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Awww, yeah, best moment ever

And blame Biden for it.

****, man, now Casey’s down? ****.

Paul Skenes is under team control through 2029, which is four full seasons after this one, and he’s making the minimum this year and next year. Do you really believe the Pirates want to get out from under the money they would pay him through the end of next year just to give that same money to some rando they call up from AAA? Saving that money only makes sense if they want to reduce their active roster to 25. Or are they legitimately so worried about what they expect their situation to be in 2027 that they simply have to save that future money today? I gotta think even the Pirates must believe they have some chance to make the playoffs in the next five seasons, at which point they will need the ace in their pocket. Every team thinks that. Even we thought that in 2019. Unless you’re telling me that the PIrates are so blatant about not giving a s*** about winning at all that they’ll sell off their golden goose to save future money in exchange for bunch of worse players in return?

Pitcher doesn’t make the error while pitching. He makes the error while fielding. Fielder’s’ errors don’t count against the pitching record. What I have been questioning for some time is when a pitcher gives up a boatload of runs after two outs plus an error, all the runs scored after that are considered unearned, even if the pitcher gives up a bunch of homers along the way. That idea is sounding less logical to me as I go.

To differentiate it from an error on a ball the batter puts into play, which catchers are also subject to do.

A corollary to “s*** rolls downhill.”

Three words I never imagined I would see in this order on this forum.

He's a bloody disaster, all right, but he's also reorienting how this stuff gets talked about, and that part is probably going to survive him.

Doesn't mean he won't declare an edict against it. But if people start getting arrested and roughed up and jailed for taking video and end up getting their phones confiscated for good, I'm guessing it might work for a short while, and then it would eventually backfire. But as much as Stephen Miller would like to see immigration cop cruelty against by-standing civilians on camera, Trump definitely does not, because he doesn't want to lose quivering red hats and their votes on the margins.

The Yankees lost 6 in a row just this week!

There's exactly 0% chance, ±0, that the Pirates will sell Paul Skenes anytime this year. Their fans would revolt and show up at the ballpark and on the TV ratings even less than they do now.

Or maybe they were too "on" for the first ten or so weeks, and now they're regressing to a more reasonable and sustainable level? They might not be a 103-win juggernaut after all. Maybe they're more like a solid 90-win team which, heck, ain't bad at all.

Three prediction, probably low hangers: Trump will seek to overturn Miranda rights, claiming it hinders the police’s ability to protect the public. Trump will decree habeas corpus to be indefinitely suspended, citing that we are in a “national emergency”. Trump will decree that civilians and media may not photograph or take video of immigration cops in action, claiming doing so constitutes harassment.

To 60% of us, anyway.

Is this even a real person? The account has a suspiciously vague Twitter bio within which their only credentials are "Wife and mom" and "Politically conservative", and yet the account has more than 300,000 followers while, inexplicably, following some 95,000 other accounts? Does this make sense? Also, the Joe's Place X website the account purportedly links to? Probably not even a website.

I would place the odds of it being an accident as 20 to 1 against.

Or two years. The News is probably toast.

@Edman85: is there an appreciable difference in rostering/salary for either team if one team waives a guy who is claimed by another team, versus one team waives a guy, the guy clears and gets released, and another team signs the guy? One thing I can think of is in the first scenario, the guy has to go onto another team’s big league roster. Anything else?

Maybe. Maybe it’s random, too. Either way, it’s weird that we are now 7-6 in our last thirteen games, and four of those six losses were by blowout with the other two only one run each from themselves being considered blowouts.

Which way?

"Slam distance". That's the one.

If he can amp his hitting back up, he might just get one.

Why is it every time we lose lately we get ****ing smoked? What's up with that?

I gotta tell ya, I like the rain delay conversation in the booth. Saw it yesterday, too. It works.