Its just rust

can you put managers on the IL

Frankly, I blame Dave. Diaz, as Mets fans know, needs to work out the kinks in April, so he needs to be out there screwing up games every three days at least, so he is ready to win in September/October.

100 muthafuckas can't tell Stearns nothin'

NOW can we get rid of Mendoza?

Blaze it.

More like Pete "Eat crow" Armstrong.

Somebody has a dead arm.

I hope you are ahead of me

No! Not that motherscratcher!

What a glove

Wait until you hear about phonebooks.

Like clockwork. HBD

Was that the Maddux 11 hit game where he lost his contacts on the flight out?

I was at that game. I was baffled. “Booing? That’s Allen Ginsburg!”

Rance?

diversity win! the Kansas City Royals are now officially bisexual

He walked with God. It’s a thing.

I have warned my cow-orkers that my mood the next 6 months will rise and fall every game.

I was in Wrigley for Opening weekend once; Game 2 was UNBEARABLY cold.

Also, IMO pitchcom is the worst offender of all of this.

Lastly, Peyton called his own plays.

"The league hit under .250". Yes, because the walls are too close and too low. Not because the outfield is too good. Runs per game is still up. Batting Average? No thanks. And catchers have always looked into the dugout between pitches. Well, in our lifetimes anyway. Not every pitch but not none.

Maybe I read poorly, but its just "ban note cards in the players pockets"? And are the coaches the FO? Hasn't there been a binder in the dugout for 50 years (ok 45)? Is FO ok in the dugout, but not literally on the field? No bunt signs? No take signs? Thats literally one of the charms of baseball.

So no repositioning of fielders? What about signs for take and bunt? The offense gets bench coaching but not the defense? I guess I have to RTFA

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The military just had a $200billion overrun in Q1.

Great Moments in Labor Reporting I haven't really been following the labor battle going on in the WNBA, but yesterday someone who is, writer Frankie de la Cretaz, shared an absolutely hilarious tweet from ESPN reporter Holly Rowe regarding the ongoing negotiations. See if you can see where the bad journalism happens. Trust me, it's not subtle: [pasted tweet from Holly Rowe with owner negotiation points, preceded by her inadvertently pasting "just so you have on background -- no attribution to me or the league" which clearly means she was pasting a text from a league source] Just a little reminder that whenever you see someone reporting information from inside these sorts of negotiations they're just passing along what league or union sources want people to hear. Most of it comes from the ownership side because most reporters are aligned with the owners due to their employers being in business with the leagues, but it happens from both sides.

That doesn't mean you should totally ignore this stuff because the information may very well be accurate. But do know that when something like this comes out, it's coming out for a reason. Mostly to sway public opinion and to cast the other side as unreasonable. And always remember that these sorts of tweets from reporters are not exhaustive treatments of the issues in play. They tend to omit the unpopular things or proposals related to the actual sticking points in negotiations. Which is to say that when Ken Rosenthal tells you next winter about the great stuff MLB is proposing to the union, rest assured that he's not including the unreasonable stuff or the dealbreakers. Because whoever is texting him the sorts of things Rowe's source texted her is not including that stuff. Most sports "insiders" gain that status because they have shown that they are willing to print, verbatim, whatever leagues, teams, agents, and the like want them to print. They keep getting fed that stuff because they don't, as a rule, report on their subjects and sources critically.

In the newsletter: yesterday @thefrankiedlc.news caught an ESPN reporter copying and pasting league and posting owner talking points verbatim. It's a good reminder what "insider" reporting is really all about.

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