All Activity

I think they are capable of parsing out a ruling that allows Texas and overturns Virginia through their shadow docket, and willing to do it, too, if they calculate the political consequences to their benefactor to be minimal enough.

So, the closest analog I could find throughout history was Dexter Fowler 2014 with a 29-20-30-20 split: Fowler is the only other qualified hitter in history with at least 20% of their starting lineup plate appearances in each of the top four batting slots. Going back into history, Freddie Lindstrom came really close in 1926 with a 19-24-32-25 split: As did Max Carey in 1917 with his 34-17-21-29: I'm actually surprised there were any this close back in the old days, since I would think that managers were more plug and play about slotting good hitters into particular batting slots.

In two weeks. Pretty sure.

It comes down to whether or not the State Legislature followed the State Constitution in the writing and timing of the Constitutional Amendment that we voted on. Without getting deep in the weeds the question for the court to decide is whether the General Assembly legally put the issue on the ballot in the first place. According to yesterday's lower court ruling the amendment was passed during a special session to deal with the state budget. Expanding the session's scope required a 2/3 vote, not a simple majority. Under the State Constitution, the Governor sets the agenda for the session. The General Assembly cannot pass unrelated constitutional amendments unless it properly expanded the session. From ChatGPT... Deeper into the woods. Voters approved redistricting in 2020. Tuesday's vote overrode that vote temporally (until 2030). Then they get to do the process over. Here's where it seems weird to me. The State Supreme Court seemed skeptical of the special election when it was first presented to them but voted to allow the vote to proceed...why?

Stupid bunters.

Skubal is going to pitch a perfect game no hitter tonight on 117 pitches to strike out 16 and walk zero. You heard it here first.

I am sure they existed, but they never ever made it into mainstream broadcasts or news reports. Watch a Tigers telecast from 2006 and they're barely mentioning pitch counts even.

I will say about UC, gotta be careful there. My wife and I are both from Toledo - she went to Ohio U and I went to Dayton. We both had friends that went to UC. One of her friends walked out of a dorm one night and a van pulled up, 2 guys got out, threw her in the back. Luckily they just drove her to an ATM and made her get cash out and dropped her off down the road. Most people I know that went to UC have stories like this or know someone else that does. It may have improved since we were in school, but I am pretty sure that is still a pretty dangerous area.

I think one factor that gets lost in the lineup order discourse is that it really just doesn’t matter what position you bat in (for the most part). The larger factor is more who is actually in the lineup. After that, batting 3rd or 7th makes very little difference. Of course, you have to give guys enough PAs to find out how good they are so that you can make that decision. Paradoxical. I think the faster you can determine who is good and who is bad, and then actually acting on that as opposed to falling victim to inertial roster construction, will have a big effect on your success.

Ahhhh...the pitching chaos. That should go down in Tiger lore...

I noticed the same thing. Pretty interesting.

I actually think it was the pitching!

I wonder how common it is that a player has had so many PAs in a season split as evenly among the top four spots of the batting order as this (24-24-23-30)? That's got to be super rare, maybe even unique in history. I'm going to try to find out just to scratch my own itch on it.

Finnegan only threw 7 pitches last night, he should be available? Vest threw 22 pitches, probably unavailable. And Jansen (36) is definitely unavailable.

Every Skubal start looks like a pitching mismatch. at least, on paper. Today's no different but...baseball.

He's doing great. Remember when HW Bush posted during the 1992 election about how he was ambassador to the UN in 1970? Or, when Eisenhower bragged in 1957 about being on MacArthur's staff in the Philippines in 1935? Or, when Reagan bragged in 1981 about his time as SAG president in the late 1950s?

The rest of the team waking up and finally hitting was the biggest factor, IMO.

Teah but Shelton couldn't maintain it. 😉

I would argue those bolded stats go back 50 years or more.

He started batting leadoff on April 12 and stopped on May 23. He also batted cleanup during that stretch. I don’t think the switch out of leadoff in May was a substantial factor in their late August turnaround.

But what i wonder is SCOTUS would even take it up? If they ruled Texas is allowed to rework their maps, wouldn't that set precedent? I just don't really understand if the vote by citizens of Virginia is going to be taken away. It seems unconstitutional.

Oh, right, I wouldn’t want this particular Court to weigh in on it, either. I’m talking about SCOTUS’s role in this on a theoretical basis.

Here is the breakdown. I believe most of the leadoff batting was in April.