Stinky Stanky

It's for the fans, it's for the players, it's part of the ritual that is Baseball. Prolly more effective in basketball, though, in that it can intimidate the refs over a period of time. Coach K in fake outrage can have that effect on carpet salesman moonlighting as zebras. MLB umps? No way.

Great play, using the rim itself to keep the defender from intercepting the pass to Ayton. I feel for Paul George. Not really.

Thinks he's getting paid by the word.

Managers don't make pens look great. Pens make managers look great, if they're lucky enough to have a few studs around. I took a look at the replay of the HR against Heuer. Centered at the thighs with the catcher set up outside. Maybe if Codi walked a few more batters he'd get hit less.

Great one for Burr especially. The Heuer mystery continues. Great stuff, gets hit. Wild in the strike zone?

They've never heard of Dristan? Cruel Tony, dooming Yermin's career by apologizing for his cheap HR, then putting him in the lineup every day since then to embarrass him. Cruel, cruel Tony. Guys like Yermin have been around since Bob Speake and Hurricane Hazle, which is about as far back as I go. They got figured out and so has Yermin.

When will they stop trying to make him into a point guard? His ceiling is backup Zach.

3. Weird approach to hitting, 4. In a funk, has me worried, 5. Needs pine time or a trip to Charlotte.

Just thinking here, how many OF's on the team get that ball? Hamilton and Engel anyway. Garcia maybe. This Eaton no, his former self yes. Lamb ? Mendick? Assume Goodwin or not?

Heuer throws great stuff, has control of it and gets hit. Something there ain't right.

I was thinking about Ruiz too. Hendriks issue was starting Cameron off with a fat pitch. He can be too courageous for his own good.

Scored the winning run and made the defensive gem to end it. (but that was positioning) Two-Way Danny.

And how is he better than what's already here? Nick is a replacement level player, amiright? ?

Gets you to the postseason and then... Call it butting heads... Takes two to tango ... Or butt heads.

LL, CR, LG.

He gets a hit in G 2 or 3 of the playoffs last season and Ricky is still here and the world is young. Or something like that. And he's a great RBI man except when he isn't.

Still, doesn't look overmatched, hits a ball hard now and then. He'll do to keep the seat warm.

It's all on Craig and Baez is gonna get a street named after him in Lincoln Park because of it. Maybe the Park too. Why did the damn fool throw it home?

I listened to Stone on the replay and he said that Liam lost control of the slider on balls 2 and 3 and didn't go back to it for that reason. Last night I was "listening" with the sound off.

After making Jose look sick on low stuff out of the zone the last AB, throws him a high slider that wound up flirting with the concourse. Duh. Speaking of a slider, Hendriks could have used one that last AB as Edman fouled off a ton of 4 seamers.

What's the old cliche? Flaherty will get you nowhere. Yeah, that's it. Gotta start sorting out the bullpen, bringing in some new arms. Some of these guys have MLB stuff but aren't ready to pitch up here. They have options galore. TA, whom I congratulated last night for going oppo to bust out of a slump was back to pulling outside pitches and grounding out to the left side. Listen to us for once, Timmy.

Big boppers left the game on the bases. Oh well, it is 5-0.

Talk about eagerly anticipated. I'm hyperventilating. I don't see a lot of crap on the radar, either, so they should get it in.

Nobody would mistake our Sox for one of the top 10-12. They aren't the Cardinals or the coastal powerhouses, for sure. They paid big.

Saw same, wondered like you. Could be a reaction to all the Sox money coming in.