are aligned on the nature of one-way loyalties between teams and players. I believe most players today, unlike Trout, are explicitly concerned about their so-called “personal brand”, and everyone wants their personal brand to be associated with winning. That’s good for the Business of You and your wealth and fame profiles both in the sort and long terms. It’s a basic form of selfishness that, honestly, I can’t fairly criticize, since a selfish player’s goal of making himself a winner generally dovetails very neatly into the goals of the team he’s on and their fans to become a winner as well. The only time it doesn’t comport is when a player loudly toots his own while his team is losing, or he makes decisions on the field that is wrong for the game situation but potentially better for his stats and his brand.

This post has me considering something I really hadn’t before: perhaps a key reason football and basketball have become so much more popular than baseball during the past half century is that watching these posts on TV has shown people how much superstars leads to winning in those sports, while in baseball, there’s the Ernie Banks problem: Hall of Fame career wasted on a perpetual loser. Had Ernie played on the Yankees, he’d certainly be celebrated today as one of the historically all-time great personalities in baseball history, to a far greater degree than he is today. “Let’s Play Two” would practically have been a Yankees trademark phrase.

I might hypothesize in response that the opioid epidemic is strongly correlated to the individualism issue, and the epidemic obesity is strongly correlated to the anti-intellectualism about diet and exercise.

Now I am convinced this was meant as a DEI rollback. I'd bet that once there was video of multiple white fans proving they didn't see it that way, that's when the team caved. I don't think even RC Jr pointing it out would have been enough.

Exactly. We are all at risk of the same thing. If this stands, you will know for sure that your mere citizenship will not help you, and, by extension, your mere whiteness would not help you. But there is one thing that would definitely help you, and that's your effusive public embrace of MAGA principles.

I say this without irony and without sarcasm: that's the down side of democracy.