Aria Gerson

I’m surprised this isn’t brought up more with Tucker, but my biggest concern wouldn’t be that “he doesn’t have elite bat speed” per se. It’s this: significant decline over the last 3 years in EV, sprint speed, defense, arm strength.

That coupled with the injuries is scary

I have never once noticed or cared if a grocery store employee smiled at me (in fact I usually try not to interact with employees as much as possible lol)

The Tucker to the Giants stuff is weird, it’s hard to find a worse team-player fit. That ballpark would swallow him up and he is way way way too mellow for Tony V (he was even too mellow for the Cubs, and the Cubs are extremely mellow!)

Hell my full on winter coat was half that price at a department store

I can buy a wool blend sweater AND a pair of jeans from one of the semi-upscale stores in the mall for that price 😭😭

For me Fubo is more expensive than it would be to keep YTTV + get ESPN Unlimited on top of that, so if this isn’t resolved by the time my YTTV runs out I might have to go for Hulu Live, even though I don’t want to because it’s a worse product

The Cubs more than any team in baseball are obsessed with flexibility. They do not want any dead money on their payroll ever, and they’re willing to pay more now to ensure they’re not paying a useless player in the future. Is that smart? Not really, but it’s how they operate

Real ones know that Vandy has five potential instant impact arms on its roster this year 👀

How exactly were the coaching staffs expecting this to work? There was basically no chance this ended any other way 😭

never been more excited for a trip down I-40 for Thanksgiving instead of a flight home

the worst part of the college sports writer schedule is seeing your friends go home for the holidays while you're working (and even if you're not working, you learn your bowl assignment too late to get a reasonable price on travel), but tbh...maybe this is to my advantage this year

My random MLB offseason prediction: Kyle Tucker signs somewhere totally random that nobody is expecting. Astros, Rangers, Blue Jays, Diamondbacks, a team of that ilk

Throughout the fall, Vanderbilt has been tracking its hitters’ progress with a focus on three pillars. This is a similar approach to what is used by many pro teams.

It will be interesting to see how this impacts the current roster with several players who excel in one pillar but struggle in another

Jason Esposito was once a player frustrated that he needed to improve but lacked the tools to know how.

Now as the #VandyBoys hitting coach, he's bringing an approach from the pros to try to improve an offense that's fallen behind: www.tennessean.com/story/sports...

Like yes, the team is bad but peak Trout on the bad Angels still got attention. But Trout’s last great season was in 2022 and his last generational-level season was in 2018. There have been many other stars emerge in that time who have become the face of baseball. That’s just how sports are

I remember having this conversation back in like 2017 and it made more sense then (even though the answer was always that he didn’t like the spotlight). By now, it’s simply the fact that Trout has played in 2.75 seasons worth of games in the last 6 years and isn’t an MVP level player anymore

And when Ohtani was on the Angels, Trout was also not even the best or most generational player on his own team, and Ohtani always seemed more comfortable in the spotlight anyway

I mean he’s also only had one Troutian season in the last six. I definitely think he was more talked about in the 2010s, even with the Angels being what they were. But he’s not even one of the 20 best players in the sport anymore, hasn’t been for a while

It’s almost like it’s a good thing to have an organization that treats your players well so that they want to stay

In my market the Fubo sports extra plan is more expensive than YTTV + ESPN unlimited because of the RSN fee AND it doesn’t even have Turner (and I’m not an HBO Max subscriber). If this lasts until after my current month of YTTV lasts I might have to bite the bullet with Hulu even tho I don’t want to

Cream foundation sticks on the other hand? That’s where it’s at. They make travel SO much easier. I will never again live without one

I do not understand the powder foundation trend at all. It’s so wasteful because you have to use SO much product and more ends up on the brush than your face. And then it just settles into pores and pills with a lot of blush/contour products. Why do people like this????

I think there are good baseball/“just wasn’t a fit” reasons to part ways with Tucker. This is just being cheap for the sake of it (or being a lockout accelerationist, which is worse)

This makes me sadder/madder than anything with Tucker, tbh

Mikayla Blakes is Mikayla Blakes even on an off shooting night, Vandy’s gamble on Aubrey Galvan seems to have paid off, two-big lineups worked to perfection and more we learned from the Vanderbilt women’s basketball season opener: www.tennessean.com/story/sports...

And also the team in question had come back from being down 3-1 in the World Series, had to go on the road for games 6 and 7 too, there were even starters in relief! it’s not like any of this is uncharted territory

Someone tell people that there was a game 7 with a shocking, game-tying homer from a role player, extra innings, a pitcher escaping a jam in the clutch AND ALSO A RAIN DELAY, less than 10 years ago, and it also involved a team breaking a century-long drought instead of a superteam

Seeing it start to get dark at 4:30, knowing I will be woken up at 6 am (two hours before I want to be up) by light streaming into my room……it sucks!!!

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Shout put to the dude at BNA wearing a Springer Astros jersey this morning. You’re a real one