That is a truly depressing thought.
Phil Garner passed away. RIP Scrap Iron. You were a good one.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/04/phil-garner-passes-away.html
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RIP indeed.
Delivered our first pennant.
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Pancreatic. My father-in-law died from that and it is a rough one. He was in the Pathology Dept. at Scott & White and read his own slide. I always liked having Garner as an Astro. Good player, good man.
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Wow, the Angels âcloserâ just auditioned for the Astosâ job: base hit, 2-run homer, double, stolen base, walk, wild pitch on a 3-2 count to plate the winning run. Gruesome.
Trout hit 4 homers in 3 games against FTY.
What kind of dumbass team pitches to that guy?
Make it 5 in 4. First opposing player ever to homer in all 4 games of a series at Yankee Stadium.
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The Seidler family is reportedly nearing an agreement to sell the Padres to private equity billionaire and Chelsea FC owner Jose Feliciano at a valuation of $3.9 billion.
Expert analysis: $3.9 billion is a lot of money.
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A record amount, one might say!
Wow. Felicianio got that rich from a shitty version of Light My Fire?
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There was that Christmas song.
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Wait a minute: surely itâs not that Feliciano.
I doubt he could see fit to own a football team.
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He wouldnât be one of those owners who looks at everything through rose colored glasses, thatâs for sure.
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His greatest work: The Chico and the Man theme.
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So Iâm watching the TB @ PIT game on MLB.TV, and the green screen ads behind home plate are showing me Texas ads. Can they really target in-program ad slots now?
Theyâre listening to your conversations.
In the top of the 11th, Tampa advance their Manfred Man to 3rd on a ground ball to short, and then squander him on a piss-poor bunt straight back to the pitcher for an out-by-several-feet tag at the plate. No problem, thereâs still a runner at 1st with 2 outs. And that runner scores all the way from 1st on a botched pickoff.
Donât try this at home, kids. These are professionals.
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Rule question that came up in a little league game but didnât matter: Runner on third base, batter bats out of order and hits a double. The batter is ruled out, but does the run count?
Itâs the difference between 9-1 and 9-0 in the last inning, so there wasnât much contemplation. I just donât know the rule.
No. All runners return to their bases at the time of the pitch. If the batter is not called out, obviously the run counts and a new batting order is established.