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Ah ****, that was nobody’s fault. At normal depth that’s probably a double play and we’re in the 11th. A baseball fan would say this was a hell of a game.

If we can get the second out here, Javy goes back to center.

Wow what a huge strikeout

Hao-Yu Lee is having a rough go of it.

Ah jeez, now we gotta hold them in the tenth, with the runner starting on second.

Yes, and not only that, it was scoreless through 11. Something we almost certainly won’t see tonight.

This is the most recent game before this a game was no score after nine innings at Fenway: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS201704050.shtml

Oh ****, bad time for first game jitters from Hao-Yu.

**** these ****ty moneyline odds on my screen.

Jahmai earns his keep on that double!

This is true, but it is also true that a good organization wouldn’t pay much for them in trade. My guess is that, barring abject collapse by either, each will be held until 2029 and will be allowed to sign with the highest bidder, which won’t be us.

Man, Javy was a dead duck even with a terrible throw.

Javy knows Chapman from their Cub days a decade ago.

Pay no attention to that! Pay attention to this!

By any means possible.

Man, just when something like that debate outburst about eating dogs and cats is just so preposterous you can’t even imagine it could possibly be a projection/confession … this.

I blame Roone Arledge and that “up close and personal” ****. 😉

Lee and Tork save Torres’s bacon on that third out.

Arguably the best start of Casey’s career. 👏👏👏

Maybe there's an extension in your browser that's interfering with the ability to convert it to a visual SM post, something like uBlock or AdBlock? If you have these or other extensions enabled in your browser, maybe try disabling them one at a time and then posting the link after each disabling to see whether any of those might be the problem?

And this is the Post, so, they think it's super cool.

This would support the hypothesis this is it’s happening due to something other than the spiritual/moral angle.

All I do is, when on X, click Copy Link from the share icon; paste it directly into the input box on MTF; and voila, it (usually) automagically converts from the link to the tweet. If you’re on X in a browser, you might be able to copy the URL in the address bar and paste it here, and get the same result.

This makes a lot more sense than the idea the engineers are too incompetent to make the radio overlay match up with the video. Now I am wondering whether the situation is simply that the AV engineers working local TV and audio engineers working local radio on a game broadcast are two different sets of professionals working independently for different companies and are beholden to their companies’ different mandates, and that there’s a third set of engineers (?) working for MLB who are responsible only for making the radio audio available with the video as an option for MLB.tv subscribers to listen to. If this is truly the situation, it might explain why there are other broadcasts that experience this timing mismatch between radio overlay and video, and others that do not: some teams’ radio audio or TV AV engineers may engage in this compression tactic as a way to shoehorn a full pod of commercials in, while others may not. It would also seem to explain how the overlay/video mismatch can be substantial in one part of the broadcast, off by five or even ten seconds, while matched up perfectly in another part of the broadcast.

I’ve been really interested lately in how religion does intersect with all this. There’s a few different ways I can think of that someone can relate to Christianity: for the intrinsic spiritual and moral value they see in its message; for the order, structure, and community it provides their lives; for the way church doctrine and documents support their existing thinking about how the society should be ordered; for the way it provides an answer to an important life question or problem they couldn’t answer before. I’m sure there are others. I thought of all this especially the other day when I read that something like 42% of all men in their 20s now state that religion is very important in their lives, up from 28% just two years ago; whereas for other men importance is up only slightly, and for women of all ages importance went down. What can explain this surge in religiosity for just this particular group of people? Are these men suddenly discovering the mortal and spiritual value of religion in just the past two years to a degree that no one else is? Are they finding more community with one another by bonding over religion? Did they discover a message in religion that ratifies their existing thinking, or provides an answer to problem they couldn’t solve for themselves before? Is there anything in the cultural landscape that might be leading to this?