...seems to hail from the Ryan Freel school of baserunning.

I predicted the Patterson pick off immediately after he got on base. ‘than and Ash can vouch for me.

And according to the little girl who announced the start of the inning, his name is Cherry Hudson Jr. not Jerry Hairston Jr.

The Reds were down by 2 runs at the point when both of those gaffs happened. And the Patterson CS happened with 2 outs. Why were they even running at that point? I know they’ve been sputtering and they’re trying everything they can to get going, but how many mistakes have to be made on the bases before Dusty just lets the players play? It really seemed yesterday like he was trying to do things just to prove that he was at the game. Why did Freel pinch hit for Patterson in the 8th when there was a RHP on the mound?

Oh, and the Reds still

...all of SB Nation, or just us?

I want the old RR back.

You can actually go ahead and cancel. They give you a pissy message about how they’ll never give you any special deals again, but whatever.

Before your month runs out.

If you feel like it, you can buy yourself something really heavy like a lawn mower also.

it’s kind of nice to never pay shipping, but then I buy almost everything from Amazon, so it’s worth it for me. Plus, you can share it with “people who live in your home” like I do with my sister-in-law and her husband who live 20 minutes away from me.

Ha. Pencils.

Could someone explain to Crolfer what pencils were?

Maybe I’ll start rooting for the Nationals…. oh.

or furious?

Boobs, you’re so spurious.

We put what turned out to be some bad RAM into one of our servers, and the fun began. With RAM down, the page caches we use to serve up the sites weren’t sticking around, so the database was slammed. Once we figured out the RAM problem, (and optimized a bunch of DB queries and other routines) we opened up the sites a few at a time, so the databases weren’t slammed all at once. We’re still moving cautiously and keeping an eye on the server load, but it’s looking much better.

The short answer: unforeseen hardware + software trouble. Bad luck + growing pains.

It’s been very frustrating for us, but at least we’re learning a lot. Thanks for being patient with this nonsense.

if I have ever seen one.

If treating women like sex objects wasn’t something really detrimental to the health of the human species I might have also made some comment about Alyssa Milano being in my basement.

Well, I guess I sort of made the comment without making the comment. Sexism is just so damn pervasive.