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  1. Youk Of The Nation
    Using "Walden" and "Pond" in the same sentence makes me feel like there's an opportunity for wordplay in there, but I just can't find it even after a Thoreau search.
  2. Youk Of The Nation
    Yeah, I didn't think about that. JD's performance during the first week of the season combined with the large lead might have led a manager to hesitate at warming someone up. On the other hand, loading the bases against a team that has started the season 9-1 should have been a red flag anyways. I still think this is on Boone.
  3. Youk Of The Nation
    Given her line of work, I think she'd be proud to know that even though she's now stiff, so are her fans.
  4. Youk Of The Nation
    Not that I'm complaining, but how in the world has Boone not taken this guy out yet?
  5. Youk Of The Nation
    With Carlos Beltran retiring after last season, Adrian Beltre and Bartolo Colon are the last remaining active players who debuted in the 1990s. How's that for making you feel old? Makes me feel positively ancient.
  6. Youk Of The Nation
    Thunder mojo is pretty damn convincing at this point.
  7. Youk Of The Nation
    The vaunted Yankees bullpen is living up to the hype about as well as Batman Vs. Superman.
  8. Youk Of The Nation
    Nice!
  9. Youk Of The Nation
    The book is a classic, though.
  10. Youk Of The Nation
    I'm happy that he's starting out at least like he was hyped. Hitting with power, pitching above average, I hope it lasts. It's a great baseball story no matter which team he plays for, I'd like to see him succeed. And I agree with Boggs, if he ends up even slightly above average in both categories, there's no way you don't give him the MVP. What's more valuable than a guy who can win games for you from both sides of the ball? Granted, he might not continue dominating outside of this small sample size, but he certainly looks to have the tools to do so, and I want to see him do it.
  11. Youk Of The Nation
    I think wearing those Devil Rays uniforms during the opening series might have been a poor omen for those guys. No one launches a brand new ocean liner wearing Titanic throwback caps, and there's a reason for that.
  12. Youk Of The Nation
    Finally, someone else who might understand my passionate dislike of the Welsh. Not really, the Welsh are fine. Seriously, welcome to TalkSox.
  13. Youk Of The Nation
    20-run game today by Philadelphia. Their starting pitcher had two hits in the game. They didn't even bother to pinch-hit for the relief pitcher. 20+ run games are always fun to read about as long as they don't happen to your team. Anyways, the Marlins are terrible.
  14. Youk Of The Nation
    Porcello really settled down after a bumpy first inning.
  15. Youk Of The Nation
    Well isn't that nice.
  16. Youk Of The Nation
    You're the one gluten-free guy at the office pizza party.
  17. Youk Of The Nation
    Here are the 100 best Minor League player names heading into the 2018 season | MLB.com WWW.MLB.COM The Official Site of Major League Baseball
  18. Youk Of The Nation
    Wait, do you mean at Fenway for the first time? Because I definitely remember a series at Wrigley in 2005, Youk hit his only HR of that season in one of those games.
  19. Youk Of The Nation
    They should definitely go back to only using one baseball per game, so that by the seventh or eighth inning it's almost black with dirt and so pummeled and misshapen that it's like throwing a beanbag.
  20. Youk Of The Nation
    I don't really understand the complaints about Betts being sat today. Has anyone considered the possibility that there may be a reason for it, that they chose not to share with the world? You announce a DL-worthy injury, or something that might take someone out for a few games. But maybe it's not that. Maybe he has the shits. Maybe he ate at Chipotle last night and is feeling a little gross and was afraid he'd slide into home and leave a skid mark halfway up the third base line. Maybe he had a migraine. I've had enough of those to know it's almost impossible to read a book or blink, or do anything other than lie quietly in the dark, let alone play a baseball game. Maybe it's any one of a hundred other things that Betts and Cora chose not to share with the ravenous media and judgemental fans. If it was a serious problem, it would have been shared. So maybe we can just trust that they had a reason other than "Betts is a wuss who can't play more than a couple games in a row".
  21. Youk Of The Nation
    It's ridiculous that they're whining when it wasn't a no-hitter. On the subject of no-hitters, though, I've always had trouble settling on a position. I agree that it's the job of the batter to get a hit and it doesn't make sense to forbid them from doing it on the basis of an "unwritten rule". On the other hand, bunting for a hit in the ninth inning of a no-no when your team is losing by nine or ten runs just seems like you're being a dick. I mean yeah, theoretically it could lead to an historic comeback, but you're basically screwing over a fellow baseball players' opportunity at history for something that you have to know probably isn't going to happen. So I don't really condone the pitching team whining about it, but at the same time I guess I support the great "unwritten rule" of life: Don't be a dick, dude.
  22. Youk Of The Nation
    Another inside-the-park homerun today, this time by Correa. Seems like there have been a lot of those to start off the season. Three in the first week, it's hard to be sure but I feel like they're usually rarer than that.
  23. Youk Of The Nation
    I agreed with everything you said up until this point. Jacko doesn't have thousands of troll posts. He has thousands of insufferable posts, which is quite different. He is intelligent and very good at debating baseball, he's just incredibly obnoxious sometimes. He was always going to be irritating, though, because he's a Yankees fan. We should all be thankful that he's also capable of upright locomotion and coherent speech. Anyone who has been to Yankee Stadium knows that's not always a given.
  24. Youk Of The Nation
    Thunder may be the only TS poster ever to overcome terrible GT mojo. Most people just stop making them once they accumulate enough losses. Thunder has really turned it around.
  25. Youk Of The Nation
    I get it!
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