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Jeff Sullivan

6:18

Then drop out, play baseball, and undergo a swing change

Meg Rowley

6:19

Drop out, write about baseball*, worry you've disappointed your parents**

Jeff Sullivan

6:19

confirm you've disappointed your parents***

Eric, in case you're still browsing this window -- pardon if I've missed it, but did you even bother to get a read on Muncy last summer?

Eric A Longenhagen

6:19

Nope

Jeff Sullivan

6:20

lol

This is the best sport in the world

Meg Rowley

6:20

I like the part where their brains mostly work at the end and when they play baseball

Eric A Longenhagen

6:20

He was way over rookie eligibility, but I tend to not dive deep on 26+ year olds anyway

Dystopian Future

6:20

I don't understand how it is that Mariners fans can love baseball enough to take it on as a job in spite of the constant misery.

Eric A Longenhagen

6:21

If anything it might provide them relief as it warps their fandom

Meg Rowley

6:21

Totally.

I mean, it is a low-stakes way to feel sad. There's value in that.

Jeff Sullivan

6:21

Yes. It requires exposure to the non-Mariners, of whom there are far more in number

Meg Rowley

6:21

Many of whom baseball much better.

6:22

Bad baseball is one way to get better at writing. Not the only way, but it forces creativity.

5 Run Homer

6:22

I mean, Seattle did win 89 games this season. Run differential notwithstanding, that’s a pretty good season

Meg Rowley

6:23

Yes, but also the Browns have been to the playoffs more recently. Literally the Browns.

Eric A Longenhagen

6:23

Braylon Edwards, man.

Meg Rowley

6:24

Life is pain.

Jeff Sullivan

6:24

With their record, the Mariners would've played at least a 163rd game in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017

Meg Rowley

6:24

Life is painnnnnnnn.

Jeff Sullivan

6:24

Unless, that is, you also give the Rays their record

Walker Buehler is finished for today. He did a good job at work

wOBAseft

6:25

Was reviewing the Brewers transactions in the Stearns era a while ago and I'm struck by the sheer amount of unequivocal steals. Shaw, Davies, Yelich, Peralta (sorry Meg!), others I'm forgetting, and not to mention all the great waiver claims. Is there reason to believe theres some 80-grade talent recognition going on there, or are they just really lucky?

Jeff Sullivan

6:26

Little of both. The Brewers are run extremely well

Joe

6:26

Walker Buehler certainly did a better job at work than I did today.

Jeff Sullivan

6:26

I mean, that doesn't mean they don't end up on the wrong side of Miller/Choi or Villar/Schoop. But they've gotten to a good place

Cam

6:26

Baez in - I have time to make a cup of tea before he delivers his first pitch. And another before his second.

Walter Benjamin

6:27

C'mon, the Mariners have a great stadium, watchable players, they're often good --- compare fandom for that team to 90% of European pro soccer clubs that won't win a championship in 100 years, and I think the constant self-pity becomes a little much

Eric A Longenhagen

6:27

Hot beverage sounds good (goes to make coffee)

Meg Rowley

6:27

But see, the thing is, I don't watch European pro soccer.

Jeff Sullivan

6:28

Yes. Relative to only baseball, the Mariners are sad

Khris Davis

6:28

.247 again. I am consistency itself

Jeff Sullivan

6:28

It's such a perfectly unremarkable batting average

6:29

The pinnacle of stupidly appealing baseball fun facts

6:30

"This crowd has been outstanding all afternoon. That's all they've done, is stand."

god dammit

Iggy Pop Has Raw Power

6:31

Khris Davis keeps improving his average relative to the league though if the league AVG is trending down. So he’s getting better-ish.

Jeff Sullivan

6:31

That's the other funny part of it

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