Almost as high as Wisdom.

Scherzer perfect through 5. He'll be the Cy Young winner. Just an amazing player...would love to see him on the Cubs.

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I need Lindor and Baez together on the Mets next season.

Lindor with 3 HRs, 3 different pitchers, 3 different pitches, both sides of the plate

It's all cultural on both sides. Don't muffle their expression of joy that is not at all directed at degrading the opponent

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

@Baez motioning for Stanton to come say stuff to his face when there are 8 people already in between the two of them. That's ltg tough!

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Gardner was doing the thumbs down to 'em. I chuckled.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

Giants are the first team to clinch a playoff berth.

Ive followed this team all year....i still have doubts about playoffs. They have a good regular season team but i dont know if their starters stack up in playoff series.

What these guys do the best ... and why they win... is they grind. they grind out hits, runs, wins. It's simple as that. That's why they are so good this year.

The wheel have completely fallen off for Yu Darvish in the second half of the season. ERA by month:

April 2.13
May 2.20
June 3.07

July 7.36
August 6.32
September 9.95

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the FOURTH PLACE Blue Jays at the end of July are bludgeoning people and have even overtaken the Yankees and Red Sox at various points since.

FUCK U BULLY HOYER.

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big series between padres cards

Cards 7 wins in a row. They stuck with what they had and now they're going into the playoffs. This is like 2011 all over again.

They're proving the baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint.

I wonder if the Cubs had kept everyone if they would have fought their way back into this .

And to think the Cubs were just one game back of the Cardinals at the deadline.

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Wasn't early July the crackdown on foreign substances?

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That was back in late May/early June. Kids were still in school.

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Machado and Tatis Jr. got into a verbal scrap in the dugout last night. More cultural expressions of joy.

Meanwhile, in today's game, Arrieta went a whole 1/3 of an inning, giving up 5 runs, 4 earned. His ERA is now up to 7.39 on the year.

His 7.39 is now tied with Jim Deshaies ( ) for 2nd place all-time for worst ERAs in a season. (Worst is 7.71, not sure if Jake will get a chance to set that mark.)

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what a stupid an ignorant post.

what happened was Tatis didnt like the K call and the Padres manager argued for him and got thrown out. But Tatis still kept jawing and Manny was like STFU! The manager already got kicked out so you can stay in the game! Don't make it all about you!

Pretty sure any 23 year old franchise player in any sport will think it's about him. Manny stepped up like the veteran he has become to make sure Tatis didnt get launched.

Jack Morris has returned to the Tigers booth.

He has been un-cancelled. Finally. No statement by the network. Just a quiet reinstatement.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/ ... 264196002/



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Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Jack Morris will return to the broadcast booth Friday after serving a 23-day suspension for an apparent racist comment he made toward Los Angeles Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani, Bally Sports Detroit senior vice president/general manager Greg Hammaren confirmed to the Free Press.

BSD declined to provide an official statement regarding Morris' reinstatement. The Tigers begin a three-game series Friday with the Tampa Bay Rays at Comerica Park and have 21 games remaining on the 2021 regular-season schedule.

Morris, 66, made the remark that led to his suspension on the Aug. 17 telecast, just as Ohtani was about to step to the plate for a matchup with Tigers reliever Joe Jimenez in the sixth inning at Comerica Park.

When play-by-play announcer Matt Shepard asked the retired MLB starting pitcher — elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018 — how the Tigers should approach Ohtani in his upcoming at-bat, Morris replied, "Be very, very careful."

Morris used an accent that has been used to mock that of English-speaking Asians.

The next morning, Morris was indefinitely suspended from the broadcast and required to undergo bias training for education on "the impact of his comments and how he can be a positive influence in a diverse community," according to a statement from BSD. The network also stated it was "extremely disappointed with the remarks" and has "a zero-tolerance policy for bias or discrimination and deeply apologize for his insensitive remark."

The Tigers released a similar message.

"We are deeply disappointed by the comments made by Jack Morris during the broadcast last night," the franchise said in an Aug. 18 statement. "We fully support Bally Sports Detroit’s decision and their on-going commitment to ensure that all personnel are held to the highest standards of personal conduct."


"It's been brought to my attention, and I sincerely apologize if I offended anybody, especially anybody in the Asian community, for what I said about pitching and being careful to Shohei Ohtani," Morris said. "I did not intend for any offensive thing and I apologize if I did. I certainly respect and have the utmost respect for this guy."

One day after Morris' comment, Ohtani and Tigers manager AJ Hinch gave their responses:

"I did see the footage and I heard it on the video," Ohtani said through an interpreter. "Personally, I'm not offended and I didn't take anything personally, and I have no say as to what the Tigers want to do, or what they did. He is a Hall of Famer. He has a big influence in the baseball world, so it's kind of a tough spot."

"I got told about it last night after the game," Hinch said. "I support both comments by Bally and our organization that there's no place in the game for it. I love this sport. This sport is arguably the most diverse sport, and certainly of all four major sports here in the U.S. and it should be celebrated.

"The athletes we get to celebrate tonight, we're talking about Shohei Ohtani and Miguel Cabrera. The two biggest names coming into the game are from vastly different backgrounds, different countries, different parts of the world and they're a part of our great sport. We need to celebrate that and learn that comments like that are not only unnecessary but unwanted."

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Thank God those two aren’t on the Sox destroying team chemistry.

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I looked it up, June 21st is when mlb started cracking down.. that's why this guy sucks.

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welp my A's aint gonna make it

to bad Dodgers/Giants dont end the season together

blue jays/rays feudin

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/fi ... blue-jays/

sad to see another season near a end

The end of that Yankees/Red Sox game was crazy. First, Rizzo hits a double, the hardest ball of his career (per Statcast), to put runners at 2nd and 3rd, with the Yankees trailing 2-1. Then Judge hits a foul pop up that Dalbec alligator-arms and misses. Judge then strikes out on a foul tip, but the catcher drops the ball on the transfer to his throwing hand, and Joe West calls it a foul ball. Not reviewable. So of course Judge goes on the crush a double, driving in 2. And then Stanton hits a missile over the Green Monster that may still be in orbit.

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2 big series start tonight

braves/phillies 2 wins by braves clinches

yanks/jays 2 wins by yanks clinch

I'm sorry you're a Cubs fan.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Scott Servais's Mariners are suddenly only 1 game back for a Wild Card.

They are battling the A's this week who are 3 games out.

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AL Wildcards still up for grabs.

Yankees have the Rays, Red Sox play the Nationals, Blue Jays get the Orioles, and the Mariners finish up with the Angels.

Hope for chaos.

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