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the espn/disney ads have surpassed the old mlbtv ads in terms of annoyingness. i do not need to hear the mickey mouse country album again actually

lots of strange vitello decisions going on here

muchová :)

John Kruk: “I think Craig Counsell must get a bonus for getting every position player into the game”

high leverage aj blubaugh is horrifying

idk about this mason miller guy; with a .250 babip it’s pretty clear he’s getting lucky and will regress (gets word that he has allowed four batted balls in 21 pa, thus one hit in four) oh i see

lol the audio on the giants broadcast is broken and you can hear the spanish announcers very clearly

Oliva come on

Corbinball is unstoppable

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i have to say that vitello using winn, kilian, and borucki in alternating low leverage and high leverage opportunities with no apparent rationale is not super promising

pivot to video in 2026 lol

justin crawford has a 78% ground ball rate lmao

every time i hear about a cardinals prospect its a catcher sneaking onto top 100 lists and somehow they are still giving pedro pagés and yohel pozo regular playing time

I’m starting to suspect that Miles Mikolas is not very good

Home-plate umpire Mark Wegner admitted he lost track of the count in Cam Smith's fifth-inning at-bat. As a result, Smith swung and missed three times and worked a three-ball walk “I’ve never done that before. I’m not happy about it. Just made a mistake.” -www.nytimes.com/athletic/716...

the problem with signing luis arraez isn’t that he is bad but that no manager is willing to hit him in an appropriate lineup spot. that should’ve been chapman

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brendan donovan lmao

how did jordan lawlar not swing at that

3rd inning, tie game intentional walk come on angels

Paul Skenes has been Pirates-ified. RIP

Skenes can’t handle New York, too big and scary for a real American like him

Matt Vasgersian is calling the first two games of the season?

Turned on the game and the first thing I see is an NFL QB with a rape allegation 👍

can’t watch but logan webb being a k/bb guy who gets just some ground balls and runs a .350 babip has been funny to me over the last year or so

last year, i came up with a special strategy: every awards finalist must come from a team i project to finish last in their division incredibly, this made me the only person to pick nick kurtz for rookie of the year. picks for year #2:

wrote about eldridge getting optioned

good thing i decided yesterday afternoon to write about eldridge getting optioned. probably up at bp tomorrow

the chappell roan discourse is genuinely the strangest thing i’ve ever seen. are these people meeting loving affable security guards every day or something

even as a zach lavine hater, i simply cannot believe how much more the kings are winning since he went out for the season. it’s actually ruining the tank

I would have so much fun with the Giants losing four straight years to their Triple-A affiliate in the annual end of spring game. Please let it happen

eldridge has a 28% chase rate and 18% walk rate this spring but needs to lay off more pitches his replacement will be matos (37% chase & 2% walk rates this spring, -1.4 war/593 pa), encarnacion (36% chase, 0% bb, -0.1 war/256 pa), or bericoto (40% chase, 2.5% bb, no mlb, .478 ops in 46 AAA PA)

This is Angels-level roster management. Call up a 20 year old at the end of ‘25 to get attention, bring in no competition for him, and still choose the guy who’s at -1.5 career war over him

crying at john smoltz intro for women of the bible sneak peek, such a perfect choice

bringing in tyler rogers won't win me over but i do appreciate the effort

underrated part of smoltz being such a bad announcer is him calling every pitch a fastball

these chourio pa have been brutal, not even slightly competitive

was team italy just playing some white sox minor leaguer at shortstop over brayan rocchio this whole time? lol what a novel way to insult to the guardians

this is unplayable from swiatek. can’t really remember her playing like this on a hard court since 2023, or maybe anywhere since 2024 clay season

turns out that team usa vs the rockies was not a mismatch at all

i really wish derosa had gotten the giants manager job. the connection probably wasnt real but it wouldve been the first interesting manager in at least a decade

just put on the game and found out about high leverage multi inning reliever matthew boyd. derosa is a special managerial talent

lol they picked the split squad game only covered by dbacks radio

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not able to watch but it would be so funny if chinese taipei got to #2 in the wbsc rankings and then got shutout by australia

murakami has a 56.3% chase rate and 56.5% contact rate through four spring training games lol