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OBL Preview - Crystal Braves

Record: 27W - 19L - 4T

League: 4th, Fantasy Division: 2nd

Playoffs: Won Championship

Nothing came easy for the Crystal Braves in their first season with the Outlandish Baseball League. Their longest winning streak all season was just 4 games. Between their 4 ties and 19 one-run games, nearly half of their games were too close for comfort. And yet, they triumphed, winning the championship series against the Fire Emblems 4 games to 2.

Three players in particular stood out from the rest for the Braves. First was team captain Alphinaud Leveilleur: as a starting pitcher, Alphinaud won 8 of his starts this season, though he did end up picking up 1 loss to blemish his otherwise stellar record.

Second was relief pitcher Coultenet Dailebaure, who consistently pitched well for the team in relief. The Braves would end up winning 8 close games that Coultenet pitched in, as he totaled 2 wins of his own as well as 6 saves, which led the league.

Third was infielder Hien Rijin, who was in the top 10 of the league in Home Runs and Runs Batted in. His 26 RBIs, in paricular, were instrumental to the team's success. Despite not even having the most Home Runs on the team (that would be Estinien Varlineau's 11), Hien's timely at-bats were a reliable source of offense for the team.

Now, it's time to turn the page to next season. No one will be surprised by the Crystal Braves this year, and the target is firmly affixed to their back. Will Alphinaud and the rest of the Braves manage to win another championship? Or will the rest of the league catch up with them?

Lineup

Yugiri Mistwalker, SS

G'raha Tia, LF

Raubahn Aldynn, C

Aymeric de Borel, DH

Estinien Varlineau, RF

M'naago Rhaz, CF

Hien Rijin, 3B

Pipin Tarupin, 1B

Alisaie Leveilleur, 2B

Bench

Hoary Boulder, IF

Lyse Hext, OF

Thancred Waters, OF

Nero tol Scaeva, C

Starting Pitchers

Y'shtola Rhul

Urianger Augurelt

Raya-O-Senna

Alphinaud Leveilleur

Relief Pitchers

Coultenet Dailebaure

Erenville

Cid Garlond

Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn

Cirina Mol

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Fantasy Baseball 2020 - Potential NL Designated Hitters Who Could Be Viable Draft/Waiver Options

Fantasy Baseball 2020 – Potential NL Designated Hitters Who Could Be Viable Draft/Waiver Options

The most interesting change to the new MLB season has got to the inclusion of a universal designated hitter. Not only does it give National League managers a whole lot more roster relief and flexibility, it opens the door to a whirlwind of possibilities and surprises for many players who’d otherwise be out of very many playing opportunities. 

In fantasy, this development is a huge deal in that…

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I got to keep my virtual Mets happy and payed! Going to build a fully Islander/Central American Team BC we just better ballers. Come at me! Bet you can’t hit my splitter 😂Do Da Splits🤣 #Domimican #puertorico #puertorico🇵🇷 #Baseball #dominicanrepublic🇩🇴 #Fantasy #FantasyBaseball #Xbox360 #2k #2k10 #Mets #PinchHitter #Pitcher #DH #DesignatedHitter #666 #420 (at Vandalhaus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNRfYWTldpE/?igshid=1st0mvqiuy5rg

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Fantasy Baseball Keepers, Fantasy Keepers, Keepers, Outfielders

Fantasy Baseball Keepers, Fantasy Keepers, Keepers, Outfielders

Hey, if it’s a day that ends in “y” then it is a good talk to talk about fantasy baseball. This week we are shining a light on left fielders in another edition of the 2023 Top Keepers series. When it comes to left fielders, they are almost like the second basemen of the outfield. Many left fielders also play other positions, whether it is elsewhere in the outfield, DH, or someone in the…

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💾 ►►► DOWNLOAD FILE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Opening day is almost here, so it's time to prepare for your draft. Find position-by-position rankings, sleepers, top prospects, and draft. Fantasy Baseball Catcher Rankings – NL Only ; 1. Will Smith LAD () ; 2. Realmuto PHI () ; 3. Daulton Varsho ARI () ; 4. Willson Contreras CHC () ; 5. All the rankings, projections, cheat sheets, strategy and analysis you need for the fantasy baseball season. It's fantasy baseball draft season, and what better way to get ready than with our overall rankings. 9 Don't worry about the new uniform or the lack of a position, Nelson Cruz should still hammer plenty of baseballs over the fence to justify a roster spot. So we finish up our fantasy baseball rankings with my top and some change players. Originally it was an even , but I wanted to add a few names to be sure they were on your radar, and we'll talk about a couple of them shortly. But you should know that I generally downgraded relief pitchers RPs in my overall rankings. If you look at some of the biggest "fallers," the top eight are all relievers. I typically don't pay for saves, and this season's RPs might be one of the shakier crops we've had in a while. I'm not too concerned about him being a "pure DH" because when you hit the ball as well as he does, I don't need the position flexibility. Give him at least ABs, and we can expect a decent average and 30 round-trippers. Another hitter I have higher is a player that seems to be forgotten, Cavan Biggio. With the loaded Blue Jays lineup, he will bat lower in the order. However, he also is one of the few left-handed bats in that lineup. Even I have him still outside of the first 20 rounds. One last player that I purposefully added back into my rankings is Christian Walker. Walker is a victim of recency bias, as he had a pretty miserable season, but some of that can be attributed to his multiple oblique injuries. I will remind you, however, that in he saw over ABs and hit 29 homers with a. Is he going to do that again? I honestly don't know. But given his ADP is around and he is having a great spring having hit safely in each of his four games so far , he is someone to keep on your radar. Got a fantasy sports question or thought? Hit him up on Twitter MarkStrausberg. What's Trending. Colts vs.

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Ootp baseball 2016

#Ootp baseball 2016 full

#Ootp baseball 2016 full

The realism that goes into MLB Manager 2016 is pretty extraordinary, with a full financial system, minor league rosters (though not full systems as with its PC counterpart) and all the bells and whistles you’d expect from an OOTP game. You can also slow things down to a pitch by pitch basis or auto-sim to any point in the game if desired. The action is relayed via a text-based play by play announcer who fills you in on what’s going on in the style of a radio broadcaster, with some fun flavor bits thrown in from time to time. With the default option to only play out the key pitch of any at-bat, one game of baseball can be simulated in about 15 minutes, give or take, while still giving you control over any strategic option available to a real life manager at any time. A quick menu allows you to see rosters, the box score and more at any time. Hitters have their contact and power ratings displayed, which turn to baserunning abilities should they reach safely. The in-game sim style will be familiar to anyone who’s played an OOTP title before, with an overview of the diamond and the names and key defensive ratings for the players in the field. Don’t like the DH or the one-game wild card round? One tap can fix those for you. And you can easily change any major rule during league setup to your liking. You can jump right in and take control of a team in the upcoming real life season, create whole fantasy leagues with auto-generated teams and players or dive into a historical season from any era of baseball history (the game comes with three, with others available as in-app purchases). It’s great to see them back this season.Īs with all of the company’s games, MLB Manager 2016 offers a tremendous amount of flexibility with the way you want to simulate the sport. Having not only every current MLB team name and logo but historical logos as well adds an immersion factor that can’t be duplicated in any other way. To be fair, nothing OOTP did for this season was going to be as momentous as getting the Major League Baseball license, which it did for 2015. OOTP Developments took a conservative path with MLB Manager 2016, and while it’s still the best baseball sim on mobile, it’s similar enough to its predecessor to leave you wanting just a bit more. Change too much and it makes people grumpy, too little and they feel cheated. Customers expect annual updates to add not only updated teams and players but also new features. Sports game franchises can be tricky things. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.No major new features added since the 2015 game. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.

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2022 Fantasy Baseball Ranking

2022 Fantasy Baseball Ranking 1 Trea Turner(LAD – 2B,SS) 2 Juan Soto(WSH – RF) 3 Jose Ramirez(CLE – 3B) 4 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.(TOR – 1B,DH) 5 Bo Bichette(TOR – SS) 6 Bryce Harper(PHI – RF) 7 Gerrit Cole(NYY – SP) 8 Corbin Burnes(MIL – SP) 9 Mookie Betts(LAD – 2B,CF,RF) 10 Mike Trout(LAA – CF) 11 Kyle Tucker(HOU – RF) 12 Freddie Freeman(LAD – 1B) 13 Ronald Acuna Jr.(ATL – RF) 14 Rafael Devers(BOS…

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NL East: DHs for 2022 Fantasy Baseball

NL East: DHs for 2022 Fantasy Baseball

So, the preseason looks like this usually: Update a post from last year with a find and replace for “2022 fantasy baseball,” do a schluffen, and wake me up in time for Opening Day. This year: Is there going to be an Opening Day? Then, I lower my head and walk off, tears rolling down my cheek. Slowly at first, then the tears pick up steam, and now it’s Niagara out of my tear ducts. As I pass a…

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OBL Preview - Baron Red Wings

Record: 30W - 17L - 3T

League: 1st, Fantasy Division: 1st

The best team in the Outlandish Baseball League during the season, the Baron Red Wings had everything going for them after their rebranding from the Fantasy Alliance in Season 1. Their defense and pitching, led by the stellar Terra Branford, held opponents to a league low 2.1 runs per game, beating the next best team by 0.54: an extra 27 runs during the season.

Terra in particular was incredible, and it was just a continuation of what she showed in Season 1. After finishing the season as the best pitcher with at least 1 inning per game despite being a relief pitcher, she was moved into a starting role in Season 2. Terra proceeded to become the best pitcher in the league again, allowing less than 1 run a game, and never losing a game, both of which were clearly league-leading marks.

The relief pitchers for the Red Wings were also great, with the two standouts being Cid Pollendina and Krile Baldesion, who combined only gave up 3 runs over 42 innings. Rosa Farrell and Relm Arrowny were also great, holding leads in close games when the team needed them most.

Unfortunately for the Red Wings, their main weakness was their average batting. The team was 6th in runs scored over the season, but not for lack of trying. Outfielder Faris Scherwiz was the most consistent of the group, finding herself in the top 25 of three separate categories. However, a distinct lack of home runs and a lot of runners left on base for the team would doom them in the playoffs, where they lost in the semifinal to their division rival, the Crystal Braves.

Hoping to lean on the success of their pitching once again, the Red Wings are aiming for another playoff run. This time, they hope to bring an improved offense along for the ride.

Lineup

Locke Cole, CF

Cecil Harvey, C

Cyan Garamonde, RF

Sabin Figaro, 3B

Edgar Figaro, 2B

Faris Scherwiz, DH

Yang Leiden, SS

Kain Highwind, LF

Bartz Klauser, 1B

Bench

Gau, IF

Galuf Baldesion, IF

Lenna Tycoon, OF

Celes Chere, C

Starting Pitchers

Setzer Gabbiani

Edward von Muir

Edge Geraldine

Terra Branford

Relief Pitchers

Relm Arrowny

Cid Pollendina

Krile Baldesion

Rydia

Rosa Farrell

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Gladnis Week - Day 2

for @gladnisweek​

Day 2 - Wearing each other’s clothes

Chapters: 2/7 Fandom: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia, gladnis Additional Tags:  Canon Divergent AU, fluff, domestic, slice of life, domestic angst, jfc can they kiss already (no never), slow burn, iono man Summary:   An argument about clothes becomes an examination into the nature of their relationship.

AO3 link: here!

He’d been talking about the baseball game all week. Not just talking. Enthusing. Lineup changes and last minute trades, spouting off a litany of statistics about cumulative ERAs and some philosophical diatribe about the Designated Hitting rule that went on for probably far longer than it should have, encouraged by lips loosened with a few beers and Ignis’s bemused epistemological inquiries.

Ignis had done his best to support Gladio’s interests by researching appropriate sports fan fare for such an occasion, taste-tested and kid-approved by none other than the resident ‘plebeian,’ Prompto: sourdough soft pretzels, buffalo chicken mini pizzas, the ubiquitous hot dog dressed with some ungodly topping of sauerkraut and onions that sounded so unappetizing that he'd insisted on making it himself from scratch, to ensure it wasn't imported from the bowels of hell. He’d even made a point to research enough for at least a cursory knowledge of the game, but he found he preferred hearing Gladio speak of it himself, listening to the lilt and candor in his voice as he did so.

“So are you saying you’re for or against the Designated Hitter?” he asked, reaching for a serving tray at the top of Gladio’s cabinet. “I can’t be sure, they way you enumerate your pros and cons. You’re a fan of the Crown City Crests, aren’t you? They’re in the Caelum League, which does, if I remember correctly, allow for the DH within the lineup? Though I have heard you speak highly of the Lestallum Lights, who are in the Lucis League, and do not. Statistically speaking, don’t teams belonging to the Caelum League boast higher RBIs than those of Lucis? So why would anyone be against it? It seems only beneficial.”

“First of all, that’s just unfair of you, talking baseball while wearing my Crests jersey,” Gladio said with a shake of his head, pointing his beer bottle at him like an erstwhile threat. “One or the other, but those in tandem is sort of ruining me right now, if I’m perfectly honest.”

From the open counter of the kitchen, Ignis smiled as he arranged some pigs-in-a-blanket on the serving platter. A little smugly, if Gladio surmised correctly. “Prompto assured me I looked quite dashing,” he informed him.

“Shit on the Six, yeah, you do,” Gladio agreed, raising his beer in toast to the fact, and taking a generous swig of it for good measure. “But. Returning to your question: I can see both sides of the coin here. DHs make for a more dynamic game, overall. I mean, who wants to see a pitcher struggling through the bottom of an inning, when he was posturing like a goddamn hero at the top of it? At the same time, I like the cohesion of the same nine men on the field. It feels like a real team that way, not like you’re bringing in a ringer. Which is exactly what a DH is.”

“Ah,” Ignis replied, in that sage way of his, espousing that exaggerated interest with which one might indulge a child.

“Am I boring you?” Gladio asked, half joking and a little nervous he’d hear that he was. “I know baseball isn’t your thing.”

“On the contrary, I find your passion for it quite interesting,” Ignis assured him smoothly, walking a plate of food over, along with two longneck bottles of craft beer. Even if I don’t quite understand the particulars of your argument fully.”

He’d almost memorized Gladio’s apartment to a tee. Forty-five degree angle from the kitchen counter, six steps towards the lamp light before he’d hit the coffee table, and then it was just a matter of finding the corner of it to round and take his seat beside Gladio.

“I never did get into baseball,” Ignis continued, settling himself beside Gladio and letting his heavy arm drape over his slender shoulders and pull him close. “Though, I did enjoy football for a time.”

“Football,” Gladio repeated, and the disbelief was apparent, even in the flat of his delivery. “What, seriously?”

“Mm,” he affirmed wordlessly, swallowing down a mouthful of the bitter brew. “I think it was expected that I would find the systematicity of statistics interesting. But there’s a fair amount of strategy involved in football that I prefer. I believe someone once referred to it as the thinking man’s game. It appealed to me.”

Gladio nodded pensively. “I mean, it’s true. For all your lineup plans and pitching changes and whatever else, there’s no strategy that can be implemented until you hit that ball. And then it’s a team effort to see you home. Or keep the other team from it. A lot is luck, some of it chance. I can see football appealing to you. It’s like chess. But with people. Large people.” Gladio squinted. “You don’t have a type, do you?”

Ignis laughed, ducking his head to ignore the question with another sip of his beer. “I don’t think I’ve enough practical experience for you to deduce any pattern of behavior concerning what my type is. But yes. It did appeal to me. I used to sit in the library and read stratagem manuals thicker than phone books. Sometimes, when I rented them out, I’d fall asleep with them on my chest and wake up in the middle of the night thinking I was suffering some asthma attack.”

Gladio laughed and kissed him indulgently on the cheek. It was then that he happened to notice a bright red spot of sauerkraut on his chest. “Here,” he said, grabbing a handful of napkins and daubing it at the stain. “You’ve got red on you.”

“Do I?” Ignis asked, at once worried and touching his chest to discern the worst of it.

“Right here,” Gladio replied, still working the stain. “I think I’ve got all of it.”

“My apologies,” Ignis said soberly—more soberly than the occasion demanded— putting down his plate and standing to brush the crumbs of hot dog buns from the front of his shirt. “I should change before I stain it further.”

“I don't have any more jerseys for you to look cute in,” Gladio called as he watched Ignis shuffle away towards his bedroom, staring with unabashed appreciation of his backside.

And though Ignis could not see, he was well-aware of the certainty of those eyes trained on him. “Then I shall have to go naked,” he announced grandly as he went to root through his dresser anyways, a pleased grin hidden with the turn of his head.

Ordinarily, Gladio wouldn’t have hesitated to say something suggestive, something along the lines of complimenting his stellar ass or just wordlessly hooting his approval, like the neanderthal everyone purported him to be. But the subject had awoken a particularly sore spot for him that had been nagging at him for weeks. “Or you could just …. keep a change of clothes over here,” he offered, a little quietly, maybe a little sullenly.

Within Gladio’s room, Ignis had the momentous benefit of obscurity during which Gladio could not see his face, could not watch the growing degree of disconcert that knit his brow with every passing second.

Ignis paused, and outside, for Gladio, the silence loomed. “Nonsense,” Ignis said with a hollow, counterfeit ease. “I wouldn’t dream of impinging upon your personal space.”

“Impinging— what?” Gladio almost spluttered, setting down his beer as he leaned forward to plant his elbows onto his knees, straining to see within his room to glean some sort of understanding of Ignis’s enigmatic statement. “What are you talking about? We’ve been dating for a month now. I think that warrants some latitude into my life.”

“Dating?” Ignis asked archly, the repetition buying him a moment of reprieve in which he might weigh his answers in spite of the harrowing tide of his racing heartbeat drowning the sound of his own thoughts. He was on tenuous ground here, and he knew it. He emerged from his bedroom in a soft, worn T-shirt that hung loose over his frame.

“Yeah,” Gladio replied sourly.

“Is that what this is?” As if the concept was a foreign one to him.

It was incontestably clear how Ignis’ attempts at lightheartedness were not as easily received as he’d hoped they would be. Gladio’s voice dropped to a low menace, belying the cold misery that twisted in his stomach at the way Ignis wanted to dismiss … whatever it was they had together. “Generally, when you spend as much time as possible with each other and sometimes sleep together— yeah, that’s what dating is,” Gladio pointed out, bitterness edging his tone. “Though, dating would would imply we’d go out. On dates. In public.” A beat. “Like we’re not afraid. Or ashamed, maybe.”

He’d expected Ignis’s hesitancy. It had taken him this long just to convince him to date him, it would stand to reason that he wouldn’t exactly jump headfirst into things. But what he hadn’t expected was his resistance.

“We don’t sleep together,” Ignis corrected, ignoring the rest of what Gladio had said, and the latter was near beside himself with hurt.

Gladio wasn’t a stranger to bullshit said in the heat of the moment—he’d gotten himself in trouble on more occasions than he’d cared to count in his younger, reckless years— and tried to slow the maddening pace of his heart, the bile on his tongue that threatened barbed words meant to sting and singe. “No, we don’t, not in any sense of the word,” Gladio agreed, his tone clipped.

And it was true. They hadn’t. Every night that Ignis deigned to spend at his had been spent in hours of furious communion of mouths employed in drawing dizzying ecliptics down the line of each other’s throats, feverish hands that mapped expanses of silken skin and twisted sinew, sought desperately for Ignis’s release as Gladio spoke words meant with the sweetest of intentions, delivered in poesy awkward upon his lips. But Gladio had been careful never to broach the topic of sex proper. “I thought it was important,” Gladio went on, his voice pitched low to preclude the waver of hurt in his voice. “That you knew that I was serious about you. I know your reservations. I know you don’t want to rush things. I don’t want to rush things either. But I didn’t expect to feel like I’m the only one in this.”

Ignis said nothing, leaning a little helplessly against the doorframe, haunting the threshold of the room in which they’d only just untangled themselves from last nights chaste lovemaking. The sigh of displeasure he let out had translated into one of irritation to Gladio’s ears, and in the latter’s oversensitive state, it rang hollow in his chest, echoed by the full, desperate thrum of a heartbeat racing to stave off the surely-advancing ache portended in the charged air.

“Can’t even deny it a little, huh?” Gladio asked, and the plaintiveness of the question was unmistakeable.

Ignis made a point not to sigh again, not to utter any sound or word that Gladio might take ill, quietly padding over on bare feet to slip into easily into his wide lap. “Do you really think I don’t care about this?” he asked, his fingers threading affectionately through the wisps of hair at his temple, stroking the shorn stubble there.

Gladio welcomed the weight of him there, quietly losing his mind over the rare display of audacious affection, but his stubbornness still heavy in his chest, clinging to the fine filaments of bitterness that purled around his ribs. “Hard to say.”

Ignis nodded his understanding, considered, and then spoke. “There are things I love about you, as you are. There are things I have always loved about you. We’ve known each other for so long. But there are things I love about you now that are difficult for me not to lose myself over.

I love that you look at me like a dock worker might eye a woman of ill repute. Don’t laugh, I mean it. I don’t think I’ve ever been desired the way you desire me. I don’t think I’ve felt desired before. I’ve always been aware of your eyes on me, Gladio, don’t think you’re subtle. I can tell— even blind— the expressions you wear: the sound of a grin pulling at your mouth, the way your voice turns a little dark when you frown. I can see every expression, cataloged in the back of my mind, and recalled sometimes startling clarity from so many years of marking your every whim and whimsy. Perhaps I regret it a little now, that I’ve waited too long, that I can no longer witness them, now that I might appreciate them with a different awareness.”

The silence that fell between them felt weighted, and Ignis tipped forward to touch their foreheads together, the points of their noses brushing affectionately. “I love that no matter how boldly you look at me, that in that room, you touch me like a consecrated thing, like I’m whole and holy, and I have never felt so adored in all my life.”

Ignis breathed a sigh as soft as a kiss against his Gladio’s lips. “I’ve never wanted anything for myself, you see. And I do now. Selfishly. I’ve never thought of myself as separate from the duty of my office. I’ve always lived like some tintype of a real person, vacant of any consideration of myself. And now, here I am, exploring what it means to want for the first time in all my life. And so I am, as you could understand, a little wary. Of myself, not of you.”

Gladio seemed to relax at that, the taut of his shoulders loosening under Ignis’ smoothing hands. “I don’t want to fall in love with the way you make me feel. I don’t want to fall in love with pretty words or sensations or sex. This is new to me, all of this, in ways it’s not so new to you. And therein lies my hesitancy. I want to be sure that when I tell you that I love you, I mean it. Without equivocation.” He kissed him softly, daring at last to do so with his final words. “I’m sorry, Gladio.”

Gladio let himself be kissed without making a move to reciprocate, but his arms circled Ignis’s waist the moment he broke heedfully from the kiss, crushing him to his chest as he buried his nose into the curve of his shoulder, breathing in the scent of his skin intermingled with the bloom of his freshly-laundered shirt, and wondered if that was what home smelled like. “I’m sorry,” he mumbled meaningfully into the fabric of his shirt. “I’m sorry I want too much of you. I’m sorry I want everything, everything, and that I’m impatient. I’m trying not to be, I am. I don’t want to overwhelm you, really I don’t—”

Ignis stopped his mouth with a kiss, followed by another that graced the peak of his cheekbone. “I know,” he assured him quietly. “I know. But I was remiss in not letting you know my mind. That was a fault of mine I readily admit to. One of those considerations I have yet to learn that comes with understanding someone else’s feelings, in veins heretofore unfamiliar to me. Be patient with me, I beg you. I’ll never intend to harm you, I can promise you at least that.”

“Nothing worth having ever comes easy,” Gladio said, turning his head press a kiss to the delicate hollow of his cheek. “I’ll be patient. I’ll wait, of course I will. I’ve waited decades for you, I’d wait decades more if you told me to.” He refrained from the declaration of vows Ignis was not ready to reciprocate, nodding as he repeated, “I’ll wait.”

Ignis kissed him, a light, quick thing laid upon his cheek, as he took up Gladio’s heavy hand and led him to the room, to the eruption of sonorous cheers from the baseball game on the television, already forgotten. “One of these days, you should spend the night at mine,” Ignis mused, falling back on Gladio’s plush bed and pulling him by the shirtfront down to follow.

“Yeah? Invite me over,” Gladio countered, settling easily between his thighs, his hands finding Ignis’ to twine their fingers as close as vines, his mouth already latched to the curve of his shoulder.

Ignis arched to meet the press of his broad chest, his arms draped easily around his neck as he tilted his chin up to offer more of his throat to be kissed. “I could dress you, then,” he went on, his breath hitching with flick of Gladio’s tongue against his skin. “Outfit you in something pristine and proper, like a gentleman. Have you ever worn formal attire? I don’t think I recall you in anything outside untidy school uniforms and hooded sweaters when we were younger. It would be a fascinating prospect, I think.”

“What’s wrong with the way I dress?” Gladio laughed, unoffended. “And I used to wear a uniform for guard duties, remember?”

“That’s right!” Ignis exclaimed, grinning wide at the memory of Gladio in his staid uniform. “Those were nothing so sartorially impressive.” He grinned wickedly. “Or perhaps it was you who was the unimpressive one.”

“Hey—” Gladio objected, and Ignis ameliorated his offense with his a kiss.

“You do dress as though you’re allergic to shirts,” Ignis pointed out, and Gladio bit his shoulder. “That was uncalled for, you brute.”

“Unfortunately, you’ve discovered my devastating affliction.” Gladio admitted through a long, theatrical sigh. “I’m allergic to shirts. How did you know. But that also means—” He plucked at Ignis’s shirt. “Off.”

Ignis gave a little insincere groan of protest and pulled the shirt up over his head before settling back down with a brow quirked in defiant question. “Better?”

Gladio had been hovering over him, now slipping to press himself to Ignis’ side, a hand laid heavy just below his navel. “I’m allergic to these, too,” Gladio informed him, tugging lightly at his belt loops and giving a few paltry coughs in demonstration of his newfound affliction, to Ignis’s deepening frown.

“I’ll wait on the doctor’s note on that one,” Ignis decided, and Gladio fell upon him with a low, rumbling laugh.

“That’s fine,” Gladio said, settling on his chest, his head tucked beneath Ignis’s chin, his arms circling his waist. “I’ll wait.”

Ignis kissed the crown of his dark hair, his hands resting the broad bow of his back. “I know you will.”

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The Orioles have over $40 million to spend, maybe

Thursday’s Say Hey, Baseball looks at the Orioles’ payroll and their needs.

The Orioles have wrapped up all of their arbitration negotiations and hearings, so they know exactly what they’re spending in 2018. They also know exactly what their needs are, which means they know what they have to spend to fill them.

The Baltimore Sun’s Eduardo A. Encina calculates the O’s payroll as just over $121 million, giving them about $43 million in room to get back to 2017’s record Opening Day payroll. As the only notable arms in a rotation desperate for help are Kevin Gausman and Dylan Bundy, and the free agent market is still hosting former O’s starter Chris Tillman, Lance Lynn, Alex Cobb, and more, well, Baltimore could fix a lot in a hurry if they open up their wallet.

Will they, though? They haven’t shown any real desire to upgrade, but late additions are also kind of a Dan Duquette thing, anyway, and the free agent freeze has likely exacerbated that. We’ll know in a hurry if the Orioles are content to finish in last place in the AL East again while doing things like dealing Manny Machado before the trade deadline, or if they want to make one last run for it with this core and some new friends before Machado’s contract expires.

As Encina points out, the Orioles saw $46 million worth of contracts end before this offseason when Wade Miley, Ubaldo Jimenez, J.J. Hardy, and Tillman became free agents. With those roster spots open, money available, and a clear need for upgrades at positions where upgrades are available, it would be unconscionable for Baltimore to stick with the roster they’ve got.

In an offseason full of embarrassing actions by teams, the O’s deciding they were going to follow up a last-place finish by going the addition-by-subtraction route would rank pretty highly. They’ve got a few weeks left to avoid that being how they use the last of their Machado time, at least, but as with everything else this winter, we’ll believe signings are coming once we see them and not a moment before.

The Indians got rid of Chief Wahoo when forced to, but the same mechanisms aren’t in place for their team name, and that’s a problem.

Different fantasy leagues have different rules about how Shohei Ohtani is going to be scored, and as someone who doesn’t actually care about any of that, Grant Brisbee is the perfect person to write about how things should be.

Speaking of Ohtani, the Angels are going to use him as a pitcher and a DH-- not an outfielder. That means Albert Pujols’ playing time is going to be reduced, and given how horrible his 2017 was, that’s not a bad plan.

An MLB team tried to send a Special Assistant to the GM to scout free agents at the MLBPA’s training camp, but they were escorted out. That’s because it’s not a tryout camp, y’all, it’s more like a gym.

The version of David Robertson the Yankees got this time around was different than before.

Twinkie Town is fine with Yu Darvish signing with the Cubs, since they believe Lance Lynn would be a better signing, anyway.

Here’s part two in a Baseball Prospectus series looking at why hitters are succeeding younger than they used to.

Longtime baseball scribe Jay Jaffe has moved on from Sports Illustrated, and taken up residence at FanGraphs.

Terry Francona’s father, Tito Francona, passed away at the age of 84.

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These 2017 NFL Draft First-Round Picks Had Their Options Declined - profootballrumors.com

These 2017 NFL Draft First-Round Picks Had Their Options Declined – profootballrumors.com

These 2017 NFL Draft First-Round Picks Had Their Options Declined  profootballrumors.com

2020 NFL Power Rankings – 1-32 poll, plus post-draft winners for every team  ESPN

2020 NFL Draft Dynasty Review: NFC West  Dynasty League Football

Fantasy Baseball Impact of the Universal DH  RotoBaller

Eagles’ Miles Sanders lands in the top-10 of RB rankings for fantasy football post NFL Draft  Eagles Wire

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Less Bunts, More Schwarbers - Razzball Fantasy Baseball

Less Bunts, More Schwarbers – Razzball Fantasy Baseball

Ron Blomberg, the first DH known to man, stood in a parking lot, outside Parsippany, New Jersey’s Ramada Inn, sipping a coffee and eating a donut. Mr. Blomberg was there to meet new recruits for the National League DH. A starry-eyed, Paul DeJong stepped up for a badge to Ron’s seminar, and to chat with Ron. “I’m a big fan, Mr. Blomberg.”Ron looks Paul DeJong up and down, not thinking much of him,…

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You should not be spending a lot of time poring over my fantasy baseball designated hitter (DH) rankings for 2020 or really any other experts' rankings for that matter. Most players that qualify at DH (or utility/UT depending on the league) often play or are eligible at another position. Don't get yourself all lathered up trying to decide if Franmil Reyes or Edwin Encarnacion is the better DH. Read the full story on Athlon Sports

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MLB changes the name of the 'Disabled List' at the request of disability advocates - Yahoo Sports

MLB changes the name of the 'Disabled List' at the request of disability advocates – Yahoo Sports

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We’ve seen quite a few rule changes discussed this week for Major League Baseball — from the universal DH to a three-batter minimum for relief pitchers. They might happen, they might not. Such is the process of baseball negotiating rule changes every year.

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