(The team, of course, improved when they got a true first baseman who was the team’s best hitter and a true third baseman who was an elite defender who hit for power and moved the plus athlete with plus speed to CF where he won a gold glove instead of messing around as a below average 1B…)

most of my top categories, like sports, American history, current events and theatre, are pretty obvious, but how classical music ended up my 7th-best category is something that still perplexes me after all this time

People are so desperate to pretend Clemson isn’t a better baseball school than Michigan but ignore the constant sexual misconduct scandals

Play regularly for them as at least a part time starter, not just a bench bat

it happens all the time in OOTP where if you sign guys to minor league deals really early they’re likely to be Rule 5’d. I’m always amused when it happens in real baseball though, like if someone wanted them that bad how did they not get a major league deal?

One new feature that is truly awesome, though? Adore the new “copy and delete” feature for screenshots that keeps you from clogging up your iCloud storage with screenshots you just had to send to one person once

It’s also an admission that the Tanner Scott deal was a failure and it’s actually a great thing to see them have to try to solve that problem with even more money because it is about the most inefficient way they could possibly spend that

if you really dig into the college baseball portal, you’ll find a ton of guys like this. destroyed some school in a midweek (or even better, a regional), then transfers there.

see: Dom Decker!

kid who throws 100 giving up homers to some rando. it happens every week in the SEC and ACC!

It annoys me how much of my time is supposed to be taken up now by watching vieos and listening to podcasts. Reading takes a tiny fraction of the time! Unless I’m driving, I want to read!