I've tried from the time they could walk to get my boys interested in baseball, and they didn't care, didn't care, didn't care. And then one day, they start reading everything they can get their hands on, and within a couple weeks' time, we're having conversations like this ...
I'm 40 today. Kind of cool, kind of weird. I thought I'd be feeling older by now, like getting hurt/tired easier. I don't know why. I enjoyed my 30s more than my 20s, though the two decades together felt more like seven years. God willing, I'll get 40 more.
Finally caught up on Game of Thrones. Speaking as someone who binged the entire series for the first time in just two months' time, I think you're all a bunch of babies.
I'm just going to warn everybody I'm in a bad mood. I have pink eye, a headache and a bunch of crap in my lungs. And I hate the state of Fantasy Baseball right now and want to burn it to the ground. So if you like your Scott White extra crotchety, tune it for tonight's podcast!
Trevor Bauer
Clayton Kershaw
Walker Buehler
Mookie Betts
Cody Bellinger
Corey Seager
I almost don't even care who their other players are. That's ballgame.
Tyler Skaggs has been just a small part of my life for the past nine years, and I'm sorry he's gone. At times like these, you think about those for whom he was the biggest part of life and those who are the biggest part of yours.
So, uh ... here are Nolan Gorman's matchups next week. Go get 'em, kid.
5/23: Jose Berrios
5/24: Kevin Gausman
5/25: OFF
5/26: Brandon Woodruff
5/27: Freddy Peralta
5/28: Adrian Houser
5/29: Corbin Burnes
Kids are changing all the time, with a speed that most grownups would find dizzying, so be careful not to draw conclusions too soon. Their interests are as fleeting as they are all-consuming, and your influence is continual -- with patience and persistence, perhaps even good.
I'd shout it from the rooftops if I could. It's not just professional modesty when I say he's the key to the whole podcast. People need to know how good Adam Aizer is at his job.
More old men ranting about spreadsheets.
I'm not saying things can't improve, but when "hire dumber people" is the only solution these guys can come up with, I don't know that we need to listen to them anymore.
They grew up loving the game, made a fabulous living playing/managing the game, but now decry how the modern game of baseball has turned into nightly Home Run Derby, calling it ‘Unwatchable'.
Me: Spring Training stats are insignificant, and you shouldn't pay attention to them.
Also me: Yeah, but let me just check how this guy's doing before I draft him.
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Chiming in here ... I don't treat money lightly enough that I can sink several hundred dollars into a league and still enjoy it. It turns what should be a leisure activity into a legitimate stressor. So instead, I try to find competitive people and play for competition's sake.
@CTowersCBS
I saw another analyst say last week that if there isn’t significant money on the line, it’s not a serious league and no one could get super competitive about a league without money on the line. A completely insane take.
I have selected (but have yet to write up) my top 100 prospects for 2023. Here's the breakdown by team:
ARI 5
ATL 0
BAL 7
BOS 5
CHC 4
CHW 2
CIN 5
CLE 6
COL 3
DET 2
HOU 1
KC 2
LAA 2
LAD 6
MIA 3
MIL 4
MIN 4
NYM 4
NYY 4
OAK 3
PHI 2
PIT 3
STL 5
SD 1
SF 2
SEA 1
TB 3
TEX 5
TOR 2
WAS 4
This season is fine — fulfilling, even, in the number of storylines being brought full circle, the most important being that of Daenerys, whose ruthless tendencies have just barely been kept in check over the course of the series.
Had our offer accepted on a house for the first time. My mood fluctuates between can't-hardly-sleep, Christmas-morning excitement and the crippling fear that it's too much money and we're all going to die.
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So the Giants front office thought Gabe Kapler was *supposed* to win with those guys? The rest of us were wondering how they were competitive for so long.
While the
#Padres
and
#STLCards
have been considered the front-runners for Juan Soto, the
#Dodgers
have been much more aggressive of late in their trade proposals.
It's amazing to think that Juan Soto, celebrated from his first year in the majors as one of the best hitters in the game and a likely hall of famer, is on his third team at age 25.
And I was all at once astonished, deeply moved, amused at the mispronunciation, and reflexively disgusted at the dismissal of Craig Biggio as merely a compiler. It's a moment I'll never forget.
For whatever it's worth, my Twitter experience has been exactly the same other than a timeline full of people complaining about their Twitter experience.
Just another example of how putting mics on the players would raise the entertainment value exponentially.
Hearing what a pitcher is muttering to himself on the mound? It's wonderful.
For the first time ever, we mic up
@BauerOutage
for his first start in the spring and it is nothing short of incredible 😂Click the link to watch the full video on our YouTube!
Don't care. Freddie Freeman's heart belonged to the Braves, and they just cast him out the cold after he won them a World Series. I've never seen such a callous move from a front office, turning its back on family like that. Someone else can root for Matt Olson.
Yankees RHP Domingo German has thrown a perfect game against the A’s. It’s only the 24th perfect game in MLB history.
9 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K; 99 pitches, 72 strikes.
Today celebrates a day many believe to be the most important in human history -- a physical representation of hope, grace and mercy for literally anyone who seeks it.
I'm praying for peace today for those feeling fearful, mournful, angry, isolated and everything in between.
ESPN says it plans to cut in live to Aaron Judge’s at-bats tonight within its Leagues Cup coverage. The plan is for the at-bats to air in two-box format with the sound on the Judge call.