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Well, sure he just shows up and talks about himself. You don’t tell a Hall of Famer what to do. I will grant that C-Mo is the best of the bunch, although that’s a bit like saying Akil Baddoo is your team’s best hitter—it doesn’t mean so much on a team that generally can’t hit. My specific issue with C-Mo is he talks like he’s still in the clubhouse, using clubhouse nicknames for the players, which makes me roll my eyes; he’s a “let’s go, boys!” rooter behind the mic, which makes me roll my eyes; and he’s basically a PR manager for the players, spinning anything that’s suboptimal into bland positives because hey, he’s gotta see those guys the next day.

If Craig Monroe becomes the permanent analyst on radio with Dan, I think it’ll take the quality of the broadcast down at least a full notch. C-Mo is still in clubhouse mode, maybe for good.

TBF, Cole knocked himself around.

Which base?

Gerrit Cole is a whiny bitch, and MLB Network is a whiny bitch Yankee-fluffing network.

LOL, so funny that you should say exactly that!

Well, he is kind of a lumbering oaf when he runs bases, which makes his above-average play at second base interesting.

Javy would have slid around that tag at the plate.

Thankfully, not at all.

Hey, what d’you know, Schoop with another walk! So what’s the deal with that shitty strikeout in the second?

Looks like Schoop has hit his limit for drawing walks for the week. He could be standing on first right now without having lifted the bat off his shoulders, since Steve Zahn couldn’t find the strike zone, either.

MLB Network is gonna go apeshit over the collapse of Gerrit Cole for the next five days.

Meadows has got to be Cole’s last hitter.

Man, what great takes by Tiger hitters this inning.

Good non-AB by Robbie there. Terrible throw by LF. If it was on the money it may well have been an out at the plate.

Holy Toledo, that was the best at bat by a Tigers hitter since I don’t know when. And it was Willi Castro against Gerrit Cole!

Good to see the boys bleeding their Yankees’ ace a little.

Did Josh Donaldson really just blow a kiss to Gerrit Cole after catching that TORK! line drive?

Interesting how Gerrit Cole warmed up a bit in front of the Yankees dugout. In Japan, when a team is batting and has two outs, their pitcher warms up in front of their dugout so that he won’t have to throw so many warmup pitches when he gets to the mound.

Another pitcher to the IL, it looks like. Rony Garcia, we hardly knew ye …

So when do we start seeing this great defense we’re paying Tucker Barnhart to provide? 🤬

Honest question: how high does the vaccination/immunity rate have to be in order for you to change your thinking on this? Right now we are sitting around the 66% rate for full vaccination nationwide. Add a few additional points to that for unvaccinated people who have had and recovered from COVID, and in my view, that's high enough for me. Of course, I don't have children under 5, or otherwise vulnerable people in my everyday life that I have to be very careful around, so that's another data point for my feeling that we're far enough along to allow me, specifically, to forsake masking in all but the most necessary places (e.g., healthcare facilities). I can see where someone might believe this to be not high enough to go back to living as we did in the beforetimes, but my question is, how high would it have to be before you conclude, OK, we're far enough along with vaccination/immunity, time for that small minority who have to deal with unfortunate issues to take their own precautions to protect themselves in public, instead of mandating the vast majority who are themselves in the clear from hospitalization or death from COVID to take precautions to protect them? I believe we as a society have accepted the idea that we will always have COVID with us, so even in a hypothetical 99% immunity environment, there is still always going to be the possibility of encountering the 4-year-old sitting behind you who can't get vaccinated and may be on their way to see Grandma who is immuno-compromised. Do you still wear the mask in that 99%-immunity situation? Because if that's true, you've basically decided you'll be wearing the mask in public for literally the rest of your life. I'm not trying to be argumentative about this—I'm trying to understand if you have such a line, and if so, where that line is?

This is certainly true on its face, but on the other hand, how diligent are people these days about wearing masks correctly and in an airtight way when they do? A couple people here have pointed out how the masks come off in public when eating or drinking, and how some people are constantly adjusting their masks for both comfort and to get an unfettered breath of air every once in a while. I'm definitely guilty of that last one myself. I would guess that, granting how BA.2 is the most contagious strain yet, part of its virality in due in part to people dealing with mask fatigue two years in, even people who are totally in favor of enforced masking, where just one slip of the mask ("Oh, it won't hurt me to get just one nice fresh breath of air") is enough to take in the virus. I assume that people are not keeping their masks as firmly affixed in April 2022 as they did in April 2020, when the novelty of mask-wearing was still palpable and people honestly thought COVID-19 would completely subside within a matter of weeks. And this doesn't even contemplate that eyes are still exposed to the virus floating around, as well as to your wayward fingers.

That’ll let you keep five extra bucks a month in your pocket!

Franklin should of been president. 😉