You know what’s good for baseball??? Less of it!

I quite like the NYPL. The Scrappers stadium is pretty cozy and the team is usually good. The Brooklyn Cyclones are also really successful as those teams go, I would not want that league to be contracted.

cf. The Pawtucket Red Sox, soon to be Worcester Red Sox. They have done a quite successful grift as part of the “revitalization” of downtown. 

Millennials are killing rural poor America and minor league baseball - NYP, probably

“From the perspective of MLB clubs, our principal goals are upgrading the minor league facilities that we believe have inadequate standards for potential MLB players, improving the working conditions for MiLB players, including their compensation...”

So their response to a rapidly-aging fanbase is to price out the poors and shut out the rural? Their brilliance is... staggering.

This feels like self harm to baseball as a whole.  Do you want less people interested in your sport?  Reduce the ability to watch it.

Oh well. I get the same sense of community watching MLB games with no fans in attendance by myself on tv as I do going to minor league games where the fans are most passionate.

They had a good run *

Very sad news for the Mariners. 

I didn’t know Jim Spanfeller ran baseball too.

Right, so I was an English major in undergrad and grad school—me not math good, me just word pretty—but I’m confused: Most of the other players lose 1.25"-2" of height under the new measurements. That makes sense, given that the sole of an athletic shoe tends to be fairly thick for shock absorption and tread-wear…

Who is insisting on the shoelessness? If you see Durant in a bar (or Boban returning to the bridge he guards), you’re seeing him in shoes. If you ask your friend, “How tall you think that dude is?” and he says, “Depends... you mean with shoes or without shoes?” then you legally have to end your friendship with that…

You can’t prove that Kevin Durant isn’t two aggrieved Twitter users standing on top of each other.

1) lol there’s no such thing as a quarter inch. You get half, or you get nothing.

But....but..... but.... that’s not baseball!! Tradition!

He had a kneecap dislocation. Right leg, kneecap fell off to the right side. Same thing has happened to me twice, 12 years apart. I immediately recognized the leg cradle and the trainer putting pressure on the kneecap to slide it back into place. It’s incredibly painful when it’s out of place but it feels about 80%…

Does your wife know he went to Harvard? 

Please tell me it involves cosplay where your wife wears this outfit:

My wife and I have been looking for a spark in the bedroom, and surprisingly it was also Ryan Fitzpatrick.