He doesn’t need any of it — the money, the attention, the camaraderie — enough to play by someone else’s rules.

Just gotta get a ‘W’ today and everyone will feel better. Walker’s essentially the same hitter Murphy is (check their Fangraphs pages. It’s creepily similar). I loved Murph, and it doesn’t help seeing the Nats get off to a 5-1 start with him hitting the snot out of the ball, but it’s such a small sample size.

And Wilmer Becerra, who is still just 21 and hit .290/.342/.423 at Savannah last year. If he takes a step forward at high-A this year, he could turn into one of their better outfield prospects.

Actually, that’s not true at all. They scored the most runs in the National League after July 31 last season. It’s essentially the same lineup, replacing Wilmer Flores/Ruben Tejada and Daniel Murphy with Asdrubal Cabrera and Neil Walker, which is, at worst, a wash, at best, an upgrade.

More like Edmonton and Long Island, but I’ll give ya that if Edmonton wasn’t the force it was, Calgary would have won more than one.

Right. And I agree Minnesota probably won’t play more than five or six more games than the teams that finished outside the playoffs. I’m just saying people love to play the narrative game. “Psssht, they backed in!” Okay, but it really doesn’t mean anything.

Both hockey and basketball would really benefit from a season-shortening. Hockey really gets hosed, because they never have the spotlight to themselves at the most important times of the year. I’m an Isles and Mets fan. The Isles opener was on the same night as Game 1 of the NLDS, and when the Isles’ season ends, the…

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Two things:

Totally, and it was an amazing gamble and call, production-wise. How anti-climactic would that have been if the confetti came down after the officials reviewed it? Instead, whoever dropped it hit a WWE-style, picture perfect cue, and it’ll make the image even more iconic as the years go on.

Can I nominate the Mets rotation to be tacked onto that list, too?

Sigh. Endy Chavez’s catch.

Guys, don’t go too hard on Gluttonous Guy. Society beats this kind of thinking into people, so it’s hard not to fall victim to it.

I’m just offended he paid $60 for it. Dude, sign up for the WWE Network trial for a month and it’s free. But I guess when you make millions like the Pope, you can afford to pay the cable subscriber premium.

Bayley/Asuka had the impossible task of following Zayn/Nakamura, so it deserves to get a bit of a reprieve.

I think the Battle Royal has a far more satisfying finish to it than any of the three big matches. Corbin going over was a great use of the match to potentially make a new star (and Corbin is my JAM! Totally has converted me in the last six months).

I’m only starring this because I was friendly with Ilana in HS, and she’s awesome.

Counterpoint: You are wrong and have no soul.

or alternatively:

I was about to ask you the same thing. I don’t even know why I’m responding, but the idiotic comment I responded to was that the Royals “utterly pantsed” the Mets. Just because it’s a five-game series doesn’t mean one team blew away another, something anyone who has eyes and watched the World Series can tell you. I…