Big debate today on Crossing Broadcast.

Who has it worse? Mickey Moniak, who’s batting .143 this year, or his friend, who has a tattoo on his ass of the guy hitting .143? Ding ding ding. Let’s debate:

As I laid out, it definitely sucks more to be Mickey Moniak. Yea he signed for $6.1 million, but that’s not life-changing money after taxes, agent fees, and inflation. Have you seen the price of eggs? For all we know, this friend already has this thing lasered off and if he didn’t that’s a story you’ll be telling your grandkids one day. I’d take the tattoo over getting booed nightly and looking like a fool chasing a curveball. Also, he’s going to spend most of his time this year in Lehigh Valley. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.

We also talked about if a beat writer can lift a championship trophy. You’d probably have to sedate Russ with that gun Frank the Tank shot himself with in Old School to stop him from grabbing the Cup out of Chuck Fletcher’s hands:

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