It’s not crazy given how easy Milwaukee’s schedule is down the stretch relative to the others that are in the mix. (Same for the Mets, if they can come out of this weekend series with the Dodgers without getting swept). Would love to see St. Louis and Chicago beat up on each other. If the Brewers take two from the…

The National League Wild Card race has been interesting, too, but for the opposite reason: a bunch of middling-ish teams have each gotten varying degrees of just-hot-enough at varying times since the All-Star break. And that has resulted in a kind of musical chairs among fat kids who are getting a little too old for…

Yeah, but this time it’s not just conspiracy theorists who think the Americans did this to themselves.  

Maybe. Or maybe Nido had started the night before (he did). Or maybe the Mets wanted to rest Ramos on a night when Nido would face a lefty rather than a righty, against whom he holds a career batting average of .180. (Wilson Ramos, by the way, is hitting .280 against righties this year.).

Counterpoint: Syndergaard is wrong. Just pitch. The offense has been anemic the last three weeks. It’s hardly crazy for the manager and GM to conclude that they need Ramos’s bat in the lineup more than they need Syndergaard to feel loved, nor is it insane to hope and expect that a pitcher of Syndergaard’s ability…

Questions, in descending order of importance:

Fistball?

What’s the opposite of a star? You young’ins . . . off my lawn, all of you.

Jesus, man.  Lol.  We are fucking old.  

Man, he sure roasted Giannis. That’s probably the second biggest burn in Brazil all month.

On the plus side:

It’s good because I knew from the start that is was coming, and it still managed to deliver. “Turf toe” was perfect pitch. The Magary-style aggressive capitalization works, too.

Good effort, Barry. I’ll give this blog a B-plus. But, honestly, if you’d just delete it altogether, it would be an A’s-minus.

Sure, that’s a fair take, but there is clearly more to the story. Keep reading the update to the story and my subsequent posts. Verlander reached out to the paper to try to get out in front of it - they ignored him - and the consequence is that the dude was let in to the locker room a full six minutes later than…

Last point on this: he was kept out of the locker room for six whole minutes, according to the Free Press’s own reporting. Doors opened at 9:35p and he was in at 9:41p. I can understand and applaud a journalistic zero-tolerance for this sort of thing, but defending this guy on these facts is just not the hill to die…

Arrested? Uh-oh . . . he better make bail, or somebody is gonna wang Chung tonight.

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Yeah that would’ve been funnier if I had omitted the word “not” as intended. And it’s too late to edit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Counterpoint: this guy might be an idiot and a troll.