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KC Pain
5:19
Lewis is hurt?!?!
Kaufmann Stadium
5:19
It looks great, and I know from experience it's a fine place to watch a game. There's no way they should leave this place.
Matt Martell
5:19
Edouard Julien base hit off a lefty. I think he’s gonna rule again! @Davy
Davy Andrews
5:20
Yes! More Julien!
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:19
Regarding the deferments, Ben Clemens covered this regarding Ohtani's deal:

The 4.43% is the yearly discount rate, which is the Imputed Loan Interest Rate (ILIR) referred to in Article XXIII(6)(c). The ILIR is synonymous with the federal midterm rate, and the CBA calls for using the federal midterm rate reported by Internal Revenue Service for the October prior to the contract year (i.e., October 2023 in this case); since we have no ILIR data beyond October 2023, the league uses that rate for the entirety of the contract. The 4.43% is a yearly rate, which as such is applied to each successive year, or put another way, 10 times.
in other words, it's set out in the CBA
jj
5:20
VSII ready to run
Davy Andrews
5:21
And...there he goes.
5 Run Homer
5:21
The long-foretold Cavan Biggio breakout season begins
Appa Yip Yip
5:21
The number of times I have written Cavan Biggio off and then written him back in based on one swing.
Davy Andrews
5:21
VLADITO!
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:21
Vladito had a BRUTAL no doubter out to center
J
5:22
Edouard Julien When You Gonna Rule Again has legitimately been stuck in my head once a week since that article
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:22
That's our resident rock star, Davy Andrews! Davy, when are the Subway Ghosts gonna play out again?
Matt Martell
5:22
SAME
Davy Andrews
5:22
It'll be a couple months. We're working on an EP at the moment.
RTJ
5:22
that Vlad HR was prettty far
5 Run Homer
5:22
Vladdy :)
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:22
Yeah, I've been linking it; it's very catchy
B'Ryce Hammer, Destroyer of Baseballs
5:23
Yow... That Vladdy G bomb was measured in kiloton range
Appa Yip Yip
5:23
450 ft to center for vlad
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:23
Davy Andrews
5:25
Fun fact: When I play it now, I add a couple bars of "O Canada" as a bridge.
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:25
Looking forward to that EP, then.
Cap
5:26
I don't think the Angels are gonna come back today y'all
Black and Orange
5:26
how far was vladito in meters? he plays in Canada after all
Yeah Well Hiura Towel
5:27
Genius commercial by MLB, have all your favorite stars tell you "Opening Day is exciting" in their least exciting voice possible
Kvn
5:28
50 degrees in Baltimore and they're still spraying water on people love it
Moonlight Graham
5:29
Crochet 6 IP . Pretty good first start
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:30
6 innings, 1 run, 8 K. As noted in my roundup of Opening Day pitchers, he's just the third pos-WW2 pitcher to make his first career start on Opening Day, after Fernando Valenzuela (1981) and Tanner Scheppers (2014). h/t Sarah Langs on that one https://blogs.fangraphs.com/an-opening-day-slate-short-of-familiar-nam...
Matt Martell
5:29
Juan Soto RBI single. Aaron Judge coming up with the bases loaded and nobody out in a 4-1 game.
AvatarDan Szymborski
5:29
Just call Eflin Elfin because he's getting killed like he's a son of Fëanor
5 Run Homer
5:30
450 feet is 137 metres, though as a Canadian metres mean just about nothing to me
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:31
I think this means they get an extra rouge.
B'Ryce Hammer, Destroyer of Baseballs
5:34
Anything more Anthony Rizzo than a HBP for the RBI?
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:35
Ouch. Is it any wonder he has so much trouble staying healthy?
Guest
5:36
"Nothing’s more American than grabbing a hot dog, heading to FanGraphs to watch the games and talk to Jay and Dan" (Will Ferrell)
AvatarJay Jaffe
5:36
That would be a blast
J
5:38
From 2013-2021, Rizzo played at least 140 games in every non-pandemic shortened year, and he basically only ever missed time for a recurring back injury. Played 130 in 2022 too. He really does not have trouble staying healthy at all for someone who gets hit so much.
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