gehringer_2

It was funny, but also I suppose the only was it could happen. It was Obama's existence where he was that was radical, but not much about the man was(is) - very conventional in his economic views (too much so for me!), almost had to be dragged along to get to LGBT rights. But even without the man being any kind of radical, the backlash to his existence where he was laid bare an amount of race animosity and white panic that had been relatively suppressed for a few decades, and now fanned in to full fury by Trumpism, is further than ever from subsiding.

Ear worm!

For the first half of the history of the NHL, there were 6 teams and 4 played for the Stanley cup. This in the day when one Al and one NL team competed for the World Series. I would put it this way - the problem with American sports leagues is not that they let too many teams into post season tournaments - it's the weird notion that broad post season tournaments should be how seasonal champions are crowned. They should not be. A widely inclusive post-season tournament is a fine thing - very entertaining and lot's of good rivalries and story angles, but in baseball in particular, they are not going to tell you who the season's best team is/was. It's that need for fans and media to take that last wrong step that turns what should be an entertaining event into the travesty of crowning some mediocre team that got through a tournament as a 'seasonal' champion. Or the short form would be - their needs to be bigger 'payoffs' in all ways in baseball for A) having the best record b) winning whatever league subdivision you are in.

yeah - hitting is weird, guys can look like they have it all figured out one month and be back in the minors forever the next. Schoop is the cautionary tale there - when he's on he looks like he's in complete control at the plate, the rest of the time it seems that other guy must be a doppleganger from another planet because he looks like he has no chance of figuring it out. Right now Tork looks comfortably in command of his swing, his timing and the K zone. You have to remind yourself it really is the same guy who was tentative and with no rhythm at all less than a year ago. If this is really the hitter he stays, we are going to be very happy - but who knows if it is?

and back in the day we killed the entire adult population of Vietnam several times if you were to believe the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is about 100x more trustworthy than the Russian MOD. More likely 70 dead local innocents.

LOL - you don't seriously think they did this expecting to hold the territory did you? Defeated? More likely made their point and then melted away.

Panthers and Heat send their regards. I think it's easy to lose sight of how little difference there is between an 80 and a 95 win team. It's less than one win every ten games, and a playoff series is only 7 at the most. You can get a long way before such a small difference in odds catches up to you. To me, letting lower performing teams into the playoffs is less an issue because they can't win, than because they can.

Bah! That's not development results, that's org filler. Humbug!

No, in fact after the foul shot into the 3rd deck and the screamer it took Bradley's best play to catch, they didn't seem to want any part of him. And to get that kind of respect from the opposition has to be a big win for Spencer's confidence.

Sometime it takes a lot of matches to start a fire. Belgorod probably isn't that match, but it's the kind of micro-fracture in the edifice of Putin's control that can add to the possibility that people begin to believe fire is possible.

Torkelson pushes his OBP back over 300 for the time since early last season. Steps.

Nick Maton V2.0?

And even today's tech savvy youth will probably end up just a gullible as they get older as every preceeding generation.

I do think CV was a big part of it. He missed so many strikes all the pitchers were frustrated. And of course it was perfect since Monroe opened the game talking about how Buckner always called a big K zone....

Well that one was 3 hrs

toooo close.

My theory is not the to leave the guy in after he gets two tough outs because he'll let down. Hope I'm wrong.

CV has been squeezing everyone tonight, which is probably why 13 runs have been scored.

Holton? Alexander? Foley?

AAAAAnnnd he puts the tying run at the plate.

Javy!

I'm glad the 2nd best average hitter on our team had been pinch hit for earlier......

Both BPs have pitched well. I thought they had a shot when they pushed Aroldis to nearly 20 pitches because sometimes he runs out of gas but he still had plenty in the tank against Tork.

Hinch brings the OF in with one out and the man on 2nd. Lange gets the K and Bradley gets his chance to complete his night with a walkoff.

Can't say that I've ever seen an umpire help a catcher fix the lacing on this glove before tonight. Couldn't have been for anyone other than Perez...