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I already know I enjoy watching him pitch over Cease and Giolito. Doesn’t mean he’s better, but he’s got a delivery I like watching.

Whatever works for you, but how do those glasses not fog up?

Good call

Nasty inning. Please stay healthy.

Going to the 12th in Minnesota. I thought the new rule was supposed to end these games faster.

Tie ballgame in Minnesota

May happen.

Nice to get the first two and thoroughly enjoy Dunning/Mize. Hope it’s a good game...and Robert is ok.

If it goes 3-0, swing Danny.

Maeda no hitter thru 8. 113 pitches. Go for it!

Nice job, Heuer.

Good outing. Calm down.

I want Cease to be able to make 32 starts and throw 210 innings someday.

We’ll see. It’s going to be NonTenderPalooza this offseason in MLB.

Surprise call up, Crochet? Vaughn? Clayton Richard?!!!

In a way, I feel bad for the guy. New team, was doing well in March, season on hold, gets Covid or Strep, works out with minor leaguers in suburban Chicago, and then he’s gotta come up and get it done now! Now, that’s part of the game, and the game can be cruel, but I feel under normal circumstances, he could have had a productive season. Now it’s looking like one and done in Chicago.

For the most part, fans think it’s ok to swing 3-0 when you’re up big. Hear that managers? That unwritten rule is gone. Glad we settled that.

And real talk here...if Tatis took a 3-0 fastball down broadway, nobody would have flinched. Is it outdated in today’s scoring environment? Yes, I’d say so. Star players should let it rip. But up big in the 8th, bases loaded, 3-0 count, that’s been a standard take for decades. People need to understand the human being part of this equation. Now, maybe Tatis “changed the game” last night. But if Tingler asks his backup catcher to take a pitch in the same situation, he should do it.

Enough with the “shaving runs” stuff. Tingler wasn’t trying to lose. He wasn’t trying to take the bat out of Tatis’s hands either. He was making Tatis take one pitch on 3-0. If he walked, they score a run, and Machado comes up with bases loaded, one out. I’m on the side of hitting 3-0, especially if you’re a good or great hitter. But holy overreaction.

It’s a generational thing. I’m sure Renteria now, Ozzie 15 years ago, or Dusty Baker 20 years ago to a player not named Bonds, would have called for 3-0 take too in that situation.

The west coast thing doesn’t help. We’re talking about Tatis because he was signed by the Sox, but I don’t know if the average sports fan cares. To me, Trout would be a bigger star if MLB played a balanced schedule and he tried to be more visible.

Yawn.

I was pretty thorough in my posts and how I feel. Read them back. If you don’t understand, oh well.

Agreed about Woodward and the Mike Minor thing. That was horse shit.

Point is, I agree that 3-0 hitting is ok. But Tingler is a human being that actually knows people in the other dugout. It was his call to make Tatis take one pitch up 7 runs with one out in the top of the 8th. One pitch. To me, I probably wouldn’t have made that call. I’d let him hit in the best hitters count. If that’s the new norm in baseball, I’m all for it. But I do understand where Tingler is coming from...that 39 yr old geezer.