Insomnia-driven recaps, Day Three of the Bauer hearings, a farkakte MLB labor proposal, Jack Morris, Steve Cohen, and I got MAJORLY trolled by my in-laws.
In Steve Cohen's defense, he did spend some serious dough on Lindor in his short time as owner. And on paper he does have a team that should have hit. (Though Lindor aside, not much of it was Cohen's doing) They just haven't done it.
Can you fire the hitting coach and blame it on him more than once in a season, or is there a limit to that trick?
Count me among the people who think that public criticism of your players is tacky and worthless. As ever, the question remains of what Cohen will do to change things, or rather who he brings into to make the changes since his job is not to be the GM.
The Mets used a new catcher yesterday named Chance Sisco. Wasn't he a bit player in a few Dane Dunning westerns?
Why is Rizzo a True Yankee? I have a theory that a certain part of the fan base embraces players like Rizzo because he is white. Why else did he immediately get adopted and Gallo seemed to be an afterthought in his first week? Yes, it's not all the fans by any means, and plenty of non-whites have been stars in the Bronx. But sometimes I really wonder about certain fan attitudes in the Bronx.
Could the judge in the Bauer hearing have told Bauer's lawyers their line of questioning was irrelevant to the issue at hand? If he didn't, is that judicial malpractice?
And if after all this stuff has been publicly aired there is no arrest...I would be quite disappointed and not the least bit surprised.
This Nats season has been disappointing and frustrating on so many levels, but seeing Brad Hand (whose repeated failures, especially in Baltimore right before the deadline, helped precipitate the team’s sell off) was absolutely DELICIOUS. Sorry, Cur.
PS Freddie Freeman hits for the cycle and gives his WIFE the credit?! C’mon man - you’re making the rest of us look bad.
PPS Someday I hope to be a father-in-like Gary. Savage - and I’m here for it.
I usually read this first thing in the morning, so I don't know: Has it been discussed here whether or not the accuser's attorney will call Bauer to the stand? And if he'll take the Fifth if called?
I have been a lawyer for 15 years. My greatest legal accomplishment was talking a young person out of going to law school. I am way prouder of that than any of the not guilty verdicts I got.
Avoid a soul-crushing job like being a lawyer, and become a teacher instead? My wife the public high school teacher would like to have a word with you about which jobs are soul-crushing right now.
Is there anybody who doesn't think a "salary floor" (or anything similar) is just going to cause tanking teams to take on a lot of contracts from players that are retired, injured, etc so they can hit the floor? E.g. Chris Pronger's (NHL) contract getting traded after he had already been elected to the Hall of Fame. I suppose it could accelerate a rebuild to the extent that teams will add prospects to get tanking teams to take on horrible contracts but tanking teams are going to tank, no matter how much they have to spend along the way.
The law school thread on one of the forums I read had a longstanding title of "Don't go, there are no jobs, you will die alone." It has been around for years, so you can watch people come in all "I know the title of the thread says don't go, there are no jobs, you will die alone...but I think I should go, I think I'm the exception" and then watch their souls and spirits break over time. One guy mortgaged his house to go to law school, wound up banging his law school study partner, tried to swing (lmao) some kind of poly thing, mended his marriage, wound up divorced anyway, and that was just the law school part of his arc!
I read it regularly because...sometimes there are things where yeah, if my life had been different maybe I could've done (thing). But law school was CLOSE for me. If I make 2 or 3 decisions differently--and I know what decisions those were!--I wind up wandering into law school because I can write and I "love to argue." I finish law school in...2003. You know how it goes from there.
So it's like a portal to that alternate timeline where I wind up even more drunk and broken.
Dear Gary P.: Bravo! Excellent work.
In Steve Cohen's defense, he did spend some serious dough on Lindor in his short time as owner. And on paper he does have a team that should have hit. (Though Lindor aside, not much of it was Cohen's doing) They just haven't done it.
Can you fire the hitting coach and blame it on him more than once in a season, or is there a limit to that trick?
Carrot In A Box: The Rematch. https://youtu.be/Bp04HZDCELw
Count me among the people who think that public criticism of your players is tacky and worthless. As ever, the question remains of what Cohen will do to change things, or rather who he brings into to make the changes since his job is not to be the GM.
The Mets used a new catcher yesterday named Chance Sisco. Wasn't he a bit player in a few Dane Dunning westerns?
Why is Rizzo a True Yankee? I have a theory that a certain part of the fan base embraces players like Rizzo because he is white. Why else did he immediately get adopted and Gallo seemed to be an afterthought in his first week? Yes, it's not all the fans by any means, and plenty of non-whites have been stars in the Bronx. But sometimes I really wonder about certain fan attitudes in the Bronx.
Could the judge in the Bauer hearing have told Bauer's lawyers their line of questioning was irrelevant to the issue at hand? If he didn't, is that judicial malpractice?
And if after all this stuff has been publicly aired there is no arrest...I would be quite disappointed and not the least bit surprised.
This Nats season has been disappointing and frustrating on so many levels, but seeing Brad Hand (whose repeated failures, especially in Baltimore right before the deadline, helped precipitate the team’s sell off) was absolutely DELICIOUS. Sorry, Cur.
PS Freddie Freeman hits for the cycle and gives his WIFE the credit?! C’mon man - you’re making the rest of us look bad.
PPS Someday I hope to be a father-in-like Gary. Savage - and I’m here for it.
I usually read this first thing in the morning, so I don't know: Has it been discussed here whether or not the accuser's attorney will call Bauer to the stand? And if he'll take the Fifth if called?
I have been a lawyer for 15 years. My greatest legal accomplishment was talking a young person out of going to law school. I am way prouder of that than any of the not guilty verdicts I got.
Avoid a soul-crushing job like being a lawyer, and become a teacher instead? My wife the public high school teacher would like to have a word with you about which jobs are soul-crushing right now.
“ Shohei Ohtanti went eight innings allowing only one run while striking out eight and hit a home run — his 40th on the year — as the DH.”
You know, when he’s pitching in the game he’s not actually the DH. He hit that homer as the pitcher dammit.
Is there anybody who doesn't think a "salary floor" (or anything similar) is just going to cause tanking teams to take on a lot of contracts from players that are retired, injured, etc so they can hit the floor? E.g. Chris Pronger's (NHL) contract getting traded after he had already been elected to the Hall of Fame. I suppose it could accelerate a rebuild to the extent that teams will add prospects to get tanking teams to take on horrible contracts but tanking teams are going to tank, no matter how much they have to spend along the way.
Freddie Freeman's cycle was his second. He is the first player in franchise history to have two.
The law school thread on one of the forums I read had a longstanding title of "Don't go, there are no jobs, you will die alone." It has been around for years, so you can watch people come in all "I know the title of the thread says don't go, there are no jobs, you will die alone...but I think I should go, I think I'm the exception" and then watch their souls and spirits break over time. One guy mortgaged his house to go to law school, wound up banging his law school study partner, tried to swing (lmao) some kind of poly thing, mended his marriage, wound up divorced anyway, and that was just the law school part of his arc!
I read it regularly because...sometimes there are things where yeah, if my life had been different maybe I could've done (thing). But law school was CLOSE for me. If I make 2 or 3 decisions differently--and I know what decisions those were!--I wind up wandering into law school because I can write and I "love to argue." I finish law school in...2003. You know how it goes from there.
So it's like a portal to that alternate timeline where I wind up even more drunk and broken.