Brock Beauchamp

To this day, the worst single baseball swing I've ever seen in MLB was from Cristian Guzman. He was caught unprepared for a fastball and about half a second after the catcher's glove popped, Guzman started the most pathetic swing you will ever see from a professional hitter. Everyone just kind of stopped and stared for a moment. It was super awkward.

Shortly after this photo was taken, Minneapolis city council banning me from wearing those jeans within city limits due to "it not being fair to everyone else".

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Calendar year of the article. I pulled data from Jan 1-Dec 31 for each year and grabbed the top five.

He didn't only fail to pan out, he pitched just 26 innings in the majors. Ouch.

Except Rose wasn't banned for cheating, he was banned for gambling on baseball, which is explicitly against baseball rules and is probably the number one NO-NO in the entire sport. And even then, had he been able to keep his mouth shut for even a second, he'd still probably be in the hall.

No matter whether they cheated or not, I believe Clemens and Bonds should also be in. They were simply too good at baseball to not be enshrined, especially given some of the questionable morality of many others in the Hall. *shrugs* But hey, the upside in so many falling off the ballot this year is that it likely paves a smoother path for Mauer to gobble up votes when he's eligible in two years.

This prompted me to finish the series (finally). For some reason, I stalled out with all of 2.5 episodes remaining for some dumb reason. I wasn't really sold on the writer episodes until I saw them tied into a bow, at which point I appreciated that story arc a lot more.

If I’m comparing two players, yeah, I’m gonna evaluate whether the Green Monster gave one player an advantage the other didn’t have. If we don’t make an attempt to factor in individual advantages and disadvantages, there’s little point in comparing players at all.

Carew was better and I don’t think it’s a close contest. Puckett was barely above average as a hitter outside the Metrodome. Put Rod on that turf and he hits .400. Hell, he damned near hit .400 *without* turf.

The episode "A Dark, Quiet Death" is one of the finest single episodes of television in the past 20 years.

Thank you, my memory is going in my old age...

Which Ober do you expect, though? He struggled mightily early in his 2021 debut. His first ten starts: Date Tm G GS GF CG Rslt Dec DR IP H R ER BB SO HR HBP ERA FIP BF BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip Pit Str StL StS GB FB LD PU Unk GSc IR IS SB CS PO AB 2B 3B IBB GDP SF ROE aLI WPA acLI cWPA RE24 DFS(DK) DFS(FD) May 18 to Jul 25, 2021 MIN 10 10 0 0 5-5 W-L:1-1 5.1 43.1 42 26 25 13 45 11 1 5.19 5.36 182 .251 .308 .521 .829 .277 733 66% 18% 9% 0.52 24% 7% 0 48 ---% 2 3 0 167 6 3 0 2 1 3 .91 -0.460 .14 -0.07% -3.36 107.90 202.00 His remaining ten starts: Date Tm G GS GF CG Rslt Dec DR IP H R ER BB SO HR HBP ERA FIP BF BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip Pit Str StL StS GB FB LD PU Unk GSc IR IS SB CS PO AB 2B 3B IBB GDP SF ROE aLI WPA acLI cWPA RE24 DFS(DK) DFS(FD) Jul 31 to Sep 24, 2021 MIN 10 10 0 0 7-3 W-L:2-2 5.1 49.0 50 19 18 6 51 9 0 3.31 3.84 197 .265 .284 .460 .745 .313 743 68% 16% 14% 0.54 21% 10% 0 53 ---% 1 0 0 189 10 0 0 5 2 0 .93 0.532 .00 0.00% 6.62 150.65 270.00

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Without looking, name even one of the characters that died. Which means the sacrifice wasn't significant. Sure, it made sense, but what *actually happened on screen* made it appear Baba Yaga set up the elf to give birth, then took her baby to free herself from prison by triggering an massive grief event on an epic scale, which makes way more sense than what ended up happening. I thought that was actually a really clever way for the demon to free herself and I was into it. Having that sucked away (never mind Baba Yaga's completely punchless return to her domain) felt like the show was knee-capping itself and making the story worse every minute events continued to unfold on-screen.

I agree, though I'm a lot less confident in Ryan. Ober went through lineups multiple times, pitched back-to-back against the same teams, etc. I'm more confident his stuff is legit, provided he stays healthy. Whereas I still have lingering concerns that Ryan's secondary stuff just isn't good enough and he'll ultimately revert to a one-trick pony. I'm still optimistic he can be good, there's just more concern surrounding him in my eyes.

The conflict dragged on without ever being in doubt and the show is increasingly trying to be Game of Thrones. The final scene ruined a bunch of what came before it, as it made no sense for the final reveal to have killed the child while it made all the sense in the world for the Baba Yaga character to have done it. Also, the Witcher battle looked to have real sacrifice involved but the stakes turned out to be zero and everyone walked away. I don’t mind the over-arching story but felt the show worked much better using the monster of the week format.

The Witcher? Yeah, I really enjoyed the first four-ish episodes.

Witcher s2 had me until the last episode, which was both boring and threw the rest of the season sideways and not in a good way. Still worth a watch if you liked s1 but don’t get your hopes too high for the end.

By the way, if anyone is holding out to see Spider-Man, go see it before anyone spoils it for you. The movie is absolutely delightful and surprising at almost every turn. It's probably a top three Marvel movie. I was on board for the premise but no way did I think they'd be able to make a film bursting at the seams with fan service be so heartfelt and touching in a variety of ways.

I'm of the opinion they let it ride with Kirilloff with Larnach behind him in case of failure. If they acquire an OF, it needs to be a defensive-minded CF to back up Buxton.