Babkins

I wish our guys would stop striking out against him. I’d hate for the triple-kick actually to be effective.

This pitcher has the stupidest delivery I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen Nestor Cortes pitch.

It is for certain hard to watch.

Ah, 2-for-11. Thanks, Kevin Brown. I did not have any confidence we would win that one.

Figures. Without looking it up, I feel like our record on challenges is abysmal this year.

Pedantic is an adjective. Your definition has it as a noun.

We got it for Gunnar.

I’d put Cowser there right now.

Perhaps not in 1984. I think it would play better today.

I would be into such a remake. And for what it’s worth, I usually don’t hold it against a cinematic adaptation of a book if it deviates from the original story in some way. Cinema and literature use such different sets of tools to tell a story that it makes sense to me to regard a book and its film adaptation as wholly different entities. i just couldn’t believe the audacity of Levinson’s film once I finally read Malamud’s book. A bridge too far.

I did watch Ted Lasso, and I enjoyed it a lot, but if there was any reference to The Natural, I have long forgotten it. I've held my opinion of the film ever since I first read the book, which was probably in 2006 or 2007. I loved the film as a child, but once I read the book, I just felt that I'd been lied to.

Counterpoint: The book is a complicated, layered, richly allegorical work of literature, whereas the film is a beautifully shot, revisionist, dumbed-down piece of Hollywood schlock. I'll die on this hill.

“Cowser told him to breathe, but Cowser’s into some breathing stuff right now.”

What a win. This team is well on its way to being something else.

Hays is due.