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Even Kirk Cousins’ agent is impressed…

So the Yankees are 5-1 because of their use of the challenge system? I’m ok if the Sox want everyone to try the system out. It shouldn’t be for select hitters or pitchers…

Hoss Radbourn is most definitely not the father of Hitchcock!

Really? You can’t rank AL teams from 1-4 based on record?

Cora might want his players getting used to that system. Especially since you only have 2 seconds to make a challenge…

Are we really nitpicking the use of the ABS system now? Maybe, since it’s a new system, everyone was instructed to try it out and be aggressive with their challenges? They’re not going to limit who gets to challenge calls. The Sox want everyone able to do it…

In the American League? Optimistic but I’m on board…

Also - the Sox were a mere 30-40 years removed from their last title! Oh, good times…

And will the game be over by 1:30?

I was watching a game where CB Bucknor was the guest referee….

The main flaw in your theory is starters don’t give max effort. Watch the All Star game and you’ll see starting pitchers are pacing themselves all season. Sure teams value hard throwers, but they don’t develop them. Kids grow up believing 95mph radar gun readings get them drafted in the top fuce, or a free ride at Arizona State. Plenty of kids out there are bringing their own high octane arms to the draft. And even their parents believed it - remember about 10-20years ago, when there was tjis trend where parents would subject their perfectly healthy teenagers to Tommy John surgery because they had this mistaken belief their kids would throw harder? MLB teams aren’t doing that. But some point, MLB pitchers did price themselves $20-30mill per year. And teams actually signed on. But when you’re paying a pitcher that much, he’s not just a roster spot; he’s an investment. And teams will protect their investments. This is probably why Early was allowed to throw more pitches than Crochet. And that Early has potential is why he (and no other pitcher) is allowed to throw 125 pitches anymore. And especially not in March…

Should we stick to fox hunting, dog shows or polo? What did you think about all the hullabaloo in the third chucker? I think it was a lot of shenanigans and tomfoolery, but Reginald thinks the horse was bulimic. Whats your hot take?

He just wants Early to be treated like a Hall of Famer, apparently. Or like Michael Fulmer, whichever comes first…

I love basketball and the NBA. I just hate the Triangle Offense…

Even Homo Erectus used to hear from his grandparents about how much better it was to crawl around on all 4’s, and they’d say things like “You kids today with your opposable thumbs…”

If anything ruined the NBA, it was the universal adaptation of the phenomenally boring Triangle Offense. Three pointers are exciting; passing the ball for 44 seconds, missing a shot, followed by 44 more seconds of passing the ball around? I’d rather watch golf, and I don’t even believe in golf…

Because my dad was still alive and we used to watch games together…

The whole “pitchers are wussies compared to back in the day” is more than just 1980 vs 2025. Yes the Hall of Famers from the 80s and 90s threw lots of innings. Not as many as, say Bob Feller, who frequently topped 280 IP. Of course Feller was a complete wussy compared to Christy Mathewson and Iron Man Joe McGinnity, a pair of Giants’ teammates who would conbine for 700 IP. Of course they were still wimps next to Hoss Radbourn, who would throw 400IP on his own and then punch out a horse. This is an ongoing evolution in MLB….

Who pitched more sixth innings? Starters or bullpen? If you’re going by aggregate run total, that’s a factor. By any chance did you consider that your ERA question was effectively “did pitchers have a better ERA before or after the universal DH?”

Frank Tanana? A hard-throwing pitcher who had to reinvent himself as a junk baller because he threw too hard too often? Do you realize Tanana is a better argument against your position as opposed to for it?

This is not even remotely true. Teams started tracking pitch counts against arm injuries as early as the late 1980s. By the mid-1990’s, every team was tracking pitch counts to preserve the arms of their SPs and countering the lower IP totals with specialized bullpens. It was as far back as 1996 when the Yankees used Mariano Rivera and John Wetteland to reduce the game to 7 innings for opposing batters. And the 2001 Mariners had a monster bullpen that carried them to 115 wins. Early on, some pitchers were vocal about pitch count limits. Former White Sox ace Jack McDowell was very vocal about having his outings cut short by pitch counts, apparently preferring to have his entire career cut short instead…

And then do Britt Burns and Kerry Wood and Ben Sheets and Josh Johnson…

But by the time he was Early’s age, Mark “The Bird” Fidrych had over 350 IP. Also by the time he was Early’s age, the Bird’s career was effectively over…

Valera wouldn’t be a big surprise if he made it by 2027…