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giannan

And which party wants to reduce federal wages and cut the federal workforce? Not democrats!

He’s protesting Trump the person.

Listen to the video, he answered your question. Or just read the transcribed interview that Deadspin provided. In general read the article before you comment.

Unless he can un-invent automation and Walmart those jobs aint coming back.

Creating poor economic conditions does, though.

Poor people voting for Republicans is like the chickens voting for Colonel Sanders

he will continue to sit for as long as Trump is president.

nah

He last pitched Saturday, so you must mean short-rested Kluber.

Yeah, starting pitchers used to pitch entire games, but I’m willing to bet none of them threw the majority of their pitches over 100 MPH (or any of their pitches, for that matter). Pitchers are much more specialized athletes these days, and relievers (especially those with 100 MPH fastballs) are like quarter horses;

Why should Maddon care what happens to Chapman next year? He’s an impending FA and the general consensus is that he’s gonna sign with the Yankees. If he helps win the Cubs a WS this year and sucks going forward, that’s not Maddon’s concern.

Velocity isn’t the first thing to go when a pitcher is tired. Command is.

what sport do you follow? Guys used to play O & D in football. Guys used to skate longer shifts in NHL hockey. Stars used to play almost the entire game in the NBA, now almost nobody averages >40 minutes.

You should probably just have left it at “I don’t follow baseball that closely.”

the Indians never quite threatened, but they constantly threatened to threaten

Am I the only one that takes issue with the Cubs using the W as a logo? How does the most losing franchise in baseball history get to own the W as a sign? It would be kind of like Trump holding up an F for feminism all the time. Fuck that.

Ehhh, no more so than any other team who fails to parlay regular season success into a championship (see, in particular, ‘07 Patriots & ‘16 Warriors)

(Let me enter old-person mode for a second here. Baseball wants to know why its ratings aren’t what they used to be, and why it’s having trouble attracting kids? A playoff double-elimination game, played on the East Coast on a school night, ended at precisely 12:42 a.m. That’s an official game time of 4:32, the