Alex Cora was a much better manager back when he was illegally using cameras to steal signs. Imagine hate for Dave if he sat back and watched all this in an elim game.

MLB wants expansion? Hear me out: Cleveland’s team moves and settles as the third team in the lucrative NY metro becoming the LaGuardians, and the city of Cleveland gets an expansion franchise with a better name than ‘Guardians’ or an insensitive caricature.

The final test of Will Smith’s hand strength and pain tolerance is opening champagne, apparently.

I assume Shildt was going to (over)use his better relievers in any case, but having his best three guys all pitch 1+ innings in Game 2 because he didn’t trust Cease to get a RHB with a RISP in the fourth seems like it might narrow the path to advancement tomorrow?

Man, I miss seeing all those posts and articles from east-coast writers about how Francisco Lindor’s trascendent leadership is the reason the Mets are good and that he deserves MVP. Those were hilarious.

Yankees fans give Fried a standing ovation immediately after he successfully covers first base to record an out exactly one playoff game after, you know, that other one.

Morgan Stanley using “Old School Grit” as part of its branding in a national TV campaign is, uh, a choice. Who doesn’t want a gritty old [checks notes] global investment management firm? And what better way to drive that point home visually than b-roll of a 45-year old English golfer?

Today’s Photo of the Game presented by Daiso.

Lotta people watching the Mets-Marlins score with their thumb hovering over the “Post” button.

Easily the most underrated player to have street named after him, or something.

I haven’t seen it yet but am already looking forward to when you get around to ‘Guns of El Chupacabra II: The Unseen.’

I mean, they’ve had some practice.

Ruin a band with law Voir Dire Straits

Oh, gfy, CNN.

So, Mookie Betts has to be considered the favorite for NL Gold Glove at SS, doesn’t he? He’s at or very near the top every way they measure defense.

“Is there even room for Kershaw on the postseason roster?” ask a bunch of people that know nothing about Tyler Glasnow.

Matt Chapman shaves his mustache. Giants lose. Dodgers clinch postseason. Magic number for the West is four. Mini kegs of Hofbrau Oktoberfest at Costco.

Middle-aged male sportswriters failing to accurately transcribe “teething crackers,” which are a real thing they apparently don’t know exist, is very on-brand for the profession.

More relevant than fractional WAR or whatever other context is applied to season stats in these individual award ballots is the immutable fact that we see them given to the player that plays further east if the voter can manufacture even the flimsiest cover.

Bryce Harper is that rare player you forget how old he is because he came up so young and has been around forever. Is he 29? I’d believe it. 35? Sure, why not.

Boy, the Giants sure have a lot of PitchCom problems when their guys can’t find the zone and the pitch clock is running down.

A much simpler explanation is “legacy media is owned by an extremely small number of extremely rich people and this is what they want.”

ALSO DON’T RUN WHEN THE OUTFIELDER IS ONLY LIKE 100 FEET AWAY.

Man, I miss seeing all those posts and articles from east-coast writers about how Francisco Lindor’s trascendent leadership is the reason the Mets are good and that he deserves MVP. Those were hilarious.

I’m shocked - SHOCKED - that somebody would intentionally walk Muncy to face Teoscar Hernandez with the bases loaded.

Overheard at dinner table: [3yo stands up on chair, raises hand] “Is Mookie Betts at Disneyland?”

Imagine if you told Yankee fans before the season that Volpe would hit like Teoscar Hernandez but they would still want him gone because he was hitting like Teoscar Hernandez.

Entering today, Teoscar Hernandez had the sixth-lowest OBP in the majors among qualified hitters at .284. Conforto just misses qualifying but is at .298.

Big “Sarajevo street argument gets contentious over Gavrilo Princip’s Austrian aristocracy stance” energy from this headline on CNN, a subsidiary of Warner Bros Discovery, owned by a number of investor billionaires.

“Anybody would be better than Conforto” said a bunch of people that are somehow learning for the first time what Kiké and Call are like versus right-handed pitchers.

Yep, gotta head back to B-school, the Walt Disney Company definitely didn’t make any money on [checks intellectual property portfolio] Star Wars or Marvel.

Dodger Stadium remains a great place to hit your seventh HR of the season.

Per SABR’s list, the 2025 Atlanta Braves are the first pro baseball team — at any level! — to allow a 4-HR game twice in the same season since the 1948 LaMesa Lobos (West Texas-New Mexico League). cc: @slangsonsports.bsky.social sabr.org/research/art...

Front row for Paul McCartney at Dodger Stadium. Ticketmaster broke when the sale went live so after ten mins getting nowhere we tried Dodgers dot com instea and bought 4 “best available,” which turned out to be Row 1 seats 1-4. Decided to try our luck again and bought 4 more: Row 1, seats 5-8.

I see, so the Governor of Illinois might have a hand in triggering a national crisis, and no national crisis would be conceivable otherwise. Thank you, CNN dot com, a division of CNN International, a subsidiary of Warner Bros Discovery, owned by the principals of multibillion-dollar investment firm.

Wow, what a lucky break for the NFL to have one of its stars become engaged to Q-rating Godzilla on the eve of the start of its season you definitely can’t buy this kind of publicity.

I hauled 50lbs of frozen brats, etc from Louie’s Finer Meats in Cumberland, WI home on the plane home to LA. The strap on my giant duffel snapped off on the way to bag check under the weight of my Midwest credentials

Life on Mars. P.S. The backstory on the song is wild and worth looking up.

With what the Dodgers have at this point looking at Oct: I think it’s Edman in CF vs RHP and 2B versus LHP, Freeland at 2B vs RHP. Call in LF vs LHP. If Edman stays down (seems the risk of this is increasing), Kim sneaks in as LF vs RHP, Call vs LHP.

If Edgardo Henriquez wants to be the 102mph version of Derek Lowe, I’m cool with that.

Braxton Fulfords have no business playing baseball, that’s a name expressly reserved for SEC quarterbacks.

Seems really unlucky for the NY Mayor’s office to get caught paying somebody off in cash the very first time they ever tried it.

Couple things Dodger fans might need to review real quick: (1) Steven Kwan isn’t very good (2) The Padres offered so much for Ramon Laureano (who would give LA an all-RHB outfield) that they got O’Hearn (who they don’t need) bundled in AND enough cash to pay both guys the rest of the season.

Uh oh, Mookie Betts remembered that he’s Mookie Betts.

No lie, I read this headline and immediately thought “it figures these two guys would try to use Ukraine as cover for some crooked billion-dollar cement caper.”

When a last-gasp-of-summer lake trip overlaps with Oktoberfest season.

Not sure the GOP is fully considering the impact of losing the “votes” of every female member of every retired cop and firefighter’s immediate family.

When do Strider and Acuña come back, again?

Slightly diminish a band: W2