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Sam Antonacci is looking like a must-roster player in his own right these days. Here’s who else we’re adding for Week 14 cbssports.com/fantasy/baseba…

@DKSports This sucks

The Mets' home run leader has 21. Former Mets named Pete have twice as many😳

@JoshuaMuench @CodifyBaseball not true!

@CodifyBaseball Yea except the switched where the speed of the ball was picked up in 2015. The changed the radar guy from picking up at the plate to right out of the players hand. So picking up the miz throwing 105 out of his hand is mid 2000’s and earlier 97… Which yea papi could hit Miz

Of the 281 home runs that David Ortiz hit during the pitch tracking era, the fastest pitch was 98.7. A dozen were 97+ MPH.

@CBSScottWhite Feels like they told them not to take so many pitches this time around?

I realize the timer was in place for 11 years, so a lot of baseball fans don't remember the Home Run Derby without it. Jeff is right. It was painful. So many taken pitches. So few home runs. People remember the one round Josh Hamilton had, but the timer made everyone Hamilton.

The world wants me to die. My incurable disease diagnosis became global news. It was omnipresent on social media and 1,900 articles were written in a matter of days. Many were saddened. However, joy dominated the commentary. People pointed to schadenfreude, the pleasure of another's failure. Yes, there’s that. There is a special place in people’s hearts that loves to see others fail, especially when that person’s presence threatens their own psychological stability in some way or helps them feel better about themselves. But, if you look over the social media commentary about me, you’ll see that pattern: “he deserved it.” I deserved it because I challenged death. The crowd was running a deeply rooted psychological script that represents the oldest, most deeply embedded stories of human culture. This was the first story ever written down, 4,000 years ago. Gilgamesh sought eternal life after losing someone he loved, only to have the plant of youth stolen by a serpent as he bathed. Leaving him to accept his mortality. Asclepius became so skilled at rejuvenation that he raised the dead. As punishment, Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt to enforce life and death authority. This is the story of Jesus. Pontius Pilate offered a choice between a thief and the immortalist, and the crowd demanded the execution. People need this story conclusion to keep themselves sane. The challenger must lose and the loss must appear deserved. It’s a shield of self preservation. For if death is inevitable, their existence and that of their loved ones is justified and unavoidable. If death is not inevitable, nothing about their reality is safe. I occupy the same philosophical and archetypal position as Gilgamesh, Asclepius and Jesus. This statement will draw outrage and accusations of blasphemy, hubris and narcissism. Nevertheless, it’s the pattern that has repeated itself for thousands of years. Death has been the omnipresent concern of the human race. It encapsulates our greatest fears, joy and curiosities. The discourse around it changes over time; however, the fundamentals remain unchanged. What’s different about this moment, that is unlike any other moment, is that physical death may no longer be inevitable. What if I didn’t deserve it? And what if I am your ally, and not a threat?

@Jared_Carrabis lol

Definitely not regressing! Two homers allowed three batters into the game, but please don’t put on the internet that he’s regressing!

@CovertheCorner @ItsYear78 @thebrooktown That all sounds like a you problem, bud.

@CPTowers @ItsYear78 @thebrooktown I am sure you are the exception I despise Royce Lewis with every fiber of my being. He comes off as an insincere and arrogant jerk to me. But I had no issue with the strategic decision to try a bunt. And it worked! I just don't see why Williams can't be mad about it

I think we should be able to hold two thoughts in our heads: -Perfectly fine for Lewis to try to bunt his way on in a 1-0 perfect game -Perfectly fine for Williams to get ticked off about it/think it's weak No one got HBP, Lewis disrupted Williams, & I hate RL more. All good

@CovertheCorner @ItsYear78 @thebrooktown Actually not everyone views things exclusively through the lens of biased fandom!

@ItsYear78 @CPTowers @thebrooktown Anywho... we all know if Kwan was bunting to break up a Joe Ryan perfecto in the 6th, you'd be upset. No one wants to see their pitcher's chance, however unlikely, broken up by a bunt and most pitchers aren't gonna love seeing the attempt. But it's Lewis's right to try

@CPTowers Good job today man you really showed us why we should take you seriously

Trying to bunt for a hit at any point in any game is just about the lamest thing a baseball player can do on the field. It’s a valid strategy and anything goes in a competition, but you have to be prepared to be made fun of a little if you do something so weak and cheesy.

@ItsYear78 @thebrooktown @CovertheCorner Nope sorry nerd 13 is less than half of 27

@CPTowers @thebrooktown @CovertheCorner You can’t be at 13.5 outs, so in actuality (not mathematically, as it is mathematically impossible to be exactly halfway through at any point), 13 outs is one half and 14 is the other.

@CPTowers No Chris this is calling you out for a bad take

@ItsYear78 @thebrooktown @CovertheCorner Literally is not lmao

@thebrooktown @CovertheCorner 4.1 IS halfway

@MooneyOwnsYou @Brandon_Warne You are a very silly billy

@CPTowers @Brandon_Warne That’s how petty Royce is

What’s there to sacrifice? The bases were empty, it was a one-run game and it was the fifth GD inning. I love and appreciate the idea that baseball has some things that are generally accepted as no-fly territory. But protecting a no-no or perfect game before the 7th is just dumb — especially given the score

@tangotiger he’s talking about the ones that add distance, glad I could clear up this confusion

Once more: Its just as easy to make a metal bat that adds 10% distance as it is to make a metal bat to DROP 10% distance A metal bat does not automatically mean more distance

@MooneyOwnsYou @Brandon_Warne dog it was the fifth inning lmao

@Brandon_Warne What's dumb is people not just acknowledging what happened -- the only reason he bunted was to break up a perfect game. Don't deny reality.

@OriginalClady Okay have a nice night

@CPTowers I'm not crying about anything that's you. He (Royce Lewis) can do whatever he wants with his AB. Do you actually not see the irony in your post lmao.

Hot take (apparently): Spectators have just as much right to think a certain type of play is lame (or whatever) as a player has to perform said play in a given situation.

@OriginalClady I did understand what you said, which had nothing to do with what I said. I didn’t say you guys don’t have the right to cry like babies about it; you do! I just think you look like enormous losers.

@CPTowers Then maybe you'll understand what I said 👋

@OriginalClady And then what?

@CPTowers I suggest working on your reading comprehension and then.

@EDouglasWW @BearDown1722 I mean. I definitely get it now

@BearDown1722 You clearly don't realize how much of what I post on here is a fucking joke.

Finally seeing The Odyssey on Monday. As per my earlier edict, my rating is currently 3/10, but I'll consider raising, it if once see it, it's as good as everyone else says. This may have backfired cause three days after the social embargo break, NO ONE is talking about the movie