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David Laurila

9:18

Tom Waits live is like a vaudeville act. Amazing performer.

Sean

9:18

I think if I ever see a hometown hero/professional athlete at a bar, I’m gonna ask them to buy me a beer. Greinke has made hundreds of times more than I will in my lifetime. I ain’t paying for his drink.

Maggie25

9:18

I have to assume that the mass resignations are the culmination of something.

Dan Szymborski

9:19

The editor was fired for loading the front page of non-sports things in protest.

Tom

9:19

I work in sports and legitimately didn't know Deadspin was a sports website. Just thought it was a regular website that sometimes wrote about sports

Dan Szymborski

9:19

Media companies can take stick to sports too far; there *are* places where sports and politics necessarily collide.

Joe

9:19

Dan with the really bad take re Deadspin. What did they think it was when they bought it? The non-sports stuff is the most trafficked.

Dan Szymborski

9:20

If I buy the McDonald's that sells spaghetti and blankets, I dont' think it's unreasonable if I want to focus it on Big Macs and fries.

The Spin is Dead

9:20

Even if people are buying lots of spaghetti and blankets?

Dan Szymborski

9:20

It's my choice as the McDonald's franchise owner.

Maggie25

9:21

But then it's not a shock when all the blanket salespeople want to quit

Dan Szymborski

9:21

Nope, never said it was a shock.

The Spin is Dead

9:21

Yay capitalism!

Dan Szymborski

9:21

Yes. Yay capitalism.

Joe

9:22

It would be like FG getting new owners and then telling you to stop writing about baseball analytics.

Dan Szymborski

9:22

No, it would be like FG getting new owners and telling me to *start* writing about baseball analytics.

TLITF

9:22

But it wasn't a McDonald's, Dan. It's more like if you bought the sports site that differentiated itself by being about so much more, and trying to make it not be about so much more

5 Run Homer

9:23

I live in Canada, and I just saw a Donald Trump ad. What the hell?

David Laurila

9:23

Reminds me of something I once said to my wife while watching a game. Can’t remember the city in question, but let’s say it was Cleveland. My offhand comment was, “Somewhere in Cleveland, a beer bottle just got thrown into a TV.”

Adam2

9:23

Does Tom Waits ever perform anymore?

Dan Szymborski

9:24

Moving on.

Scherzer's Piercing Blue Eye

9:25

Just not even close most of the time, it seems.

Lee Rumbah

9:25

This game needs a Yordan inside the parker

jonnyzuck

9:26

the home plate ump looks like the ed hochulli of umps with those arms

I'll make you famous

9:26

With all these baserunners Max is flirting with making dome Astro the World Series MVP

Actual Astros Fan

9:26

How long they gonna leave in Scherzer? Nats having a terrible pen is biting them

Dan Szymborski

9:27

I can't imagine he's back for another inning.

Appa Yip Yip

9:27

Strasburg with the 5 inning save

David Laurila

9:27

This is a somewhat odd game. I can imagine it ending 1-0, 8-0, or 5-4.

Scherzer's Piercing Blue Eye

9:27

David, you talk to a lot of pitchers ... do you have any idea what a cortisone shot would do to mechanics?

abgb123

9:27

Sanchez available?

Dan Szymborski

9:27

He has to be.

Adam2

9:28

How honored do you think Beethoven would be traveling to the future and hearing/being told that 3 seconds of one his pieces is used to taunt opposing players in sports?

Dan Szymborski

9:28

I had to draw a conclusion from what we've seen, but I really think it's clear that Scherzer wasn't near 100% coming into the game.

9:29

The BABIP gods seem kind to him though.

David Laurila

9:29

Good question on the cortisone shot. I'll ask a few guys come spring training, but I'm guessing there's little impact? Only one I've had was the knee, and everything felt "normal" afterwards, but I wasn't a mound, so...

Ball on the Tracks

9:29

The dog or the composer?

Tvetter

9:29

I just finished cleaning up the beer off my television

Scrubladder

9:29

7 stranded thru 4 innings

David Laurila

9:30

Another trivia thing that has nothing to do with this game: The 1927 Yankees hit 158 home runs — no other AL team hit more than 56 — and they also the led the league in walks. On the pitching side, NYY hurlers gave up the fewest walks, and the second fewest home runs. They finished 110-44, then swept the Pirates in the World Series.

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