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This is the way Seattle Mariners should make World Series After leading 2-0, the Seattle Mariners find themselves in Game 7 of the ALCS in Toronto with a shot in the World Series on the line.

Seattle sports teams don't do cocky. They do their best when their backs are against a wall. So if the #Mariners are going to make the World Series, this is how it should be. Game 7, fighting against critics, time and history.

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They better call Dairon, and tell him come on.

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I laughed so hard at this I attracted my daughters from the other room and had to explain it to them.

Bro took one look at the stock market and said "pay me in Canadian dollars please!"

Jorge Polanco has been great with the bat so far this season!

Also: Deep fried, pole-vaulting CHRIST, can we pretty please NOT PLAY HIS RUBBER ARM AT THIRD?!

Gard Hollinger looks like Robert Downey Jr. and Alfred Molina had a baby.

I haven't cut my hair since the day I got out of the Army, and let me tell you, it takes a hell of a lot more discipline to properly groom long hair than it does to maintain a Yankees haircut.

At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

Enough said ... Read it again and again. And then again. When I was in 7th grade, our teacher put on a video and told us to take notes. Ten minutes in, she threw the lights on and shouted at Steven Webb Sladki, telling him he wasn't taking notes and he should have been. But the thing was, Steve was taking notes. I saw it. We all saw it. The teacher asked if anyone wanted to stand up for Steve. A few of us choked out some words of defense but were immediately squashed. Quickly, we were all very silent. Steve was sent to the principal's office. The teacher came back in the room and said something like "See how easy that was?" We were reading "Anne Frank." I started to understand. I just thought now was a good time to share this story. Don't ever let anyone tell you that what you see with your own eyes isn't happening.

I'm still pissed at Dipoto for not trading Flexen away pre-2023 when he still had some shred of value. His metrics in 2022 showed some pretty clear overperformance and we had great arms coming up. Instead, they clung to him, DFA'd him later, and we missed the postseason by one game. Womp womp.

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Enjoy your circus!

JFC indeed.

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My friend Cliff Cash's comedy special is up on YouTube. If you haven't seen it, you should. Definitely one of the funniest comics I know.

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I love having Angie in the booth, and as much as I'll miss Dave Sims, the way they eased us into the other broadcasters was very well-executed.

Plus, at this point in the offseason, I'm jonesing so hard for baseball I'd tune in every day if the broadcasters were Bobcat Goldthwait and Fran Drescher.

Do they not realize the "accurate, honest" part is mutually exclusive with the rest of it?

Well, this fits too well with my last post for me not to watch it.

On an unrelated note, as a huge Mariners fan and general baseball nerd, I'm very much looking forward to your article about why you can't hit in Seattle, and I definitely won't care that it's stupid long.

Cheers!

Could he be good? Sure. Any away split is small sample. And he's been weirdly good in Oakland, even when they could pitch. But considering he'll be 31 this year, I would be very surprised if his going to the Mets wouldn't lead to the worst season of his career. 5/5

There are other parks good for righty pull hitters, and his stadium splits favor them. His Camden stats pre- and post-Walltimore: 1.148 OPS vs .752 OPS. I'm not saying he can ONLY hit in Houston. But Citi Field is bad for righties, and he won't have a feature to prop him up there. 4/5

Here's the spray chart for every homer he's hit, which so densely favors the boxes that it perfectly outlines left field in Houston. Your article only judges their influence by how many of those are only homers in 1 park of 30-- and he still ties for the league in those types of homers. 3/5

Yes, as seen here, Houston is an average hitting environment for righties in Breggy's career-- because it's average for H/OBP, weak/bad for 2B/3B, good for HR. Without the boxes, Houston's likely bad for righties, but they level it out, which is why I say the boxes prop up his home results. 2/5

I like your articles, but allow me to refute this one. I agree with the stats at a glance, but home/away splits are too general here. I was using the Crawford Boxes as a shorthand myself because of character count, so I'm guilty, too. But I'm AuDHD and my hyperfocus is baseball, so strap in. 1/5

Bergman's stats would crater in CitiField, anyway. His career has been propped up by being a righty who pulls the ball into the Crawford Boxes regularly in Houston. Alonso is basically a one-tool player, but at least he's got proven power hitting in one of MLB's least hitter-friendly environments.

You know the American education system is hopelessly fucked when so many people believe in ghosts, but not vaccines.

I feel like I've seen him manage to pick off a runner at first with a sneaky back-pick throw enough to make up for a certain amount of framing inconsistency.

The Army was bad, too. When I was learning Korean at DLI, my CO was (then) Cpt Doug Mastriano, who ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 2022 on a QAnon platform. He was more concerned with constant inspections than us learning our languages. Or graduation rate under his command: 13%. Very Jesus-y.

Absolute filth. I can't wait to see more of it this season.

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