Haven’t been booed, but I have my qualifications, expertise and judgement questioned regularly for a fraction of what most athletes pull in as a physician. My wife, who is a nurse, makes less than me and gets far more shit in a day from the people she works to help on a daily basis. If we can take it, I’m sure an…

They went into the year legitimately convinced VV, Eflin and Pivetta would be a dominant rotation with Nola. They have been talking up these “young guns” for too long now, and none of them can do shit in the majors. While we’re at it, let’s throw in the others into the mix: Adam Morgan, Tom Windle, Ben Lively, Ranger…

Everything you say is true. But it also needs to be acknowledged that the Phillies have given him a lot less to work with than they were saying. They went into this season publicly convinced that Arrieta (35 and on the downside BEFORE being shut down with bone spurs), Velasquez (90 pitches to get through 3 innings,…

Went there once after it was converted for the Braves. Can’t believe that this was the neighborhood Atlanta chose to show the world. Yikes.

When the Phillies were looking for a place to build their new park, they floated the idea of building it over 30th Street Station (gorgeous building in its own right) or the adjacent railyard, hard by the river. They also considered Chinatown. Both would give the modern aesthetic of downtown skyscrapers. Both would…

I’m from New Jersey, so consider this as my frame of reference whence I proceed. There are cretins everywhere, but to use the worst of any cohort as indicative of the collective is unfair.

Had to go to a wedding in KC years ago. Caught a game on a Friday night. Got great seats for cheap (this was before the Royals had their last great run), $1 hot dogs and a nice atmosphere. Came away pleasantly surprised. And the people in KC are friendly to the point that is a little unnerving. Royals fans deserve…

That was my thought! These dudes are generally under 35 and in top physical shape. I am 43 and 25 pounds overweight, and I can still get it up without pills.

As a fellow bearded ginger, you need to know that we never blend in.

I’m hoping that out of this upheaval will be the next iteration of the interwebs - where everyone staring into the abyss currently realizes how divisive and awful this technology has become, and everyone vows to start over with a different set of guidelines that allow us all to use the technology for more noble aims -…

When? I have seen people smash a bat rack or a cooler out of frustration (usually over one’s own performance, a strikeout, a gopher ball), but never pounding on the ceiling of the dugout. The best way to chirp at the umpires is to blend in, where your voice could belong to any one of a dozen people on the bench,…

I enjoy this character today.

I hope they delay it further. It’s such a stupid way to “protest”. It is 100% “LOOK AT ME, MAKING A FUSS NOT WITH WORDS BUT WITH ACTIONS THAT ARE IN NO WAY REFLECTIVE OF MY FEELINGS OVER A CALL THAT WENT AGAINST MY TEAM”.

When you are responding to call you disagree with by throwing a visible and audible tantrum and calling attention to yourself like a 6-foot penis with ears, that pretty much defines showing someone up. Now that he knows he’s made himself a target, he can stop acting like a jackass. Bet the ejections stop when he stops…

Didn’t say Oakland wasn’t fully integrated. But let’s not act like metro Oakland would be 8M people were it not surrounded by two larger, wealthier cities. It’s like saying the Arlington, Texas metro (the comparable populations (Dallas, Ft Worth, Arlington line up nicely with SF, SJ and Oakland)) is 7.5 million.…

I’ll rephrase and agree with what you said, and arrive at the same conclusion: Texas isn’t getting a 3rd team, wants be damned. It was all Jerrah could do to keep football out of the 4th largest city in the country. He won’t let Austin or San Antonio get in the league with the other owners funneling a billion or two…

To say Oakland metro is almost 8 million is a little misleading; it is the 3rd largest city in the metropolitan area but isn’t even half the size of either San Jose or San Francisco, which is also where the bulk of the money lies within that metropolis. And San Francisco (Santa Clara, if we’re being honest) has a team.

You got me. I never considered Birmingham or Santa Fe to be NFL-caliber cities.

True. But today I wouldn’t call it a small market like Birmingham or Santa Fe. It now has 2 top-level pro teams and a metro population. It’s not a Top 10 market or anything but it’s not West Bumfuck either.

Nashville: 700,000 people, thousands more each day. Metro Nashville: 2.0M people. Bigger than 11 cities other than Green Bay that have NFL teams (you can pick Oakland or Las Vegas, Nashville is bigger than both), and about the same size as Minneapolis-St Paul. Only bigger cities without a team are San Antonio (Texas…