The Beast

https://www.timesofisrael.com/real-world-israeli-data-shows-south-african-variant-better-at-bypassing-vaccine/ Well, that’s not good but hopefully they are working on boosters. I wonder how the other vaccines hold up.

I’m not sure, but that sounds familiar. Why does something like Mario Scalise sound familiar?

Agreed, what a difference Len makes after not having a classically trained play by play guy for some time.

Bring back Sox N Roll.

Do we know if masks were required in the ballpark in Texas? I guess the issue I have is how difficult contact tracing would be after baseball games and how tough it would be to measure the impact of cases, especially if fans are from out of town. I’ll never understand why people can’t just wear masks for the sake of defeating the pandemic. It’s not like people are being tracked by the government either. It’s not a sign of the devil or anything out there. Even if people are vaccinated they should just wear the mask, especially because I know people who won’t comply and aren’t vaccinated won’t be honest and wear it. I just hope the private sector stands firm and continues to require masks for services, it just makes sense.

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05022002.shtml James Baldwin was the opposing pitcher. Wow there were some bad arms coming out of the farm and ones that they tried relying on didn’t always work.

Lol remember the Parque/Rauch game? So bad...

Psychic.

There we go, I like it, I can call him a jockey without people feeling upset over making fun of his height. He finally did something good. It pays not to suck!

Fair enough. I expect Eaton and Robert to make those plays and can’t expect much out of Vaughn, but he does look out of sorts and I wonder how often he will play there when Engel is back and they jettison Hamilton.

Good thing Moncada threw to him at second to wake his ass up that he has to be better.

He better not. That was fucking bad.

Just oops, we won’t make those mistakes again?

Not an error but it looked like the ball hit off his glove.

Not nearly as worthless as Madrigal and a lot more versatile.

What do you make of all of the dropsies in the outfield - Eaton, Robert and Vaughn - at the start of the season?

Moves like Juan Uribe.

About time there Andrew “single A” Vaughn.

Recognizing that you have already said you were referring to Chicago’s capacity, what do you think about the Texas Rangers stadium’s capacity and their lack of masks? How could we feasibly treat things differently? As BrianAnderson said, people who are vaccinated not wearing masks will lead to people not vaccinated or those who refuse to comply to not wear masks. I am for compromise but I just can’t see people being truthful enough to comply. I wish this wasn’t a red versus blue issue but it seems to be.

I can’t wait for the Vaughn in LF experiment, the dropsies in the outfield and this west coast trip to end. The best thing that can happen is that they come home 4-3 from this trip.

Madrigal sucks all around. Please be better instead of sucking?

Thanks for letting me know. Like I said guys, I was working so I must have missed that from their broadcast.

I’m glad I worked through the first half of the game and listened to Len and DJ. Not sure what Giolito’s pitch count was but I was curious why they took him out when they did. Madrigal sucked and Grandal let that one go. They looked like me swinging in the ninth inning like they just conceded defeat. Get through the next six games and if they come home 4-3, I would call that a success. I always have hated west coast trips and always will. Funny that the Angels look like a playoff team but probably won’t win the World Series with this team. Poor Trout.

Illinois is expanding eligibility on April 12, so I hope I can get my vaccine around then. It would be a nice birthday present to have it by April 25. I also hope that many grocery store employees have gotten the vaccine. It seems logical that they could get it through work but I hope many of these workers get them elsewhere if they can’t get it at work. I want to know if she’s really concerned about the variants even with the vaccines that are available.

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