2016 MLB Regular-Season Thread

Forty-five THOUSAND words?

 

45K words? Try to find a book publisher, or publish it yourself in an e-book.

 

@The Big Ragu is unimpressed ...

 

That's going to be an enormous jump off the front of sports.

 

Tons of classified slop space ... [/anyoneremember?]

 

Pirates' Gerrit Cole to miss the remainder of the season due to elbow issues

This makes me question why the Pirates allowed Gerrit Cole to come back. He makes only one start in his return from injury, then goes on the 60-Day DL due to ongoing elbow problems. Some may want to claim they knew his season was at risk when they waived the white flag at the deadline, but I don't believe they would have let him come back at all if that was the case.

If they weren't already done, they are now. The Pirates were 69-73 when they called it a season for Cole, seven games under .500 since the Melancon deal after having been three games above before the trade. The funny part is some folks around here tried to argue that the team was actually better after the trade. That is how desperate some people are to avoid ever admitting that an MLB team's season was even partially sunk due to ownership's refusal to spend.

 

Shit ... And here I am with a bottle of wine open. Cheers!

 

Yawn. oop's sad that his favorite baseball team didn't spend 38 cents on a star.

Seems like we've seen this sentence or two 28 times the last week and a half ...

 

Didi hits his 18th, one batter after Ellsbury goes yard. Yanks 2-0.

 

I remember one Super Bowl Sunday shift when production let me know there was 45 inches of legals (remember those?) that needed a home and since my pages were the most open ...

All I could do was give him the dummy sheet, tell him it was OK since it wasn't his fault, then find a room so I could beat my head against the wall for a few minutes.

 

My worst was one Sunday night (I usually pulled Sunday nights (alone) in the slot, but I don't think I ever did the Super Bowl). The blue-hair who did classifieds popped in about 15 minutes before 1st deadline and told me I had "a good bit" of slop space ... a page and a half. Then she mentioned that news side had already used a full-page promo (we had those of various sizes on the ready), so they didn't have one handy. My 1st-edition readers were treated to an exhaustive treatment of some sport/sporting figure they never knew existed.

 

You didn't, but I am enjoying seeing those folks proven wrong. Also, my favorite team is my fantasy team. The Pirates lost my loyalty long ago.