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Taking two of three from the team with the best record in the National League is awesome, but shutting them out in the finale is a huge feather in the cap, and yet another notice to the test of baseball and the nation: we’re for real.

Well, whaddya know, Hanifee comes out and gets three outs with yielding a run. Next thing you know, Bresike is gonna come out and get three outs without giving up a run.

Well, technically, yes.

How did you generate this on ChatGPT? I mean, what steps did you take?

Riley got called out in the first inning on a nearly-as-ridiculous miss for a third strike. Cubs announcers are borderline apoplectic about it. Their response to Riley’s called strike? A smirky “oh well”.

Welcome to the Alarmist Non-sense side.

This is what “thin” looks like, baby.

Who’s going to do what about this?

They’ll start following the Constitution at the same time they’ll start following the Bible.

Not anymore, he’s not.

Three walks and a single and no runs. Almost as though Jack was trying to give them some runs. But man, what a wild catch by Parker out in center.

Call stands. Pete’s RBI attempt is thwarted.

Catches Suzuki looking, now we are in range of an inning-ending GIDP. EDIT: and Pete thwarts that, as if we were going to get him on the back end anyway. Happ looked out at the plate because the throw definitely beat him, but he might have slipped in before the tag. Hopefully inconclusive.

I swear, Chicago must be one of the gamblingest cities in the country, because literally every pod has at least one gambling commercial, and there are a bunch of different casinos that advertise here.

Inside-out double by Riley, which is how struggling hitters hit doubles.

Changing swing path might be the kind of thing that is exceptionally difficult to change during the season. A change that significant probably doesn’t happen in a single day, and he will be playing live games in between sessions.

That was a beautifully easy inning for Jack.

If that were the case, it could cost him his career. EDIT: I went with your supposition that it was Jones before seeing your follow-up post.

Yeah it is really getting to be too much.

I wonder whetehr that two-run Tork double goes out of the yard anywhere else?

Off to a good start.

Cade Horton is the #35 Pipeline prospect.

One of a handful of Haitian Dominicans in the big leagues.

Every time I have looked into an AI image generator, there’s been a substantial charge for using it, like, $20 a month. Not interested in that. Are you paying for this or is it easier to find a free one now?

I am still totally iffy about using AI for anything, given its propensity to hallucinate. I do admit I have dipped my toe into the AI waters for little more than search. When I try to have any of the major AI systems put together a softball schedule with specific game time and opponents-played parameters, it never gets it right. I plugged in some medical test results and it spit out an overview, which I thought was pretty good, although it didn’t give me any more insight than I got from reading it myself and discussing them with a doctor. I didn’t see anything it said that was off base, but I also don’t know whether it left anything out. Either way could be a disaster as it relates to any action items someone might have to take from test results. And who know who is going to do what with the results I voluntarily gave up to the AI bot. Maybe my insurance rates skyrocket even more than they were going to anyway. For fun, I told it I have a million dollars to invest in the market (ha!) and asked it to put together a recommendation based on income and growth goals. It came back with some interesting ideas, but I would definitely never blindly follow its recommendation. I haven’t been able to think of any heavy lifting thing I could have it do and be confident in the results. Anything that’s low stakes I pretty easily could do myself; anything that’s high stakes I would insist I do myself. So I am still struggling how I, a retired almost-senior, can incorporate it effectively into my everyday life.