Malike

Roy our ribbing of you in the game threads is our love for you. Nothing more. It's not often you get to tease a mega star.

This is how I understood him to explain it, also. He mentioned the possibility of having to go to Flaherty or Gibson if the game went to extras and the DH spot was 7 spots away in the order.

I think they've utilized O'Hearn perfectly. If he were an everyday player instead of a pretty strict platoon guy, we're probably not speaking as positively about him as we are. They do just a masterful job of putting him in the right positions to succeed and he's running with it.

Tomorrow is game 12 of 17 straight and the bullpen is taxed. I hope Gibson can pitch well, but he might have to take one for the team if he can't to try and save the pen.

McKenna is my guess. Superior defender and can actually put the bat on the ball from time to time.

Last cramp he had he was out for a month.

Grand Larceny in this game. What a steal late.

There is one more picked up on the Rays. Only 12 games left to their 11.

Cano scares the crap outta me here.

I'm not saying it's fine to cheat. If you are on 2B and the opposing team isn't switching their signs, then whatever. It's different to have a full-time employee sitting at a monitor and then using technology to relay that information to the dugout so the proper sign can be sent to the coaches to relay to the batter. Tons of bad players took steroids. If steroids are supposed to teach people how to hit, then they were an epic failure. McGuire hit 49 HR's as a string bean in his rookie year, what did steroids do for him? Let him hit the ball 460 feet instead of 420? Steroids are a bad argument, it didn't help bad players. If a mediocre hitter knows he's getting a fastball, he can hit it. If he knows he's getting a slider he can spit on it if it's not a hanger. Pitchers should not be doctoring the ball, I don't think anyone would agree that is a good thing and now they ensure that it isn't a thing. You also know it's not okay for a guy in the stands relaying signs, but again, who got caught for that and was fired, fined, and suspended from managing? The league never called the Jays about that, MLB said they never received a complaint from any club.

The Astros took sign stealing to a whole nother level, don't try and diminish it. People were fired, the team was fined millions of dollars and they were all complicit. It prompted the pitch comm system, it wasn't simply trying to steal signs from 2B, they were using video monitors and relaying information to a smartwatch in the dugout to relay signs to the batter.

Yeah after 6 quarters of shutout football, they finally showed up!

There were two players if I recall. It was a much bigger deal than a guy on second trying to steal signs. They fired the GM and Manager, this wasn't something every team was doing.

They can say what they want about Cohen, at least he opens the wallet and listens to his baseball people, he's just got the wrong people. If he gets the right ones, watch out.

Saw an article about the Rays getting a new stadium, I honestly read it and thought it said 3000 seats and figured they'd sell that out every night. Turns out it was actually 30,000. It will definitely look less abandoned.

Most not to the point of it feeling so dirty that they had a player be a whistle-blower.

I don't know about you guys, but when I was in my early 20's, I never got hangovers. Kyle Gibson might be in trouble, though! Glad he's not on the mound tonight. I seriously doubt they got plastered. They wasted way more booze than they drank.

I need to post a quote from the comment section of The Atlantic article. Sorry if you're here reading his Mark D. I'd hate to out you!

Depends on if we get vintage Verlander. Only 5 teams have a higher OPS+ against him in his career.

They were talking on the radio today about this and wondered if Tampa does not win the division when will they give their fans a celebration? The O's are not guaranteed to win the division and the fans of this team deserved to see their guys celebrating after all of the down years.

Lots of good O's content today.

It became a point of contention against LHP when the A's and the Yankees smoked them at home. They think it's the batter's eye not allowing them to see the ball. We'll see tonight. Valdez is 4-7 at home with a 2.98 ERA and 8-3 on the road with a 3.42. They are scoring a lot less at home this season than on the road. Hopefully, it's a nothing burger, and Means has a good game without them blaming it on the batter's eye.

Yeah, I have no idea what it's going to do for them, it's like fishing for reasons why they are bad at home this year.

And not mid-season.

Well, I couldn't care less, I just think it's funny and a Houston thing to do.