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We could see a new AL home run record and the first ever 50-50 season in the same year. We are living in an incredible time for baseball.

@JaguarGator9NFL Considering that you're the guy with the law degree, would a gif of a baby crying be admissible in court as "openly admitting to stealing content?"

A second Jomboy employee now openly admits to stealing content and that it’s either not a big deal or that if your content gets stolen by them, you’re just being a crybaby if you call them out on it This is a really good look for Jomboy Media

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@MaxMannis @MaxMannisPod Oh hell yes

Heard a little rumor that a season preview of all 30 MLB teams is dropping on @MaxMannisPod before Opening Day

@SaltyWalty95 @CruzControlEra @TAT1SSZN *a bit

@SaltyWalty95 @CruzControlEra @TAT1SSZN Ohhhhh this was a hit the whole time. Lol you got ne

He's right btw the AL MVP runner up had zero hits this whole tournament and he's gonna get off completely free

@SaltyWalty95 @TAT1SSZN Just to be clear, you feel that Raleigh had a better WBC then Smith because he played in games against GB, Brazil, and mexico, had 0 hits, while smith at least hit a little, beat DR, and lost to the champs?

@inthethirddeck @TAT1SSZN He literally lost against the actual team that won the tournament.

@SaltyWalty95 @TAT1SSZN My point is more that using wins and losses to judge which catcher was better is really dumb. Smith literally won against the favorite to win the tournament

@inthethirddeck @TAT1SSZN So Smith is 0-2 against teams that made the final four. Dude literally can't win against good competition. Thanks for helping prove my point

@SaltyWalty95 @TAT1SSZN Cal 3-0 to teams that didn't make it out of pool play, smith lost to two of the final four

@TAT1SSZN Cal 3-0 in the WBC. Will Smith 2-2

@EYankees0904 @MaxMannis Wait my bad, forgot that it's runs divided by outs. Technically not clinched yet

@EYankees0904 @MaxMannis Nah cuz at this point if mexico comes back and wins, USA would have the tiebreaker over Italy. Basically, USA has clinched the quarterfinals

Mark DeRosa just breathed the biggest sigh of relief in the history of sighs of relief

@MaxMannis It's actually a big achievement that they haven't been mercy ruled yet, considering that last time they got mercy ruled twice (and perfect gamed)

The 2023 DR-Israel game ended 10-0, this one ended 10-1. I guess give it 10 more tournaments and we’ll get ‘em eventually?

@MaxMannis Silver lining: DR didn't really do much other than 1 swing. Cut down the walks, chip away, and let's make a miracle

I’m no pitching coach but I’d advise not walking four batters in an inning next time

@SportscastingN @Twessel30 @notgaetti @Stathead @baseball_ref @BigLeagueDigest @OleTimeHardball @JessicaDBrand @theaceofspaeder @TheWARmonger_ @orwellian @Johnsense38 @BaseballBros By that logic, I may be a better hitter than Albert Pujols, because if you give me 5000 at bats I will have an opportunity to increase my OPS

@Twessel30 @notgaetti @Stathead @baseball_ref @BigLeagueDigest @OleTimeHardball @JessicaDBrand @theaceofspaeder @TheWARmonger_ @orwellian @Johnsense38 @BaseballBros So ABs don't matter for WAR, or OPS, or other stats? They don't give you the opportunity to increase those numbers?

I just put Albert’s first 10 seasons vs. Judge’s first 10 seasons into @Stathead and literally GASPED (& this would be a clean sweep by Pujols if not for the fact that he overlapped with PED-era Barry Bonds et al. while Judge plays with .230 hitters that strike out 200x a year!)

@gothburz This is incredibly well written. Just curious, what sources did you use for this piece?

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart. We had a very good month. Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace. By mid-February, we had something. Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green. That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma. Here is what they said, in the order they said it. February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday. February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive. I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach. February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses. February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters. Not happy with the pace. We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway. Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years. Not happy with the pace. February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens. I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses. February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications. February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump. Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production." Rejected. Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman. The President said they rejected it. I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed. February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment. February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school. I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that. February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning. February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse. February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement. The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

@TigersJUK Crochet, PCA, soderstrom, wells, Bailey, probably Westburg, and there are some guys that still have some prospect hype

People are quick to get down on Tork & say he hasn’t met expectations etc. But he goes top 3 overall if you redid the 2020 draft doesn’t he?

Kershaws era+ from 2011-2019 would be second best all time, behind only Mariano Rivera. Trouts ops+ from 2011-2019 would be 8th all time. Incredible!!! But just a tick behind Kershaw

Trout is an incredible player and should be an inner circle hall of famer. Kershaw has an argument as the best pitcher of all time (lowest era+, i.e. best at preventing runs, which is kinda the main thing for a pitcher)

@FoolishBB @Jolly_Olive And the first player to homer for the 2016 Dodgers

@inthethirddeck @Jolly_Olive Kenta Maeda best 6.5 career WAR pitcher I’ve ever seen

@FoolishBB @Jolly_Olive Can't believe I beat two of my favorite baseball YouTubers

@Jolly_Olive They helped win Cy Young before woke