Congrats, 2 years is huge. In many ways, the second year is harder than the first (at least that was my experience). You deserve to be proud!

Shouldn’t the agents be wearing masks?

Man, you’ve had some bad coffee! Roasted butthole is, well, vivid.

Most popular coffee does suck mightily, but I love a good, strong cup of the good stuff. Don’t get too drink anymore, so gotta find flavor somewhere.

I like the youth and excitement of the Reds, so some R. A lot of N though

It’s just strange to me that his Ks are nowhere to be found. He wasn’t exactly expected to be 11 K/9 or anything like that, but 2-3Ks a night is definitely not what I expected. I’m hoping in the offseason he figures that part of his game out to help him offset some of the regression surely coming

Parenting is hard. Attended a Unitarian Universalist church for years. Joined with a kid on the way and wanted him to have community but also the ability to think freely. Both kids have freely decided to leave UU behind of course. 1 atheist (no surprise), 1 Muslim (surprise!). Our 1 job: love them.

No surprise there. If Weimer is picking him there, I suppose that makes me feel better about wanting to get Adames on any discount that ends up showing up 😅. I’d be surprised if Adames consistently goes that high when the masses start drafting.

Thanks! Adames went earlier than I thought he would, but then the players in that draft are crazy good of course.

I’m working on a piece discussing MI draft values I think are going to be nice to grab, and Gunnar was definitely high on that list. I’m also talking about Witt, Adames, and McLain. I assume Witt got picked maybe mid-1st and that McLain hasn’t been drafted yet. Has Adames been drafted yet?

Yeah, I read that book maybe a decade ago, and it still sits with me. In addition to the obvious emotional impact of the girl’s story, Allison nails parts of the South with her setting and description of characters both major and minor. I’ve read her stuff pretty religiously since.

I definitely try to ignore the BABIP-fueled players. Hot streaks and cold streaks are easy to ignore with veteran players in their prime, but I have a little more trouble just rejecting outright if it’s a young player who has been struggling but is now hot or if it’s a 32+ older player gone cold

Surely, if he’s wearing that shirt he’d be aware of how it would be read by a good chunk of adults? Maybe he was basking in the attention but trying to keep a straight face? His daily joy is seeing how total strangers react to his shirt! (would be for me anyway, also a child apparently)

Ugh, sounds maybe like vertigo. It’s awful. Sorry you’re going through that.

I haven’t read anything to support this, but my assumption is it’s a couple of fine young men, almost certainly white pre-middle aged with impressive bellies hanging over their cargo shorts, “reminding” these athletes that they shouldn’t be athletes except for in one room of these guys’ houses.

To add to the disgrace, DJT is releasing these tariff letters out on social media for all of us to see but doesn’t even bother to change the wording of the letters. They’re basically form letters slightly adjusted to address the particular country. Does he think the leaders won’t see them? Weird.

Agreed that an IL stay would have helped him. Seems unlikely to perform at a high level when losing that much body mass that quickly.

One thing I’ve noticed in his data is the steady decline of his ability to hit the ball hard even before the weight loss. I’m afraid it may be weight + age decline.