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MLB's gambling crisis is only beginning And why Andy Pages is the Forrest Gump of baseball.

For subscribers: I tried to figure out exactly what MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is doing to stop gambling from utterly destroying baseball. The answer: not much!
Plus, why Andy Pages is the Forrest Gump of baseball: mollyknight.substack.com/p/mlbs-gambl...

Enrique talks about how he went rogue with his positioning on the play that ended Game 6. Good discussion about the thought process/baseball IQ stuff. (Yes, there's weird audio issues.)

Blake Snell reveals who the funniest Dodger is.

Shohei Ohtani graphic of him holding a bat with the caption "Thank you, Fans!"

from Shohei Ohtani on Instagram: "Thank you to all the fans for another great season. I'll train hard and look forward to seeing you all next year. Happy to play and represent Japan again."

Dodgers haven't needed to use the "thank you, fans" template the last two seasons, so Shohei Ohtani used it to say he's playing in the World Baseball Classic for Japan

Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"

I think Johnson has created a non-existent “issue” with the bill. He claims it fails to define Child Sexual Assault Material properly, which would require the AG to release child porn. It doesn’t, and she wouldn’t have to, but may be a way out? 1/

I can usually translate him, but either I’m losing my mind, or he is.

Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape WASHINGTON—In an effort to bring an end to what he described as an anti-American trend in filmmaking, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday imposing a 100% tax on the profits of movi...

Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape

This kook gave this video to LibsOfTikTok, who presumably thought this was a normal thing to do and not visibly psycho shit. Even on Twitter it landed like a wet fart in an elevator.

These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.

The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us

He’s losing it.

LOL. Why does he need to sign a bill to release the files when he can just RELEASE THE FILES?

Dear ICE: They don't let you wear a mask in your mug shot.

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”

Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

Latino Dodgers fans want the champions to stand up to Trump Rejecting an invitation to the White House would make up for what some perceive as a tepid response to immigration crackdown this summer.

Latino Dodgers fans have urged the team to more forcefully denounce immigration raids.

Many are angry at what they view as the team’s weak response and say the organization will have to win them back — in part by standing up to President Trump.

He had a .972 OPS this postseason up until that ill-advised diving attempt against the Brewers where I remember them saying he aggravated it. He had a .367 OPS after. Small samples, but probably related.

Acton: I’m running against a guy, Vivek Ramaswamy, who has said that people are struggling in Ohio because they’re lazy, they’re mediocre, they’re not working hard enough. And I can absolutely tell you that is not the Ohioans I know or see. I think he’s completely out of touch.

Freddie peer pressured into doing the worm at Lux's wedding with his walk-up music playing, lmao. He is gonna be on the IL until August at this rate.

The “Trump blew Bill” thing is advantageous in a bunch of ways but my favorite is that, aside from Trump, it’s a genuinely victimless joke.

Bill Clinton doesn’t give a shit if you believe Trump sucked him off. In fact, I promise you the man feels alive right now in a way he hasn’t for 30 years.

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro: “I ordered the militarisation of the entire country starting at 4pm by land, sea, and air.”

No player in MLB history has won an MVP Award unanimously in more than one season except for Shohei Ohtani who has now done it four times. It's completely ridiculous.

Leavitt claims climate change is "built on a fallacy"

Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?

Someone must stop these low-wage servants from buying all the houses!

HANNITY: I keep hearing from Democrats, 'Nazi, fascist, racist, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini.' Is that incitement? Do you believe that impacts unstable people

BONDI: It is freedom of speech, but it does. They probably couldn't even define a 'fascist'

America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

But also!

Search now includes non-pitches, which means we can properly account for automatic balls and strikes and intentional walks in OBP and other metrics, which was a big hole.

Thanks to @dhp.bsky.social for the work on this guy!

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For any dummies still saying that the umps got the Barger stuck ball call wrong. This is from the OFFICIAL ROGERS CENTER GROUND RULES...

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