Brock Beauchamp

Because sports fans are generally a pretty cohesive group. If there isn't 100% overlap, there's a lot of overlap. And spooling a service up and down (eg. March-Oct for baseball) incurs a lot of expense in itself. Taking something offline costs money, just as spooling it back up costs more money. And then there's the production staff, which isn't typically seasonal and would make the necessary positions more difficult to fill. Never mind that having one advertising group is more efficient and effective while costing less. Then there's the airtime that needs to be filled between games... I could go on all day why three separate services are a much worse idea and much less salable to the general public than one cohesive service that covers multiple things that complement each other very well (one summer sport played daily, two winter sports played semi-daily).

Or you just cancel the moment the seasonal sport you care about completes its season. I do it with literally every streaming service I use except for Amazon Prime, which I keep entirely for the shipping.

Watching Mare of Easttown. Holy **** Kate Winslet is amazing in it.

$20/mo is entirely reasonable for three sports. That’s over 320 games a year, bringing cost per game under $0.75. I don’t know what more we could ask for, frankly.

Almost all hitters end up performing the same in clutch situations that they do in regular, overall hitting situations. There are exceptions but they're exceedingly rare and, at least what I've noticed, tend to reside in generational bat control hitters with Hall of Fame credentials. Two examples are Tony Gwynn and Joe Mauer. And even those could be flukish aberrations because other generational talents like Rod Carew and Wade Boggs show absolutely zero improvement in clutch situations. I mean, as good as Joe Mauer was with the stick, he wasn't Wade Boggs in his prime. And Tony and Rod... I could argue either was better depending solely on my mood at the time. Either way, you can see the enormous gulf of talent between those guys I listed and Eddie Rosario.

This simply doesn't make sense. So is Rosario clutch and helped Atlanta win or is he just the beneficiary of being on a team that doesn't choke? Or is Rosario leading Atlanta but then why didn't he do it with the Twins? By the way, Rosario had a .665 OPS literally a week ago in the NLDS. Why can't we just be happy for Eddie without trying to manufacture some kind of negative side of the situation?

For the millionth time, he wasn’t. He was completely normal in the clutch. Clutch Stats I Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ 2 outs, RISP 286 345 318 115 79 14 2 11 108 10 2 26 63 .248 .307 .409 .716 130 0 1 0 0 9 3 .279 86 Late & Close 368 501 460 72 128 30 5 18 81 9 3 29 101 .278 .320 .483 .803 222 9 1 8 3 6 1 .320 106 Tie Game 531 822 773 87 205 45 4 29 116 12 6 36 153 .265 .295 .446 .742 345 11 1 3 9 4 5 .293 90 Within 1 R 715 1643 1537 223 426 86 13 69 246 27 14 82 307 .277 .312 .485 .796 745 19 1 10 13 8 11 .304 104 Within 2 R 771 2186 2042 299 570 111 19 88 313 37 15 109 400 .279 .313 .481 .795 983 28 2 12 21 11 12 .306 103 Within 3 R 784 2540 2375 346 643 127 21 99 351 41 19 129 480 .271 .306 .467 .773 1109 31 2 12 22 12 14 .299 98 Within 4 R 791 2788 2604 379 709 136 23 108 382 48 22 146 520 .272 .309 .467 .775 1215 35 2 12 24 15 15 .301 99 Margin > 4 R 253 454 436 63 127 17 2 25 68 2 1 13 80 .291 .311 .511 .822 223 5 1 0 4 0 3 .304 109 Ahead 502 1281 1198 193 340 60 14 52 199 24 13 67 206 .284 .319 .487 .807 584 17 1 3 12 8 10 .303 106 Behind 491 1139 1069 162 291 48 7 52 135 14 4 56 241 .272 .307 .476 .783 509 12 1 6 7 3 3 .305 100 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 10/18/2021.

IMO, for the past few offseasons they've failed to acquire a rather available player: a legit backup defensive centerfielder that also hits right-handed.

No, I'm talking about why they kept entering seasons with Cave as the designated backup outfielder when Kepler, Kirilloff, and Rosario are all left-handed. The one thing the Twins didn't need was another left-handed outfielder, they were already all stocked up on those.

I’m not even sure their replacement plan was that bad, as they had some depth. The Kirilloff injury hurt the most. If he’s able to play more, I suspect we don’t miss Rosario at all. But one thing I’ll never understand is why Cave, a lefty, continued to be their backup option for so long when they so obviously needed a righty in that role.

Technically, Atlanta is slightly larger than Boston in overall market. Obviously, in baseball terms, Boston is the larger baseball market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistical_areas

No one is forgetting those players, they're just considering the $8m difference between Rosario and all of them combined.

When this happens, is there a Wisconsin tourism ad appearing at the bottom of the screen? I've reported the ad but maybe it's still popping up. There is a red/orange, fall-inspired look to the ad. Whatever it's doing with JS, it renders most of the screen unclickable.

I'm waiting for Metroid Dread to arrive tomorrow. I cannot overstate how excited I am to play a 2D Metroid game on a modern system (the 3DS game from 2018 was very good but held back by ancient hardware). This is the first "real" Metroid side-scroller on a flagship console since Metroid 2 on the SNES, I believe. The Prime games are fine, whatever, but Metroid works best as a side-scroller. It always has, always will. Now I just need Konami to pull their head out of their ass and do the same with Castlevania.

One of my all time favorite Twins plays was Rosario inducing a balk against Milwaukee. Pure, classic, 100% Eddie Rosario.

Hah, two Gleeman references in the same article, Stu.

I agree. I don't know if failing to sign Buxton is automatic termination territory for me but it's close. My view of the front office will plummet if they trade Buxton (a decent chance of happening) or let him walk (a small chance of happening).

Six of one, half dozen of the other. Where do you draw the line between analytics and strength conditioning? Many times, they're two sides of the same coin. Josh Donaldson obviously does a lot of strength conditioning but he also speaks very highly of how things like force plates allowed him to study what his body is doing and how to maximize that strength.

I’m in my 40s and have a bunch of super problematic language bouncing around in my skull because that’s the era I grew up in. Kaat is no different, except even more so. Acknowledging those exist is the only way to progress.

The Twins also traded for guys like Eric Milton, though. It doesn't always go badly but the unpredictability of pitching prospects makes it riskier than trading for a hitter.

Yep. The performance level of baseball has never been higher while the entertainment of baseball has never been lower. Well, maybe 19th century baseball was worse but we’ll never know.

Oh, that's not what I meant at all. I'm happy Rosario is doing well with another team. I have nothing against the guy at all, I enjoyed his time with the Twins, it simply didn't make sense to keep him for $9m.

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That ****ing piece of **** just unfriended me on facebook wait until I tell his mother that ****ing useless piece of ****

One of the most consistent postseason teams over the past three seasons also has the lowest payroll in baseball. Just admit there isn't one or two ways to win and we can move on, man.