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Since the word “negro” is too close for comfort to what is now considered to be the most profane word in America, maybe they should consider rechristening the whole thing from its current name to the Black Baseball Leagues, or something along those lines, regardless of what it was called “back in the day”. Of course, it will spur a short and strong backlash among those who have never given those leagues even a single thought, but really, **** anybody who does that. Besides, they’re already raising the predictable backlash over this already.

Yeah, Schoop is cooked. He should basically be relegated to ninth-inning defensive replacement and garbage-time pinch-hitter at this point. Sure, he’s going to have to start some games some time, and actually yesterday would have been as good a time as any (getaway game against a flailing team), but he probably shouldn’t start more than once a week.

I’ll be OK with one if he’s a four-year college guy can step into at least the middle of the rotation within a year. No more Turners or Mannings or Jobes.

Just make sure you get at least three miles inland so an AR-15 bullet from America can’t reach you anymore.

OK, let’s score eight and bring them back out for the bottom of the inning.

TORK! lack of range hurting, too. And now Maton with yet another error?!

Remember, too, that Mason Englert is still essentially a minor leaguer.

Even if the Cardinals end up winning, that organization is still a hot mess.

Wow, this is first-eleven-game **** we’re seeing now.

Oh, OK, it’s gonna be one of those games …

Maybe that’s it—also, throwing to first? Don’t have to move and set your feet as much? I suppose it’s a high percentage-enough play, but oh, does it ever look bad when you botch it.

I will never understand why major league infielders choose to backhand ground balls hit basically directly right at them instead of crouching and scooping it up. Is it a matter of looking cool or something?

GRAND SLAM BY JAKE ROGERS! TAKE THAT, JUSTIN VERLANDER!

Four-pitch walk. Baseball’s Best Fans freaking out …

At least one of the black holes is filling in. And now McKinstry is pinch hitting for Schoop. That’s the right move.

And that Vierling lineout demonstrates how great Arenado is at third.

OOTP is going to have to come up with another classification for Alex Faedo beyond “EX FB”.

Bonus Norton peeve: at some point, against my will, they changed my setting from “no do not autorenew” to “yes please autorenew”, because I generally want the chance to negotiate a better rate, but I just learned last week that they renewed me for the full amount.

It’s a bummer that you can’t sit your highly-paid black holes every single game, but it’s a bigger number to have to watch them run us out of rallies in winnable games.

I am super pissed that Norton Antivirus has become that. Seemingly every day I got a laptop notice that they have found a few hundred trackers, or I have a couple gig of garbage files I should clean off my computer, click here to solve. Then, when I do, the Norton app opens and instead of showing me the page to solve these problems, it’s an ad to upsell me the services needed to solve these problems. What am I paying $100+ a year for if the app is not already doing these things?

TORK!

I don’t know … 20 was the number in Newtown and rather than it being considered unacceptable, the effort to protect 2A seems to be supercharged by it. So maybe the bigger the number, the bigger the pushback.

Paul Goldschmidt approves of the Alex Faedo promotion.

Defense on full display in the bottom of the second: Javy error, Haase wet noodle throw to the plate, TORK! dropping yet another foul popup.

Charming.