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Gwreck wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Well that changes things. 7-2. WRITE IT DOWN Hmmm. Looking good so far. MLB may be calling you and inquiring as to where you got this hot tip you gave me.

Gameday also suggests that Umpie is squeezing the heck out of Samarakdsaf;ijhia.

How far off the plate was that pitch Murphy hit? Gameday suggests it was at least six inches.

Lunchbucket was clearly expecting two of those from Nieuwenhuis.

I picture rival fans swinging them at each other after they're given out at a Giants/Dodgers game or a Cubs/Cardinals game or a Cubs/Brewers game or a Cubs/Anybody game.

I won a between-innings lottery that was pretty much a basket full of small-time sponsor stuff: Dishwashing detergent yes, but also other sample envelopes, and coupon for an oil change or car wash or thingies like that. It was at a Binghamton Mets game. What made it weird was the lady next to me was like one of those Bingo etiquette cops. (Bingo the game, not the town, although that too.) When it came time for the first of three or so giveaways, she coldly told me that I was supposed to open my program to page 10 to see my lottery number, with an attitude that was at the same time charitable to the out-of-town guest and pityingly impatient with the obvious amateur that was the same person that was myself. When we won the second raffle, she pointed out my number and how I asked her where I go to collect my #WINNINGS, which tried her patience almost all the way to the breaking point, and as I got up, I could tell from her 'tude that I was utterly unworthy of the bounty that fate had dropped into my lap. I knew we'd have no time to collect on car washes and oil changes, and it would be several days before we'd get home to use the dish soap and laundry detergent and such, so I started giving it all away to anybody on the concourse, reveling in my role of the world's cheapest Santa Claus. But my wife reminded me that we'd better save some prime choices for Esmerelda to choose from, or else our seats would be decidedly chillier by the time we got back. But I don't think our helpful/unhelpful seating neighbor was particularly interested in accepting charity any more graciously than she gave it.

I'm sorry. I'm still not clear of what there's too much of. Too much talk of salaries? Too much hijacking? I wasn't meaning to hijack. I thought it was obvious that the lengthening of careers and improved salary condition of players was related. If we want to measure the DH's benefit to players purely in terms of length of tenure, I'd submit that careers are lengthened in the National League too where the deeper and more experienced benches and bullpens are needed, and it's worth studying which effect is more pronounced.

If only I had a clique, Ash.

Really? Was the bromance crack an attempt at kindness?

Sorry, no. What alternative are you proposing? It's an easy enough question. You say something, and people respond. That's not stirring up shit. That's expecting people to be accountable, is it not?

What exactly is your alternative, Regis? It's like you have a bromance on these guys.. No, it's exactly not like that. And for the love of all that's decent, sentences end in one period, not two.

"Impact" is about as meaningful as "core." Maybe less-so. I want better players, too. Right now, the baseline is Eric Young. Using Nieuwenhuis and den Dekker as an alternative is only sensible. You can't keep quitting on people. Your team gets worse, not better.

Rally happening. Recker is such a hammerer. You leave it in, he can wreck it. You pitch him away and he's toast. Way to leave it in.

Campbell looking lost.

And the Mets escape as Gee paints the black.

Selig will be teaching in retirement, possibly at three different universities.

I think it's pretty easy to measure. Decades of data are available. If there's an ambiguous outcome, then that settles the question. The DH doesn't raise salaries.

Ray Fosse calling Bud Selig "boss." When Selig did a double-take, Fosse told him he was a 1978 Brewer. But I knew that wasn't true because the 78 Brews were my first Strat team. Fosse was a Brewer in 1979.

Bud Selig in the Oakland booth.

But nope.

First and third with one out in the second.

Me gusta all that foul territory.

Sorry, I'm not sure what I said wrong here. I understood that you were arguing that the union would not allow cessation of the DH. I understand and agree and was suggesting the union should re-examine that position. I'm not making a lot of friends this evening.

And Wright knocks a change to left. Wear this guy down.

Granderson reaches by walk. Oakland is starting to be my favorite park.