PCA and Ohtani have basically been equal with the bat which is really interesting
Basically makes the conversation which do you value more, the best defense in MLB history, or 180 IP of a 2.50 ERA
Yeah so this is exactly what I’m talking about with the deeper issues in the org. Take a guys best skill and try and change it because of your dumb modern baseball philosophy. Get him in bad habits, get him overthinking and here we are.
I used to think stuff like bird watching and stamp collecting and model trains and all that was super weird and lame. But after stomaching the 2026 Cubs through mid June I would honestly take up any other hobby in the universe. Like I should be woodworking or gardening. Fuck this
Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates.
Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.
So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans.
But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming.
Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline.
He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse.
And he loves it.
That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.
Almost impossible to say it any better. No hope. No pride. No guts. And almost nothing to care about. The fact that everyone in our dugout will collect a paycheck next week is a heaping pile of horseshit that Craig should eat at the postgame press conference. Bunch of pussies
Pete Crow-Armstrong's 1.201 OPS is the best of any National League player over their last 15 games played
He has a .368 average, three doubles and six home runs in that span
The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers have a historical record of bailing each other out over the past ~105 years to make sure neither ever moved or failed.
“If anyone’s gonna kill that bastard, it’s me.”
Chicago is so poorly managed that the Bears *have* to leave.
You may not want sports to be political, and I can absolutely sympathize with having no interest in what a barely literate Goliath shoved through school on account of his size and skill has to say about political things—but the business and cultural impact of sports is absolutely political. Has been since the Romans.
And yet you will find millions of leftwing NFL fans out there who will see this tragedy and never reflect on the fact that this centennial connection between team and city was brought to a sudden end purely on the back of the Democrat Party’s complete inability to govern.
A Party so incompetent and so disoriented that they cannot even maintain their circus.
I wanted Chicago to lose on the field—Soldier Field. But they’ve lost so much more. And for absolutely no reason.
Giving away a Kerry Wood signed Red Bill to celebrate the victory! Quote tweet #TeamRedBill to enter. Winner picked tomorrow at 1:20pm central. Must be following to win.
Can’t get this image out of my head. One of his last wins and there’s his son there to congratulate him on the track. An 11 year old boy and a four year old girl woke up today without a father. This world is cruel.
I hope it’s okay that I keep posting memories of Kyle the way I saw him. It’s how I would want you all to see him, too.
/the one where he and @KurtBusch swiped a hotel baggage cart and ran it down the streets of Nashville: