Joel Roza Jr.

Former Caller-Times online sports writer. Award-winning Former EIC at The Blazer (JJC). USCG Veteran. Husband. Cherished Acquaintance.

[Joel Roza Jr. @FiveToolTalk]

What if the Braves had traded for Barry Bonds? https://t.co/TwSSV2J1yi

[Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski]

Royce White is a known woman abuser where he was just given a 50 year stay away order for his ex wife and two year from his stepson because of multiple finding of abuse by a judge.

Right now there are zero D1 trans athletes in Womens College Basketball, zero in the WNBA and 7 over all in D1 sports. You could not name one of them. There are 9 trans athletes in women’s high school sports. Most individual, very few team. You could not name any. But go ahead and google and look for an arrest record on any. I did. You will find none.

What I just said are facts. Conservatives love to say facts don’t care about your feelings.

So maybe if you truly care about women and kids don’t praise and listen to a guy who beats women and kids.

[Owen @Owennfa]

BOOMER: "Nobody wants to work anymore."

YOU: "I work 50 hours a week."

BOOMER: "Doing what, on a computer?"

YOU: "Yes. It pays $58,000."

BOOMER: "I made $18,000 and owned a house."

YOU: "That's the whole point."

BOOMER: "We didn't complain, we just worked."

YOU: "You worked one job and got a pension. I work one job and get a 401k match if I'm lucky."

BOOMER: "Nobody handed me anything."

YOU: "College was $600 a year. Your first house was 2x your salary. Your employer covered your family's health insurance."

BOOMER: "That was normal back then."

YOU: "Exactly. It was normal. Now it's impossible."

BOOMER: "So what do you want, a handout?"

YOU: "I want what was normal."

BOOMER: *silent*

You didn't outwork us.

You just lived in the version of the country where working was enough.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Royce White and Enes Kanter declaring for the WNBA draft reminds me of that episode of The Office where Michael Scott shouted I declare bankruptcy in the middle of the office because he thought that’s what the phrase meant.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MUST-WATCH: Fetterman can’t grasp what Jon Stewart is asking 😕

STEWART: “Do you think maybe economic populism/DSA momentum is rising because you establishment Dems haven’t delivered? And capitalism has left them behind?”

FETTERMAN: “something something China A.I…”🤔 👀

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Republicans have the majority in the Senate and House and they're telling you they cannot rein Trump in, so stop giving them power. They're telling you they refuse to use it.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

FETTERMAN: “Trump hasn’t defied a single court order.”🤔

STEWART: “Well… He has. He’s defied court orders, and congressional law.”

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

STEWART to @JohnFetterman: “You’re caricaturing people’s views. I haven’t seen candidates say they’re ‘pro-Hamas’ — if your concern is winning, it’s playing into the hands of Republicans... and if your issue with Platner was treatment of women, you’re ignoring a lot with Trump.”

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

Metallica’s cover of Judas Priest’s ‘Rapid Fire’ is the peak of cool!

Getting Rob Halford to lead the vocals on it…ice cold greatness!

This coming together of metal legends in Florida in 1994 is just magnificent!

In fact it’s…‘Second to none’!!!🤘

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Imagine walking in on 4 million people masturbating every minute and you'll begin to understand why I'm sick of My job.

[Chandler Rome @Chandler_Rome]

The Astros are done, multiple sources tell @TheAthletic. Daulton Varsho is their only trade deadline acquisition. For a second consecutive season, Houston fails to fortify a scuffling starting rotation that will rely on pitchers returning from lengthy layoffs.

[Lambert Better @HTOWNSPORTZ713]

Update from @DeadlineScoops

* The Astros and Marlins still in trade talks for Kyle Stowers.

* Astros showing interest in Brady Singer.

* Astros will add a OF today

[Jon Morosi @jonmorosi]

The Astros are increasingly confident that they’ll add a left fielder today.

Houston has had NINE different players start there this season, including four in the last week.

@MLBNetwork

[Chandler Rome @Chandler_Rome]

The Astros are promoting touted pitching prospect Bryce Mayer to Triple-A Sugar Land, source tells @TheAthletic. This is what you've all been waiting for.

[Michael Schwab @michaelschwab13]

Y’all.

Look at Jeremy Peña.

Y’all.

[SleeperAstros @SleeperAstros]

Xavier Neyens, Kevin Alvarez, and Ethan Pecko are all viewed as long shots to be traded, per @Chandler_Rome.

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This woke me up this am, a text from my uncle. “Everyone is complaining that baseball is broken because the Dodgers got Tarik Skubal.”

Bruce Harper says it best here.

I don’t remember people complaining about a needed salary cap in MLB when the Yankees were winning 4 World Series in five years between 1996-2000.

But the Dodgers start winning World Series, which they had not won for 32 years, a span from 1988-2020, and now everyone wants a salary cap and is complaining. Thats called an East Coast Bias. 💯

It’s not the Dodgers fault, as Bryce says, that they have perfected everything. Their farm system is the best, their tv contract is the best, their players are the best and fit the mold they are looking for. They have one of the best stadiums and their tradition is right up there with the Yankees and Red Sox.

The Tigers made a terrible trade. Zyhir Hope is just another Raul Mondesi/Yasiel Puig player. He wasn’t even in their top 3 rookie outfielders like De Paula, Tibbs and Sirota. And, River Ryan and Brady Smith have already both had Tommy John surgeries in their young careers.

The Dodgers were thought to have at least given up Emmet Sheehan, a ready MLB pitcher AND the prospects. Nope!

Every other team like the Yankees, Braves, Cubs, Brewers, Phillies and Red Sox could have made an offer, a better offer, but they chose not to.

MLB doesn’t need a salary cap what they need is for Major League Baseball to take control of all the teams TV rights and then distribute the money from those deals evenly across baseball, not just a percentage, but evenly. It’s those TV contracts where you see the biggest disparity and that would take care of that disparity immediately.

Don’t blame the Dodgers because they have perfected everything. Blame other teams for running a poor organization.

I waited 32 years for this. I’ll enjoy it.

[Michael Schwab @michaelschwab13]

Astros are 2 games back from the 2 seed in the AL.

They are 8 games back from leading the AL.

What a comeback.

[Jon Heyman @JonHeyman]

The Astros are among teams to inquire about Marlins slugger Kyle Stowers, and they are engaged in ongoing discussions with Miami. Stowers, an All-Star with big power, just might be the extra lefty bat Houston needs.

[Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal]

Bringing this back from this morning. The Rangers just lost again.