Oh man — of all the teams in the NL bracket, they were the ones I was most rooting for. Fellow small market team without the Cardinals baggage or the Cubs over-expectation. I love Andrew McCutchen, and if anyone deserves to get a big, honkin’ ring, it’s him.

reports are that 3 people were arrested.

For christ’s sake, I’m trying to give the METS credit. Your guys did so much better than expected this season. Your starting rotation is truly terrifying. The Mets didn’t piss away the World Series because they’re a bunch of hapless losers, in spite of whatever pity party narrative so many fans seem determined to…

Can’t argue with that. Those scouting reports also addressed Wright and the fact that his back problems meant that his throw to first would also be sidearmed and slow, further increasing the round-trip time.

Royals were the better team whose aggressive play goaded the Mets to screw themselves on numerous occasions.

True. I guess I’m just more frustrated by the folks who are saying that it was a bad decision because he would have been out if the throw had been good. But he had some reason to suspect the throw WOULDN’T be good, so it was a considered risk rather than a hail mary. And it didn’t have to be a very bad throw, just a…

The Royals (Hosmer and Kuntz) have pretty much said that they knew to challenge Duda and to press if they got the chance. Plus the fact that if they do lose the game, they have two more to win at home. It was a calculated risk, not a total fuck-all mad dash. And it was Hosmer who decided to go.

That’s what jumped out at me, too. If you’ve spent any time in the south, you know what “bless your heart” really means.

It means “fuck that guy” is what it means.

This was a good discussion

The Royals contact approach forces a lot more errors, I think, and capitalizes on any that happen. So some of that is luck, but it’s also the ability to take advantage of lucky breaks.

They were, but it was more “John-ny Cue-to *clap-clap-clapclapclap*” and less “CUEEETOOOOO” a la The Warriors.

Well, he pretty much demonstrated that he was pretty bad at it last night. It was painful to watch.

Because he is very bad at it and never does it.

His mom’s Cuban, so your hot take instincts are sound

go look again

I hope he goes to some other jewelry store and buys the biggest fucking rolex he can find and tags SchwankeKasten in the Instagram photograph. And when he buys his girlfriend an engagement ring. And when his teammates buy rolexes. And when Packers players buy rolexes, and Brewers, etc.

There are lots of organizations that can help that happen. You just have to call a large-ish food pantry in your city and do a little advance planning to make sure that the leftovers are usable and someone is ready to pick up anything perishable. Same deal with making sure you don’t have a ton of trash. Most people…

AND the cortisone suppresses the immune response. It’s a double whammy.

Well, it could be the difference between toeing the company line and becoming the CEO, who decides where the line is.

I can’t tell if you’re kidding, but a sufficient dose from edibles can cause hallucinations and paranoia. It doesn’t help if you’re already in a bad state of mind, which sounds like it might have been the case here, but an edible overdose can be a really, really bad experience. I mean, these guys are hardly…