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The more games there are, the more teams/franchises regress to the mean. In the 125 of modern big league ball, fifteen of the sixteen original franchises have winning percentages between .469 and .534, essentially the equivalent of 76-win to 86-win teams. The Yankees, of course, are the outliers at .567.

I grew up a half mile from the Campbell-Ewald building from 1963 into the '80s, then bought a house a half mile from it in another direction where I lived until the end of 1991. So I lived in the shadow of Warren's tallest "skyscraper" for close to three decades. I never knew what it was almost until the moment I got a job at Doner (or, more exactly, W.B. Doner), and then I was like, oh, that's what Campbell-Ewald is.

Epstein who?

Holy. Fǔcking. Shǐt.

“Restore cleanliness”??

The idea that Trump abused middle school-aged girls and did criminal deals with Russian mobsters is so baked into his equation that actual positive proof might no longer have any practical effect. The bar for this guy is getting beyond merely low—it’s quickly disappearing altogether.

This is not a spoofy pitchbot headline. This one is actually true.

To build on Lordstanley’s point, we are now 12-6 after coming off the 1-12 skein.

We need more good work like that from Tommy Kahnle.

So what do you think? We okay with the Charlie Morton trade now?

That was a great decision to send Wenceel on that line drive out to Buxton halfway in center. Here's why: This tells me Buxton's arm is strong but wild. That makes him a really good bet to run on up five runs.

Looks like NOAA lost its ark radar.

Fox has a long history of pushing back on Trump in the moment only to cave over time. I think they're trying to find an opening to extract themselves from his iron grip on their playground. It's always failed so far. Maybe it'll work this time. Yeah, right.

I think it's 50/50 Franklin Graham is in the Epstein files.

I agree, it's dumb.

Basically, they're going through the same kind of stretch we did, just juiced up a little more. Betcha they go through a month-long slump before the end of the season.

I don't know why everyone is so eager to throw eight or nine or ten years at players, but I do think we'll get our top-end free agent signings once the system produces the core, basically once we get Max, McGonigle, Briceno, and Rainer up and running. Also, remember, it wasn't long ago when we couldn't sign top-end free agents because they simply wouldn't come here. I don't think we could've even this past offseason. Heck, we were the ones who threw the most dollars at Bregman and that didn't work. Perception of a go-nowhere franchise was a big part of it, although Harris has us almost out of those woods. But we will still struggle to get RH power hitters to come here as long as it's so much harder for them to jack bombs here. As for trades, I'm on board with Harris not liquidating key components of our system to pick up guys like Mason Miller. Harris doesn't want to **** up the plan, and I wouldn't want him to, either. As for Eduardo: that's been litigated here endlessly. My position is, I don't think it was Harris who screwed that pooch.

I think they want to go on the Strip to draw tourists, and all the casinos are going to book packages with Baseball to get tourists to go. The capacity is going to be only 33,000, so it wouldn't take so much to fill it. Plus they'll have have a Jumbotron sportsbook board, so it'll be totally on-brand.

Not the Las Vegas A's, at least.

God, I've missed this lately.

See that big red splotch? That’s due to pass through Minneapolis around 10pm Central. Think they’ll wait until then to do first pitch?

Is there a high school football game on FS2 Jason needs to call tonight?

Tork has bad range and probably the worst arm in the league, but he does seem to be pretty good at picking it.

Seems rather symbiotic.