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there's so much to unpack from today, so i'll just start listing them. tuesday was devastating for oakland, today was twice as devastating for the yankees.  they had just started to play better. 

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The boy and I were at the last ALCS clincher - we were walking on air for days after Altuve’s walkoff. Today, the boy is 5,000 miles and 7 hours away, with no way to watch. So we did a video chat, w

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Enjoy it. Old Altuve, no more Correa means this is the very end of the road for your tainted dynasty. 

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Looking forward to seeing Buckner’s umpire score tomorrow. That strike call on Straw was 6 inches outside. What a terrible ump he is. Maybe the worst. 

Joe West is a clown. Angel Hernandez is an arrogant incompetent fool. He’s awful. And yet, CB Buckner is worse than both of them. Hands down. He’s the Ebola of MLB umpiring. 

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I wanted 50 wins by the end of June.

And we managed to get to 48 with 4 games left against the fucking Tigers/Orioles.....and we are still at fucking 48.  

 

If we end up losing the West it is because we are shooting ourselves in the foot.  Should really have about a 6 game lead right now 

At least we are playing a team with a winning record......maybe we will actually win 3 of the next 4.  

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If we end up losing the West it is because we are shooting ourselves in the foot.  Should really have about a 6 game lead right now 

It will be because Click chose to go cheap ass with the bullpen, to try and prove himself by finding diamonds in the rough.  So far, he's failed.  Probably overpromised Crane to get the job.  Pretty clear now he wasn't the key to TB's 'Almost good enough cheap ass pitching success'.

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It will be because Click chose to go cheap ass with the bullpen, to try and prove himself by finding diamonds in the rough.  So far, he's failed.  Probably overpromised Crane to get the job.  Pretty clear now he wasn't the key to TB's 'Almost good enough cheap ass pitching success'.

The cheap ass, if there is one, is Jim Crane.

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Holy shit. Trevor Bauer likes the kink.

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Los Angeles Dodgers star Trevor Bauer strangled a woman he was having sex with until she lost consciousness on multiple occasions, repeatedly punched her in the face during sex and left her with injuries that required hospitalization, the woman said in a domestic violence restraining order filed against Bauer on Monday.

In a copy of the temporary ex parte order obtained by ESPN, the woman, 27, said: "I am deeply concerned that no arrest has been made or charges filed." While asking the court to issue a no-contact order that would prevent Bauer from coming within 100 yards of her, the woman provided graphic details of two meetings with Bauer and photographs that show two black eyes, scratches on her face and bruised and cut lips.

She said that the first time she and Bauer met, he used her hair to choke her unconscious. When she awoke, she said, he was penetrating her anally. About three weeks after their first meeting at his home in Pasadena, California, she agreed to return. In that meeting, she said, he punched her in the face, vagina and buttocks and left her with what doctors called "significant head and facial trauma."

"I agreed to have consensual sex," the woman said in a declaration given under the penalty of perjury. "However I did not agree or consent to what he did next. I did not agree to be sexually assaulted."

Pasadena police continue to investigate the alleged assaults, which took place April 21 and May 16. The ex parte order is temporary and does not allow the other party the opportunity to respond.

Bauer plans to deny the account during a July 23 hearing, according to his representatives. On Tuesday, they had issued a statement denying that Bauer had assaulted the woman, calling their encounters "wholly consensual." Bauer's representatives also provided a series of messages that show the woman inviting rough sex and talking about how she wants him to "gimme all the pain" and "choke me out."

Major League Baseball has opened an investigation into Bauer under its joint domestic violence policy with the players' union, sources told ESPN. MLB can place him on a paid, seven-day administrative leave, but given that no arrests have been made and Bauer denies the assault allegations, the league is expected to wait for either the police investigation or its internal investigation to play out before taking action.

Bauer, who signed a three-year, $102 million contract with the Dodgers in February and is being paid $40 million this year after winning the 2020 National League Cy Young Award, was informed of the order on Monday, the morning of his last start.

The woman's declaration, first made public by The Athletic on Wednesday, begins April 18, when she tagged Bauer in an Instagram post. He sent her a direct message, and they agreed to meet at his house. After talking for hours, she said, they retreated to Bauer's bedroom, where they began having sex. Bauer, she said, started pulling her hair and put his fingers down her throat "in an aggressive manner." She asked him to stop.

Without asking in advance, she says, he wrapped her long hair around her neck and choked her until she passed out. The woman said she woke up face down on the bed to Bauer assaulting her from behind. "It was extremely painful," she said, adding that she later had anal bleeding. The next morning, the woman said, Bauer asked: "You feeling a little sore this morning?"

They continued to communicate. In a series of texts provided by Bauer's representatives -- and not shown in the woman's exhibits in the protective order -- the woman initially referenced being choked until losing consciousness and responded affirmatively when Bauer asked if she wanted to do that again. The woman did the same when Bauer referenced slapping her in the face.

A week later, she went to Pasadena for the second time. He asked her, she said, for a safe word -- a word she could use if she was uncomfortable during sex. He asked her, she said, what was off limits. She told him no fingers in her throat.

The woman said Bauer wrapped her hair around her neck and choked her unconscious again. When she awoke, she said, "Trevor began punching my face. This was the first punch I felt but it is very possible that Trevor had already been punching and scratching the right side of my face while I was unconscious."

Bauer followed, she said, with closed-fist punches to the left side of her jaw, the left side of her head and both cheekbones. The woman said she was "frozen and terrified" and "could not speak or move." He choked her again, she said, and punched her in the vagina. She said she started "crying and violently shaking," at which point Bauer said: "You're safe. I'm here. You're safe." He later added, according to her account: "I would never do those things to you if it wasn't sexually."

The woman eventually left with two black eyes and a swollen jaw and cheekbones. Scratches marked her face. A bump formed on the left side of her head. Her upper lip split. A dark bruise marked her lower lip. Bruises showed on her vagina and buttocks -- the latter from punches she said he admitted to throwing when she was passed out: "You have a couple welts. I need to be more careful where I hit you. I also punched your butt while you were unconscious so you may have a bruise there."

On May 17, the day after the alleged assault, the woman went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with "acute head injury" and "assault by manual strangulation." San Diego police spoke with her. The woman said she "attempted to downplay what occurred out of concern for my privacy and what my statements might lead to." She told police she didn't want to file charges.

A day later, police from Pasadena questioned her. She drove to Pasadena on May 21, at the police's behest, to call Bauer and get him to admit to what she said he did while being recorded. She asked him what he did while she was unconscious, the order said, and he admitted to punching her repeatedly in the buttocks. When she said, "I didn't ask to be punched" and "this was not a free for all," Bauer "attempted to change the subject."

In Bauer's statement, he denied assaulting the woman, whose name ESPN is withholding because she says she's a sexual assault victim.

The statement said: "Mr. Bauer had a brief and wholly consensual sexual relationship initiated by [the woman] beginning in April 2021. We have messages that show [the woman] repeatedly asking for 'rough' sexual encounters involving requests to be 'choked out' and slapped in the face. In both of their encounters, [the woman] drove from San Diego to Mr. Bauer's residence in Pasadena, Calif. where she went on to dictate what she wanted from him sexually and he did what was asked. Following each of her only two meetings with Mr. Bauer, [the woman] spent the night and left without incident, continuing to message Mr. Bauer with friendly and flirtatious banter. In the days following their second and final encounter, [the woman] shared photos of herself and indicated that she had sought medical care for a concussion. Mr. Bauer responded with concern and confusion, and [the woman] was neither angry nor accusatory.

"Mr. Bauer and [the woman] have not corresponded in over a month and have not seen each other in over six weeks. Her basis for filing a protection order is nonexistent, fraudulent, and deliberately omits key facts, information, and her own relevant communications. Any allegations that the pair's encounters were not 100% consensual are baseless, defamatory, and will be refuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Since the alleged assaults, the order said, the woman was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress and is "absolutely terrified of what will happen when all of this becomes public because he is a large public figure. Trevor has a large following of loyal fans who I fear will threaten me and resort to social media bashing. I am concerned about my safety."

She went public anyway, she said, because "as the shock has worn off, I recognize the seriousness of the sexual assault I endured. I do not want Trevor to put anyone else through what I suffered."

 

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I just don’t understand this”Crane is cheap” narrative. I would like those that keep saying it to explain how they have come to this conclusion. 
I don't understand it either.

In 2019 the Astros had the 8th highest payroll, last year it was fifth, this year it's fourth.

Crane isn't exactly a cheapskate owner wrt salary expenditures.

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It is the easy excuse, when the real excuse is he made a horrible choice for GM.  

I originally blame Click, but now I am starting to move to blaming Crane because ultimately he hired this buffoon...so that makes Crane the head buffoon.  

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How are run expectancy impacts calculated?

There are 288 possible base runner, out, count combinations [8 possible base states, 0, 1, or 2 outs, and 12 different counts]. Each one of these has a unique run expectancy, or the number of runs a team is expected to score from that instance until the end of the inning. To calculate run expectancy effects, I simply find the difference between a team’s run expectancy with and without a given bad call. For a more in depth explanation, read the article I wrote for FanGraphs here.

 

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Astros starter José Urquidy doesn’t expect to be sidelined for long after a shoulder injury forced him to exit his last start in the second inning.

Urquidy was placed on the 10-day injured list Wednesday with what the club described as right shoulder discomfort, one day after the righthander threw just 27 pitches in Houston’s 13-3 loss to Baltimore. He described throwing what would be his final pitch of Tuesday’s game, a fastball that clocked in at just 89.3 mph, and feeling “something wrong in my arm pit, close to my shoulder.”

Urquidy previously spent 13 days on the injured list in May with right posterior shoulder discomfort, and said Wednesday that his latest MRI results showed similar tightness and inflammation to last time.

“Right now I feel it in the same spot as the last time, so I was like, ‘Oh my God, again?’” he said. “But I know where I have to work, exactly what part. And I'll follow the instructions of the doctors and I will be ready for sure.”Although neither Urquidy nor manager Dusty Baker could pinpoint a target return date, the pitcher said he doesn’t consider his injury a major setback.

 

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Anyone want to bet Rodon has a different hat his next start....which is after 6/21.

Will be easy to tell cause of the sweat line
Well I called this one.  He was going to his hat bill pretty much every fucking pitch against us. 
Since then(and since the rule went in) he had a start where they wore their City Connect jerseys so it is a totally different hat, but today they are back in their regular unis and look at this shit.  Pic 1 is against us and pic 2 is his hat today.  
 
 
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