DuWayne Steurer

Mind. Blown.

They aren't?? You are what your record says you are. The Reds have a +27 run differential, which means they aren't a crap team. They're a team with decent to mediocre talent with a losing record.

I don't think Puig is a knucklehead, I think he just has a certain way of playing the game that rubs people the wrong way. Personally, I don't have a problem with it.

Purses and backpacks with 10 different compartments are the easiest for the wrong person to sneak in the wrong thing, as well as the most time consuming item to check. There also is only a finite amount of space/doors people can enter from. And frankly, fans are the reason the process moves so slowly...so logically any change made should be made by the fans and not security anyways. Space is not an issue. The building is an island in a parking lot sea. They could add a dozen more screening stations by just bumping the whole screening process out several feet from the stadium, and then have controlled queues into the actual building. If they're trying to expedite entrance into the building, there are things they could do themselves instead of forcing fans to make all the changes. But that would cost real money. And lots of people will be unaffected by this, or will even benefit from their new bag policy. So maybe it's a wash. But not everyone will benefit. And the Brewers are putting it on families to alter their routines to go to games. As someone who has traveled in the past with a tiny kid, there are lots of things that one must carry to make that a favorable experience. The Brewers just made that more difficult. Diaper bags are still allowed, per the press release.

Not sure I follow...you get a kick out of the opposing manager making a move to bring in a lefty against Yelich even though he does significantly worse against LHP? His stats are still phenomenally good against LHP, but his splits are pretty large. There is about a .300 difference in his OPS and his slugging has a .200 difference. Seems like a logical move if you ask me. Much better chance to get him out. If he was "bad" against lefties, I feel like it would make some modicum of sense. Burning a mound visit and a reliever to try to get a guy out who "only" has a .950 OPS vs lefties (and was almost platoon neutral last year) seems like a waste of resources. IMO of course.

I've always liked Grisham, but like others have said, I really want to see more than a 1/2 season of great hitting before we anoint him the Next Big Thing. I expect him to perform at the big league level, but there's just no rush with the guy. Braun is hitting, Yelich is Yelich-ing, and I don't think the production we're getting out of Cain is indicative of his true talent. There's just no need to rush Grisham at this point.

I think that only matters if the lefties can't hit lefties, no? Right. Yelich and Moose absolutely have no trouble hitting lefties. I get a kick when opposing managers specifically make a pitching change to bring in a LHR to face Yelich.

Don Mattingly not to subtly said he wants robot umps yesterday. Interesting when one of the old school "back in my day" guys is calling for a huge change like this.

I would guess that a disproportionate number of people getting caught with a gun in security don't actually have a license. I suspect this is true as well.

I would guess about 1 every 1 to 3 games. If you are carrying a gun and forget that you have it on you, that's irresponsible gun ownership. If you are carrying a gun and simply try to sneak it into a place that does not allow guns, that is irresponsible gun ownership. I live in Wisconsin so I know a fair amount of people who open carry or concealed carry, and I don't know any of them who would willingly admit to having ever forgotten that they were carrying a weapon.

Cashner is a rental and the Orioles are going to be in a multi-year rebuild. Trading him within the division really isn't a big deal.

I'm not even mad. That's a good send. Two great throws and a great defensive play by Posey. Tip o' the cap right there. That is textbook play by a catcher in this new era.

The 92 brewers scored 4.56 runs per game while hitting 82 homers (which was 13th in the league... Not dead last) They wer 5th in the league in runs. This year's club is scoring 4.74 runs a game with 155 homers in 91 games... So a pace of 276. And are 8th in the league in runs. That's an extreme example but its pretty similar around the league. Scoring has its ebbs and flows but its generally 4 ish to 5 ish rpg. You'll have short eras like the 60s where scoring dips or the 90s where it jumps but whether its homers or bunts and steals the rpg is generally the same.

re: Player salaries.. Vet players/players union absolutely have to come to grips with the fact that they have to go to bat for the young guys who are coming up now or haven't even been drafted yet to make significant change in the salary structure. The problem is that there's too many guys who simply want to get theirs, and don't give a hoot if some young John Doe 5 years from now gets paid in pre-arby for what he's doing now. The veteran who is 32 NOW wants to get paid NOW, and wants to make change to the structure of the game NOW because it's hurting him NOW. These guys don't (or refuse to) understand that the best way to change the game in a meaningful way is to lay groundwork for the young guys coming up to get paid sooner, rather than later, so that what we're seeing now doesn't happen again. And they don't want to do that. re: homeruns/bunts. I don't believe that a large portion of fans find bunting and station to station more exciting than homeruns. I do, however, think we're at a saturation point for dingers where the average fan is going to say "ho hum, another homerun", and that's not necessarily good for baseball. Mannfred can say "fans love offense", and that's probably true. You can take an exciting thing, make it very doldrum, and take away how fun and exciting it is by making it very commonplace, and I think homeruns have reached that point. I think there's a point where the aesthetic value of baseball, for some people, maybe a lot of people, isn't what they want it to be, with the 3TO nature of the game. Baseball is, by and large, a lot of standing around, and when you replace a lot of the balls in play with walks and strikeouts and homeruns, then there is by nature, even more standing around, and then for some people, there is a downtick to the aesthetic of the game. I may not agree with that, but I understand it.

Verlander says it's a joke that MLB buys the company that makes baseball, and now home runs are up by a staggering percentage. Manfred admits that they have scientifically concluded that the ball has something to do with the uptick in home run percentage, but says that because the balls are handmade that it's an inexact process and that year-to-year there will be variances in the ball making process.... That's all fine and well, but it seems like we're seeing a 465 foot homerun nightly on the highlight reels, and I don't think that's just from A variation in the ball making process, and it's not because guys have suddenly discovered launch angle Revolution.

I think mlb has to get tougher on these kinds of hits and issue suspensions, even if its unintentional. Sooner or later we're just going to have force outs at home or an orange sliding base and I dont think too many people want to see that.

Intent...... who can say... eh. Posey rule has been around a while. Trying to "juke" a catcher to the inside just doesn't make sense anymore. You are given the back/outside of the plate. He didn't "juke" to the inside, he came inside, and then dove into the catcher. At no point did he attempt a slide. If I had to guess intent, I don't think he intended to injure Lucroy, but he did. At no point did Lucroy not give him a lane to slide.

Post - posey that play just doesn't happen any more. It just doesn't. Lucroy is absolutely, very clearly moving away from the line, and even if not, I haven't seen a single play like this where a runner is attempting to get "the inside corner" of the plate by running three feet inside the baseline at the last second. Give him a suspension and move on.

It had already been raining steady at that point for a while. It was pretty inevitable the game was going to get halted. Getting an ab for Anderson's spot wasn't a bad call. (Imo)

Aguilar was never a 1.000 ops masher. He was also not a .550 ops scrub. Glad Stearns and co didnt give up on him.

Maybe Anderson is hurt. Maybe he's just tightening up. Maybe he's got a blister. Maybe he just wanted the PH'er last inning to try to generate some offense, and he knows the entire bullpen is available today going into the break. Lots of reasons that he could have pulled him without it being a "fireable offense"....

Did you guys know that Mauricio Dubon is the first Honduran to be born and raised to play in the MLB? Just wondering if you hadn't noticed Coshun mention it.....

Here's my thoughts on Bill I appreciate that he's "better" than most of the other teams' tv color guys. I can know that, and still dislike his grumpy "back in my day" rants that are often wholly factually incorrect. When he says stuff like "pitchers in the 80's almost always went 7 or more innings" and it's just almost entirely factually false, and he has a computer right in front of him and he could look that stuff up, it annoys the crap out of me. I know, I know, he's the color guy, blah blah blah... it still annoys me. Uecker loses track of the game (often) and that's annoying but he embraces the way the game is changing, and I appreciate the heck out of that. When he talks about the way the game is changing, he doesn't sound like an embittered old man the way Schroeder does. I (again) appreciate that Rock is "better" than most color men on tv, but the grumpy ex-player thing comes off as super annoying at least twice a game. I'm not advocating rock to leave or get fired, but his schtick gets old.

Well, Tyler Saladino slugged .568 in San Antonio. Dubon hit 14 of his career 40 minor league homers in the first half of this year in a hitters park in a hitters league. I think it's fair to be skeptical that he's suddenly an offensive force. If he has found a new swing that adds some launch angle,. great! I just think it's fair to be skeptical. If Dubon can hit .260-.270 and hit a few doubles and homers and play decent defense I think most everyone will be happy with that.

I no longer watch the NFL Too many kneelers? That has nothing to do with it at all. And let's keep politics out of the board, thanks. Declining product quality. Lack of interest in player safety. Homogenized product. I've said before, a capped league where every team is more or less "the same" doesn't interest me all that much. NFL isn't all that interesting to me these days. I've watched about 5 Packers games total in the past 4 years.