Tim Lemke

Not sure why there'd be any delta between Bonds and Clemens. Both are obvious HOFers based on the numbers. It's just about whether or not you care or not that they cheated.

LOL

I am quite certain we can solve the world’s energy problems by finding a way to channel the intensity of Max Scherzer starting Game 7 of the World Series.

World Series Game 6 coverage opens with Rush’s “Subdivisions.” I want to run through a wall. Geddy Lee and Jays fans approve.

Nooo.

Dodgers are learning that it's not enough to have a couple guys playing well. Shohei may be able to do everything, but he can't do everything. And Blue Jays are getting contributions from everyone, including guys making $700k.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but last night's 18-inning game sorta underscores why the ghost runner is fine for the regular season. A game like that is great in October. But on a random Tuesday night in May? Eh. But I do think introducing the runner in the 11th or 12th might make more sense.

“Jeez. What is it with these guys?”

Kinda works!

Perhaps it’s bunching, but Maryland-UCLA took absolutely forever. Seems to be an issue for Maryland in particular.

To Maryland football: you know how to *take* the lead, you just don't know how to *hold* the lead. And that's really the most important part of the leading: the holding. Anybody can just take them.

I think all postseason teams must be forced to play one game with their worst regular season lineup. Like, I need to see the Dodgers start Matt Sauer and have Michael Conforto in left.

Good for BWI

If both a batter and pitcher know that a walk allows a run, and the batter ends up walking...what does that tell us? Batters swung at 31% of balls outside the zone in 2025. In 2002, it was 18 percent. The number of actual strikes thrown has been declining for years. Swing less, get on base more.

People forget that Mariano Rivera, the best relief pitcher of all time and the only unanimous Hall of Famer, committed an error in the bottom of the 9th of Game 7 of the World Series. Stuff happens.

I did it. And a day after my Phillies lost in terrible fashion. I think I may be broken.

Oh, you're correct. Doesn't make me any less furious about the decision.

And the Phillies are inexplicably bunting against him.

Even if Stott's bunt in the 9th was successful, it would have decreased the Phillies run expectancy for the inning.

Yeah. That made me want to walk into traffic.

That decision to bunt will go down as one of the dumbest things in Philadelphia sports history.

He rejects this whole. And heartedly.

Shohei Ohtani is great, but if I am the Phillies I am salivating at possibility of getting four whole innings against that bullpen.

And you're also thinking how Gen. Schwarzkopf is a little chubby and therefore unqualified to lead Desert Storm.

Interesting stat about the Guardians: Their hitters had the platoon advantage 78.6% of the time. That is tops in MLB by far. They have consistently been among the league leaders in this for years, but never had a percentage this high. (In fact, I am fairly certain it's the highest ever.)

Unless it's SEVENEVES, in which case there's been nothing but plot and still not a single character developed.

Find me a better back-to-back pair of albums than this followed by Violator.

Baseball certainly has changed. In 1978, Larry Bowa finished third in the MVP vote. He hit three homers all year. Edmundo Sosa hit three just last night.

From just one A to ... how many F's?! Full regular-season grades for all 30 MLB teams Whether your team is headed to October or packing its bags for the offseason, how did 2025 measure up to expectations?

This article gives the Orioles a grade of D-minus for the season, which seems pretty harsh. Yes, they started 16-34. But they played at nearly a 90-win pace after that.

www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Certainly. Notable: his teammates Mike Jorgensen and Ellis Valentine got a vote on the same ballot! LOL.

I sometimes come across MLB players with super careers, and learn they got no HOF consideration. My latest: Steve Rogers. Not one vote for this guy? As good as anyone for a decade. Outdueled Steve Carlton twice in the 1981 NLDS. www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ro... @jayjaffe.bsky.social