Jesus christ facing the Dodgers pitching in the World Series is a nightmare
Game 1: 115/80 Ohtani
Game 2; 85/80 Skubal
Game 3: 75/80 Yamamoto
Game 4: 60/80 Snell/60/80 Bubic
Game 1: 115/80 Ohtani
Game 2; 85/80 Skubal
Game 3: 75/80 Yamamoto
Game 4: 60/80 Snell/60/80 Bubic
Best part of the Red Sox organisation and it isnt even close
So I trained Liam Delap's jumping and heading ability and got great results. The idea was to use him as a pacey target forward who will make runs from deep trying to break the offside trap, or stay pinned up top and wait for a cross from the byline
Was that never going to work, or are there some specific instructions and tactical set-up that benefits a target man striker?
How are any of you talking about winning the World Series right now, or even the division!?
Are you all so blissfully unaware of how the Baseball Gods punish hubris?
Just look at what they did to Yankees fans for never shutting up about Judge being the greatest hitter of all time.
The gods said "Oh he's the greatest hitter? Bet. Guess he wont need to field fly balls anymore"
Thats the shit that happens when you run your mouth to the elder gods
Shut the fuck up about winning anything this season. Its bad juju
If this game was being played in America or the UK, St George's fans would be calling for blood.
20 something runs for six wickets is the wildest capitulation I've ever seen.
Cant wait for next year cuz you knowww nothings gonna change
Its incredible to me how anyone doesnt love this ballplayer archetype
I ABSOLUTELY want the guy who crowds the plate like a maniac, gets mad when he gets hit, and makes pitchers throw over the plate so he can jack that shit over the monster.
It hurts me that this isnt obvious to everyone
Boy that kid at third base we got cuz 95 OPS+ with plus defense is super valuable sure looks like a great pick-up, dont he?
Nobody check what the Cubs are paying their third baseman for the same value
It's almost like someone had put all of these guys together deliberately, but they just forgot how to hit for a few months
I was first published at 12 and have been writing professionally as a journalist since I was 18.
And yet I've probably spent the last 15 years not doing ANY of the things a "good" writer should be doing--specifically, I've not been reading enough fiction.
Decided to change things this year and have been reading all the classics I avoided, along with some lesser known greats (see me post about Daniil Khams) and now I'm looking for more.
Really I'm looking for writers who break the mold in novel ways, like Khams. Saramago also comes to mind for his use of punctuation
Would love any recs from your personal list of writers who impacted the way you approached the form
I've been writing professionally for my entire adult life and the first question I had after reading this man's work was "wait who is this for?"
It did not compute that I was reading something written by an author with zero obligaton towards me as the reader. There was no implied contract. He didnt have to explain himself to me because this work wasnt for me to read.
Honestly it was a bit of a eureka moment for me
I'll leave you with "Blue Notebook N.2"
>Once there was a redheaded man without eyes and without ears. He had no hair either, so that he was a redhead was just something they said.
>He could not speak, for he had no mouth. He had no nose either.
>He didn't even have arms or legs. He had no stomach either, and he had no back, and he had no spine, and no intestines of any kind. He didn't have anything at all. So it is hard to understand whom we are really talking about.
>So it is probably best not to talk about him any more.
I love the image of the man sitting down to write one day, because that's what writers do--they write--and jotting this down in his notebook and having a chuckle to himself.
I adore everything about him
I cant access and of his expected stats to see if theres anything obvious, but the guy had an ISO of 111 last year. Now its .341. Whats happened there?