WestEddy

The one at the top was the only "French" song, and baseball is more of a metaphor for how hard a woman is. Hard as a baseball. That song is from a movie called Anna that was the first color film shown on French TV in 1967. Serge Gainsbourg wrote the music for the film and appeared in it. The other clip I played was from that film. The film allegedly sucks, I find the soundtrack intriguing.

There's not a lot of French songs about baseball.

I was looking up French songs about baseball. Who were those hockey guys?

Do that again.

Yo-Yo's clawing some of it back.

I feel like the curtain has been pulled back on Gomez.

He goes Real Teel.

Chris Bassitt was a 16th rounder in that same draft.

Fangraphs shows Houser as the scheduled pitcher for tonight. He's had more downs than ups since joining the Rays, but he's coming off of a nice 7-inning, 1 run outing against the Mariners. He's not announced, yet.

Before I forget.

And nobody changed any variables. I don't like the practice of people running from all over the section to grab a baseball away from a lady (anyone, really) who was bent over, trying to pick it up from in front of her. That all happened. I think the backlash is misogynist. No variables changed there, either. I compared her backlash to another viral incident from last week, which seems to confuse and anger you. One lasted about an hour, the other is going on for another day, now. Still nothing being "changed". 3rd, I'm uncomfortable with social pressure to "give a kid the ball". Still, nobody pretending something different happened. You're the only one changing variables, pretending she was a man. I'll accept your apology in 20's.

It did. Eagle jersey guy was still looking around her legs after dad of the year ran away with the ball.

And if 4 drooling goons ran up on my wife and started reaching around her legs, they'd be picking up teeth, not a baseball.

You're screaming about me widening the parameters of a conversation, which happens in pretty much every conversation, but you want to surmise how the internet would react to her, IF SHE WAS A MAN. You just broke your own rule.

What if something happened....like if she was a man? Lol.

I see the difference and said pretty clearly that she should have just dropped the matter. I also said it was too bad she ruined a hugging moment between a father and son to unleash on the guy. I don't like people running from 20 seats away to grab a ball at someone's feet they're bending over to get, themselves. I understand the dynamics of "going for a ball" at a game. Maybe some people, like an older woman, gets startled and angered by strangers reaching between their legs to grab a baseball. And while I have given away baseballs, souvenirs thrown into the stands and a baseball bat to other people, mostly kids, I don't like the cultural brow-beating to "give a kid a ball". It's a stupid and performative guilt trip. Shriffen was going on about this during the Sunday game, and I really wonder why he doesn't spend a couple of innings handing out baseballs to children if it's so important to a child's experience to go home with a free baseball. I don't know why nobody sees this dichotomy.

And it's not just getting a guy 44th over 54th in the 2nd round. It's also draft pool. You get so much more money to spend at 1:3 than you do at 1:23. It makes a difference throughout all 20 rounds.

If you're losing your first rounder every year, you lose one good shot at a major league player. That would be a devastating loss for most teams. Here's greg's original question: "How the heck do fellow low market teams KC, Cleveland, Minnie Detroit do it? It ain't the tank/rebuild method." I contend that Detroit's core is pretty much built out of the draft and a few trades through a rebuild. They have a couple guys on the 26-man who were international signings back in 2016. They could have gotten draft pics at 20 every year they developed, but they had a better shot with the better players of the class. Look at the average WAR of each draft slot over the years. 1-5 ends up with much higher WARs than 20-30. Because you're picking better players in the top 5-10 than in the 20s.

Exactly!! Why are they denying us all the key to happiness? Free baseballs!!