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I'd rather they were on a hot streak going into the play-offs. If they can stay in the race until game 120+, a ten game win streak could be enough to put them over, and when everything clicks this team easily has a ten or twelve game win streak in them. They just need to stay relevant now, and then kick on after the break.

The early seasons are OK, watchable and easy on the eye. It gets old after a while though.

It could be that Ward is super streaky like Upton used to be and that's what the team is waiting for, the next hot streak. I hope we don't have to wait much longer if that is the case.

I think that may be taking the whole 'celebrating Pride Week' thing a bit too far.

Yes, Scherzer is the sort of move the Dodgers pull off to push for a play-off run. Mets will have to eat a chunk of the salary which could bring the Angels into it, especially if there are one or two of Eppler's old draftees still on the farm that he still likes.

Shohei Ohtani leads all of MLB in (takes deep breath...): Home Runs (28) RBI's (64) Extra Base Hits (47) Total Bases (200) Slugging Pct (.654) OPS (1.064) Adjusted OPS+ (180) wRC+ (180) Isolate power ISO (.350) AB's per HR (10.93) Adj Batting Runs (33) Adj Batting Wins (3.2) Offensive Win % (.785) Situational Wins Added (3.5) Base-Out Wins Added (3.3) Hits per 9 IP (5.664) bWAR (6.1) fWAR (5.7) He is also 2nd in all MLB for Strikeouts per 9 with a K9 of 11.99. M.V.P.

I can't find a daily list for WAR. Win Probability Added would probably be your best bet. Shohei had a .404 WPA in one game against Texas this year, David Freese had a .964WPA in one of his superhuman post-season games (also against Texas) in 2011, and that's the highest I've seen, but I haven't looked a great deal at many others.

Ohtani is a beast! Over the last ten days he has extended his lead over the rest of MLB with 6.1 bWAR (a lead of 1.5 over Acuna), and 5.7 fWAR (1.4 more than Acuna). He has added 1.4 bWAR and 1.3 fWAR in just ten days and if you want a comparison, take any of Neto's, Moniak's, or Sandoval's entire season to date and you'll be close. Here's the rest of the team, this week it's fWAR, courtesy of Fangraphs https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/war?lg=&teamid=1: # Name Team PA IP Bat WAR Pit WAR Total WAR 1 Shohei Ohtani LAA 355 95.1 3.8 1.9 5.7 2 Mike Trout LAA 333 2.7 2.7 3 Reid Detmers LAA 76.1 0.0 2.0 2.0 4 Brandon Drury LAA 298 1.6 1.6 5 Mickey Moniak LAA 106 1.4 1.4 6 Zach Neto LAA 199 1.3 1.3 7 Patrick Sandoval LAA 75.2 0.0 1.2 1.2 8 Hunter Renfroe LAA 302 1.0 1.0 9 Matt Thaiss LAA 167 0.8 0.8 10 Jaime Barría LAA 46.1 0.0 0.8 0.8 11 Tyler Anderson LAA 74.2 0.0 0.8 0.8 12 Taylor Ward LAA 314 0.8 0.8 13 Chris Devenski LAA 28.0 0.0 0.7 0.7 14 Griffin Canning LAA 65.1 0.0 0.7 0.7 15 Carlos Estévez LAA 33.0 0.0 0.7 0.7 16 Logan O'Hoppe LAA 59 0.4 0.4 17 Andrew Wantz LAA 21.2 0.0 0.4 0.4 18 Gio Urshela LAA 228 0.4 0.4 19 Chad Wallach LAA 102 0.3 0.3 20 Tucker Davidson LAA 27.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 21 Matt Moore LAA 25.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 22 Jacob Webb LAA 17.2 0.0 0.2 0.2 23 Aaron Loup LAA 18.2 0.0 0.2 0.2 24 Anthony Rendon LAA 164 0.2 0.2 25 José Quijada LAA 9.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 26 José Soriano LAA 9.1 0.0 0.2 0.2 27 Sam Bachman LAA 13.1 0.0 0.2 0.2 28 Eduardo Escobar LAA 9 0.2 0.2 29 Andrew Velazquez LAA 28 0.1 0.1 30 Jo Adell LAA 4 0.1 0.1

Not sure I'd want Alonso next year. He's going to be expensive in his final year of control ($14.5m this year, so maybe $20m plus next) and that's a lot for 1st base. Enticing for this year's run, maybe jams us up a bit for next year.

I binged all three episodes back to back. Very interesting stuff and thought provoking too. Before the war - which was the first fully mechanised war in history - one of the characters asks (I'm paraphrasing here): how does an army of several million men, carrying automatic weapons and heavy machinery, defeat another army of several million men, who also have automatic weapons and heavy machinery? The answer of course is, you don't. You just steadily degrade each other over time until one of you is destroyed just slightly less than the other and everybody quits. Nobody wins, apart from those funding it.

Genuine question: what is the extent of your first hand experience of player / swing development?

I still wouldn't do it for that much. Catchers who can hit (.282 career) and have an eye that good at the plate (.416 OBP) are far more rare than cost controlled pitchers. Quero has a .986 fielding pct too, so he's clearly no mug with the glove either. Surely he's a keeper.

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Trout is also ahead of him. He has 2.5 with Baseball Reference, and 2.7 fWAR to Moniak's 1.5 with Fangraphs.

As many others here have alluded to, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Alone: Season 10 Now this is more like it. I'm only one episode in but there are some serious players in this season. No gimmicks this year, just a great new location (Saskatchewan) and the standard rules, but from what I've seen so far the overall quality of the contestants is up on the last couple of years. A promising beginning.

Well, it didn't get much better. They had an advantage over the US series with the climate and didn't face the challenges cold weather and extreme weather events pose, so it was a far easier challenge overall, and spent a lot of time wallowing in the misery stories of some of the people there. Not really the sort of content you watch Alone for. I thought there was one guy who had some serious crafting and survival skills and thought he was head and shoulders the best candidate. But in the end the competition was won far more by luck rather than skill. Overall, a very poor imitation that could have been edited down to 3 episodes.

Are DVD's still a thing? I honestly can't remember the last time I bought one, or even used one.

My apologies, that was rude of me, wasn't it? It would be quite a journey for a TV show though @Tank, but if you guys are up for it, I guess I am too.

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You can access BBC iPlayer if you have a VPN. Or, you can find that show here: https://www.dailymotion.com/search/37 one month in Summer/videos

Fletch!!!

Home run festival!

Fletch!!!

Is it written in crayon?