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"Slam distance". That's the one.

If he can amp his hitting back up, he might just get one.

Why is it every time we lose lately we get ****ing smoked? What's up with that?

I gotta tell ya, I like the rain delay conversation in the booth. Saw it yesterday, too. It works.

I think there is definitely a debate to be had about Salvador Perez. He does have a ring and he is a “big daddy” kind of catcher with nine All-Star nods, which voters like, but he has only the one kickass season with the HR crown. The rest are basically a string of pretty good seasons. I’m not sure he was ever the best catcher in baseball at any given time. I’m on the fence about whether he gets in. If Jose Altuve continues to fall off the cliff as he appears to be doing, he’ll fall well short of the 60 WAR benchmark, and even though he has an MVP and two rings, he apparently participation in the trash can thing might hurt him with voters. No argument with the rest, not even Lindor, who could use a few more 5-win years to make it to a solid 100%. Jose Ramirez will be a lock. So will Chris Sale. Paul Goldschmidt has the MVP, the overall numbers, and the great seasons. He’ll make it, maybe even first ballot. Nolan Arenado has no MVPs or rings, but he has three HR crowns and has Ken Boyer-like defense. It’ll take a few ballots but I think he’ll make it. Jacob deGrom may get in as a sort of Koufax peak pitcher, coupled with this New Yorkness, which still counts for something with an east coast voting bloc. Alex Bregman is on a Hall of Fame trajectory at a young age and if he has an appropriate decline phase, he’ll make it. Andrew McCutchen has an MVP but will fall short because he was finished with that level of play at age 28. Giancarlo Stanton is interesting because he has no rings, but he has an MVP, a couple HR crowns and a famous rep—but he failed as a Yankee. Plus, his WAR is too low. I think he falls short. Trea Turner has had a pretty steady pretty good career with a ring, but he doesn’t have the career numbers, and he probably won’t make that up between now and the end. Carlos Correa has a ring and the transcendent talent, but he’s hurt way too much so he doesn’t have the career numbers. If he somehow has a great 30s, he might reach those numbers, but he’s off to a terrible start, so he must be hurt again. Corey Seager has two rings, but he better get his ass in gear if he wants to reach the career numbers. By “Martel”, I assume you mean Ketel Marte and not Starling Marte? Either way, neither of them has the career numbers, although ass-in-gear would apply to Ketel if he wants in. Christian Yelich has an MVP and two great years surrounded by a bunch of decent years. I don’t see him getting in unless he has another couple MVP years, which won’t include this year. Gerrit Cole is on the bubble right now. I think if he were to have another couple top-5-Cy-Young-vote years as a Yankee, I think he would make it. Xander Bogaerts, Cody Bellinger, and Aaron Nola will all fall well short. Soto is definitely on the trajectory. Riley, Acuna, and Vlad are off to good starts, but still have a lot of work to do. I don’t think Devers is nowhere near being on track. Mike Trout is a slam dunk. Despite his ring and late career surge, I don’t see Marcus Semien getting in. Matt Chapman has a puncher’s chance if he has a terrific mid 30s surge, like, average five wins for the next four years. Kyle Tucker would need another ring and an MVP and an incredible run for another six years to get into consideration. Fernando Tatis Jr is actually still on track. Guys who are still babies but off to a promising start include Julio Rodriguez, Gunnar Henderson, and Bobby Witt Jr. I’d like to include Jeremy Peña, but he’s already 27, so he needs to haul ass for the next close to a decade to get onto the track. I can’t really think of any young pitcher who is clearly off to a Hall of Fame start. Skubal is probably closest, but he’s already 28 and would probably need four more years like last year and this year before we can say yup, he’s a lock. Paul Skenes has only a year and a half under his belt, but he is off to as good a start as anyone I’ve ever seen. Stay tuned.

Right, it’s not so much about the holiday as it is about which holiday. Easiest prediction in the world: Juneteenth will be replaced by Flag Day/Trump’s Birthday as a federal holiday.

Well, this was kind of worst of all worlds. We had to settle for a split after a rain delay that happened just as we had all the momentum. We come back flat and lose. We burned almost our entire bullpen, and now have to fly a red-eye to Florida to start a series tomorrow night against one of the few teams hotter than we are, hottest int he American League in fact. Watch us beat them 15-2 tomorrow night, because baseball.

Tommy Pham in the middle of some ****? Checks out.

Man

Well, that was fast in not a good way.

Literally nothing is sacred. At some point we’re not going to need to use the word “Gestapo” to describe them any longer. “ICE” will be enough.

Only that amendment missing? That smells more like malfeasance to me.

They can try to tap into the summer tourist money that Tampa can’t get. That’s partly how Vegas and Nashville are going to work.

I can’t think of any reason the Tigers would not trade Cris Rodriguez for David Bednar, but I can think of at least a couple reasons the Pirates wouldn’t trade David Bednar for Cris Rodriguez.

Also they were completely covered by the overhang of the bleachers above them and facing south, so the sun shining into them was not much of a factor.

To the degree that the woman with the most votes in 2016 lost, and the woman who ran a truncated campaign in 2024 lost, if a woman runs in 2028 and loses again, you and I will not live to see a Democratic woman elected president.

If she's a complete warmongering hardass like Elise Stefanik, I can see it happening.

Split doubleheader tomorrow anyway. That's gonna be a little rough.

If a woman runs as a Democrat for the third time and loses for the third time, we won’t have a Democratic Party woman president for at least fifty years after that. I’m thinking we’re more likely to have a woman Republican become president first.

I know they think it’s great. It’s not. It’s terrible. Lives can be lost over sarcasm and “joking”.

You’d think they would play a straight doubleheader tomorrow if rained out tonight, but that’s a bit of a problem for a team that has to fly to Tampa for a series starting Friday night. One other possibility is a makeup game on Thursday after the All-Star game, since no one is scheduled to play that day and everyone (except the All-Stars, anyway) will have had a three day break. That would also probably have to be a day game since we have to fly out to Texas for a series starting that Friday night.

Once you walked into the bleachers section, you were fenced off from the LF grandstand and RF reserved seat sections. However, if there was a guy manning the gate at the fence, he would let you out of the bleachers and into the grandstands if you slipped him as little as a dollar. From there you could walk around to the rest of the ballpark.

I saw at least a hundred games in the upper deck bleachers during my late teens and early 20s, and the only time I ever saw anyone hit a homer up there was Jose Canseco, during the same game Cecil hit one over the LF roof.

Sure, I’ll call you Jingleheimer if you want!