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And you're sounding like you've got an attitude problem. Butthurt about something?

Yeah. Jumping on bandwagons is not my style, whether it be for players or teams. Do something for awhile - then I get interested.

I'm becoming a Kopech fan.

Great players drive in runs when the opportunity and need arises.

I am sick of these prima donna superstars not being able to cash in on bases loaded situations. WTF is wrong with them?

I don't disagree. OTH - are there cultural things that are not ok for Native American/Indians, African (descent), Chinese, Japanese, Semitic etc. people to engage in? This is yesterday's gamethread and will soon be dissolving through the pot - Have a great Sox Day!

As I said, I was setting aside politico-cultural connotation and addressing baseball-football differences. I don't know what the relationship between the Chiefs ownership and fans is with the Plains Native Americans/Indians so I can't address that issue directly. I do know that Arrowhead can be a very tough place to play for visiting teams. e.g When attending a game at Owen Field, one side of the stadium shouts BOOMER! in unison and the other side responds with SOONER! It works in a football setting, not so much in baseball. Pretty intimidating to opponents when 85,000 rabid fans are engaged in this coordinated call-and-respond stadium wide chant.

Maybe so, but in these cases there are often complicated relations and dynamics that don't reduce to either/or scenarios. In this article, Chuck Culpepper describes the decades long relationship between the Seminole Nation and Florida State University. The tribe is often aggressive when defending the association with the school when confronted by outsiders WRT the use of NIL rights. NIL in this case covering the tribal identity and intellectual property rights of the tribe. The Washington Post usually offers limited free articles to non-subscribers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/florida-states-unusual-bond-with-seminole-tribe-puts-mascot-debate-in-a-different-light/2014/12/29/5386841a-8eea-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html

I hate The Chop in a baseball park or setting. Putting aside the race-cultural associations, it is a football thing and works OK for Florida State in their stadium. Major League Baseball ain't college football. This is a refrigerator - this is a Cray Supercomputer --- can you tell the difference?

Just to make a federal case of all this. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/959/fighting-words

"Jackie"? As in Robinson?

You have to set LeMahieu's Colorado numbers apart, but over time there is no reason to not think he can't equal those numbers with a higher HR number.

Dock Ellis - 1970. ptatc had previously said something about potential substance use around the league. I kidded back 'LSD?' Microdosing (extremely low dosage) acid has been a thing for awhile among some young urban professionals. While I was kidding, doing something like that is not entirely out of the question for some athletes.

Evidently, this is part of the Vizquel thing.

Given Keuchel's history against the Yankees this might not be a bad thing.

So tonight's ticket holders are just out of luck?

Probability theory probably supports this. However, every time one rolls a die the odds of a specific number coming up are exactly the same. i.e. with a perfectly balanced cube in unchanging conditions, there is no physical reason that a 3 (or whatever), cannot keep coming up over and over for days, weeks, months... <------ taking a break from real work to ponder the mysteries of this phenomenon.

My first thought is, did the Knights or the Sox do the firing? Or some combination of actions?

Ten people shot at one location and it doesn't make national news? We are comfortably numb. EDIT: Ok there it is on the AP line at 11:49 Central. We're still numb.

IMO Memorial Day is the early season milestone. But not having insight into the Sox planning and execution of a mission statement/intent beyond that of any outsider, my opinion carries no more weight than any other fan. If the Sox come out of Mem Day below .500, what's going to happen?

You're not taking into account negative numbers.

Just to clarify, I'm not thinking about new ownership moving the Sox and not making a case that they would. I'm simply stating that the stadium is a non-issue in such a case.

I guess JR got his stadium. It's hard to find a 'best baseball parks' survey or list that ranks Guaranteed Rate (ridiculous name IMO), out of the bottom 5 or 6. Depending on who it is, they may not care about the stadium one way or another.

You're a catcher? Can you hit too?

Taking the doubleheader would have been unsportsmanlike.