Dreamcast 120: Do Something!

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    One last romp before the holidays as the Dreamcast returns (thankfully someone did press record) to discuss a bunch of stuff:

    • What’s going on in MLB?
    • Why is MLB offseason so boring?
    • Who’s still available and who’s already signed?
    • What will the Cubs actually do?
    • Bits about Nico Hoerner, Matt Shaw, and more

    Did forget to mention that the Veterans Committee only elected Jeff Kent to the Hall of Fame, but that probably doesn’t matter.

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    72 COMMENTS

    1. Definitely grateful someone decided to actually record this (dying laughing)

      I didn’t catch the Zoom lady saying it was recording either in the raw edit but that’s pretty funny too

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    6. The hilarious thing is that I was so worried about interrupting your intro that I almost rejected the bot’s request to record, and after the references to not recording it in the intro redux, the “this meeting is being recorded” announcement broke me.

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    7. Hey this is cool

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    15. Looks like Brad Keller———>Phillies

      That’s disappointing, but I assume this front office has already identified several potential next Brad Kellers.

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    20. I knew the early 10s teams were garbage, but I did not realize Lou Goodvalue was a top 5 HR hitter from them. (dying laughing)

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    44. Daily Walkoff
      Cubs #478

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      Whoopsiedoodle, I hallucinated time traveling SB king Shawn Estes

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    51. Rice Cube,

      IIRC their non-Contreras guys have 30% grit running through their blood, though maybe without Contreras around to comp to they might start to turn (dying laughing).

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    52. Ugh, I missed the latest Matt Shaw shit over the weekend. I’ll let Calcaterra recap it so I don’t have to watch

      As I mentioned last week, Chicago Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw was a featured speaker at the objectively grotesque Turning Point USA “AmericaFest” conference in Arizona over the weekend. He gave a roughly 20-minute speech at the event. If you’re so inclined, you can watch it here.

      For what it’s worth, Shaw comes off like a bog standard young evangelical person. You could take his entire speech – focusing on “the amount of love Jesus has in his heart,” what embracing Jesus did for him and his baseball career, and quotes directly from The Sermon on the Mount – and put it in the mouth of any youth pastor or testimonial speaker at any number of churches within a mile or two of your house. Shaw spent a particularly large amount of time on the “love your enemy” portion of that, imploring those who were listening to him to engage positively and constructively with those with whom they disagree.

      Which is not exactly something that Shaw’s fellow AmericaFest speakers seem all that keen on. That list includes JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Megyn Kelly, Jesse Watters, Jack Posobeic, and many others who have dedicated their lives toward legally and politically persecuting anyone who disagrees with them, often in the most vile and hateful of terms. That also includes TPUSA’s founder/martyr, Charlie Kirk, whom Shaw claims was the embodiment of the “love your enemy” ethos despite the fact that his organization was specifically created to ruin the lives and careers of those whose views Kirk disliked. I understand that being an evangelical fascist requires an extreme lack of self-awareness and a forced cognitive dissonance, but something like 95% of Shaw’s fellow speakers over the weekend absolutely abhor their enemies, want to see them suffer, and have said so publicly countless times in both word and deed.

      I actually feel sorry for Shaw. I feel sorry for him because while I don’t have any reason to doubt his religious sincerity, he pretty clearly doesn’t understand just how divorced what he was saying is from the actual ethos of those to whom he was speaking. These people do not believe any part of the Sermon on the Mount. Indeed, their very example stands in direct opposition to it. They’re pretty clearly using Shaw. He’s a pleasant and handsome young man with a profile – major league professional athlete – which serves their purposes well. And he seems far, far too dim to truly understand any of it.

      Not that that absolves him. We are, as I often say, what we do, and what Shaw has done speaks pretty poorly of him. Sure, a solid majority of major league baseball players share Shaw’s politics to some degree or another, but he’s the only one I know of who has publicly aligned himself with a truly vile organization like Turning Point USA and the truly vile people with whom he shared a green room over the weekend. He’s the only one who missed an actual game last season to attend the right-wing political rally that was thinly disguised as Charlie Kirk’s funeral.

      The absolute best thing you can say about Shaw is that his judgment is poor. If, however, my assessment here is wrong and he truly believes the things that the Vances, Trumps, Carlsons, Bannons, Kellys, Watters, and Posobeics of the world believe, he can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut for all I care.

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    60. Daily Walkoff
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    61. From Calcaterra again

      Which brings me to my annual, obligatory reference to the story, first told by Mike Piazza in his 2013 memoir, of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson’s voting patterns when it came to postseason shares:

      “Rickey was the most generous guy I ever played with, and whenever the discussion came around to what we should give one of the fringe people — whether it was a minor leaguer who came up for a few days or the parking lot attendant — Rickey would shout out “Full share!” We’d argue for a while and he’d say, “Fuck that! You can change somebody’s life!”

      Given how fantastic both that anecdote and Rickey Henderson are, I began calling postseason shares “Rickey Bucks” some time ago.

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