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Aguilas gave up four in the ninth and lost to the Toros 7-4. Wilin Rosario was 1-for-3 with a double, a walk, a run, and an RBI. He is batting .245/.322/.396 in 53 at-bats.
Escogido defeated Estrellas 3-2. Jonathan Cheshire retired the only man he faced. He is 1-0, 0.00, 0.23 WHIP with 0 walks and 5 strikeouts in 4.1 innings.
Monterrey lost to Los Mochis 3-2. Alejandro De Aza was 2-for-4 with a run. He is batting .429/.478/.476 in 21 at-bats.
Mexicali lost to Obregon 11-0. Brandon Barnes was 0-for-3 with a walk. He is batting .222/.300/.222 in 9 at-bats.
If you're interested in how these players' teams are doing in the standings:
Aguilas is 8-7, in third place, three games back in the Dominican League.
Escogido is 11-4, in first place, two games ahead in the Dominican League.
Monterrey is 3-5, in eighth place, four games back in the Mexican League.
Mexicali is listed as being 0-0. I don't understand that, but I don't have the time or, frankly, the interest to find out what the deal is there.
That about makes it official.
I resigned from Deadspin this morning. That was a fun time you and me had there all those years, wasn't it? Let's do it again sometime.
So, who wants to make "new Deadspin" built around Drew and the old Deadspin ethos? Should be pretty easy, right?
They could call it the "World's Greatest Online Sports Magazine".
Or the world’s greatest not limited to sports magazine.
Just as long as it isn't Greatest Only Sports Online (GOSO)
That escalated quickly.
This was a nice little read between the line story posted yesterday.
I only caught it here.
I rarely visited Deadspin lately, but if I did, it was for Drew's Jamboroo (until he got to the actual football coverage).
Short version: the Equity Firm that bought Deadspin recently, and who lean strongly right politically, told the Deadspin editors and writers to "Stick to Sports." When they didn't the editor got fired and then the writers quit.
Galaxy sized successful business brains they got running that operation.
Or it was intentional.
This is my thought, as well.
this is a week or so after (so hard to think of time in news terms these days) they unceremoniously dumped their entire politics blog. in the "stick to sports" memo everyone received, they said non-sports coverage would be handled by their other blogs, to which everyone replied, "you just got rid of the site that was specifically for that!"
Yeah, Splinter was never my favorite of the group, but when they shuttered it, I felt that was a very bad sign.
I dont know if this is FZ but my theory is this is all about busting unions (Gawker was one of the first digital newsrooms to unionize). They are willing to take a popular, money making site and torpedo it just to prove a point and to send shockwaves to other people to not make a union at their writing shop.
So yes, its intentional, but also incredibly stupid
In an era where crowd-funded & patron/subscription models are gradually gaining greater traction, I wonder if that strategy would eventually lead to the establishment of a newsroom modeled along the lines of a cooperative. It seems The Athletic has been quite successful, but I’m not sure how much VC money its founders accepted to get where things are today. That’s a significant liability in ventures like this.
If absolutely nothing else, I hope that the Athletic works to the point where more sites that aren't beholden to equity firm groups are able to get off the ground.
Just under $90 million. Their last round of funding happened in May of this year. They had two last year in March and October.
Next they’ll be telling The Onion to stick to news.
I thought they were.
The problem with the Onion is that the real news is so absurd. Fake news has difficulty competing.
Yes, blurred lines when it comes to journalism these days. There are times when, at first glance. I wonder if an Onion headline is real.
Washington has had quite the sports run lately. In the past 18 months, the Capitals, Mystics, and Nationals all won Championships. Hopefully that REDACTED football team comes nowhere near a Super Bowl.
UVA, which probably a lot of Washingtonians root for, did win however.
Hopefully that REDACTED football team comes nowhere near a Super Bowl.
I...definitely don't think that will be a problem this season, at the very least.
There are few things sweeter than Washington football schadenfreude. Every year they truly, truly believe their team is excellent. And even when they so obviously aren't, they believe they are just so close to excellent... it is a loving, supported, oft-self-deceiving fan base.
Mike Matheny to manage the Royals. Is that much of a change from Ned Yost?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Well, won't have to worry about them for another five years, at least.
Any good Halloween stories?
For the 4th straight year, I had 0 trick or treaters
We convinced the 13 year old and his friends to go out for one last year. They are now in the middle of a huge candy trading session. One has a peanut allergy so lots of exchanges going on.
For many years, we rarely got any kids, mainly because we're a culdesac and some of our neighbors preferred to either be gone on Halloween or pretend to be so most of the street would look dark so few bothered to come down here. After our neighbors moved and we've added families with younger kids on our street, we've been getting beggarstrick or treaters. That is until this year. Of course, it probably had something to do with the lack of power in our neighborhood for the last couple days.
No stories, but I will say that, living in an in progress sub-division means trick or treating takes longer and longer each year.
One of Pete’s friend’s dad has a bit of a party every year. Kids trick or treat together (in a “nice house” neighborhood), then run around the house all hopped up on sugar while dad has plenty of food and drink for everyone downstairs. It’s a good system.
At one time we'd have more than 100 kids, and one of the neighbors would have a bonfire in their driveway while we sit around and visit. This year I was told we have 30-40.
I phoned it in on the jack-o-lantern, just carving a pair of eyes.
Two mothers around the block from me were giving out Jello shots to parents
Oh and we had one of those teal pumpkins to tell kids with allergies that we had stuff for them, too. Unfortunately, some little twerp swiped it around 715 when Sheenie put the candy outside for a few minutes to get the Justice to bed.
Well, that was obnoxious that someone took it!
I thought the MN weather was perfect. Not so cold as to be awful but cold enough that the boys were willing to go back home after being out about an hour.
They both had homework, which I thought was a little cruel, but they were more cooperative than I expected about getting it done after we got back.
The best thing about this year's costumes is that no shopping was involved. The jalapeno came up with something that involved stuff we already have, and the peperoncino was happy with me cutting up an old sheet to turn him into a ghost. (Though there were a few tense moments trying to get him to stand still so I could figure out where to cut...)
My son is in first grade and the teacher said that the homework assigned yesterday could be turned in Monday.
As a principle, we try not to do homework. That's been helped a lot this year by having a teacher that doesn't assign any.
Best costume (not-my-kid-category) was a kid that was a toasted marshmallow.
We had about 20 kids to our door. The little guy went out for 30-40 minutes in the cold and snow (he was the Earth, lots of compliments on the homemade costume).
I had this mother and her son at the front door, her screaming at him to only pick one item, and him digging around the candy options in the bowl, and her warning me that that was just the way he was planning to grab several of them.
I didn't care - we need to get the product out of the house. There is still some in the pantry that's gotta go...
Aguilas gave up four in the ninth and lost to the Toros 7-4. Wilin Rosario was 1-for-3 with a double, a walk, a run, and an RBI. He is batting .245/.322/.396 in 53 at-bats.
Escogido defeated Estrellas 3-2. Jonathan Cheshire retired the only man he faced. He is 1-0, 0.00, 0.23 WHIP with 0 walks and 5 strikeouts in 4.1 innings.
Monterrey lost to Los Mochis 3-2. Alejandro De Aza was 2-for-4 with a run. He is batting .429/.478/.476 in 21 at-bats.
Mexicali lost to Obregon 11-0. Brandon Barnes was 0-for-3 with a walk. He is batting .222/.300/.222 in 9 at-bats.
If you're interested in how these players' teams are doing in the standings:
Aguilas is 8-7, in third place, three games back in the Dominican League.
Escogido is 11-4, in first place, two games ahead in the Dominican League.
Monterrey is 3-5, in eighth place, four games back in the Mexican League.
Mexicali is listed as being 0-0. I don't understand that, but I don't have the time or, frankly, the interest to find out what the deal is there.
That about makes it official.
So, who wants to make "new Deadspin" built around Drew and the old Deadspin ethos? Should be pretty easy, right?
They could call it the "World's Greatest Online Sports Magazine".
Or the world’s greatest not limited to sports magazine.
Just as long as it isn't Greatest Only Sports Online (GOSO)
That escalated quickly.
This was a nice little read between the line story posted yesterday.
https://deadspin.com/seattle-sounders-advance-to-mls-cup-rewarding-fans-who-1839470887
I seem to have missed this whole story, but catching up.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2019/10/30/deadspin-staff-resigns-in-protest-stick-to-sports/40507251/
I only caught it here.
I rarely visited Deadspin lately, but if I did, it was for Drew's Jamboroo (until he got to the actual football coverage).
Short version: the Equity Firm that bought Deadspin recently, and who lean strongly right politically, told the Deadspin editors and writers to "Stick to Sports." When they didn't the editor got fired and then the writers quit.
Galaxy sized successful business brains they got running that operation.
Or it was intentional.
This is my thought, as well.
this is a week or so after (so hard to think of time in news terms these days) they unceremoniously dumped their entire politics blog. in the "stick to sports" memo everyone received, they said non-sports coverage would be handled by their other blogs, to which everyone replied, "you just got rid of the site that was specifically for that!"
Yeah, Splinter was never my favorite of the group, but when they shuttered it, I felt that was a very bad sign.
I dont know if this is FZ but my theory is this is all about busting unions (Gawker was one of the first digital newsrooms to unionize). They are willing to take a popular, money making site and torpedo it just to prove a point and to send shockwaves to other people to not make a union at their writing shop.
So yes, its intentional, but also incredibly stupid
In an era where crowd-funded & patron/subscription models are gradually gaining greater traction, I wonder if that strategy would eventually lead to the establishment of a newsroom modeled along the lines of a cooperative. It seems The Athletic has been quite successful, but I’m not sure how much VC money its founders accepted to get where things are today. That’s a significant liability in ventures like this.
If absolutely nothing else, I hope that the Athletic works to the point where more sites that aren't beholden to equity firm groups are able to get off the ground.
Just under $90 million. Their last round of funding happened in May of this year. They had two last year in March and October.
Next they’ll be telling The Onion to stick to news.
I thought they were.
The problem with the Onion is that the real news is so absurd. Fake news has difficulty competing.
Yes, blurred lines when it comes to journalism these days. There are times when, at first glance. I wonder if an Onion headline is real.
Washington has had quite the sports run lately. In the past 18 months, the Capitals, Mystics, and Nationals all won Championships. Hopefully that REDACTED football team comes nowhere near a Super Bowl.
GW basketball championship forthcoming?
UVA, which probably a lot of Washingtonians root for, did win however.
I...definitely don't think that will be a problem this season, at the very least.
There are few things sweeter than Washington football schadenfreude. Every year they truly, truly believe their team is excellent. And even when they so obviously aren't, they believe they are just so close to excellent... it is a loving, supported, oft-self-deceiving fan base.
Mike Matheny to manage the Royals. Is that much of a change from Ned Yost?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Well, won't have to worry about them for another five years, at least.
The Yankees declined their option on Edwin Encarnacion. Here's hoping he goes to a National League team.
I second that
Former Phil Nevin teammate Pat Nesehk will be a free agent
One of the few players still older than me!
There hasn't been a player older than me in a very long time. I think the last one was Jesse Orosco.
Julio Franco in 2007 was the last for me. And only one Twin ever graced the list
Any good Halloween stories?
For the 4th straight year, I had 0 trick or treaters
We convinced the 13 year old and his friends to go out for one last year. They are now in the middle of a huge candy trading session. One has a peanut allergy so lots of exchanges going on.
For many years, we rarely got any kids, mainly because we're a culdesac and some of our neighbors preferred to either be gone on Halloween or pretend to be so most of the street would look dark so few bothered to come down here. After our neighbors moved and we've added families with younger kids on our street, we've been getting
beggarstrick or treaters. That is until this year. Of course, it probably had something to do with the lack of power in our neighborhood for the last couple days.No stories, but I will say that, living in an in progress sub-division means trick or treating takes longer and longer each year.
One of Pete’s friend’s dad has a bit of a party every year. Kids trick or treat together (in a “nice house” neighborhood), then run around the house all hopped up on sugar while dad has plenty of food and drink for everyone downstairs. It’s a good system.
At one time we'd have more than 100 kids, and one of the neighbors would have a bonfire in their driveway while we sit around and visit. This year I was told we have 30-40.
I phoned it in on the jack-o-lantern, just carving a pair of eyes.
Two mothers around the block from me were giving out Jello shots to parents
Oh and we had one of those teal pumpkins to tell kids with allergies that we had stuff for them, too. Unfortunately, some little twerp swiped it around 715 when Sheenie put the candy outside for a few minutes to get the Justice to bed.
Well, that was obnoxious that someone took it!
I thought the MN weather was perfect. Not so cold as to be awful but cold enough that the boys were willing to go back home after being out about an hour.
They both had homework, which I thought was a little cruel, but they were more cooperative than I expected about getting it done after we got back.
The best thing about this year's costumes is that no shopping was involved. The jalapeno came up with something that involved stuff we already have, and the peperoncino was happy with me cutting up an old sheet to turn him into a ghost. (Though there were a few tense moments trying to get him to stand still so I could figure out where to cut...)
My son is in first grade and the teacher said that the homework assigned yesterday could be turned in Monday.
As a principle, we try not to do homework. That's been helped a lot this year by having a teacher that doesn't assign any.
Best costume (not-my-kid-category) was a kid that was a toasted marshmallow.
We had about 20 kids to our door. The little guy went out for 30-40 minutes in the cold and snow (he was the Earth, lots of compliments on the homemade costume).
I had this mother and her son at the front door, her screaming at him to only pick one item, and him digging around the candy options in the bowl, and her warning me that that was just the way he was planning to grab several of them.
I didn't care - we need to get the product out of the house. There is still some in the pantry that's gotta go...