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As an aside I’m 0-7 all-time in attending Lightning playoff games going back to 2004 so if they lose today I’m staring a GoFundMe for Lightning fans to pay me not to go to any more

Ready for some #TBLightning playoff hockey (that’s my son in the foreground)

today's Rays pre-play, 17/20 correct calls YTD and on a 10-game streak:

last night's HP ump scorecard, about as bad as I expected - Johnson might as well have been wearing black and gold

well it didn't quite happen in the way portrayed, and for most of the day it looked like it'd be wrong but damned if the @ootpbaseball.bsky.social sim didn't call the outcome for the tenth(?, I haven't counted) straight day

this game has gone so long the pitching matchup is Yohan vs Yoendrys, we've reached the end of the alphabet

(Donald Fagen voice) 🎶brodacious cowboys🎶

outside chance this Rays-Pirates game finishes after all 3 NHL playoff games are over

Cedric Mullins, making it 2021 again through science or magic for one night at least

When the Churru hits #Caturday

ABS is great in that it's enabled a lot of bad ball/strike calls to be reversed but it's making me angrier watching games when the Rays waste their challenges, especially early, as now every subsequent missed call is costing them because of stupid challenges like Fraley's

What kind of morons is she actually influencing?

You’re not a true Pirates fan unless you’re wearing an eyepatch

shaky goaltending is an Ullmark of the Senators

If I were Cash I’d restrict challenges to pitchers/catchers unless it’s something truly egregious

Jake Fraley needs to have his challenging privileges revoked

today's Rays "pre-play", now up to 85% accuracy (17/20), although I'll be quite surprised if they jump all over Skenes like this sim said they will:

Boos and booze are the only way for #NUFC fans to cope these days

The shadows at St. James Park make the pitch look hilly

Brentford-Fulham: That was 90 minutes of football all right

girding myself for another #NUFC match

Griffin “Giving Up” Jax

at the top of Cedric Mullins' to-do list: *make it 2021 again through science or magic #Rays

Looks like Kevin Cash is working on a beard, it’ll end up white a la his former hitting coach Derek Shelton

They shoot off fireworks for doubles in Pittsburgh?

Let's go Mets! (the guy for St. Pauli that is)

today's Rays "pre-play", now up to 15/18 accuracy, tonight would be a good time to be wrong though as otherwise it's a good thing tonight's game is being relegated to Apple TV

this started in college football when the home team scores a touchdown and it's a scourge upon the Earth

I like the small print disclaimer "It's only April" but the rest of the back page is

trying to post on Bluesky today

Every time I see a batter pop up to end a late afternoon game in partial shadows I think of Yaz popping up to Nettles in the 1978 one-game playoff

the ABS graphics shouldn't have the colored tail of the pitch because it's an immediate spoiler when it's shown green or red, the color shouldn't display until the animated ball hits the zone

Austin Jones has been Bucknor-esque behind the plate today, already overturned three times (and could have been overturned a fourth had the White Sox challenged)

c'mon Rays TV, fix your stuttering audio

today's Rays "pre-play", now 14/17 in predictive accuracy

well he got the Rays 1-2-3 so once again he finished quickly

Reese McGuire on to pitch for the White Sox so once again he's doing embarrassing things in public

A friend texted me a pic his son took at Rate Field and I told him it looks like he’s in their “jump on the field and beat on the first base coach” seats

Stefanik's at the "WILL PARROT MAGA TALKING POINTS FOR FOOD" stage of her political career

Drew Rasmussen may the new dad on the Rays staff but Jesse Scholtens looks like some dad they picked out of the stands to pitch

meanwhile Jesse is Scholten them down

Rays got a homer from Jake Fraley off a righty, then when Chicago brought in a lefty they pinch-hit for him with Jonny DeLuca, who also homered They're the 21st century Lowenstein/Roenicke

Good to have a Condon, offers rim protection

Bayern-PSG is going to be the real final

Real Madrid is Diazed and confused

today's Rays "pre-play", now up to 82% (13/16) accuracy, let's make it 14 of 17

pitying any netural who decided to watch Arsenal-Sporting instead of Bayern-Real

watching Bayern-Real Madrid