Sucks, just got laid off this afternoon, due to budget cuts

rbj, that does suck!
Sorry, dude.

1 Oh man, so so sorry to hear that...hope you find something else soon. Looks like someone else lost their job today too as I open my Twitter news feed this morning...

Gary Franchise!!!

Thanks guys.

Nice, Gary

[3] Well, yeah, but that was well-deserved, and self-inflicted. I am just going to assume that rbj didn't cause the budget problems leading to his own layoff...

6 Hah, I am not up to date on the minutia of everything going on, seeing a lot of Nixon-Trump photos on Twitter now though, which is funny. Anyhoo...SANCHIZE! Man, if he is back, this lineup...

Rbj - sorry to hear that! Hipefully you land something soon. I was laid off two years ago and still looking for a solid landing spot.

[6] Yeah, just low enrollment

E4.

[7] Yeah, well. We're not supposed to talk much about stuff like that here, but you can take my word for it. (As I recall we tend to see eye to eye about this kind of thing.)

Man, I just take my continued employment for granted. I should stop from time to time and remember how lucky I am in that respect.

My wife has been laid off twice, but temporarily both times.

I guess with headley sitting Castro felt somebody had to whiff on a ball.

This is a little scary considering CC's long ball tendencies this year.
And just as I was typing that, yikes. Just missed an Earl Weaver Play.

Yay!
Okay, Torreyes can be useful, I admit it.

GAB is a small park

Gre-glorious!

Base runners for the next one, please.

Happy to see didi get a dinger. Strange game so far. Nothing or home run it seems.

15 Something about this park I dont like, maybe that it faces the country rather than a city view? *BTW, I&M not making typos, this keyboard am on is doing Exorcist things with weird malfunctions..()

Hm.
We may need a lot of solo homers tonight.

Shit

Inevitable.

CC really struggling lately.

We're witnessing the ungreat end of a great career.

I wonder if CC is hurt?

After a hot start, he has been pitching like crap. He might not get out of the 2nd.

Finally

Sorry to hear your news RBJ. I hope you find something soon.

Looks like the Bombers are lined up for another miraculous comeback.

24 A shame, I wanted to see CC in the HOF. Great career regardless...maybe still time to go Frank Tanana for a few years, crafty finesse-y lefty?

[3] What's happening? I'm avoiding Twitter.

Hah!

Steal!

[29] FBI director out

That was ball 4, CC.

[29] James Comey was fired.
If I start going into the story I will inject editorial comments, which Alex has specifically asked us not to do, so I won't.
But the 538 blog has a little podcast to fill you in, if you feel like it.

[31] Holy Fuck! Well, we can't talk about this. Thanks for the info.

Bleh.

[33] Cheers. Will check it out.

Easy inning.
Can't predict baseball.

Put one in the river, Aaron

This must not be Judgment Day.

Okay, well, one is better than none.

Good, Didi

We'll take it!

all i want is for carter to get on so CC can be the last out. Actually CC can hit a little, but still. Pitchers batting...

[1] That sucks. Best of luck to you.

oh well.

[27], [44] Thanks, it's a bit unreal at the moment but I'm already updating the resume and will be applying to a couple of places by early next week. Have three months severance

Boo, blue

Man, those jalapeños on my pizza last night were a mistake. I blame Jazz!

gary is just pounding that guy

Ouch

In Ronald I trust.

Shite.

ugh not a great at bat there from Ronald. Bummer.

Dang, that was ball four and it wasn't close, Gary.

[54] mostly annoying because wasn't that the same pitch that was ball 3? Maybe not?

A 5-1 road trip isn't bad

Dellin looking a little lost.
Eight straight balls.

Rothschild is obviously a genius.

If only Larry had gone out to the mound with Dellin at the beginning of the inning!

Yeesh.
That was a Sterling inning. Can't predict baseball.

Haha omg let's go dancin!

Three Ks!

Oh, Jake.
Well, it's an H. Still.

Two bloops and a blast

O's have tied the game in the bottom of the ninth, dammit.
Too early to start worrying about first place, I guess.

[64] How about BBs instead of Bloops?

This is what we want.

[68] I'll take it, it's not like I have a job to go to in the morning.

Er, [66]. Yes, I have been drinking

Ooooooh.
Well, good swing, Sanchize.

O's in extras. Maybe we hold on to first place...
BoSox getting beaten up by the Brew Crew.

Damn. Hammered that.

[69] Bottoms up!

See you tomorrow. Or, no, Thursday, in Houston...

Blergh.

CC is going to be an albatross all year.

rbj - so very sorry to hear : (

I teach at a small music college and our enrollment is dangerously low. Scary...

Best of luck, mate!

I was pretty confident we were gonna come back and win tonight. It's kinda cool that this team is making me feel that way...

[76] I felt comfortable until the end. And to be fair, that liner is 3 feet away and that's bases loaded if not a run with Castro coming up. What I liked about that game is that we gave ourselves a number of chances. And while we didn't drive in the runs last night, I walk away believing in this team (with tempered expectations ha!).

We are back to having best record in baseball as well as the best run differential. There is nothing like a day off apparently!

I was at the Nats game last night vs. the O's. O's dominated, Nats looked so bad I left in the bottom of the 7th, only to see that the Nats won as I arrived back home. Of course, that didn't really help us DC fans, with the Caps committing their usual spring suicide, and the Wiz playing like they usually do in Boston.