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Storm the Field

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  1. Mariners started celebrating the sweep a little too early. They've been less than stellar in the OF today. Banged-up team that's now 40% minor-league replacements comes in on a week+ long losing streak after a brutal loss the night before. Ace pitcher can't deliver and leaves after 4 with the offense doing jack shit yet again. Staring down a 3-run deficit against an All-Star, ragtag group of misfits proceeds to score 11 straight unanswered. It's either (i) the plot to a forgettable baseball flick featuring Dennis Quaid strictly in it for a paycheck, or (ii) just shit that happens in a 162-game season.
  2. Sure, he's rocking a .725 OPS and has looked rough in CF today, but his eyes are so piercing!
  3. Long stretch of hot, dry, sunny days ahead this week, which has actually been the exception to the rule so far this Summer. Oh well, at least it hasn't been anything like 2023. Anything you might call "Fall" is still a long ways off. First noticeable cool front of the year typically doesn't make it to Texas until sometime between 9/20 and 10/15 and usually doesn't stick around for more than a day or two.
  4. Ugh. Facebook-grade AI Slop.
  5. Paredes is gonna be out for at least a month. I dread seeing the AAAA lineup we roll out against Woo tomorrow.
  6. Possibly the shittiest loss of the season to date. Had multiple chances to pull off miraculous win despite our washed starter only going 2.2 and losing one of our few remaining heathy infielders. Outhit them 12-7 but it didn't matter. Our best relievers failed in tandem with the game on the line once again.
  7. Goddamn we needed more than 1 there. Welp, Hader won't be able to rely on his usual routine of giving up a solo shot but still getting the save.
  8. We don't have many options. Okert, King, Sousa, Abreu all used.
  9. What do we do in the 10th? Hader again?
  10. Hader hates clean innings.
  11. Walker having a solid game at least
  12. 4th time this season Abreu failed to hold a lead against M's.
  13. Epitome of a journeyman replacement infielder. Appeared in almost 1000 games since 2012 with half a dozen teams.
  14. Hey, he didn't strike out swinging. Tough luck on an athletic catch by the 2B.
  15. It's getting almost hard to fathom how spectacularly this team has fallen apart in the span of 2 weeks. We're basically down to 2.5/5 of a competitive starting rotation (Framber, Brown, and Walter gets partial credit) and 4/9 of the lineup we expected to see this year. Jesus Christ, due up next inning is Dubon, Matthews, Short. Is this early on in Spring Training before roster cuts start? It seems pretty clear that a team can ride things out for a while held together by Elmer's and popsicle sticks, but you finally reach a point where any further instability causes the whole thing to come tumbling down. It's difficult to really zero in on which aspect sucks the most right now, but the abysmal job we've been doing with RISP has got to take the cake. It's getting so fucking old how many games we have a double digit combo of hits and walks and end up with 2 runs or less. So many fucking innings with 2 on, 1 out and we end up with jack shit. When's the last time we hit a bases clearing double?
  16. I've bought it before. Should come as little surprise that it's just 1 lb of ground pork mixed with 1 lb of ground beef. Convenient option for meatloaf, meatballs...etc.
  17. Obviously depends on the job, where you live, whether you have kids...etc.. Neither D nor E would seem to work for a professional office job. All that said, I personally don't want A, B, D, or E. The best option is actually 10-6, assuming you need to put in 40 hours M-F. I'd gladly do 4 days a week from 9-7 if it meant I could take a 3 day weekend every week. I could also tolerate an early 7-3 type schedule if I lived somewhere like a mountain town and could go hike/fishing/golf...etc after getting off. Hell naw if I'm here in Houston. The fuck I'm gonna do for the next 7.5 hours before bed while it's 100+ heat index outside?
  18. Chevron won their arbitration case over XOM regarding Hess' interest in Guyana. Both CVX and Hess put out identical press release this morning that "the merger is now complete." https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/chevron-moves-forward-with-megadeal-for-hess-after-winning-exxon-arbitration-17347067?mod=e2tw
  19. "Mattingly, I thought I told you to trim those sideburns!"
  20. Not a great way to go, albeit quick, but worse for the poor tarmac workers who had to watch. The worst of it is blurred out. Engines were idling so not a full-on shred job.
  21. Reversion to the mean, IMO. This patched-together MASH unit of a roster where the bottom 4 spots of our lineup is often AAAA scrubs is not nearly as good as the record indicated from mid-June to 7/6, and we're not as bad as we looked at home this week. Couple of thoughts, some which come from being there in person today: 1. Brown is gassed. HIs 2 worst starts of the year came in the past week. He's laboring and leaving pitches up in the zone, leading to lots of balls, long ABs, and 25+ pitch innings. For fucks sake, he struggled against their 8 and 9 hitters that are both deeply sub-Mendoza. 2. It's a long season and every team has shitty stretches. We're in one now, and it's fairly team-wide. Lot of guys that were hot the past month/week have come back down to earth. Aside from Brown, Hader has faltered twice in a row, Cam's on a multi-game hitless streak, Walker has Abreu's bat speed again...etc. 3. Based on limited sample size, but also eye test: Short might actually be a worthwhile utility piece that can be a replacement-level 0-1 WAR guy on an MLB roster. Hummel and Trammell are never-was dreck. 4. We need rest and recovery like the desert needs rain. And we better be working on at least 1-2 trades before the end of the month. We need a LHB somewhere in the lineup and another starting pitcher.
  22. Phew. That would have been possibly worst loss of the season so far. Valdez outbattles DeGrom and we take a 3-1 lead into the 8th. Abreu and Hader both cough up 2-out solo shots. We then waste a perfect 10th from Sousa...
  23. If you're the home team and mange a scoreless top of the 10th, you simply gotta put a run across. Fucking terrible.
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