Sean Smith

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@OleTimeHardball The advantage of Aaron is you get his prime for 20 years

You can add one of the following, in his prime, to your favorite team. Who gets the call?

Trivia time. Which team never had either Alex Gonzalez at shortstop?

@Oldtimers365 Im in my house, so yes

@mitchellvii I’d ask him how much he had to drink and just be happy he made it home

It's 2 am. You hear a knock at the front door. You look at your Ring camera. There is a 4 foot tall alien standing there. What do you do?

@BBGreatMoments Randy Johnson. Clemens won in 2004 but Randy was better. Carpenter stole Clemens award in 2005. Only fair.

2005 NL Cy. Young or Carpenter or Clemens. who'd you give it to?

@learning_yohei Most commonly Spanish or French

僕は日本人なので、日本語が第一言語です。そして、多くの日本人は第二言語として、英語を学んでいます🇯🇵🥰 そこで、アメリカ人に質問があります。アメリカ人は第二言語として、どんな言語を学んでいますか？🇺🇸🤭

@_iamlougotti That guy who wore the mask and shin guards.,.oh what’s name…I forget

Name a forgotten MLB catcher

@FoulTerritoryTV @matiasgarciard Marlins would have paid him 5 million in year one and traded him before year 2

Albert Pujols said he rejected a $315M offer before signing a contract with the Angels in 2011. The team who made the offer, which he didn't reveal, is an hour and forty minutes from the Dominican Republic, he said. (Via: @Matiasgarciard)

@D1SCHER He got a few prospects from the Red Sox for Luis Garcia. One who is still in the pen, Garcia gave the Red Sox next to nothing

Honestly the more I dig into it Perry Minasian is easily the worst GM we’ve had in my lifetime as an angels fan Arte hand ties these guys - that’s no surprise But Eppler and Dipoto both at least made a few competent moves per year What moves has Perry made that scream “good”

@BBGreatMoments I’d cut Pedro. He was a much better pitcher than Ryan in his prime. But I have zero confidence he could handle a 4 man rotation. 40 starts a year, 300 innings? Pedro never came anywhere close to that kind of workload

You’re building a four-man pitching rotation, everyone in their prime. Who do you cut?

@r0ck3t23 So Trump is a Democrat? You learn something new every day

Elon Musk just reduced American crime politics to a single question on Joe Rogan. And answered it like it was arithmetic. Musk: “While obviously not everyone who’s a Democrat is a criminal, almost everyone who is a criminal is a Democrat.” That’s not a partisan attack. That’s an observation about how incentives work. If you’re a criminal, you don’t vote for the party promising longer sentences and more cops. You vote for the one gutting bail laws and calling enforcement racist. This isn’t opinion. This is game theory. Musk: “Because the Democrats are the soft-on-crime party. So if you’re a criminal, who are you gonna vote for?” Nobody wants to follow that logic to its conclusion. But the math doesn’t care. The softness isn’t accidental. It’s architectural. No-cash bail. Decriminalized theft. Sanctuary cities. Defund the police. These aren’t compassion. They’re infrastructure. Every policy that removes consequences builds a constituency that needs them to stay gone. That’s not ideology. That’s customer acquisition. You don’t protect criminals because you care about them. You protect them because they show up in November. The people paying the price are never the ones writing the policy. It’s the working-class neighborhoods getting hollowed out. The immigrant families who played by the rules watching the system reward the ones who broke them. The small business owners boarding up windows because the DA won’t prosecute. They’ll spend the next week calling Musk reckless for this. But he didn’t build the incentive structure. He just described it. And that’s what they’ll never forgive.

@Savageboston Angels: Fuck no. Hopefully Trout would use his no trade to veto if they ever tried

Mike Felger just claimed he has a “loose source” and floated the trade idea of Red Sox receive: Mike Trout Angels receive Jarren Duran Brayan Bello Who says no?

@braves2430 Cocaine is a hell of a drug

Can you name one?

@OleTimeHardball Josh Gibson

You have your choice of any player, in his prime, to fill this DH spot. Who gets the call?

After tonight’s game Paul Skenes has a 1.98 ERA. 2024 1.96 2025 1.97 2026 1.98 Obviously in decline. But at this rate he’ll still be a fine pitcher in 2126.

@S_U_Network I’ll take Thunder. 3 point line was there even if Boston rarely used it. Question to me is how long would take for Bird and Ainge to realize they need to launch 15 per game to have a chance?

1986 Boston Celtics or 2026 Oklahoma City Thunder played with 1986 NBA rules?

@james_xond Guessing 27 - sometime around there. Definitely in range of 26-29

I’ll ask again because I’m trying to prove a point: How old were you the first time you ever fired a gun?

@OleTimeHardball Give me Willie

One Outfielder for the entirety of his career Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Barry Bonds, or Henry Aaron

@VinnysCorner1 Oscar Charleston. On the assumption that someone magically produces video highlights from his career. Which is exactly as likely as someone paying me 5 million to watch them.

You get $5 million to watch one players' highlights for 72 hours straight. Choose your athlete…

@mike_petriello And 2 days after I posted this, Bobby Witt Jr hits a ground ball into the RF corner for an inside the park homer.

@mike_petriello It is possible to hit a ground ball homer. But very, very difficult

Fernando Tatis Jr. has an elite hard-hit rate ... ... and 0 homers. 340 players have a homer. He's not one of them. What's going on here? On changed stances and oppo swings.. --> mlb.com/padres/news/fe…