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  1. owbc
    He should have challenged but he got fooled and thought it was a strike.
  2. owbc
    Great win lead by relief pitching and defense. Can’t win them all with the bats.
  3. owbc
    If challenging has taught me one thing it’s that hitters have no idea what is a ball or strike.
  4. owbc
    Yelich will be moved down by the end of the month if he continues to slump
  5. owbc
    I was at the 2022 playoff game in Seattle that had an AQI around 150. That was right at the level I would draw the line at. Except the game was 6 hours long 😅
  6. owbc
    It’s good that tomorrow is a matinee. Sunday might be the iffy one but it doesn’t look as bad as it has been.
  7. owbc
    Durbin has an OPS+ of 94 on the season. Where would we be without the return we got from this trade?
  8. owbc
    That was under previous ownership. Seidler wanted a championship before he died so he gave Preller a blank check. The team is currently in the process of being sold, it is likely that they will try to dump payroll but I don’t see Miller being moved.
  9. owbc
    Seems like the Red Sox have played themselves out of being sellers. The Tigers might not be far behind. At the pace this is going there is going to be almost nobody available to trade for from the entire AL.
  10. owbc
    My hot take is that our lack of recent playoff success is almost entirely bad luck from several all-star closers blowing critical games / punching walls + other bad injury luck. Different roster management practices would not have helped in any appreciable way.
  11. owbc
    My understanding is that only about 20% of Canada’s wildfires occur in areas that have ever been logged. Not sure what the percentage of the current fires is but this is largely not something that can be solved by forest management. Most of the fires in Canada are occurring in areas far from any human intervention and nobody has the resources to do anything about it, nor should they. There’s no way that climate change (doesn’t matter if it’s manmade or natural) isn’t a major contributor. Wildfires are increasing across the world in areas with vastly different ecosystems and historical management practices. Of course weather is what starts the fires most of the time but that’s occurring in a situation where the dice are loaded. I’m in Montana right now and the forests around the town that I’m in have been proactively thinned and managed to reduce wildfire risk. I’m not denying the effectiveness of that approach near populated areas, but it isn’t realistic on any kind of scale that would put a dent in the smoke problem.
  12. owbc
    So out in the PNW it was rare to have any major wildfire smoke prior to 2015. Around then a switch flipped and smoke is a near-yearly occurrence although the severity varies by year. Climate change and the forestry management practices of the last 50 years have combined to make this seem like it hit all at once. I disagree with Fear the Chorizo, more intervention is not the solution and is how we landed in this predicament in the first place. Intervention can be done to protect communities but the wilderness areas should be left alone to go through their natural cycle of burning and regrowing. Historically the fires were far less intense prior to human intervention. We’ve been dealing with this out west for a while. We all have indoor air filters and we stay inside when there is smoke. The answer is that you’re going to have to adapt to dealing with the smoke. Sorry. The firefighting effort is all spent saving property and they have gotten quite skilled at that.
  13. owbc
    How long can the Dodgers remain at the top before Father Time and deferred contracts catch up to them?
  14. owbc
    He didn’t say it about McCullers 😂
  15. owbc
    It seems like the Astros think McCullers is worth nothing and they were willing to part with a AAA starting pitcher in exchange for cutting costs. I’m not sure what their thinking is. Fielder feels like a thrown in to save the Brewers a bit of cost and possibly for optics on the Astros side. Overall my reaction is that it gives us something to think about on the off day. If this trade happened on deadline day it would have barely been noticed.
  16. owbc
    Sunk cost on a contract with frontloaded production. He isn’t going anywhere, what I’m saying is that they can ride him in the leadoff spot a little longer but he’ll lose playing time if this continues.
  17. owbc
    The Yelich situation is like the Rengifo one. We have the luxury of being patient because we are winning but everyone knows the clock is ticking.
  18. owbc
    Overall the offense gets high marks today for running a good starter out after 5. I didn’t think Sproat was that bad today. Wild and inefficient, yes, but he mostly kept the ball away from the barrel and we have a good shot at winning the game. Would I trust him in the postseason? Absolutely not.
  19. owbc
    I’m watching this game on a plane, it started at 9 am and is giving me something to do. Landing soon so will miss the end.
  20. owbc
    In addition to creating competition it seems like these young rookies come up into the bigs with less pressure when they have the full confidence of the organization and have their future secured.
  21. owbc
    What are the odds that Lara/Pratt/Frelick hit 3 XBH in a row again? Ever?
  22. owbc
    And they have the sword slashing move to go with it
  23. owbc
    Despite Sproat’s control issues that inning is still a zero most of the time. And now we’re back to even!
  24. owbc
    There’s some truth to it — our OPS+ is only 101. But our strategy isn’t to lead the league in OPS, it’s to score runs.
  25. owbc
    The Angels are notorious for this. They scheduled a game last year against Pittsburgh with a 6:29 start which is the latest they are legally allowed to start under the CBA. All the AL West opponents hate them because the flights home are all under 2.5 hours so they always schedule night games on weekday getaways. Even when they are forced to do a day game they will often start at 4. Since the STL to PIT flight for us is under the limit, the Cards can get away with a night game.
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