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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Are games that are part of split doubleheaders reduced to seven innings? I'm guessing they probably are, but now you're selling tickets to seven-inning games instead of nine-inning games. Apparently yes, sez Gary.

Buddy.

I was also going to put Rusty, and also with a question mark. Reyes?

Tug McGraw

Why try for the extra base down 8-2? Why rush the throw up 8-2?

For all the "Nimmo needs to be a corner outfielder" talk, every time I see him in CF he looks fine.

Castrol didn't look too slick yesterday either. No runs, but a few hard hit at-ems.

Really? I've got a 3-1 count on Zimmo. Takes a while for the news to get to Cleveland.

Alonso has turned from meh to great with the glove in the space of about a season and a half.

Damn. I thought that was out.

Been a long time since I've yelled "FUCK" loudly and spotaneously.

Well, that sucked.

Edgy MD wrote: Is his number a reference to his height? I think it's the number of pitches he's thrown this inning.

This game has been threatening to go pear-shaped since JdG was pulled.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Speaking of come the fuck on, Howie telling me deGrom is done for the evening. I've gone outside and started a fire I don't like the decision either, but that's a bit of an overreaction.

RBI for JdG!

Edgy MD wrote: Pure guesswork, but I'll go with: Funniest: Gsellman Unfunniest: Conforto Diaz is also a candidate for the latter. It's hard to be the closer and be funny, even if you used to be funny before you became a closer. Closers are known for being funny. Sparky Lyle, Dan Quisenberry, Tug Freakin' McGraw. I even remember Billy Wags as funny in a douchey kind of way. That being said, Diaz never struck me as a funny guy.

dinosaur jesus wrote: To this point, pitching against each other, Corbin Burnes and Jose Berrios have combined to pitch 11 hitless innings, with 21 strikeouts. That's got to be at least as rare as a no-hitter. But in a few innings it's almost certainly going to be just another game. Berrios was pulled after six, still with a no-hitter. There was a time when that would have been unthinkable.

8 Ks, as well. Though I have to admit I agreed with BVW at the time. I never saw consistency in Wheeler.

Wheeler has given up one hit in the first five in Philadelphia against Los Bravos, and just put himself ahead 1-0 with an RBI single.

=ashie62 post_id=58738 time=1616794966 user_id=90] I wonder how many stadium seating areas will be open. At 20% everyone gets to sit close I would think.

=bmfc1 post_id=59173 time=1617292565 user_id=73] is the team so contaminated that any close contact with them is a bad idea?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The other guy stunk out of the box in a trade that really stunk out of the box. I just lurked on this kwiz, but I would have bet good money that you were talking about Juan Samuel here.

=Fman99 post_id=56709 time=1614028934 user_id=86] First televised ST game. Hearing GKR or some subset of them, calling a Mets game, live action on television.

But here's where it gets interesting. And despicable as far as the little guy is concerned. RobinHood, where a lot of this GameStop action is playing out, puts a hold on the buying of GameStop stock. This move is guaranteed to put the kibosh on GameStop buying and sure to drive down the stock -- exactly what the big institutional shorts want. This is unprecedented and now the rumors are flying that maybe the big boys "did something" (wink, wink) secretly to influence RobinHood's decision to halt the buying of GameStop stock. Notably, RobinHood did not put a halt to the selling of GameStop stock or the closing out of positions in the stock. More to follow, for sure. I'm not sure RobinHood is the first brokerage to shut down trading on a volatile stock. I suspect it's a lot less sinister than this. By now, I expect the big boys have cut their losses and no longer give a damn about GameStop; they're on to whatever scam it is that will be front page news in April. Now that the assholes on Reddit have beaten the assholes on Wall Street at their own game and have inflated the price of the stock beyond any reasonable valuation of its worth, their job is to keep the price inflated until they can pawn their shares off on unsuspecting investors who will be holding the bag when the price crashes. It helps that the Reddit guys can keep the "screw the hedge fund guys" narrative alive and inflate their own profits. I don't think it's the hedge funds that are getting screwed anymore, though. When the stock crashes, some sharp attorney can come up with some sharp legal theory under which RobinHood's board of directors is responsible for the whole mess. So RobinHood is getting out while the getting is good, and it's probably for the best.