Daniel Markham

An author who spent 2021 and 2022 attending Catholic Mass in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the trip chronicled in 52 Masses.

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@JoeLunardy How can Bryson get penalized for doing that thing that he clearly did?

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@chris_corb75697 @PaulGoldEagle Ballet harvesting is the worst. OK, it's not as bad as tap planting or modern rotating or, particularly, ballroom fertilizing, but it's still pretty bad.

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@notgaetti Greinke will have zero difficulty getting enshrined.

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@WestwoodLee @ShaneRyanHere Hey Lee, there's still a little bit of time left to call your boss for advice on what to do with nettlesome journalists.

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@LP_CLC No one is better at breaking broken stories than Nick Shirley.

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@MattB75593644 @Roger774501171 Yes, this is the exact opposite of that. This is a zombie runner. Or, if you prefer, the Manfred Man.

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@AndrewFeinberg Also, and I know he can't comprehend this idea, but New York and Pennsylvania aren't really competitors.

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@podoffame He's had one inner circle great kind of season (his first MVP year), then another monster season with the bat (coupled with indifferent defense in right).

He's on a clear HoF path, but it's not unreasonable to say he's only had one truly elite season.

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Bryce Harper allegedly had one elite season. I am assuming he is referring to 2015, when Bryce Harper won his first MVP award. That would leave out:

2021- Won MVP, led NL in 2B, SLG, OPS, and OPS+
2020- Led NL in Walks, 158 OPS+
2018- Led NL in Walks (130!), 34 HR
2017- 1.008 OPS, 156 OPS+, 29 HR

Which two of these four is considered very good and which two of these is considered average?

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@notgaetti Probably not for the Angels. But if he's healthy enough to play the outfield, I don't see any reason to think this will be more taxing than left or right.

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@Travis_Sawchik The box on the screen has been the worst development for baseball watching. It turns every game (and every postgame) into a conversation about the accuracy of the home plate ump (complete with incessant whining).

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@GlobeScotLehigh @JustinWStapley And passing legislation that you specifically ran on doesn't make you polarizing. It's the whole point.

Trump's not polarizing because of the TCJA.

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@GlobeScotLehigh @JustinWStapley Also, all of his predecessors issued more executive orders than he did, so there was no pioneering going on.

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@Brett_A_Taylor The box was the worst development in baseball watching in my lifetime. It turned every game into neverending festival of whining about the strike zone, even as umps were getting closer and closer to calling the desired rulebook zone.

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@podoffame It has to be Boston. The fact the city has an inner, inner circle guy from each of the four major NA team sports sets it apart from everywhere else.

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@Roger774501171 First, I would ban anyone from calling this a ghost runner, as that's an affront to the good name of the noble ghost runner. This is a zombie runner.

Then, I would get rid of the zombie runner.

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@sledog777 @timburchett It's already the last place undocumented immigrants would be.

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@czabe I'm grateful you said that you said what you said, or I would not have known that you said what you said.

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@schadjoe The on-screen box has been a horrible development for following the game. Every game becomes a debate on the strike zone.

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@Mikeb1961sports @Roger1stCFalls One of just two players to play in a World Series and a Final Four. The other, Tim Stoddard, also went to East Chicago Washington.