LWFS

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I thought this was going to be about Gwyneth Paltrow. I mean, there is conscious uncoupling involved.

Happy Leap Day, youse

=smg58 post_id=32272 time=1582566446 user_id=62] .265/.315/.435, with 18 HR and 70 RBI.

For what it's worth, Mason Saunders' last ride probably https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/02/24/dbacks-gm-mike-hazen-wasnt-aware-madison-bumgarner-competed-in-rodeos/>isn't that far off in the future. [bLOCKQUOTE]There was one person who didn't have an immediate reaction last night: Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen, who just gave his starters/cowpoke a five-year, $85 million deal. And who did not, we just found out, know that Bumgarner was roping steers in his free time.[/bLOCKQUOTE] Interesting side thought: think Bumgarner's rodeo aspirations-- and desire to be closer to his horses-- had anything to do with his consideration of Arizona's offer?

So... the newly snakelike ex-gigantic person Mr. Bumgarner has had quite the offseason job... and this literally https://theathletic.com/1629527/2020/02/23/meet-mason-saunders-the-secret-rodeo-identity-of-madison-bumgarner/>is not his first rodeo. (For non-subscribers, a summary is https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/madison-bumgarner-reveals-uses-mason-023552928.htmlhere.) [bLOCKQUOTE]So, he devised "Mason Saunders." The surname is the maiden name of his wife, Ali. "Mason" is a shortened version of Madison, "something for my wife to call me when we were out in public to keep people from recognizing me. But you're going to ruin that for me." … Why the alias then? That was to protect his adventures from garnering too much attention outside the insular world of roping. (“I'm nervous about this interview right now,” Bumgarner said through a smile to a pair of reporters from The Athletic at one point. “I'm upset with both you two.”) If he competed as Madison Bumgarner, every phone camera in the arena would be trained on him, he said.[/bLOCKQUOTE] Curious, this general "aw, this is charming" vibe to the discussion about it... compared to the what-a-fuckup perception surrounding Yoenis' adventures in the Boar Wars; I wonder if he'll talk to the media about THAT.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: This guy is fresh. Stylish hair, sideburns, Fu Manchu and whiffed the 1st 2 guys he faced. Now gives up back to back singles. C'mon, Harol!!!!! Little kid face underneath that circa-'70s tonsorial bid'ness. Like a middle-school kid playing a baseball-slinging adult in a school play. http://www.milb.com/images/656083/t505/180x270/656083.jpg>

=G-Fafif post_id=32225 time=1582478793 user_id=55] Brian Dozier hears Juan Lagares is on Padres, rushes to join him in San Diego.

I think this may BE the best shape of his life. And re: that second one-- plus ca change...

HEY! VTMET!!!

Wacha Wacha… All-Star contender. Book it.

We were appropriately wary. I was optimistic, but not without reservations. I do enjoy the Centerfield "Arrested Development"-narrator-style drop-in at the thread's end, there.

Would be interested, but MAY be on custodial-parent duty those nights. Weekly schedule for late spring/early summer still coalescing. BUT we do have tickets, family-style, for May 17 (vs. Pirates-- HoF Day!) and June 13 (some giveaway or other, against the Nats).

Yay! First odd as fuck spring training bit of business! And https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/seth-lugo-broken-pinky-toe-1.41948768Lugo, no less! [bLOCKQUOTE]The Mets were dealt their first weird injury of camp Tuesday when an X-ray revealed that reliever Seth Lugo has a fractured left pinky toe. He will take “probably” three days off from throwing, manager Luis Rojas said, and won't participate in at least the early exhibition games, which start Saturday.[/bLOCKQUOTE]

Bad Dude?

Edgy MD wrote: Mookie is already in there at 8. DAMMIT Keith, then, at 13.

They're not booing, they're saying MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIE, at #11

Yay! No roster crunch! Also: hooray for Giyormay!

Edgy MD wrote: =MFS62 post_id=31809 time=1581806094 user_id=60]Now, show me where he wouldn't have those qualities. I've apparently been given an order here.

Had heard he was circling the drain as early as a few weeks ago, despite the Best Medicine Money Can Buy. 57's YOUNG for a rich dude to die because something explodes inside him. Yikes.

A bit confusing. I mean, hitting the point hard first, then nibbling around the edges until the thing is lost is more of an Old Wheeler thing, right? https://twitter.com/sschreiber13/status/1228084449046298624?s=20This seemed pretty apt, though. @SSchreiber13 wrote: mets fans: mets owners suck zack wheeler: mets owners suck mets fans: how fuckin dare you

HEEEEEEY now

EL ES AQUI EL ES AQUI EL ES AQUI AND YOU CAN REFER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE TO HIM, OR ANY OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF MY LEGAL TEAM

Take out the artificial floor! RELEGATE!

The comics should pretty much be able to finance this between them, no?

So, so good. Without having seen 1917, I'll go ahead and say they made the right choice here. We've seen two of his previous shebangs-- the previously mentioned OKJA and SNOWPIERCER-- on Netflix.