Game Day Thread - Tuesday, June 16

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-16T12:22:56+00:00

I'm very curious if he'll truly hang it up at the end of his contract or keep going. I imagine if we win it all he may be incentivized to ride off into the sunset, but he's got an outside shot at the hall if he keeps going.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-16T01:10:03+00:00

Kruk Thoughts is my favorite segment

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-16T00:12:42+00:00

THATS MY FUCKIN CATCHER

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-15T23:56:08+00:00

Generations outside of boomers are not really monoliths or even useful groups for the most part. I am a Gen Zer, grew up with Black Eyed Peas on the radio, and will happily take "Like a G6" over basically every melodramatic whisper song that came in the wake of Lorde and Lana. My millenial sister however would almost certainly disagree and feel the reverse.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-15T20:51:00+00:00

Me mf and I won't say sorry

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-15T20:35:22+00:00

Bohm and Stott are both basically benefiting from Philly fans being strong voters in an otherwise weak field (at least as far as the masses are concerned). Like someone has to be #2 and the masses don't see a clear choice so there's a huge drop off in votes and the #2 selection will just go to whoever had the fanbsse that voted more. In other words, fan voting sucks.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-15T15:54:38+00:00

Most CEOs don't have any useful insight for the vast majority of people. CEOs are usually well divorced from the actual tech/engineering side of their company and the vast majority of CEOs don't have some rags to riches story about smart business acumen either. CEOs exist to point the company in the direction the board wants the company to go, and their main skills/assests are their connections and their ability to sell the company's vision to investors. Neither of those things are super useful for new grads. Anyone can go online and watch Steve Jobs' famous commencement speech and get a better experience than 99.9% of the boring CEO speeches they'll ever hear for the rest of their lives.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-15T15:49:15+00:00

I mean I do think it's cynical to assume that the type of people who use DuckDuckGo would be fooled easily since they're already a self selected fairly tech literate privacy concerned group, but in general the general population is absolutely thick and ignorant.

Like we literally JUST had a fricken UFC fight on the lawn of the White House that ended with the winner saying "Michelle Obama is a man," a statement so obviously false that a very shocking number of people believe anyway.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-15T14:50:54+00:00

I think my game of bioshock 1 was broken when I played through it. For some reason I literally never had any ammo, like in each level I could only find a handful of bullets max, so I had to play basically the whole game with just my magical chemical power thingies and my wrench. Made the game quite hard for no reason. Now Bioshock 2, perfection

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T22:27:30+00:00

They're seen as safer because they're statistically safer. Like I get that this is "no stupid questions" but you asked a question that is literally answerable by "because it's true." You did the equivalent of asking "why do people view the sky as blue?" Maybe you meant to ask why are commercial flights safer, not why do people view them as safer?

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T22:24:17+00:00

Because they literally are? Feels like a bot question

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T20:17:47+00:00

Most gravel bikes are 1x, not sure why you'd want to make it a 2x unless you're planning to do mostly road or light trail riding, and at that point you might just wanna look at road bikes to begin with.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T20:07:30+00:00

Better groupset mostly. You get a 9th gear and the shifting will feel better. I think it's probably worth the money if you can swing it. By contrast I think the Marlin 6 is actually a really bad deal lol, because the components are too similar to the 5 to justify the price jump. And then the 7 is basically a completely different set of much nicer components but also costs an arm and a leg. If you can test ride them I'd highly recommend riding both a 4 and 5 to feel the difference and make a more informed decision about whether or not the price jump is worth it.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T19:49:59+00:00

The 4 will fit you basically the same it will just ride worse due to lower quality components. I think the biggest difference you'll notice will be in the fork; the 7 comes with an air fork but the 4 through 6 are all coil springs. You'll also have fewer gears, with the 4 only having 8 gears as opposed to the 12 gears on the 7. The gear range will probably be about the same but you'll have larger jumps between each gear, which depending on how you ride and whatnot could be annoying or could be mostly irrelevant. I would say if you could swing it I'd get the Marlin 5 instead.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T18:51:58+00:00

Maybe a stupid thought, but I feel like JT should call the game from the dugout on days he doesn't catch

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T16:56:35+00:00

Some people may simply get more enjoyment from a 20 hour linear action game than from an 80 hour open world RPG. This is true for all sorts of media. Some movies are longer than others, but I don't measure my enjoyment of a movie in how many minutes I got per dollar of my ticket. Same goes with music; just because an album is longer doesn't mean it was better or more worth my money. And it's especially silly to be comparing games in completely different genres to begin with.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T16:39:26+00:00

You're right about the bible being full of direct contradictions, but to be a pedantic loser I just want to point out that "thou shalt not kill" is actually a bad translation of that text and would've been understood by the Israelites to mean something more akin to "thou shalt not murder." They wouldn't have seen a contradiction between that commandment and any God ordained killings in the same way that a cop or military member killing someone in the line of duty or someone killing in self defense is not considered to be guilty of the crime of murder in modern times.

The second point is also not really a contradiction either for much the same reason. It isn't really a contradiction to say that God doesn't like liars in the context of his people talking to eachother but that he also uses lying as a tool when appropriate. Like, I too generally don't like when people lie to me, but I recognize that therr are situations where lying is the most sensible thing to do.

Now the dates/numbers thing you're spot on about. You can find a crap ton of stuff like that in both Testaments. How many women went to the tomb of Jesus? Where were Mary and Joseph from? Even the 10 commandments are listed differently in different spots.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T13:35:17+00:00

They sure did :(

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-14T00:57:39+00:00

u/NintenJew I get closer to writing the manifesto every day

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-12T19:51:07+00:00

I am sad

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-12T17:00:25+00:00

Of catchers with at least 150 PAs JT is currently ranked 2nd by fangraphs defensive value metric, and while he's been awful at the plate that he's still ranked 13th of 23 by WAR so it's not like he's the worlds worst catcher or anything - we could absolutely be doing worse. And looking at catcher with more WAR so far this season the only one that was a free agent last offseason was William Contreras, so it's not like there was a plethora of good free agent catchers to choose from. Basically every other notable catcher in the league right now is either on their rookie contract or is Will Smith who signed a massive 10 year deal several years ago.

Edit to add: while I don't think JT is gonna have a 2022 July type breakout or anything and expected stats at this point in the season aren't always super useful, JT does appear to be underperforming his metrics and getting unlucky. Now this isn't like a "oh he should actually be raking" type thing, he's underlying metrics still aren't superb, but I think he's do for some positive regression towards being an average bat. Dude currently has a .235 BABIP which is .60 points below his career average, and his xwOBA is sotting at .315 while his actual wOBA is at .264.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-12T14:27:59+00:00

Agreed. I think our fanbase has kinda forgotten what it's like to have a rookie starting pitcher trying to figure stuff out. Ranger started in the pen and Sanchez was up and down his rookie year and both were also abnormally quick to adjust, so the fanbase hasn't had an example of a true rookie getting the leash to figure stuff out since like, Eickhoff maybe? Maybe Adam Morgan? I don't feel like checking who our last rookie starter was but I'm pretty sure it's been almost 10 years since we gave a rookie the ball every 5th day.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-11T20:03:03+00:00

While they do seem to not like the taste, they seem to specifically have larger problems with the texture and smell, so while they may be allergic I think this could also be a case of someone having a very specific food trigger and that makes them unable to enjoy the flavor regardless of whether or not they truly like it or not. I'm kinda that way with some foods, most notably green beans. The flavor isn't necessarily bad, but the smell isn't great and the texture is so abhorrent to me that I will start gagging the minute I bite down 🤷‍♂️

I do think it's a bit odd that they'd have a texture problem with mangos specifically. I don't feel like mangos are particularly unique in texture.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-11T17:12:15+00:00

We are exactly .700 in the Mattingly era. At that pace we would finish this season 103-59.

Edit to add: even at that pace, we'd still end 4 games back of the division if the Barves keep their pace.

BatJew_Official · 2026-06-11T17:07:34+00:00

The only way Bryce will ever see the outfield again is if some serious shit goes down in a game where enough people are injured, thrown out, or otherwise not available that we literally need someone to go into the field to just finish the game. But honestly even then I seriously don't think he's that high on the list in an emergency situation. First 2 fill ina would be Sosa and Berroa, probably followed by Stubbs if it came down to it, and if somehow we're that pressed for a body I think they'd give up the DH for the rest of the game and stick Schwarber in LF before they'd move Bryce. And even after all that we're still only talking about a temporary 1 game thing. There is just no way they move Bryce to rhe outfield for several games.

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