A Boy Named Seo

Loved that he said his name was Portuguese and he wanted to be known by only his last name, Cañha, like a Brazilian footballer and his wife was all, "hell nah, bro."

Furious googling of Justin Jarvis has commenced. #30 ranked prospect on the Brewers. Tall, lanky right-hander. Decent year at AA - 102 Ks in 87.1 IP. MLB's bio: Scouting grades: Fastball: 55 | Curveball: 45 | Slider: 50 | Splitter: 55 | Control: 50 | Overall: 40 Ranked as MLB Pipeline's No. 199 Draft prospect in 2018, Jarvis went to the Brewers in the fifth round out of the North Carolina prep ranks and signed for slot at $327,100. He dwelled with Wisconsin, both as a Single-A and High-A affiliate, for the 2019, 2021 and 2022 seasons before joining Double-A Biloxi for four games last season. Back with the Shuckers for '23, the 23-year-old right-hander is in the midst of a breakout campaign and was Milwaukee's Minor League Pitcher of the Month in April after striking out 29 batters over four starts (23 innings). Throwing from a high arm slot, Jarvis has picked up a little velocity in the spring and sits around 93-95 mph with his four-seamer, but what makes the pitch play up is its invisiball nature with incredible ride up in the zone. (It's worth noting that the Southern League's pre-tacked ball could be affecting Jarvis' heater traits.) He's added a low-80s splitter in the last two years that fades nicely, giving him a south option off the northern fastball. His low-80s slider flashes above-average with good vertical and horizontal break, while a mid-70s, looping curveball offers another offspeed look. Listed at 6-foot-2, 183 pounds, Jarvis needs to work the edges of the zone, because if his command falters, hitters have a history of punishing him when he catches too much of the plate. (His 19 homers allowed were tied for most in the Midwest League in 2022.) There's a deep enough arsenal and starter-quality control to feature in the back end of a Major League rotation, if he can hold these pitch characteristics with a more standard ball at the higher levels.

First, I don't think I can ever go to a theatre again where every patron is not someone I know or a friend of someone I know. Highly underrated experience. (no spoilers below, but some plot stuff is mentioned) There was a self-awareness in the writing that was clever but also had to be there to pull this movie off. Some people historically loved the Barbie dolls, saying they showed little girls that a woman having all these big careers was a possibility. Others hated the line, saying Barbie set impossible beauty standards for young girls and set feminism back decades instead of pushing it forward. Both these concepts were embraced by the writers which allowed them to build a Barbie-land run by empowered, representative women (with a Black president and all female supreme court) and where the men (the Kens) were happy accessories, with the Margot Robbie-played Barbie character thinking that sexism ended when the Barbie doll was created. It's ridiculous and pretty funny at the same time, and when Ken realizes in the "real world" that men are more powerful than women, he tries to build a Barbie-land patriarchy which is also ridiculous and funny. That apparently angered some people. Ted Cruz called the movie communist propaganda, FOX ran a piece calling it "anti-man" and - everyone please sit down for this - apparently one of the Barbie's was played by a trans actor. Yes, friends, Barbie is woke. *gasp* But the movie pokes at gender norms and the patriarchy as much as it pokes at Barbie and Ken and whole concept of the doll line. It makes a point but makes fun of itself in the process. The visuals in Barbie-land were really cool and the music (Lizzo, especially) was perfect for this movie. I do think there could easily be 10 more Barbie movies and they'd probably all make a ****-load of money. I'm currently at 3 or 3.5 pink hearts. TL;DR - Barbie is fun but it's not Citizen Kane or anything. Rent out a theatre, put on some pink and go watch it with friends and only friends.

Per Will Sammon at The Athletic, Canha shipped to Milwaukee. No deets anywhere yet.

As long as you have no shirt on underneath

I couldn't remember what the Oppenheimer was in that song. It's a road! Killer track. It'll be on repeat in my head all day.

I would guess JV would have to waive his no-trade clause twice. It's a pretty fun idea, very close to a soccer-style loan.

=ashie62 post_id=133120 time=1690579477 user_id=90]Looks normal

Frayed Knot wrote: I hope it goes without saying so that this thread pertains to non-NYM deals over the next five days, but one never knows when the conservation of threads committee will rear its ugly head. Anyway, the Angels have talked the talk about keeping Ohtani so now comes the walking the walk part of their program as they've traded their #2 & #3 prospects (a LHP and a C) to the Chisox for RH starter Lucas Giolito and RH reliever Reynaldo Lopez btw, this marks the second time that Giolito & Lopez have been traded with each other as, back in December 2016 when Giolito was one of the top pitching prospects in baseball, the two were dealt in tandem from the Nats to Chicago for OF Adam Eaton. So they can once again split the cost of the Uber ride to and from the airport. 6 years into the Ohtani/Trout era, a couple games above .500 with Trout on the shelf for who knows how long, the Angels are ALL IN BABYYYY

I was trying to go for obscurity with Met all-star and I went with Kevin McReynolds because I remember him competing in some skills challenge where you throw the ball from left toward home plate and try to land it through a hole in a target. But McReynolds wasn't in the ASG, just this bad-ass thing (KMac goes around 10:55): [media=youtube]dmgg9ZfV-xQ?t=656[/media] KC/HOU - Greinke 63% KC/MIA KC/All Star - Saberhagen 3% OAK/HOU OAK/MIA - AJ Puk 11% OAK/All Star - Eckersley 3% NYM/HOU - Wagner 3% NYM/MIA - Zeile 0.5% NYM/All Star - Senga 1% And in the end, our all star rep from a couple weeks ago was just 1% anyway.

It's the same one David Bowie wore in Labrynth.

Thing I learned today: Roberto Alomar never had 200 hits in a season.

How many nukes did you give it, @metirish?

Didn't know that about the IMAX 70mm. Might as well, right?

In that same piece I read today that I mentioned to FK, there was a talking Barbie and a talking GI Joe on the market at the same. Some lil wise guys switched the voice boxes so GI Joe was the one saying "Math is hard" and Barbie was yelling "Eat lead, Cobra!" lololol

The real "real" Ken (I learned only today) went through numerous iterations including a 70s version that had leisure suite and detachable sideburns (!!!) but the first (or early '61 Ken) had blond felt (!!!!!) hair, red swim trunks and this pink over jacket thing that he wore without an undershirt because ****in' A Ken. Judging by the director, stars and especially the soundtrack, I think baby boomers are the demo they're least trying to court. The friend who rented the theatre is in her 30s but would be a Barbie girl in any era. It's just very much her ****. But having not seen it, I think they're courting millennials and definitely late gen alphas who probably don't play with dolls but watch a million tiktok videos on destroying the patriarchy. I'm sure they're going to try to sell a zillion dollars worth of merch and make sequels if this one makes as much as it's gonna make.

I love it. I absolutely could not pull it off.

I have a couple of pink soccer jerseys. I think I can pull something off but will not be going full Euro soccer player and dying my hair blonde.

sorry, those emojis that don't show up are pink hearts. pound sign fail # edit: red hearts it is

A friend of ours RENTED OUT AN ENTIRE THEATRE next week to see this movie and he we all have to dress in theme. None of that is made up. There is a hype around this film that feels positively Swiftie. Have you seen it? Will you see it? [YOUTUBE]pBk4NYhWNMM[/YOUTUBE]

I thought someone was messing with me when they told me about Kelenic. How hard do you have to kick a cooler to break your damn foot. My guy needs one of those squeezy stress balls.

=smg58 post_id=132251 time=1689862761 user_id=62] A very minor thing, but the Rays designated Yonny Chirinos for assignment. It's basically his first year back from TJS, and the Rays had used him 15 times despite keeping him on the roster the whole season, so his erratic form was predictable. But he could be an above-average fifth starter next year for a song. The Cardinals also gave the DFA to Genesis Cabrera. He's a lefty with upside, and our bullpen currently doesn't even have upside going for them. Neither might amount to anything, but they are no-risk pickups that could be useful parts of next year's team.

Just read that Marte is out again and will be seeing a specialist for his migraines :/

Edgy MD wrote: So, what's the racket? These guys have e-bay stores, stocked up by trading untraceable food for giveaway merch? I get a free tee-shirt at pretty much every O's game I go to. Last time I'm there, I get a guy stepping up to me 30 feet after I pass through the turnstiles. He wants to know if I could give up my shirt for his niece who was too sick to make the game. All the other kids in the family who had come will go home with a tee, and he doesn't want the niece to feel left out. I like nieces, and want to bring smiles to the faces of the sicker ones, and I had no great need for a Trey Mancini tee-shirt in my life, and the guy seemed okay, but something didn't smell right, and besides, what niece wants an XL men's tee-shirt? So I decline. Perhaps I make up some shit about having a kid in my own life I wanted to give my shirt to. I'm not a bullshitter, but I can blabber no-account nonsense out in order to extract myself from an awkward situation with a stranger — something I'm not proud of. My wife and I walk on another 30 feet and then we hang back for a moment, seeing him hit the next person, and the next. And then we spot a sports bag behind him, underneath a stairway, kind of bursting with shirts this guy was able to extract from the generous, gullible, and perhaps two-beers-into-their-evening patrons of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. I figure this was his regular hustle. The O's give something away at pretty much every game, and if he works a different gate each game, maybe a second gate on the way out, he can do pretty good business. It's scummy, but mostly victimless. I was briefly feeling law-and-orderly and resolved to rat him out to security (who likes getting bullshitted?), but I'm pretty certain I didn't. But if food concessionaires are trading $25 in food for the merch, they're kind of working the racket out of the back door on two different bosses. And they can't really move from their station if someone wants to drop a dime. That's got to catch up with them, right? Pearl Jam does these events at different sports games - Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Flyers - where you buy a ticket through the fan club and everyone sits in the same section and gets a pretty cool PJ-branded M's shirt or Flyers shirt. By midnight that same night, they're on eBay for $100 and people are buying that shit. Here's all the basketball jerseys that were going home to sick nieces: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311&_nkw=mets+basketball+jersey&_sacat=0https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311&_nkw=mets+basketball+jersey&_sacat=0

that looks pretty solid actually [fimg=500]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/t_1x1/t_w640/mlb/qhtoall99ttjb2hrtzfq.png[/fimg] edit: the "soccer" one is terrible