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None. On to the 12th. This is only the second postseason game in history to go into the 12th scoreless. The only other game: Braves-Reds Game 1 WC in 2020. That one went 13.

That’s OK. Fascists don’t want smart people among the population anyway, because smart people question things, create dissension, and sow the seeds of change. That’s why one of the first things fascist dictators do, once they achieve unchallenged power, is round up all the intellectuals and murder them. Fascists don’t like or trust smart people, and neither does their support base.

Man, yet another great game in Cleveland. Scoreless going into the 11th? More, please!

Right—nothing about Miguel Cabrera is going to be resolved until well into spring training. They will give him the chance to be born again hard, and really, I’m fine with that idea. But once they see that he is not only as bad as 2022, but even a year worse, then they will have to aggressively manage the situation to limit his playing time, and I can see them doing that with IL manipulation.

The one advantage to shortening daylight is that when I wake up to daylight in the morning, I don’t get up and look at the clock only to see it’s still 5:15am.

Too hot for the MLB postseason thread …

Bottom of the ninth, Cards have scored a run, two on, two out, Future Hall of Famer Yadier Molina at the plate as the tying run! God, I love baseball ...

I think Youngkin is managing this one exactly the way his voters want him to.

Cardinals completely falling apart in the ninth inning in St Louis, giving up a six-spot to the Phillies. I love it.

Bad in that they might lose, or bad in that they might win?

Maggie gets slapped …

Good lord, Michael Kay is calling the Phillies-Cardinals game.

Clase just mowed down the Rays 1-2-3 in the ninth for the save. The game took 2:17 to play. If only they had the pitch clock, it could have been done in 1:50. 😏

It’s incredibly hard.

Really good (and fast) one in Cleveland right now. Isaac Paredes, he of the 116 wRC+ that’s not so impressive to some, just chased Shane Bieber off the mound.

I’m not sure we have ever done one of these in our MTS/MTF history before, so let’s see whether this concept has any legs.

Given how certain it looked that they were going to fall short of it, 110 homers represents a pretty good finish. OBT jacked bombs after September 1 at the rate of 172 per 162 games, which is right around league average of 174 for the season and, of course, way ahead of the 95 homer pace we'd been setting through end of August. One more data point for the camp of "Yeah, it was the coaching ..."

Looking at the monthly splits table, it occurs to me: we avoided the dreaded Under-One-Hundred-Homer club.

Following up on today's announcement ... This might be meaningful to the degree that Melheuse contributed to our improved September hitting, such as it was ...

Took a long time to board that flight!

I agree about keeping Lange, and you can pencil him in as a closer, but Joe J deserves a real shot at it after this season.

Enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden because of his taxes and his lying on paperwork when buying a gun? Shit, man, they could probably charge a million rank-and-file red hats for the same thing ... 2. Federal agents narrow in on Hunter Hunter Biden attends a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom in July. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images FBI and IRS agents believe they've got the goods to charge Hunter Biden, and they're waiting on a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to decide whether there's enough evidence to pursue an indictment, The Washington Post reports. Agents are focused on his taxes and whether he lied on paperwork when buying a gun, sources told the Post. Between the lines: Attorney General Merrick Garland "has vowed there will be no political or otherwise improper interference in the Hunter Biden case, and has not moved to push [U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss] to make a decision," the Post reports. Hunter Biden's lawyer said in a statement to the Post that "any agent you cite as a source in your article apparently has committed such a felony" for leaking grand jury information.

I hate seeing my country lip off about regime change for other countries, especially when we are thisclose to regime change our own selves.

Pipeline says Foscue is an offensive-minded second baseman a la Jeff Kent. Pipeline also says he's a fringy defender at second, although Fangraphs is less generous when they say he "is not a good defender, at best a 30-grade second baseman with a 30 arm." A 30 arm means he can't man the left side of the infield, either, which suggests to me he might go the Willi route to the outfield sooner than we'd like, where he could share playing time with the other limp-noodled guys we have out there. At some point soon he may not be able to defend anywhere, meaning it'll be DH or buh-bye. I can see why TR believes Foscue wouldn't headline a trade for Soto.

Yes, you do. 😉 That's OK, a lot of people here and elsewhere also fall into that camp. Some people even wanted A.J. fired because of the season. That wasn't you, I know, but you know people who would like him gone, as well. I agree with you that A.J. talking up his players is more or less a necessity he must engage in while he is in the moment. After all, he's a Stanford psychology grad, so no way he doesn't know it's bad psychology (and bad business) to run down your associates in public, especially if you need continued performance from them. I just see A.J. as someone who is making the best of the temporary bad hand he's been dealt, understanding that another deal of completely different cards is likely coming very soon.