I also like the game a lot lot less than I used to. But I'm a baseball addict. Like most other fans, I suspect.

It's an addiction.

Do you want runs or style points? Reminds me of Ty Cobb bemoaning the way Babe Ruth was revolutionizing the game with his brute power.

But analytics reveal that the best teams are the ones that maximize launch angle. Some conundrum, eh?

metirish wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 9:42 pm Mets haven't won a game wearing the City Connect

I don't think they're won a game in any uniform. But not to worry because at that rate, I think they can clinch a playoff spot by Thursday.

This Mets team is absolutely dire to watch Especially with the many hideous uniforms they'll probably wear half the time going forward. Its one big clown show, not to mention that the crapfest Mets are probably like one two game win streak from being in the money. I'm blaming Alonso for the disgust...

2021 Typewriter Chewing Gum Ltd. Mets set - Code Name: Play Ball, '62

Please do not take this quiz out to the back to shoot it in the head.

U.L. Washington - 1.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 3:12 pm I was wondering what was notable about Alabama, but it just clicked with me that it's the first state alphabetically. I assume this quiz was intended to keep going all the way through to Wyoming.

Just shoot me, now.

Holy mother of mercy. From the get-go, this quiz should've been taken out the back to the ditch and shot in the head between the eyes .

From the NYT: Stormy Daniels Describes Sexual Encounter With Trump and Is Grilled by His Lawyer https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/07/nyregion/trump-trial-hush-money-stormy-daniels Excerpt (emphasis added): Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, is now asking Stormy Daniels about having had sex with Tru...

If he denies it, it is a case of "he said-she said". But she has described so much detail of the encounter (the room, what he said, what he wore) that she may have turned it into a believable "He said-she saw" case. I doubt that he'll take the stand to deny it because if he does...

Stone's version might be wacky, but so is the official conclusion that Oswald killed JFK.

I'm not sure about that. Even if she was lying about the sexual encounter, he's still paying her to shut up, and it's the bookkeeping that's on trial. But that's not the prosecution's theory of the case. The sexual encounter was not illegal and is not an element of any of the crimes charged. But th...

kcmets wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:16 pm First of all, them having relations or not isn't what is on trial.

Of course it is! Without the sexual encounter, there's no reason or motive for the defendant to have done any of the things he was indicted for.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 2:59 pm I think we allow players to spend all their offensive time on perfecting swings rather than actual execution.

There's a difference?

Centerfield wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 2:36 pm At scoring runs? 17th in MLB in runs scored, 17th in MLB in OPS.

17th best, you say? Sounds like a playoff team to me.

metirish wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 5:10 pm I'm calling this season now , holy fuck this team

Don't overreact. Besides, I'm pretty sure that with a two game winning streak, the Mets'll clinch a playoff spot.

Welcome to the turd of a shitshow that MLB now is. The Mets, one game under .500 and winless in seemingly two or three weeks are currently in the money.

Nowadays, a team could be the 20th best team in all of baseball and still make the playoffs.

He said "cock".

Ha Ha.

How would you have a league where the players decide where the teams play? Owners want stability. Are the owners supposed to move their franchises every coupl'a years at the behest of the players whim or trendy trends? Caitlin Clark might be the greatest thing ever to happen to women's basketball bu...

I'd suggest that the key to women's basketball and any upstart sports leagues is to get out of the gravity well of the dominant leagues and make your own way. I think that this is apples and oranges. Women's basketball is very much unlike any other "upstart" league competing with the esta...

What would be more fun to find out is who authorized that setup. The idiot tyrant failson. He probably thought he would distinguish himself by designing a pitcher's park to such an extreme degree, that it would stand out and be deemed "interesting", "clever". And in turn, he him...

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:37 pm I think his name was Walker Lockett.

It was. And is. It's an error that TCG owns up too, but intentionally so, never corrected.

...and the Plasticine Record Club, which, contrary to popular belief, is not defunct.

I didn't know Typewriter Chewing Gum was part of a big corporation. Fonebone: We're so disappointed in your forgetfulness or lack of attention to details in the first place that we're tempted to ask that you return to TCG, all of the free baseball cards, promos and other goodies we've been mailing ...