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Riley noodle-arms a throw offline to allow Rodriguez to get to second. Firm grounder goes off the glove of the diving Tork who has among the worst range of any first baseman in baseball. Bad defense betrays us yet again. Flaherty did not lose this lead.

The secondary market for any decent game in any sport is absolutely bonkers. Everyone's heard about the Knicks game and the six-figure price for lower level seats, but try this on your imagination: my buddy in Boston looked into a World Cup game at Foxborough. The teams are Haiti vs Scotland, not soccer powers by any stretch. Cheapest ticket to get in: $700. Just to get in. For teams of nobodies that won't even get out of their group. Add in $150 for one of only 5,000 spots of parking for a 69,000-seat stadium, or else a special train fare of $80 from the city. I can barely imagine how much concessions or World Cup merch must cost, but one thing I know for sure: you can't be anything less than upper middle class to get into a desirable game anymore.

And the general reaction among the Ms fans in this thread is like, yeah, he did, so the **** what, if you aint cheatin you aint tryin. Whoda thunk Reddit people could ever be like that. 😏

Well, that was surprising.

He’s so red on run value while being so gray-to-blue on process, which itself seems to indicate he’s getting lucky. The .227 BABIP and 7.6% HR/FB rate confirm.

God damn it, this post was supposed to jinx the idea, not prophesy it!

Keider is giving up loud contact.

Either Parker or Javy catch that ball to CF.

I think Riley could have stayed on his feet for that one.

Here’s one that happens to me all the time, and I don’t know how common this is: I will catch a snippet of a song I’ve never heard before, frequently part of an ad jingle, and then I will fill in the rest of the song in my head, basically writing it as I go, and then I get into a repeating pattern with the part I heard going into the part I made up, over and over, and that becomes an earworm for several minutes at least. Occasionally, I will “write” the rest of a song in my head based on a snippet I heard, maybe after I pause a show playing an outro theme so I can go to the bathroom or something, then I come back and push play to see how close the song I “wrote” in my head matches the actual rest of the song, and it literally never matches.

Also, how is Seattle out of challenges already? Is it one and done in the first inning or something? Or did Benetti fumble that one?

Surprised they didn’t overturn that because it looked like Rodriguez hit the bag before the ball settled in the back on Tork’s glove, but my question is, did Tork stretch the right way for the throw? He was not at full extension and also he was stretching on an angle, and not directly toward the throw. Looked like a footwork fail to me.

Indiana = Florida - weather.

That’s fine and it makes sense, but I would think if Bezos wants to put the Post totally in the bag for his president, he would direct the news editor to keep a tighter grip on what they report on so as not to upset friends in the regime. Because it’s not “fake opinion” the trump people rail against.

I have a question about this characterization: when they say “protesters clash with ICE”, they make it sound like protesters initiated the confrontation. Did they? Did the protesters start it? Or did ICE attack them first? Because if it’s the latter, it’s not exactly protesters clashing, is it? I don’t know who “teesferalmind” is, and they almost certainly are not a journalist, but proper phrasing does matter when it comes to getting across a point of view. Unless teesferalmind’s point of view is pro-ICE, which in such a case makes the phrasing understandable.

That’s as solid a batting order as I’ve seen in a long time. Consequently, they’ll get shut out on two hits. 😉

It’s been a mixed bag with Kenley. Elevated walk rate and four bombs in 15 innings gives him a bad ERA and even worse FIP, but he was on a bit of a heater before he blew that last save: six innings in six games, no runs two walks, 10 Ks, 0.78 FIP. He had also gotten two guys out on nine pitches during the game before he got hurt. He seemed to find himself and now that he’s thrown a bullpen session yesterday he might be back within a week, and I think he’ll be welcome.

Also, not for nothing …

First of all, I don’t understand the presidential political angle to this story. But whatever. Secondly, this is way worse than Giants and Jets moving to Jersey because a high percentage of Bears STHs live in the NW suburbs as well as Lake and DuPage counties. This would add at least 45 minutes to their travel each way. Which is fine by me, I’m not a Bears fan by any stretch. It’s a debate whether this is short-sighted on the Bears’ part for playing hardball with Illinois to such a degree that the state would bail out on negotiations with them, if that’s what’s happening here. But yeah, I’m totally fine with making Indiana residents pay the bill for the new stadium instead of me. Mazel tov to them.

There is a long, long way to go, and even finishing .500 after a 22-38 start would be a literal historical first in big league history. But this is a nice start to a recovery.

Man, you are setting yourself up to really, really hate Scott Harris on August 4. 😉

This might be it.

Bullying and threatening people is the gold of the process! I’m pretty sure he knows what he’s doing on this one.