just die grandpa, ‘k?

Go ahead and follow me; you'll be bored. Seriously.

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@JohnStolnis Maybe he’s the second coming of Troy Tulowitski but…a big kid whose baseball experience goes through 11th grade? Hopefully we’re not looking at the next Larry Greene Jr.

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@ByJonHeath I love the idea of a 6’7” target in red zone/short-ish yard situations. If he has what it takes to fight thru the 5 yard zone he’s going to be a real problem to defend. Looking forward to seeing that.

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@JohnStolnis They had to do it, maybe he can recover in the minors, but yes: a surprisingly quick announcement. Almost like a public shaming.

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@ByJonHeath You can also argue that, just as important, a guy like Stidham had almost no chance with weak run support — and with a healthy Dobbins they’re in.

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@ByJonHeath I get this; hopefully he gets better at, ya know, passing the football & stuff. But… they don’t have a category for “Dogged Grit”, which he’s got in excess quantities. I’d take Nix over most of the guys ranked above him.

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@TroyRenck The natives are restless in Philly as well.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump is reportedly negotiating a deal which would stop Iran from producing a nuclear weapon in exchange for $20 Billion in Iranian assets being unfrozen.

Note that The Iranian Nuclear agreement (JCPOA) that Obama signed, that Trump tore up, did the same thing. It halted their Uranium enrichment while turning over frozen assets.

In other words Trump Tore up the agreement, spent $55 Billion on a war, got hundreds of Americans injured, killed 150+ kids and exploded oil prices to try and negotiate the same basic deal that Obama did.

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@ByJonHeath Pulling for him; I hope they let him just be a kid.

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@bylucaevans Lohner could be a red zone nightmare if it turns out he can deal with contact and actually catch a football.

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@TheGoodPhight If he can manage to produce a .720 OPS & 20 HR; do what he does defensively and not be a whiner, then he’s an improvement.

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@JohnStolnis Thank you!

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@MaseDenver Mase, ever read Bob Greene’s “Be True To Your School”? The interview with Woody Hayes really surprised me, given Hayes’ famous & fiery hatred of losing, and has stuck with me all these years. (“The important thing is not always to win. The important thing is always to hope.”)

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@MontePooleNBCS Watching this reminds me how Richie Ashburn, the Phillies’ Hall Of Fame outfielder and commentator, described antsy base runners as “looking runnerish”: by contrast, RH often looked like he was just chillin’ and then - wham! - he was off like a bolt of lightning.

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@ByJonHeath Solid takes. I was thinking the same thing about Crawshaw - I sat there thinking, what if he sucked? Or had been merely average? Philly had to deal with a long field, over and over.

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@OnlyPhanatics Armed with Fordyce’s sermons?

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@ScottLauber @PhillyInquirer “Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But [Schwarber]’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day”

There are kids in Philly who, in 60 years, will recall those shots as seismic, just as I think of Callison’s.

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@jaysonst @MattGelb There was a time when ball players took off-season jobs, and one year in the 60s Lee Elia was a substitute teacher in Levittown (Bristol Twp). I had him for music class once, and all we did was talk baseball. That was a pretty good day. He never stopped smiling.

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@ArcainiLuke Bobby Malkmus

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@MattGelb A migraine f*cks up your vision. It’s not safe to face even little league pitching if you’ve got a migraine and there’s no way you can be effective at the plate or in the field. This isn’t “sorry Topper, not tonight” thing.