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India with a nice piece of hitting. The other two baserunners shouldn't have gotten on...

the curveball is too much over the plate. do you blame that on Teel? these pitches are telegraphed

yeah, like that.

dunno what he was thinking on that third pitch. throw it in the dirt or something

keep Taylor in

Teel is on an absolute heater

funny, but it is Tauch there

my thinking is he walked the guy so he could face the righty. would've kept him in. Taylor is getting BABIP'd to death. .403 BABIP before that soft hit into right field

yikes

he's been really solid in August. 2 ER on 2 homers. 16 Ks to 2 BBs in 9 innings.

not impressed, has one extra base hit since joining the team, but his OBP is surprisingly high. dunno if he's even a utility player, wouldn't really trust him at 3rd. seems like he has to have a crazy babip if he's gonna be effective.

saw at least one!

good pitching, good defense behind Perez. some hard hit balls though, give it to the bullpen.

great catch. still good out there.

funny moment there between pasquatch and sosa.

Lorenzen just doesn't have it 3rd time through the order. Keep him in! welp

don't love the #2 hitter sac bunting

He really endeared himself to me with that interview he did during spring training. The performance matches.

This game is moving really quick. Even the commercial breaks seem shorter.

Martín rocks

Well, I didn't define "mental gymnastics", did I? so what's my definition of it? Stearns was GM of the Brewers for eight years, would you not give Getz the same eight years? That would make your comparison logically consistent anyway. TBH, If Stearns was fired right now, he probably wouldn't get another job, ostensibly because he did something unethical unrelated to baseball. BTW, well-regarded GMs Billy Eppler and James Click do not have GM jobs after performing well. Will Kim Ng get another GM job after leading the Marlins to the playoffs? You've invented a hypothetical and it's clearly fallacious. If Stearns is fired in his second season ("Getz today"), do you think he gets another job? That's not really how it works though. I think it's funny that you called a logically-inconsistent hypothetical situation "reality" so boldly. It literally isn't reality, it's a mental exercise you just made up! lol, lmao even. That last sentence you wrote is sort of what you're doing, isn't it. You should also take that advice about being nicer, guy with a "no fat chicks" avatar. I like family guy but it's a curious choice of avatar for an adult...

Well, not gonna get into a political discussion past this post, but I'm not going to say you're stupid like you said I am. You might be really smart, I don't know anything about you. I didn't like that comment you made asking what the female umpire was wearing. That seems inappropriate and backward. Most conservatives I know don't speak like that, they seem to respect women as equals. I don't think misogyny is even a political opinion, although this specific president seems to empower it. I don't think a guy in his 60s talking about "fake news" and offering all other kinds of lowbrow political takes on social media is necessarily intelligent though. It seems petulant and like something a 14-year-old would do. Throwin a fastball gud doesn't make you intelligent. Being a cheating drug user probably helped in that regard. I think conservatives cared about moral decay or whatever.

"mental gymnastics" Be nicer. Stop with the personal attacks. I'm not going to call you mentally ill like you called me, or stupid or a butthead or something else childish despite the fact that you misinterpreted what I wrote and used that misinterpretation to insult me. That's not even what mental gymnastics is. You know, it's possible to disagree about something as trivial as a child's ball game and not be rude and mean-spirited. Are you mean because it's the internet? Would you say it to someone offline? I would probably say "hey, another Sox fan, neat! so what if we have differing perspectives?" All I'll say is "Mets = win now. NYC = better geography. Fraudster insider trader = better owner; they should be better on the field". It's strictly an opinion to say something like "the Sox are still bad on the field in 2024 and 2025 if they have Stearns or anyone else as the GM. They would likely be better with a bad GM who acquired a bunch of vets who don't make us a contender. Rebuilding was the right decision, it just sucked to lose that many games. They weren't a fun team to watch last year. They're showing signs of life this year with all the young players performing well". I think you should say you're sorry and maybe learn to treat people more kindly. Maybe my baseball take is completely wrong, but I think the 'bully tendency' reflects more poorly on you than 'optimistic ball fan' does on me. It also just isn't good argumentation. I think a neutral bystander would probably agree with my side whether or not I'm correct solely because of how the information is presented. https://myinsideedge.com/MLB/Team?id=12 "Inside Edge scouts analyze every play of every MLB game, capturing detail far beyond the basic game state transitions found in conventional run models. Rich data enables a more precise estimate of run potential compared to simple league averages. Greater probabilistic precision makes our new Expected Runs Added metric the most accurate assessment of team strength available to the public." The RP one is just "expected runs prevented by relievers". I'm not sure how they calculate it. But I just discovered this site and really like it. They have a Chrome extension that works with the various box score sites, shows who's hot and such. This is what it shows if you hover over Edgar Quero for example. Matchup specific info. Pretty neat I think.