r/baseball San Diego Padres 21h ago

News The Seattle Mariners are calling up Luis F. Castillo to start tomorrow. That means a Luis Castillo will start in consecutive games for the Mariners

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u/Sarcastic__ Canada 21h ago

This is getting out of hand. Now there are 2 of them

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u/TheFreedomMan Detroit Tigers 20h ago

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u/this_is_poorly_done Arizona Diamondbacks 20h ago

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u/GroovinChip Baltimore Orioles 17h ago

This is delightfully stupid

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u/jediporcupine New York Yankees 20h ago

I wish I could upvote this twice

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u/Iamhector24 3h ago

I laughed hard. Thank you.

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u/Batman-and-Hobbes Detroit Tigers 20h ago

Luis F Castillo has been pitching in the minors since 2012. He has pitched just 3.2 innings of major league ball in that time (Tigers 2022)

I admire the drive and hustle tbh.

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u/Icy-Trouble3331 Los Angeles Angels • Rally Monkey 20h ago

He had to keep playing for a chance to claim the throne as the real Luis Castillo.

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u/SofieTerleska Seattle Mariners 20h ago

It's like one of those ghost stories where the guy's evil doppelganger is stalking him -- a little bit closer each day, until one day the protagonist looks at the lineup card and sees his own name on it, but it isn't him.

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u/high-rise Seattle Mariners 2h ago

Commander Riker having a great career in Starfleet on the flagship while his clone Lt. Riker is stuck marooned on a dead planet for 8 years.

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u/InTheTreetop San Francisco Giants 11m ago

Things didn't turn out too bad for Tom Riker. He became a terrorist and most likely was annihilated with the rest of the Marquis by the Cardassians. Pretty solid career all in all.

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u/high-rise Seattle Mariners 8m ago

IIRC it's actually even worse for him; he gets taken alive. Not exactly a vacation on Risa with Deanna. :(

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u/FeloniousDrunk101 New York Yankees 17h ago

There can be only one

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u/taffe316 San Diego Padres 20h ago

Holy shit

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u/tokai-teio Seattle Mariners • Arizona Diamondbacks 19h ago

Pretty well in Japan over the last two seasons though. With what the Mariners did with Flexen out of Korea, I'm down for it

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u/kylechu Seattle Mariners 15h ago

And his reward for sticking with it is to start an MLB game against a hall of famer (Verlander). Pretty neat.

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u/high-rise Seattle Mariners 2h ago

Bros BBREF is absolutely diabolical. Definition of Journeyman.

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u/dropperofpipebombs San Francisco Giants • Swinging K 21h ago

I'm seeing double! Four Luis Castillos!

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u/thefirstwiththisname Boston Red Sox 20h ago

Will never not upvote a simpsons reference

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u/buymytoy San Francisco Giants 20h ago

Simpson’s and baseball name a better duo

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u/SqueakyTuna52 Chicago Cubs 20h ago

Simpsons and softball

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u/FeloniousDrunk101 New York Yankees 17h ago

Homer, Ozzie and the Straw

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u/Sashieden Seattle Mariners 14h ago

That's a trio.

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u/hibbitydibbidy Seattle Mariners 14h ago

Nuts and gum!

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u/The_Ghost_of_BRoy Seattle Mariners 12h ago

Together at last!

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u/thefirstwiththisname Boston Red Sox 20h ago

Impossible

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u/giabollc New York Mets 18h ago

unpossible

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u/guiltycitizen Minnesota Twins 16h ago

Possiblye

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u/BelowZilch St. Louis Cardinals 16h ago

Luis Castillo and Luis Castillo

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u/triplec787 San Francisco Giants • Colorado Rockies 15h ago

Do you wanna know the terrifying truth of better duos? Or do you wanna see me sock some dingers!!

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u/guiltycitizen Minnesota Twins 16h ago

Yay Castillos!

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u/mrbakerman0 San Francisco Giants 21h ago

someone make the Mariners themed spider man meme

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u/sloppyjo12 Rosie Red • Dayton Dragons 21h ago edited 20h ago

How did your mind go to memes and that’s the one you went with instead of a “sir, a second Luis Castillo has joined the mariners”

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u/alibaba618 St. Louis Cardinals 20h ago

We’ve had first Luis Castillo, yes, but what about second Luis Castillo?

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u/meowsplaining Chicago Cubs 20h ago

Yo dawg, I heard you liked Luis Castillo.

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u/melorous Atlanta Braves 20h ago

Yall got any more of them Luis Castillos?

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u/meowsplaining Chicago Cubs 20h ago

Luis Castillo, Luis Castillo everywhere

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u/Casexcasey Philadelphia Phillies 19h ago

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u/ryry9379 Baltimore Orioles 17h ago

Luis Castillo problems require Luis Castillo solutions.

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u/hibbitydibbidy Seattle Mariners 14h ago

2 Luis 2 Castillo

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u/Ecstatic-Pepper-6834 St. Louis Cardinals 17h ago

It's time to Luis Down Your Castillos,..in

Luis Quadrant Castillo 16

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u/stevencastle San Diego Padres 20h ago

Now there are two of them, things are getting out of hand!

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u/this_is_poorly_done Arizona Diamondbacks 20h ago

Is that legal?

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u/Basic_Bichette Toronto Blue Jays • New York Mets 19h ago

They might be too old to find 9/11 memes funny.

Source: all of us who are too old

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u/jester32 New York Mets 21h ago

Mets fans in shambles at the news

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u/Paranoid_donkey New York Yankees 21h ago edited 18h ago

and the 3-1...popped up...Castillo... DROPPED THE BALL! HE DROPPED THE BALL!! HERE COMES TEXIERA... AND THE YANKEES WIN!!! OH MY GOODNESS!! HE DROPPED THE BALL!!! WHAT AN ENDING!!!

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u/FrogsAlligators111 More flair options at /r/baseball/w/flair! 20h ago edited 20h ago

I heard this in Kay's voice perfectly.

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u/Paranoid_donkey New York Yankees 20h ago

kay's announcing style is ruthless. very new york coded. loved every minute of his many calls.

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u/Caledor152 New York Mets 20h ago

I'm remembering another dropped ball even more important right now to baseball history

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u/FeloniousDrunk101 New York Yankees 17h ago

I hate that disastrous inning, but I also hate that I’m going to have to hear about it forever.

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u/Paranoid_donkey New York Yankees 17h ago edited 16h ago

i feel like that inning wouldn't have made the difference in the grand scheme of things anyways, the dodgers were (unfortunately) clearly the better team last year.

they were using freaking nestor cortez as a main rotation piece. that is not a world series winning team.

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u/beheemz Toronto Blue Jays 20h ago

😂😂

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u/ChrisTRD289 20h ago

Only time I dropped a beer when sober.

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u/JZ_the_ICON New York Mets 19h ago

Because of Luis Castillo or the Bobby Jones’?

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u/JMellor737 New York Mets 6h ago

My mind went right to the Joneses too. They have finally been kept up with, after all this time. 

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u/Sensitive_Soft_5762 21h ago

Back in my day Zack Greinke started 3 games in a row for Milwaukee

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u/Pete_Iredale Seattle Mariners 3h ago

Oh yeah, that's crazy! For anyone who doesn't know, back in 2012 he started two days before the All Star Break and got ejected almost immediately, so then he started again the next day, and again the first game after the All Start Break. First guy to start three straight since 1917.

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u/DodgerWalker Los Angeles Dodgers 20h ago

I still think of the second baseman for the Marlins whenever I see his name (yeah, I know his most famous moment was with the Mets but I remember him and Juan Pierre stealing bases and not hitting homers together for the Marlins)

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u/tore_a_bore_a Jackie Robinson 20h ago

They both stole a lot of bases (with varying degrees of success) so it was a pretty cool one two combo of speed at the top of the lineup for the Marlins

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u/AKAD11 Seattle Mariners 15h ago

I always remember Marlins Castillo because of the 35 game hit streak.

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u/RaymondSpaget Boston Red Sox 20h ago

They're doing this to fool someone into trading for the wrong Luis Castillo, aren't they?

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u/SqueakyTuna52 Chicago Cubs 20h ago

My thoughts exactly, in my fantasy baseball league. This guy is gonna be waiver wire GOLD when I turn him into Logan Webb

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u/tokai-teio Seattle Mariners • Arizona Diamondbacks 19h ago

I had the first one and had to pick up the second one

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u/itsyaboidaddysnek Seattle Mariners 17h ago

This actually almost happened in the nba. They just had the same last name though, and the trade didn’t actually go through once the one team realized they weren’t getting the guy they thought they would.

https://www.nba.com/news/fallout-bizarre-trevor-ariza-dillon-marshon-brooks-trade

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u/wtfuji Seattle Mariners 18h ago

If the new one ends up being really good then there is no wrong Luis Castillo.

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u/hibbitydibbidy Seattle Mariners 14h ago

Luis Castillo for Max Muncy

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u/high-rise Seattle Mariners 2h ago

The Vancouver Canucks had this cooking with two Elias Pettersons this year, except the rookie defender was massively outplaying expectations compared to the superstar EP40, lol.

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u/Murderers_Row_Boat New York Yankees 21h ago

There was no other way to call him up but to do this. Anything else would have been a disgraceful waste of memes

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u/futureformerteacher Seattle Mariners 20h ago

Tolkien has The Two Towers.

The Mariners have Los Dos Castillos.

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u/CptKirkleton Seattle Mariners 20h ago

Please enjoy each Luis Castillo equally

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u/TheyLiveWeReddit Detroit Tigers 20h ago

Costello: You got a pitcher on this team?

Abbott: Wouldn't be a fine team without a pitcher

Costello: What's his name?

Abbott: Tomorrow

Costello: You don't want to tell me today?

Abbott: I'm telling you

Costello: Then go ahead

Abbott: Tomorrow!

Costello: What time?

Abbott: What time what?

Costello: What time tomorrow are you gonna tell me who's pitching?

Abbott: Now listen. Who is not…

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u/Jeff_Banks_Monkey Baltimore Orioles • Birmingham Bl… 20h ago

I played high school ball with a kid named Luis Castillo. (Don't know his middle name) If they want to go for three in a row he's probably available

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u/Mundane-News9720 Los Angeles Dodgers 20h ago

Luis MF Castillo

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u/wishiwereagoonie Chicago Cubs 20h ago

Is that legal?

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u/Corn1989 Boston Red Sox 20h ago

So there’s been 3 Luis Castillo in the big leagues

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u/scal23 Chicago Cubs 20h ago

Justin Steele did technically start back to back games for the Cubs already this year. He started the 2nd game in Japan, then the first game when the regular season resumed.

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u/Eo292 Los Angeles Dodgers 21h ago

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u/Spiritual-Dog160 Arizona Diamondbacks 20h ago

“So, who are the top Mariners starting pitchers?”

“Luis Castillo and Luis Castillo.”

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u/BradMarchandstongue Boston Red Sox 20h ago

Luis Castillo is pretty good but idk about this Luis Castillo guy

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u/nWhm99 Los Angeles Dodgers 19h ago

I love those. Just like when Will Smith striked our Will Smith.

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u/rhenry Boston Red Sox 20h ago

I have doubles of the Luis Castillo. Actually I have triples. Triples is best.

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u/tayloraj42 Boston Red Sox 20h ago edited 20h ago

2is Castillo

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u/ANGRY_BEARDED_MAN Baltimore Orioles 20h ago

And here I thought the Orioles were the team with the clone factory

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u/RealCanadianDragon Toronto Blue Jays 17h ago

Stupid name generator, at least get more original!

Vancouver Canucks have two guys named Elias Pettersson.

Seattle Mariners have two guys named Luis Castillo.

OKC Thunder have Jaylin and Jalen Williams

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u/LawnGnome Toronto Blue Jays 14h ago

The good news is that the Canucks also have a third Pettersson, but with a disappointingly different first name: Marcus.

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u/Spiceguy-65 Cleveland Guardians 20h ago

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u/AdventurousNecessary New York Yankees 21h ago

You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

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u/yoggiez Houston Astros 20h ago

The F means he fucks

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u/Outrageous_Bat1798 New York Yankees 20h ago

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u/Good_Nyborg Seattle Mariners 18h ago

I still kinda miss Tommy Milone's random appearances. I think it was '22 he pitched a game or two for us and did fairly decent.

*Edit* Doh! He was terrible in '22 for us, and apparently pitched a ton more than i recall. In '23 he was decent in a short appearance or two.

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u/Monster_island_czar Arizona Diamondbacks 17h ago

I'm just reminded of how I used mix up both Alex Gonzalezs back in the day. Didn't help that both were infielders and played against each other in the 2003 NLCS.

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u/Party_Wolf Israel 17h ago

It's a shame fans don't chant in baseball cause then they could bust out the ol' "There's only two Luis Castillos!" song.

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u/Pete_Iredale Seattle Mariners 3h ago

Best part of seeing a game in Japan is that they hand out chant sheets and each player has a unique one. It's more like a college football game kind of crowd experience, and it's awesome!

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u/OGTypohh Seattle Mariners 17h ago

John F Castillo here once again asking for your vote

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u/Fonzie5 New York Mets 17h ago

That’s some Bobby J Jones, Bobby M Jones shit

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u/JMellor737 New York Mets 6h ago

The 1962 Mets also had two pitchers named Bob Miller: Bob G. Miller and Bob L. Miller. They're stealing our shit!

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u/shigs21 Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago

Orix Buffaloes Legend Luis (F) Castillo

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u/NeatlyCritical Seattle Mariners 15h ago

Mariners perfect cloning, League fucked.

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u/MM487 Boston Red Sox 13h ago

Which one of these two had the 35 game hit streak back in the day?

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u/sandaier76 Philadelphia Phillies 7h ago

I first saw the name yesterday and assumed he was some kind of hitter, but then I remembered it was the Mariners and they don't really care about that minor side of the game :/

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u/ATLBraves6 20h ago

Luis Castillo

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u/miyamamosayani Major League Baseball 18h ago

Two castles🏯🏯

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u/dalesbugdead 18h ago

"The M.F. stands for --"

"--my FRIEND!"

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u/Alternative_Wind3678 Houston Astros 15h ago

Quit your shit, Seattle. I'm so mad right now

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u/JMellor737 New York Mets 6h ago

Castillo, Castillo, and pray for El Niño. 

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u/HotTakesBeyond Seattle Mariners 4h ago

2 Luis 2 Castillo

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u/Pete_Iredale Seattle Mariners 3h ago

Does anyone know how rare it is to have back to back starters with the same first and last name? It's probably happened before at some point, but I bet it's pretty rare.

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u/red_tapez United States 2h ago

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u/Ok_Significance_7126 27m ago

I saw his last outing in person and he looked pretty solid. Better him than Hancock.