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Ben Clemens
7:13
I'll stop taking submissions after the bottom* half of this inning
but if you're interested in trying out my favorite baseball simulation game there is, it can be yours for free
Nick Perry
7:14
Nice for the hollywood execs to time the Springsteen biopic to come out so all the traveling baseball writers have something to do on day off between World Series game 2/3
Davy Andrews
7:16
I should note that I finally got really into Springsteen like the exact second that FanGraphs brought me on full-time. It is a natural law.
Ben Clemens
7:16
I'm sorry to say that I'm not really into him
7:17
That said, I am not yet a BBWAA member. So perhaps it comes with a membership
Welland Jackfish
7:17
Blue Jays pitcher Trey Yes, Savage is already a nickname with just what his parents gave him
Guest
7:17
Jeff blowsgamesintheninthinningfornoparticularreason. If I win (I will) just donate it to a kid at shriners or smth I already have ootp26 lmao
RTJ
7:18
My hottest take is that games are too fast. It's one thing to speed up mid-june games that are 11-2 between the rockies and the pirates, but I want to be able to savor a yanks sox game- nothing like a 4.5 hour 2-1 slog in October
Ben Clemens
7:18
Starting off with a strong showing from our northern neighbors
Davy Andrews
7:19
I think this is a perfectly valid opinion. Sometimes it really does feel like you looked away for a second and half the game just disappeared.
Ben Clemens
7:19
it's funny, though, you would have really disliked baseball for the vast majority of its history if you're hoping for 4 hour games
7:20
i'm not really sure what the right answer is, but I don't think the natural state of the world is these super super super long games where pitchers just don't throw the ball
7:21
like, I HATED old NYY/BOS games because they'd start late, and good luck working the next morning (I lived in NY and had early morning hours back then)
Phil
7:21
Having finally played a full season, I think Trevor Story is ready to be promoted to Trevor Novella.
RTJ
7:21
you should be required to not throw a pitch while I go to the kitchen to stir the pasta for dinner
Ben Clemens
7:22
Now, that argument I could get behind
Let's just make sure to sync up our pasta stirring
Raph Fangs
7:22
Romy "Oh, and Juliet" Gonzalez
Ben Clemens
7:22
okay I laughed a lot at this one
Davy Andrews
7:22
Oh yeah, this is great.
Farhandrew Zaidman
7:23
I also have OOTP26, but for some reason my Rockies 2025 rebuild was like, orders of magnitude easier than my White Sox 2022 rebuild. Make it make sense.
Ben Clemens
7:23
I like exclusively rebuild the Rockies when I play OOTP these days
maybe the budget is the reason it's easier than it feels like it should be? I dunno
Guest
7:25
What do you all think of the 1pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm start times for the Wild Card round? Feels like midday games are missing out on some
Ben Clemens
7:25
I think they're kinda weird!
I think I'd prefer like 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30
or mayyyyyybe 8
the first game is too early and the last game is too late, basically
Guest
7:26
the 1pm games are hype tho, I remember back in grade 4 our teacher pirated the jays games during the 2015 run, and we would all watch that instead of actually learning
Bosoxforlife
7:27
It is definitely going to be tough to make it through the Dodgers-Reds game here on the east coast.
Ben Clemens
7:28
I think I somehow agree with both these takes
the 1pm game does give a bit of a march madness feeling
but I think that 1:30 would probably feel similar
RTJ
7:28
speaking of Crochet, who are the top 3 leg-kickers in baseball right now?
Ben Clemens
7:28
Davy, I'm almost certain you'd be better suited to answer this question than me, but I assume Skubal is number one
ayeff
7:29
Matthew Boyd has a fancy-boy leg kick
Guest
7:29
Does Kwan count for the leg kickers thing?
Welland Jackfish
7:29
Gausman's is a bit weird because he makes a little triangle at the end, but before that he gets it up there
Raph Fangs
7:30
Red Sox radio update: Lou Merloni is on his fourth coffee. Look out.
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