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Published: August 14, 2025 15:59

Very much enjoying the offices of the future where everyone is talking to their computer all the time sounds great, perfectly calm can't wait …

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Published: August 14, 2025 15:54

In August, every single catcher is using one-knee down at least 90% of the time…

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Published: August 13, 2025 20:41

It's a common myth that today's HOF standards are far more lax, but the truth is exactly the opposite: it's harder than ever to get in. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 13, 2025 20:34

Right now, today? Of course. By the time guys who played their entire career with it are eligible? I don't agree. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 13, 2025 20:30

Great, let's do this: - he'll (likely) get to 500 HR - with no PED stink - full stop, there, but: - has an MVP - legendary postseason guy. Truly elite. - might be the hardest-hitting man who ever lived. might be the hitting face of the Statcast era. …

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Published: August 13, 2025 20:14

Prepare for what, it's been clear he's been getting in for like 3 years now [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 13, 2025 18:40

There's not 0 truth to it, but it's definitely become an easy meme for people not paying attention [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 13, 2025 14:55

Clay Holmes isn't really getting the job done right now, but also he set expectations massively high to start by doing something basically impossible: 7 straight starts w/o a HR. First half: 4.25 xERA, 3.31 ERA Second: 4.95 xERA, 5.56 ERA He's a little…

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Published: August 13, 2025 13:53

Andrew Vaughn's maybe changed his swing a bit here: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/andrew-vaughn-683734?stats=statcast-r-histograms-mlb

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Published: August 13, 2025 13:40

A fun thing about the SD/LA being tied right now is that last year, SD was only 5 games back, and then had LA down to an elimination game in NLDS before unable to score in a bullpen game Anyone who went into 2025 screaming LA was a 130 win team that was…

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Published: August 13, 2025 13:25

I'm going to quote tweet this one because "no one is paying attention to the Brewers" is just a wildly wrong take. they're the biggest story in the game right now! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 12, 2025 20:07

A fun fact with which to blow your minds Since June 1 the Mets have the 8th best RISP OPS in baseball.

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Published: August 12, 2025 17:49

I can confirm that there is not a team in existence I would believe to be a 125-win team. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 12, 2025 17:43

Milwaukee's playing at a 125-win pace the last two months. They're a very good baseball team. They're obviously not *that* good, and so by definition they'll play worse, and soon. The real question is, when, and by how much.

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Published: August 12, 2025 14:16

I think about this every single day as I drop my kids off to one of their various local summer camps that they love and then walk to the train that costs me less than $3 to read while being delivered directly into my office building cities can suck,…

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Published: August 12, 2025 13:40

When you're being sued for insurance fraud, call: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 11, 2025 17:20

So should we as a society just tell Julio Rodríguez to take a vacation until July next year, or should we just tell him to keep hitting endlessly through the winter as though this season never ends

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Published: August 11, 2025 16:46

OK fine, i'm writing about the Brewers

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Published: August 11, 2025 14:09

You know, for all the talk about Milwaukee's small ball and all that: Since June 1, so more than 2 months now, they are tied for the 7th best SLG% in baseball.

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Published: August 11, 2025 13:02

Just participated in a NL ROY poll and ranked 3 Brewers in the top 5, that's fun also: Chase Burns has a 5.25 ERA and is also striking out 15/9 what even

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Published: August 10, 2025 23:05

Sign me up for a Dodgers / Jays World Series because that would be fun as hell

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Published: August 10, 2025 22:23

Hey, if you like the ESPN2 Statcast shows, tonight is the last one of the year and maybe ever but not on time, because it's rain delayed ESPN2 Cubs Cards, me, Trev, Kev

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Published: August 10, 2025 18:48

He should show more passion [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 10, 2025 15:49

hell yeah

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Published: August 10, 2025 14:22

Cubs pitching in July: 25th best K% Cubs pitching in Aug: 6th best K% hmmm quick eyeball says: Rogers, Kittredge are good adds, and Keller has upped his whiff rate

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Published: August 10, 2025 13:13

In addition to this being lame, it just makes me think of Han Solo, who was extremely cool [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 10, 2025 13:02

Pete Crow-Armstrong set a new mark for most 5 star catches (prev held by Buxton/B.Hamilton) with two months left in the season. Is this about as well as OF defense can be played? On if this is something like the best CF defense season in memory or ever …

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Published: August 10, 2025 02:34

Everyone is going to be so mad when Ohtani wins MVP again which he will

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Published: August 10, 2025 02:26

Every time I look up, Tony Blanco Jr. (20 years old, 6-foot-7, playing for Bradenton in the Pirates system) is just absolutely splattering a baseball

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Published: August 10, 2025 02:11

PCA: having a lousy start to August PCA: also... chasing wayyy less?

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Published: August 10, 2025 01:37

Matt Shaw: has a 179 wRC+ since the All Star break Also Matt Shaw: in his last 10 games, .194/.194/.387

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Published: August 10, 2025 00:52

Back in my day the barefoot kickers were better than these guys because they changed the measurement by moving the uprights from the front of the end zone, or something. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 10, 2025 00:42

Juan Soto about to have the most 'disappointing' 35 HR, 20 SB, .500 SLG 5-WAR season in history

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Published: August 9, 2025 15:19

I know the Yankees are in a bad way but I am enjoying the "if the Boss were alive ..." bits the Yankees were mostly lousy in the 80s best thing that happened to the franchise was him getting suspended and not being part of daily ops

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Published: August 9, 2025 14:31

Hey you, Brendon Little: could you completely reinvent yourself as a pitcher over the winter, looking like an entirely different person? Brendon: OK skip, got it

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Published: August 9, 2025 02:19

I understand that Daulton Varsho is coming off of shoulder surgery (and a hamstring injury) but also, whoaaa. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/daulton-varsho-662139?stats=statcast-r-fielding-mlb#statcast_arm

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Published: August 9, 2025 02:12

"Are the Yankees going to finish .500" is not an unreasonable question to ask here

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Published: August 9, 2025 00:14

This is true, and actually kind of interesting of course, those five teams are .. 6 18 9 5 1 in runs scored [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 8, 2025 21:04

Among the many inscrutable aspects of this insufferable Sydney Sweeney / American Eagle thing is that at least around here.. American Eagle is a web development company that advertises incessantly on local radio they even own americaneagle.com I wonder…

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Published: August 8, 2025 18:13

Washington vs San Francisco on Sunday has some real 15th-century feudal energy

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Published: August 8, 2025 18:10

Statcast and FG each agree that MIL has added +13 runs via baserunning. That's both a lot, comparatively, and also barely anything at all. It's like a win or so, in a season where they'll win ~95. It's just never as much as people really want it to be…

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Published: August 8, 2025 17:16

Everyone outside of NYC: this election is a battle for the moral soul of the city Everyone inside NYC: you believe that other mf'er said bacon cheese and egg [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 8, 2025 15:23

There have been 196 homers hit in Dodgers games at home. There have only been 109 homers hit in Dodgers games on the road. What a wild dinger season in LA

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Published: August 8, 2025 15:10

The Blue Jays put up 20 runs the other night with this starting lineup C Heineman 1B France 2B Kennedy SS Bo 3B Clement LF Schneider CF Straw RF Lukes DH Vlad I get it was Coors, Rockies, etc. But I continue to be fascinated by how on earth *these guys*…

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Published: August 8, 2025 14:44

This sucks but also the entire BBWAA is beating the war drums and rounding up the troops [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 7, 2025 17:23

I don't entirely know what's behind Kyle Tucker's struggles the last few weeks, but I keep seeing reference to his finger getting banged up on June 1 as a cause. Maybe, but he hit .311/.404/.578 in June. I guess it's possible it got worse, but the timing…

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Published: August 7, 2025 17:20

This is cool, but @davyandrewsdavy.bsky.social threw me a Tyler Rogers-esque submarine slider with a SOFTBALL last night, so, who's really showing off here [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 7, 2025 13:12

Wrote about Paul Skenes .. who has a 1.99 ERA career ERA in his first 46 career starts .. which is the lowest in the Live Ball era. Feels like we're kind of just acting like that's normal. (Fun fact: He's allowed a .574 OPS in his *losses.* It is the…

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Published: August 7, 2025 01:53

Playing softball at night in a light drizzle never gets old Do it forever