Frayed Knot

And now it's 1:15, I've been up since 5:30, and I'm wide awake!

Let's bitch slap Will Smith and get this over with.

Overturning that one would have been a travesty of the entire concept of convincing evidence.

Down goes Brazier! Down goes Brazier! OK, he didn't actually go down after getting hit by the comebacker but I couldn't resist

How 'bout the outing by Otto?

Correct move by Nimmo to draw the throw there.

I think it's time for a Marte partay!

OK, that one scared me.

Dozed briefly in the 3rd but caught a second wind and did not expect to still be up past midnight/7th inning.

Garrett got the first four outs he just can't get the fifth.

Rays out-hit the Yanx 14 - 5 but go 1/10 w/RiSP, leave 9 on base and then cough up 5 unearned runs in the 7th to lose 5 - 3 Effin' Twerps!!

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Joe Niekro had a son, Lance, who played (though not as a pitcher) but no progeny from Phil. Phil had three sons, so there's still hope. I mean, I imagine they're all in their fifties, but hope is hope. Sure, wasn't Phil just getting into his groove by that age?

Well he's certainly dressing like something. I'm not sure it's strictly a pimp even though many are going to use that word whether they mean it literally or more generally as a synonym for flamboyant.

The Dodgers are kind of weird-good right now. They've got a great starting six: Freddie (142 career OPS+), Mookie (139), Shohei (150), Teoscar Hernandez (118), Will Smith (126 at C), Max Muncy (121) but are suspect 7-8-9: James Outman, Gavin Lux, Chris Taylor. And while it's great that a guy like Mookie can come out of the OF and play middle IF, the fact that you've got him playing SS means you don't have a real one which would allow him to play elsewhere. And then there's the pitching. Kershaw will be available second half at best. Shohei will be next year at best. Yamamoto is promising but unproven. Glasgow is good though now in his 9th season he has one full one (2018 as a reliever) plus a 'full' 2020 (11 starts). Since then it's 14, 2, & 21 starts from '21-'23. And now at age 31 (mid-season) he's signed for four years at north of $30m/per. James Paxton was good once but not consistently or lately and is now 35 y/o. Other guys are injured and unavailable too. Some of that is bad luck, but you'd think spending a couple of billion would buy you better depth than this on both sides of the ball. And (sss alert) a +12 RS/RA ratio thru 20 games (106/94) hardly screams 'Dominating'.

=Centerfield post_id=152613 time=1713557751 user_id=65] No one objects to the term “pimping” a home run. Maybe the word has evolved from its original meaning to now being a synonym for flamboyant.

Joe Niekro had a son, Lance, who played (though not as a pitcher) but no progeny from Phil.

Though his team eventually scored nine runs to keep him from getting the big 'L', Jack Leiter's debut didn't go so well: 22 batters faced/11 retired, 3.2 IP, 7 ER, 8 H, 3 BB, 3 K, no HRs but three 2Bs and two 3Bs

That seems harsh. He was upset about some B/S calls (rightfully so in some cases) and blew off some steam. Unless he questioned the species of the ump's parentage (and even if he did) I find it odd to see this warranting a suspension.

Edgy MD wrote: Branch Rickey also counts as an MLB baseball player who had an unrelated MLB baseball player named after him. I'll also submit ... Urban. That's a shocker.

BoSox hurler Tanner Houck threw 'a Maddux' yesterday. A Maddux is a complete game in under 100 pitches. Houck's line for Wednesday's game vs Cleveland: 9 innings, 0 runs, 3 H, 0 BB, 94 pitches, Game Time 1:49 (shortest in 14 years). Houck didn't have a lot to recommend him for such a great game despite being a former 1st round draft pick [27th overall 2017, U of Missouri] with 71 G, 41 GS, 3.86 ERA prior to this season. But he's now 3-1, 1.35 ERA and a 0.97 WHiP rate thru four starts this year.

Christy

=Fman99 post_id=152416 time=1713456699 user_id=86]Ducky

Nap/Napolean

NBA player Jontay Porter banned for life over a gambling scandal.

After a couple years of signing high-priced FAs as a quick fix before they really had a team to go around them, the ChiSox then reversed course and started making trades to stockpile legit top prospects from other teams in an attempt to build from the ground up. And now this approach is failing miserably for them. Yanx come from behind -- one in the 8th, three in the 9th -- to beat the Jays 6-4 today. Too bad because it would have meant a three game series sweep and four straight losses for them had Toronto held on.