chasfh

Of course, because everything with those people is projection. That's practically a Russian national trait. Never, ever forget the Exhibit A projection: "Biden Crime Family".

DeSantis is the very model of shamelessness.

Well, well, just in time …

The outfield should improve as Akil Baddo needs to grab some bench for a bit.

Pineda is an ongoing injury risk, so if we can get can 25 starts out of the guy resulting in something like 125 innings, I would consider that bonus.

Heads up: AMC and Bob Odenkirk will be continuing their relationship. AMC Orders Dramedy "Straight Man" AMC has greenlit eight episodes of the drama "Straight Man" from TriStar TV and Gran Via starring Bob Odenkirk, which is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Russo. Told in the first person by William Henry Devereaux, Jr. (Odenkirk), the unlikely chairman of the English department, "Straight Man" is described as a mid-life crisis tale set at Railton College in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt. Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein are adapting the novel for the screen and will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers on the series. Odenkirk will executive produce in addition to starring. Peter Farrelly is onboard to direct and executive produce. Russo, Naomi Odenkirk, Mark Johnson, and Marc Provissiero will also executive produce. "Straight Man" will debut on an undisclosed date in 2023.

We can choose sides between them, although they're the ones dividing us up by lots between them.

Or it could be the result of an American cyberattack. We keep hearing news stories about how the Russians are going to cyberattack us, but of course, we never hear about American counter-efforts. It's not as though that's not even happening, right?

No way you could get 20,000 legs at a ELPowell show.

What the hell is Americans-care dot com?

That’s still a better ratio than an ELP concert.

What’s the implication? Ukrainian sabotage? Internal sabotage? Putin covering tracks? Something else not leaping to mind?

You’re exaggerating. It’s only 30 or 40 goals.

So even when Disney gets penalized by the state, they still come out over a billion dollars ahead. That’s Peak American Capitalism right there.

What can I say? I’m delirious from the COVID. 😪😵‍🥴 Still both a dick move and a bad move.

Let's set aside the fact that the intentional walk has basically gone the way of the sacrifice bunt as a largely discredited small ball tactic in the first place. Miguel Castro is not exactly chopped liver, or as you might put it, "some random lefty" (although Castro is a RHP). He's a guy with a fair amount of red on his Savant card, especially when it comes to inducing soft contact. And if a right-handed-pitching soft-contact guy can't induce soft contact from a right-handed-hitting 39-year-old hitter who'd been making soft contact all day, a guy who already was 0-for-3 against him lifetime, then what is he doing out there this late in a one-run game? Instead, Boone elected to four-finger Miggy so Castro could face basically our best left-handed-hitter. Granted, he was on an 0-for-18 skein, or something along those lines, but Boone still gave up the platoon advantage to face a good hitter, and he got burned. Plus, in the Scrooge department, Boone robbed the hometown fans of the opportunity to see a living legend hit a milestone goal in front of them. When I add all this up, the result is Boone pushing a button because his finger happened to be itchy and he wanted to come off as a brilliant tactician, except that instead he was just too cute by half. You can choose to look at it as the right move that just happened to go wrong this one time, and that's your opinion, and you are entitled to that. But it doesn't mean you are right. 😄

That's some good marketing copy, right there. 😏

No doubt, and that's why sure, why not?

I do have to admit I made a mistake on his walk numbers, though. I was reading the wrong column and thought he was averaging 5 BB/9. Turns out that was his K/BB rate. His BB/9 rate is closer to 2, which is very good. So he looks like a relatively soft-tossing righty who more-or-less pitches to contact and needs a good defense behind him to turn his higher-than-average balls in play into outs. Once Javy gets back, and either Riley or Hill find their way to center field, he could potentially do pretty well. He might scuffle a bit before then, though.

If we're going to send him back to Rookie or A-ball, I'm sure he'll strike out a ton of guys. If we expect him to pitch in the big leagues, then based on his numbers in AA especially, and so far in AAA, probably not so much. He's been averaging barely 8 K/9 at those levels, and that's been against minor leaguers.

I don't know how excited I am for yet another low-strikeout, high-walk guy coming out off the farm, but sure, why not? Throw him into the meat grinder and see whether he can come out whole.

It was a dick move.

Win. Win win win win. Fuck everything else. Win win win win.

And Austin responds with a bloop single, so, good! Fucking asshat Yankees.

Holy fuck! As if I needed another reason to hate the goddamn Yankees!