Play both series in... [looks at map]... Waco.

George Scott (Boomer) was actually a good player (3-time All-Star and a Gold Glove winner) but we loved him because of the way he talked. He has this southern drawl that was totally incomprehensible in interviews. I wish I had a video or audio clip.

Calling anti-racists racists is so 2016.

“its ideals” — yeah, that’s the part we’re having a problem with. We’re not living up to them.

This will never happen, but just imagine what it would do to transform the whole meaning of it. If every American kneeled during the National Anthem, it would be an admission that we as a country have failings specifically tied to racial injustice, that we need to fix to fulfill the promise of “land of the free.”

The editors should really step in here and allow you to edit or at least strikethrough “detrimental” when you say below that you meant “instrumental”

I would watch more baseball if they had a yellow line about 100 feet back/up from the top of the fence, like basketball’s three-point line, which awards the batter an extra run on top of the usual homerun.

I’ll be in a 65% eclipse zone. Can I retain 35% of my usual aggressiveness on the road?

Good point. I have old man strength that I can summon by pretending the ball is a Nazi.

I have a team of 12U little leaguers that begs to differ. Even the little guys can clear the 200 foot fence if you get them enough chances. Ok, I’m thinking aluminum bat, but still — grownups? No problem. Probably 30% of men, 5% of women. Again, they need a LOT of chances. You could give me a lifetime of chances and I…

That’s one way to describe Pawtucket.

I like Hanley Ramirez, but Stanton would be a nice upgrade at DH. Does Stanton need to play defense for that kind of money?

It’s complicated. Retired military can be good civilian leaders. General officers Eisenhower and Powell come to mind as being not more hawkish than politicians with civilian backgrounds. War is abstract to people like Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Obama, and Trump. Before Clinton, nearly all U.S. Presidents had served in…

Thank you for explaining what I’ve tried to do many times with my peers who want impeachment. Impeachment satisfies our craven desire for revenge on the orange dicktater, but it only replaces one awful person with another Sith Lord, helping Emperor Pencatine, who will be harder to remove. We need an election. A…

Well, freedom to express unpopular ideas, as long as you do it non-violently, is something we cherish as Americans and live with the downsides. However, it raises the responsibility on all of us as citizens to exercise our rights to fight back, non-violently, against repugnant ideas like Nazism, racism, and white…

That umpire is no fun.

May God have mercy on your soul.

Sorry I forgot to give attribution to Goose Gossage.

I was going to ask the same thing. I assumed beating the shift means hitting to the space left vacant and was going to ask about the stats on players doing just that. Like, can’t guys scootch a dribbler down the third base line with nobody playing the corner?

Wow, a lot of these comments are from people who have very little contact with people of color. This has to flavor the advice of how we talk to our kids. My kids look white (they are not) and most of their friends and teachers and caregivers are and have been people of color — East Asian, South Asian, “white” Latino,…