As a Pottstown ex-pat, I was certain Danilo would make it into town and just fade away. He could have strolled right up route 100 in the dead of night, lived for months out of fast food dumpsters and slept in any one of 100 vacant buildings.
Well done, substitute! Please don’t give up on us kids even though some of us may occasionally light fires in the trash can in the back of the classroom.
I for one welcome our new suburban Philadelphian overlord. But you have to up your rainout poetry game.
I think that while no one is going to say the Mets are good again, they seem to be relaxing enough now that we are getting some good games from a lot of people who might still be around in 2024. Plus wins over contenders are always fun.
Feeling ever more like the "trade old pitchers for prospects and foot some of the bill" idea was a good one. Sorry that Max is gone for the playoffs - assuming the Rangers get in, that is - but a part of me is thinking "maybe we are better off not running him back for another season." A big part of me.
Glad you're here Bill (Mr. Baer? Despite being in the internet for who knows how long now, I still never know how to address people that I haven't actually met in person. Bill seems too informal, but Mr. Baer seems wrong as well.)
Mr. Calcaterra always takes us to 7-Eleven and buys us Slurpees. Just so you know. (Welcome, Bill!)
PS It seems fitting that Mike Rizzo got extended on the same night that Jackson Rutledge became the 17th consecutive Nationals starter (0-11, 6 no decisions) to fail to win his debut. (The last one who did? Stephen Strasburg.) As Bill notes, Rizzo has done relatively well in trades - but the team’s current record on drafting and player development is abysmal. Yesterday’s announcement came with some pretty serious “things are going to be different now“ energy, but you will forgive me if I am skeptical.
PPS Full disclosure: I was completely unaware of the whole manhunt drama – until I saw the photo of all the police gathering for what basically looked like a “team picture“ after the capture. The only thing that was missing was a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner.
I live just outside of Norristown, and our church is 20 minutes away in Phoenixville, where he went late Saturday night, so the church took some extra precautions Sunday morning, like most people in the area. I finally got around to fixing the lock on our back door, for example, which had not worked in, or mattered for, several months.
People were posting about it online, and while it was a little scary to have to wonder where he'd turn up next - he had a van, after all - I don't think it's fair to say that the cops screwed this up. We're conditioned with TV shows and movies to think that cops can just pull video or check fingerprints or get a report of a credit card transaction or numbered bills being used and the whole thing ought to be wrapped up in half an hour. Maybe an hour, tops.
But real life is messy, and looking for one guy, who now has a car, is not easy or straightforward. He did the things escaped convicts do in movies, stealing a car, clothes, a weapon, asking former friends for help, etc. and people reported what they heard or saw and he was apprehended in a few days. Not having access to money limited his ability to run and having thousands of people constantly talking about him online meant that we knew what he looked like and he was never far from our minds. The cops followed the tips they got and found him. Maybe not as efficiently as we might have liked, but the system worked.
I haven’t had the heart to look up how many of the Guardians’ losses are courtesy of the bullpen. Whew… I sure hope we spend the off-season signing some guys decent free agents that we can trade next summer for more middle infield prospects…
Cup of Coffee: September 14, 2023
This hit my inbox at 7:03. You are fired
I enjoyed it, but Acuna is 25.
Where ls the game rained out lyrics? Can’t get going with my day without the game rained out lyrics.
As a Pottstown ex-pat, I was certain Danilo would make it into town and just fade away. He could have strolled right up route 100 in the dead of night, lived for months out of fast food dumpsters and slept in any one of 100 vacant buildings.
Well done, substitute! Please don’t give up on us kids even though some of us may occasionally light fires in the trash can in the back of the classroom.
Nice job but I need more Dane Dunning weirdness with my morning coffee please
I for one welcome our new suburban Philadelphian overlord. But you have to up your rainout poetry game.
I think that while no one is going to say the Mets are good again, they seem to be relaxing enough now that we are getting some good games from a lot of people who might still be around in 2024. Plus wins over contenders are always fun.
Feeling ever more like the "trade old pitchers for prospects and foot some of the bill" idea was a good one. Sorry that Max is gone for the playoffs - assuming the Rangers get in, that is - but a part of me is thinking "maybe we are better off not running him back for another season." A big part of me.
So you start off making a "teachers are lazy" joke. Yeah, see y'all in 3 weeks.
Glad you're here Bill (Mr. Baer? Despite being in the internet for who knows how long now, I still never know how to address people that I haven't actually met in person. Bill seems too informal, but Mr. Baer seems wrong as well.)
Mr. Calcaterra always takes us to 7-Eleven and buys us Slurpees. Just so you know. (Welcome, Bill!)
PS It seems fitting that Mike Rizzo got extended on the same night that Jackson Rutledge became the 17th consecutive Nationals starter (0-11, 6 no decisions) to fail to win his debut. (The last one who did? Stephen Strasburg.) As Bill notes, Rizzo has done relatively well in trades - but the team’s current record on drafting and player development is abysmal. Yesterday’s announcement came with some pretty serious “things are going to be different now“ energy, but you will forgive me if I am skeptical.
PPS Full disclosure: I was completely unaware of the whole manhunt drama – until I saw the photo of all the police gathering for what basically looked like a “team picture“ after the capture. The only thing that was missing was a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner.
Some TJ Friedl wikipedia info: no periods in TJ, and his full name is Terry Lee Friedl. Further proof that the world is falling apart.
Nice job Bill.
I live just outside of Norristown, and our church is 20 minutes away in Phoenixville, where he went late Saturday night, so the church took some extra precautions Sunday morning, like most people in the area. I finally got around to fixing the lock on our back door, for example, which had not worked in, or mattered for, several months.
People were posting about it online, and while it was a little scary to have to wonder where he'd turn up next - he had a van, after all - I don't think it's fair to say that the cops screwed this up. We're conditioned with TV shows and movies to think that cops can just pull video or check fingerprints or get a report of a credit card transaction or numbered bills being used and the whole thing ought to be wrapped up in half an hour. Maybe an hour, tops.
But real life is messy, and looking for one guy, who now has a car, is not easy or straightforward. He did the things escaped convicts do in movies, stealing a car, clothes, a weapon, asking former friends for help, etc. and people reported what they heard or saw and he was apprehended in a few days. Not having access to money limited his ability to run and having thousands of people constantly talking about him online meant that we knew what he looked like and he was never far from our minds. The cops followed the tips they got and found him. Maybe not as efficiently as we might have liked, but the system worked.
Oh man, he said BRAVES instead of ATLANTA. Craig definitely isn’t here. :)
No Mr Baer, I’m not her twin sister Bridgette…
I haven’t had the heart to look up how many of the Guardians’ losses are courtesy of the bullpen. Whew… I sure hope we spend the off-season signing some guys decent free agents that we can trade next summer for more middle infield prospects…
Rain delay poem for those suffering from withdrawals:
Yanks & Red Sox were to play
But rain postponed the game.
They'll make it up, though meaningless--
There's "E's" beside their names.