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Matt Snyder @mattsnydercbs.bsky.social · 18h

home runs (not bunts) have made all the difference today -- as usual in the playoffs

Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 23h

You can tell exactly how deeply and sincerely concerned that baseball media are about broad disparity in the game’s economics by how they are never going to mention the Padres outspend the Brewers by $100M+.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now that ABS is here my white whale is Statcast automatically ruling on checked-swing decisions per some objective standard. IMO all ball-4 and strike-3 calls should be auto-reviewed, too.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Red Sox outspent the Rays by almost 2.5x and still got their asses beat to third place. Do you think the payroll disparity had anything to do with that?

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s arguably about a billion at this point.

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SoCal Librarian @socallibrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PCA Postseason Choke Artist

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe Crochet should have threatened to sit out *this* postseason if he didn’t get another extension.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can safely speak for everyone that loves this game when I say it is immensely satisfying to watch a pitcher that threatened to sit out the postseason if he didn’t receive a big extension getting ******* shelled in an elimination game for the team that gave him a big extension.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Entering tomight, Pete Crow-Armstrong has struck out more times in 33 postseason plate appearances (15) than Clayton Kershaw did in 52 playoff plate appearances. Kershaw the batter also holds the edge in walks, XBH, and OPS. Tell me again who the postseason choker is?

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In LA this phenomenon materializes as random fireworks going at 11:11pm Toronto time off after you paused the 8th inning of WS Game 7 to hurriedly put the kids to bed.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not taking anything away from the opponents here but I can’t help but notice the two teams that flew thousands of extra miles to play a neutral site game in Florida to end the regular season have zero runs and three hits through 14 combined innings.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t act so surprised; Jhoan Duran blew the save in NLDS Game 4 last year, too.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Joe Kelly Memorial Chair of the “first man out when the starter loses a wheel in the fourth” Department

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If Tony Vitello wanted to be out of the dugout and back in the clubhouse that bad and I was the ump I’d refuse to run him. “No, Tony, go sit over there with the sun in your eyes for another two hours, lightweight.”

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Before we get too concerned about how well or poorly each Dodger regular is batting at the end of the season just remember that these guys are about to play the hardest postseason round to win without having seen game-level pitching for five days.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

IMO, he was pitching on the injured shoulder to see if he could help the team knowing it all could be coming to an end anyway. I expected his retirement even before this development. Commendable was to go out, if this is it.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m not sure losing to Harvard as a 2-seed (iirc) is worse than HIRING a guy that just lost to Harvard as a 2-seed and then extending him over and over despite him not winning anything and demanding the uni talk with him exclusively through his representatives. F Dan Guerrero, F Alford to Mars.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This era of baseball has become so outrageously unfair and in need of extreme economic reorganization that the Milwaukee Brewers just set a franchise record for wins with a week to go. And will almost certainly lead the league in wins in consecutive years.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yep. IIRC, that’s where “4+1” originated.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thx for the article. Looking at everything, it seems pretty likely that given the RHP situation, Stewart and Phillips are also locks and I’d argue Wrobo as well. Would be shocked to see Treinen or Diaz in Oct. Bubic vs Dreyer will be interesting.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It helps to contextualize. For example: the Kirk Gibson home run in 1988 was closer in time to the moon landing than the 4+1 game is in relation to now. On second thought, nevermind.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look, don’t get me wrong; both my parents and one in-law are still living, but I am looking forward to a World Without Boomers, if they will allow one.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nancy Pelosi is 86 years old. Boomers will not rest until they kill us all for daring to outlive them.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Right. How’d those runners on base get there? Pitcher going from the stretch vs windup?

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double-Double

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Think of how unfair it will be when nobody is allowed to outspend the Brewers.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This dinger leaves Kyle Tucker a double shy of the cycle, if he gets another AB.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Josue De Paula’s debut flyout recorded a bat speed of 75.5, the third-fastest so far in this big-league game.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am grateful for how much effort has gone into making this. Everybody in the production clearly cares at least as much as the fans and it shows.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The American League is deeply unserious.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Andrew Friedman is trying way harder to win than all those guys.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A: there’s nobody else on the 40 they want to bring up, they WILL NOT add anybody to the 40 in 2026, and they want full control over where and when Will Smith plays C until the postseason.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Such a HUGE SCOOP they’re dumping it out the Friday of Labor Day weekend.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Longtime pitching WAR hater here. Willfully ignoring a pitcher’s actual run prevention is a hell of a way to manufacture value with math based on a carnival game version of pitching that doesn’t actually exist on Earth.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My wife has done securities law, and we both agree it’s hilarious how much scrutiny in sports media Walter has drawn due to an insurance regulator shoring up a balance sheet when Steve Cohen actually belongs in jail and nobody talk about it.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The owners will never forgive him for qualifying for a pension and benefits they had to fund.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Apparently, it worked.

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Sons of Westwood @sonsofwestwood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I watch this every October after the Dodgers’ season ends. Sometimes that’s November. 🙂

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