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Someone check on Simon, we're 13 minutes in and no comment.

I'm curious, Craig, what you think about this phrasing that I took the time to save under "A better way to plead the 5th," which ought to be fun to explain in the event my computer is seized...

"On the advice of my lawyer, I respectfully decline to answer on the basis of the Fifth Amendment, which—according to the United States Supreme Court—protects everyone, even innocent people, from the need to answer questions if the truth might be used to help create the misleading impression that they were somehow involved in a crime that they did not commit."

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Regarding the Illitch thing it’s really amazing how many of these guys who inherited teams from their dads are just the absolute worst: Hal

Steinbrenner, John Mara, the Angelos kids, the Lerners, James Dolan, Illitch, etc. Born on 3rd base thinking they’ve hit a triple.

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I’m going to the Nats game tomorrow night; I want to say a proper goodbye to Soto and Bell - and tell former Nats manager and current Padres third base coach Matt Williams he’s still an idiot. Plus it’s clear fanny pack giveaway night and you don’t miss that.

Victor Robles had a very Victor Robles game yesterday, with a sterling defensive play followed soon by an absolutely boneheaded throw, but Davey Martinez basically lit into him at the postgame presser, saying he would “grill” Robles about it. Everything about his criticism was valid, but he has a very disturbing habit of ignoring poor play by veterans and embarrassing younger players publicly when they make a mistake (including, when he was here, Soto). If nothing else, I am looking forward to new ownership so they can send him on his way before he rips the team’s new youth movement a new one.

My song would be Mother Mother by Tracy Bingham: EVERYTHING’S FINE!!!

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I’m just here to say that Spotify served me Alanis’s “You Oughta Know” from Jagged Little Pill a couple weeks ago, and I had completely forgotten how amazing it is. So I guess that would’ve been my walk up song if I were a Met.

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The best song sung by women for at least some baseball players is "Walk Like an Egyptian." Even if the Bangles didn't write it and then took years to embrace how popular the song is, even though it does not reflect their usual style. Walk like an Egyptian, run like Vogelbach?

The aforementioned Goldman is an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, and in a debate last night, one of his opponents, in noting he's using his own money to run, called him a walking campaign finance loophole. Naturally, he is a frontrunner, but eleven people are running so who can really say? (This is the race that diBlasio entered and dropped out of, and it also includes former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman, who is past 80. So it's a weird one.)

Boy, it's not like there is a legitimate reason to search Trump's lair, right? It's all politics, correct? (Still think it would be good, though, if DoJ or the FBI could issue a statement, but I understand why sometimes you can't.)

Thor pitched pretty okay last night. I know I should be rooting against him since he's in Philly and all, but I still want to seem him succeed. Same for Wheeler, really. Those guys should still be Mets, and that they aren't is on the Mets. (And I am concerned that they aren't going to do enough to keep deGrom, either.)

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In the back of my mind, getting from the Mets piece to the end of this morning’s Cup, I kept thinking Supernova, Supernova, Supernova. And boom! there it was.

Also, this reveals that I often have to read things a second time because that’s what my brain does.

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Get you a person who feels about you the way Liz Phair feels about the subject of Supernova.

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I know even the baby ballplayers have been taught empty clichés, but I'd love for a youngster when asked about getting a hit off a pitcher like Verlander shrug and say he had a lot of practice hitting off his dad when he grew up, so he drew on that experience.

Then be ready to get plunked in the butt his next time up against an old man. 😄

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My kids were huge Lizzie McGuire fans back in the day. Hillary Duff songs were a big part of my morning for a couple of years. If only we could have added Kim Possible to the mix yesterday.

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Illich violated one of the true keys to management: success is we, failure is me. Spread credit, take blame.

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Grissom was so excited during the game and in the post game interview. 21 years old and on top of the world must be a nice feeling. I was worried when he didn’t cleanly field a DP grounder in the early innings, but recovered to get an out and later turned two solid double plays. He had one game total above A ball playing 2B.

Selfishly I am annoyed that he, like Money Mikey skipped AAA. The Stripers are filled with older non prospects and I would enjoy a top flight kid once in a while. Does Ian Anderson’s demotion count?

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Excellent song choice -- we also would have accepted "Cannonball" by The Breeders (a song with enough hooks for an entire lineup of walkup music).

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Maybe you could get Liz to do a special edit -- "you slug like a volcano" or something along those lines.

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Flower, Craig?

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Dukes of Hazzard remains somewhat difficult to find on streamers these days. Music rights? Very outdated cancellable-cultural references? Who knows. But Friday nights were the Duke Boys followed by flipping the channel over to NBC for Knight Rider and then sticking around for Miami Vice, if Mom and Dad would let me.

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As soon as you mentioned Liz Phair, I thought of this song. Perfect choice.

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Supernova is certainly the most pump-you-up Liz Phair song. But I'd pick something from Exile in Guyville, one of those songs w/super explicit female-centric lyrics. All the woman in the crowd would turn to their guys (if applicable), nod, and say "See?"

Wait, there is that one line in Supernova about a volcano. Well played.

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