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The thing is, even if overcome that and you do restructure the game so that globally, a team would be more successful (and know it) over a season because it would have a clear improvement in injury experience that would be greater than the value of more K's to the staff, will the pitchers themselves still *always* see it in their *immediate* best interests to strike guys out if they can and damn the risk to themselves? Thus for instance even go to private coaches if their team decided not to do pitch maximizing work with its staff (just as an extreme theoretical example...). So maybe to continue along where this reasoning leads, you have not only make contact less damaging, maybe you have to make strike-outs much harder to achieve - at least against a larger % of the batter population, so you'd be where the game was when you had to pitch to a Stan Musial and you knew you were wasting your time trying to K him - all you could do was try to keep him off balance enough so he didn't barrel it up well. Two possibilities come to my mind in this direction: moving the mound back to give hitters more time to see pitches; and lowering the stitches to reduce achievable break. Pitchers would have rely more on change of speed and location sequencing to keep guys of balance for barrels as opposed to 'here it is you can't hit it' swing and miss.

That would be nice, but the presidential electoral setup all but forbids this from happening. Setting aside structural barriers such as ballot access restrictions, the U.S. uses a winner-take-all, first-past-the-post election system, where once a presidential candidate beats all their opponents by at least a single vote within a state, they are awarded 100% of all the votes in that state that ultimately matter. This discourages voters who might otherwise be inclined to vote for a third party from doing so because of the concept of wasting the vote on someone who's destined to lose (something that also happens, BTW, when your major party presidential candidate loses your state anyway.) There's also the general tendency of countries that have single-member districts, instead of proportional representation, to emerge as two-party countries. Both the US and UK are emblematic of that. If we truly want more than two strong parties, we would probably need to move from a winner-take-all system to a proportional representation system, at minimum. Almost none of us here will ever live to see that happen.

Right after Canada, Cuba, Greenland..... Grandpa needs a long nap in his underground "Balltoom"

Never does his homework. An underling also failed for adding in his notes who the coach was...

Or maybe some of us decided we can't afford to properly raise another human or two. Or realized that we weren't properly wired...or something.

A reporter asked Trump if he's concerned about the Hantavirus. Really? Why don't they ask him if he learned anything from Covid? Between Trump and that wacko RFK, if there was another covid, we're all doomed.

The masses are asses as a professor of mine once said.

That said, this would be a challenge because strikeouts for pitchers are as important to them (not to mention as marketable to the business) as home runs are for hitters. It's all about burnishing the personal brand. You don't get featured on Quick Pitch for inducing ground balls to second for an out.

Isn't the whole point of the reflecting pool to reflect the Washington monument? As above, so below?

It’s such a waste. This team could easily be the East champion with a competent coach making decisions on rotations and playing time.

The man needs a Dave Ramsey intervention. Make him pay out of his grift filled coffers. Trump is a tenant, not the owner

https://www.mckeenshockey.com/nhl-blog/mckeens-2026-nhl-prospect-report-4-detroit-red-wings-organization-overview-top-15-prospects/ New prospect report. Has Detroit ranked #4. Not a surprise that it emphasizes the strength of the goaltending pipeline. Maybe a bit surprising at this point that Cossa is ranked as Detroit’s top prospect with Postava coming in at 9 (and Augustine at 4). Also not a surprise to see Danielson and MBN at 2 and 3 but the write ups do not indicate a lot of upside.

He's spending like a drunken sailor.

Do Israelis care if they can just whisper in someone's ear that they have got what Ghislane had got on Trump.

Are these new number assignments based on how many games each player will spend on IR?

Imagine if that was Beef Stew.

Thank you!

I'll take it.