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Is he really? I confess that I haven't checked into his past statements on the topic or anything. He really, really sounds like a Cub fan/Sox skeptic to my ear. Very true. Hell -- you don't need 35 years on earth to know that's true, you only need 35 minutes on this board.

I suspect this is supposed to be sarcasm, but they're not really, at least outside this board. I mean, I guess people who follow baseball day-to-day may be mocking them in the way one mocks a team with a weeklong losing streak in April, which is to say, a negligible amount.

Agreed -- not to mention the fact that we won the first three series of the season and are 6-9. Not really all that "desperate" yet in real-world terms. I still think we'll be able to win despite TLR in the long-term but it's just sad that we're stuck with him. He's a bigger anchor on this team than I'd ever imagined, and I never liked the hire.

David Haugh can barely contain his joy btw. I think he hates the Sox.

In my experience “casual fans” often have a more realistic — and accurate — conception of the team’s performance than diehards, especially in baseball’s marathon season. They check in on the team in 10-20-game chunks and get a good sense of long term trends rather than living and dying by every game, which is not really even helpful in a 162-game season. It’s what makes die-hards capable of viciously debating “blowing things up” after an injured team wins *only* 3 of its first 4 series of the season. Casual fans look at a spectacle like that and think — “wow, this seems kind of crazy.” And they’re right.

Removing the Defensive Capabilities of the Guardians, Thereby Rendering Them Useless as Guardians

Are these the margaritas the vendors walk around with? Or are they served in a concession stand?

VV looks like he’s pretty comfortable after that first inning. Got a couple tough breaks there.

Super happy Burger’s hard work paid off for him and excited to see what he can bring back in a trade.

You obviously didn’t want it hard enough. And they tried *so hard* to give you a nice thing. Perhaps a polite letter of apology to Apple and MLB is in order?

Love Jake, happy for him, but I don’t think major/permanent fielding changes are in order just yet. I think he’ll find at-bats and I will happily file this away for now as a good problem to have.

Your bragging about how well you navigated the extra, needless hassle associated with watching this single game on a separate streaming service is really not making the point you think it is. People should’ve started “prepping” for watching this game last week? ? I’m sure Apple appreciates your support tho

So weird to see people lining up to excuse MLB/Apple’s money grab. Yes, I also easily cleared the extra hurdle needlessly placed in front of me and other fans hoping to enjoy this game, but I’m not happy about it and think it sucks that others didn’t. Also, the audio and broadcast crew sucked. But anyway—great win, and super happy for Burger.

Seattle bitching about rain ?

Yeah I’m a huge fan of sitting behind the visitor’s box and chatting up the players who are cool, and engaging in a little of the long-lost art of heckling for the ones I don’t like. That’s a good time! Not a lot of that going on in the scout seats, which really have a pretty low quality cross section of fandom in my experience. Laptops

Just one man’s opinion: -they are not fun enough to inspire me to make a special effort to get there. You can buy a normal seat in the adjacent section and be inches away from the scout seats. It will not “spoil you for anything else.” -The coolest part to me is the special entrance/exit thru that tunnel that you don’t otherwise get to see. The food is very “separate” but the same quality as the stadium club (or whatever they’re calling it these days). Otherwise it’s just a seat behind home plate with some of the extra pomp and circumstance that comes from a “vip”’ seat, which honestly makes me feel uncomfortable in a baseball game setting. I hate the luxury box experience, usually sitting next to some Cub fan in a blazer who clearly knows nothing about the team. I gaze through the netting at the “normal” seats and kind of want to kick my own ass ?

4D chess…

Did we lose the division yet?

How? They made all the big moves and are winning the division

Based on today’s results and yesterday’s supersmart extrapolation methods I guess Cease will win the CY! Yay!

Put your head back down—you’re in grave danger of seeing the forest

As it is people have to shell out money for a cable subscription just to get games that were broadcast over-the-air free for decades (to say nothing about the ever more expensive and stratified stadium experience). Now people have to navigate two additional streaming services if they want to watch all the games? That’s likely not a significant barrier for people posting on a message board, but if you think it’s not a huge one for many—especially older fans, the kind who have been with the team for many years—you have a very narrow range of experience. While it’s only a few games now, I suspect it will be more in coming seasons. Whatever the number of games they wall off, the key is there’s zero fan-centered reason for this, it’s just an attempted money grab and assist to the streaming services. Maybe that’s your kind of thing, but it’s definitely not mine.

...because saying the season is over after one game is more than a bit of an overreaction--it's a facially, laughably absurd statement deserving of maximal scorn and ridicule. But you know what they say--if you have to explain it...

Saying it's a bit of an overreaction is a bit of an underreaction

Yeah, some starting pitching depth would be nice right about now, as predicted by approximately everyone