The Great Hambino

Maybe Adams is just a two-inning guy

They're doing the microwave wrong Grilled in the husk sounds fantastic

Like, 5 minutes. This method effectively steams them

Like chicken, obvi

my hands are dainty and nimble, thankyouverymuch This is might sound strange, but putting them in a dish, covering them with plastic wrap, and microwaving them turns out fantastic. I thought I was gonna have to start googling lawyers when my wife suggested it, but it turned out fantastic and was super easy. Also, grilled is yummy

Keaschall:

No holders - holders are for children and communisits. I have great technique, keep the mess to a minimum. I can also eat wings while dirtying only three fingers. I'm a man of many talents

I promise I'd smoke you in a corn cob eating race Isn't that the lamest brag of all time

I'm carving a Louisville Slugger when I eat my corn

When CoK posed the question, I thought of up and down as holding the cob vertically Wait a second - I think I'm one of those weirdos And by weirdos, I mean people who know how to eat corn properly and efficiently

I didn't know up and down was an option

If they're really committing to the Field of Dreams bit, they should be able to get Walter Johnson and Grover Cleveland Alexander to show up. I think Netflix has the cash to make it happen

I'm convinced that the trade up to get a second first rounder weeks (months??) before the draft was done explicitly to gather ammo to make a run at Maye. One problem with this is that you generally are paying a premium in value to move up in the draft, all else equal. By doing it this way, they'd have to pay the premium twice. Of course, another problem with this is that it still wasn't enough. They didn't help themselves by panicking and trading up again anyway, resulting in paying the double premium for Turner. This is why draft trades generally don't happen until draft night* once the draft order is locked in: if teams are paying a premium, they want to know exactly who they're getting by paying it. A shining example of KAM's misadventures in draft board management * - exceptions for trading the #1 or #2 pick - when these happen, the teams trading up can be reasonably sure that their guy will be there

Not sure which is the more surprising fun fact I've learned from the broadcasts over the last couple games: Twins lead the league in infield hits Twins are the last remaining team without a player that has struck out at least 100 times

Franklin looked a little more Hayes than Mays on that one

I mean ... there's an empty house right there

Your feed is definitely faster than mine

Apparently Alonso is a big Peter Gabriel fan

Dynamite drop in Monty!

I hear he got kicked out of every strip club in Albany

Good thing my remote comes with an stfu button

Not a bad idea. Wool uniforms too. I'd say push the rule date back even further, but playing by true pre-1947 rules might have some unintended consequences

Netflix likes lighting money on fire for weird sporting events, I thought they coulda gotten them to foot the bill

It's hard to grade the long-term effects of a trade strategy when they change course on their strategy in the following offseason. But one of the selling points from their myriad of totally-not-AI-generated open letters in the wake of The Purge last trade deadline was impact in the short-term as well as the long-term expected from the pieces they received. In terms of effect on the 2026 season, two trades made them definitively worse (Duran/Varland), one made them better (Jax), and the Correa trade can be scored in a number of different ways depending on your perspective. On the one hand, $30MM spent on an injured player would be quite the millstone around their neck this year. On the other hand, since the player they received in trade was arguably literally the least valuable piece in the entire Astros organization at the time, all the value has to come from reinvesting the savings. And on a net basis, they're still not spending to that threshold even after the trade deadline increases to payroll. They're still more than $20MM below their pre-2025-deadline payroll level, so you could say the cost savings from the trade still haven't touched the current roster (2025 opening day payroll $143MM less current payroll of $113MM is $29MM). It may (read: it better) get reinvested over the rest of the life of the contract, but so far it hasn't. To be clear, I'm not saying they shouldn't have gotten off the Correa train, or that it won't pay off down the line. I'm just suggesting that is hasn't really done anything for them this year. I suppose you could also view the Paddack/Dobnak as a negative impact on this season as he has proven to be quite the bugaboo for the Twins when they've had to face him, but that's pushing it, especially since he has done so for a team other than the one that acquired him

Tai Felton: legitimately primed to make a leap in Year 2, or have writers simply been watching the same guys practice for too long?