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In addition to our having lived it as adults, I also believe the current past of 20/30 or so years ago seems a lot closer than WWII did in 1960 because we have video of that era made available to us on demand, some of it in HD, while 1945 was not nearly so accessible to the people of 1960. In fact, I kind of wonder whether WWII feels closer to me now than it felt to me 30 years ago because so much of the account of that time (video, newspaper, etc.) is available to us now in a way the couldn't have been back then.

You might be pleased to know that she field for divorce a couple years ago.

Why is this patriot on the run? Did he not merely exercise his god-given second amendment rights to own guns and use them in any way he sees fit? Should he not be able to go to the town square and wave his guns around and shoot them into the air and shout, “yes, I am guilty, mother****ers, I am death”? What is this country coming to?

Englert was definitely shaky. If Lange was shaky it wasn't because of the hits, which were fluky soft contact shots.

Justin, Willie, and I wanna say, Hal Newhouser? EDIT: Crap. EDIT AGAIN: Oh wait now ...

Wow, what a guts performance by Lange to fight through two tough base hits given up to get the save. That's what a good closer does.

Aw, ****, man, two flared singles and now here comes to tying run ...

"HAVE A DAY!" - Dan Dickerson, about Zack Short

We can package him with Eduardo for a sweeter return in July.

Zack. SHORT! ****. SZYMBORSKI!

Great hustle by Baddoo! Bert's got his six runs! And **** Dan Szymborski!

Wow, I had a bad feeling abut this, but Mason totally pulled that out of his ear.

Wow that long foul almost instantly made it a game, right there.

Hinch did not gamble on a game in which he had a duty to perform, which is the only infraction specified in rule 21(e) that earns it. I think a year exile from the game was sufficient. I’m just glad we didn’t end up hiring Pedro Grifol. God, what a continuation of the perpetual-rebuild ****show that would have been, if for no other reason than Grifol was probably Al Avila’s preferred candidate, given their 30-year relationship dating back to the 1980s in Miami, and that means they would both probably still be on the job today.

You neglected to complete the middle word. 😏

Maybe, but that itself might be a problem. Maybe having a living legend around you is like having a museum piece that you revere instead of a teammate that you’re equal to. Particularly someone who is closer in age to your parents than to you. I don’t know. I think it’s interesting to contemplate.

One of the things I’ve been wondering about recently is how Miggy might be a complete drag on the team. I don’t his performance, which is drag enough—I mean just his 800-pound-gorilla presence. This is a team pushing towards the future, and Miggy is not only a relic of the past—he is a relic of the distant past. I’m wondering whether he has any connection with the other players on this team, most of whom remember him as this heroic icon from when they were little kids. Since he is famously un-mentor-like, I don’t see what he has to offer the young guys on this team aside from taking at bats away from them and giving them outs in return. I will be interested in seeing what happens when he finally does leave—will they miss having the heroic icon in their midst? Or will it be more like a weight lifted off their shoulders and they can finally be their young and energetic selves? I’m not inside the clubhouse so I can’t know. But it does strike me as very plausible.

I know. Still—**** that guy.

**** that guy.

If managers don't make any difference, then there's no point in firing him, at least not until he's given a roster built to win and he botches it.

I posted something along these lines a few years ago, maybe even on the old site, but it's worth an update here. At the end of 2016, his last decent full season and his fourteenth overall, Miggy's career offensive WAR (oWAR) of 78.2 ranked 20th overall among all players through their first 14 seasons, behind Rickey Henderson and Mike Schmidt, and ahead of Eddie Collins and Mel Ott. These four are all inner-circle Hall of Famers, and Miggy was among them, and at the time it would have seemed fair to assume that Miggy would end his career ready to take his place in that same inner circle. As of today, April 28, 2023, Miggy's career oWAR of 77.6—yes, his overall career offensive value has actually decreased across the slog of seven years—ranks 45th all time, behind Cal Ripken and Jim Thome, and ahead of Reggie Jackson and Harry Heilmann. Granted, he is still surrounded by Hall of Famers. Just not inner-circle Hall of Famers. These are guys who had to be great hitters to make the Hall of Fame, of course, but when you are discussing the greatest hitters in baseball history, you will mention Rickey and Schmidt fairly quickly, but you probably won't even mention Ripken and Thome at all before you move on to another topic. Miggy will be a Hall of Famer, and he will be elected on the first ballot, and he will deserve that. But he won't be an inner-circle Hall of Famer. Not anymore. He has firmly played himself out of that possibility.

Who would you like to see replace Hinch?

And the guy with the thread gave examples of people leaving those states and also others not coming to those states for those fascism reasons, so that's another data point in that hopper.

Maybe because it was before Cal was in pain all the time from pushing his body through every single inning of almost 1,000 games.

When abortion rights were upended last year, we talked about a brain drain from these traditionally economically-hot states that lean into the MAGA fascism with their legislating and rhetoric, like Texas and Florida, but also wannabe-hot states like Georgia and Tennessee and Idaho, and maybe even Virginia and the Carolinas, and I think we’re starting to see that happen, aren’t we?