Trevor Larnach, or: When Disrupting the Routine is a Good Thing It's been a profoundly strange start to the season for Trevor Larnach. That's turned out to be great news for him, at least so far.

There's a moment in the West Wing where Leo tells the staff they have to start submitting summaries before taking an issue to POTUS. Josh says, "Two pages is gonna cramp our styles, a little." Leo says, "Your style could use a little cramping."

On Trevor Larnach: twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/...

Craig Counsell being a dick about rules goes back almost a decade at this point. It’s much more fun to be on this side of it and make fun of him tbh

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Her?

Multi-Run Strategies? In This Economy?! | Baseball Prospectus Evidently, the art of the bunt isn't dead.

Multi-Run Strategies? In This Economy?!
by Matthew Trueblood (@matrueblood.bsky.social)
www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

“I think it’s time to show the donkey the snake.”

“I know my truth. I know my truth!”

And more!

Jesus. That’s scary.

Some of these are, yeah, just bad and forgettable. Some of them are great (or at least fun) and if you’ve really forgotten about or missed them, track them down. I own eight of these on DVD.

And I’ll have you know that COUPLES RETREAT actually *is* the Vaughn/Favreau movie we quote at my house.

The friction of land-based supersonic travel would just create a massive wildfire, I assume. Which, that sounds like their kind of policy, all right.

Joey Ortiz is Not a Viable Hitter, But Can the Brewers Trust David Hamilton's Glove? At shortstop, the Brewers face a quandary. They trust Joey Ortiz more than anyone else in the organization as a defender, but Ortiz is becoming untenable even at the bottom of the lineup card.

Joey Ortiz is as broken as a hitter gets. He has no business being in an MLB batting order—but the #Brewers so trust his glove at shortstop that David Hamilton still has to show them more to take Ortiz's spot. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Hahaha. I think they were still trying to make those cool when my sister was in a similar class in the 90s.

It would be fascinating to see how Tom Cruise works a series of crazy physical stunts into a Norm biopic.

I think I strained a hip flexor just hearing that.

If it’s about Ohio’s fascistic oppression of hotties: I am on the same level.

There are like 15 things you could be referring to today, though, so I don’t mean to assume it’s that one.

🫡

I found this quite good, and illuminating.

“Anal cleft” is way too fun a phrase to be used in such an unfun way. Ohio remains the worst.

Trevor Larnach, or: When Disrupting the Routine is a Good Thing It's been a profoundly strange start to the season for Trevor Larnach. That's turned out to be great news for him, at least so far.

There's a moment in the West Wing where Leo tells the staff they have to start submitting summaries before taking an issue to POTUS. Josh says, "Two pages is gonna cramp our styles, a little." Leo says, "Your style could use a little cramping."

On Trevor Larnach: twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/...

“Now that I’m around my son, I’ve been around activities with autistic people,” Hernández said. “I realized that I know a lot of people that maybe are on the spectrum and they don’t even know.”

Truly the most universal of neurodivergence experiences 😂

Outfield Defense is a Rising Tide. Pete Crow-Armstrong is an Airplane. They say a rising tide lifts all boats, but if you're built different, you don't wait for anything else to lift you.

The better the talent pool, the harder it is to be an outlier. The talent pool has gotten much better when it comes to outfield defense—but Pete Crow-Armstrong is still an outlier. It's special stuff. northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/...

Bulls: it’s time.

I don’t bike, but I also don’t drive. As a walker who lives in the suburbs: holy shit, the things you notice. Drivers suck.

House Democrats Demand Immediate Reinstatement of State Department Energy Bureau and Staff as Iran War Drives Energy Cost Spike

You can read the letter we sent Secretary Marco Rubio demanding the immediate reinstatement of the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources and its personnel here: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

The Next Adjustment in the Run Game Is Already Here Trends in this game don’t announce themselves they surface quietly, spread, and before long they’ve reshaped how everyone operates.

"With lead sizes continuing to grow and teams pushing to exploit the current rules, a defensive response was inevitable this is just the first version of it"

jrod20033.substack.com/p/the-next-a...

I have no idea whether this position is correct or not, and part of my reason for hating him is old fan enmity. But I have always hated John Lynch and seeing him say this makes me so happy. He's gonna get fired, and his team is gonna SUCK, and that, imo, owns.

Multi-Run Strategies? In This Economy?! | Baseball Prospectus Evidently, the art of the bunt isn't dead.

When the universal DH came in for good in 2022, teams thought maybe they'd never bunt again. Bunts went WAY down—but they've crept back ever since, and are nearly as prevalent right now as in 2021. Why? And are we going to have to have this fight again? www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Joey Ortiz is Not a Viable Hitter, But Can the Brewers Trust David Hamilton's Glove? At shortstop, the Brewers face a quandary. They trust Joey Ortiz more than anyone else in the organization as a defender, but Ortiz is becoming untenable even at the bottom of the lineup card.

Joey Ortiz is as broken as a hitter gets. He has no business being in an MLB batting order—but the #Brewers so trust his glove at shortstop that David Hamilton still has to show them more to take Ortiz's spot. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Outfield Defense is a Rising Tide. Pete Crow-Armstrong is an Airplane. They say a rising tide lifts all boats, but if you're built different, you don't wait for anything else to lift you.

The better the talent pool, the harder it is to be an outlier. The talent pool has gotten much better when it comes to outfield defense—but Pete Crow-Armstrong is still an outlier. It's special stuff. northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/...

'ham how do u post so much and only get 1-20 likes on average per post'

well first of all fuck you buddy