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Small sample size still. Highs and lows of just a few weeks can't be used to predict future results. Or do we think Tork will end the season with zero home runs? And in a perfect world, Riley will still end up with 20-25 home runs but also end up scoring more runs, with more hits and walks. And yes, runs scored depends on other hitters. With most power hitters, there's a trade off for cutting down on strikeouts and it's usually less power. We'll see....

I think Harris re-acquired Workman? I may be wrong because I don't really keep track of how we get talent, just that we do get talent. But, in case anyone was wondering why we didnt bring him up, he's another LH bat. And we've been desperate for RH bats since last summer. The need was ignored all winter.

Is the final result of more walks and fewer strikeouts in exchange for far fewer homers and lower wRC+ acceptable? I ask because that’s what’s happening so far.

This is like praising the person who bought the cake ingredients at the store, instead of the person who baked the cake.

And after the Tigers got done with him, his ERA is now 7.88. And I was worried......

Tigers through April 9 (4-9): 19th in pitching 14th in hitting 18th in base running 25th in fielding Tigers since April 9 (8-1): 1st in pitching 12th in hitting 19th in base running 30th in fielding

Except for the pitching!

Halucimaxxing Sobermogging

Its not about interference, it's the opposite. It's so fans can experience both. The idea is fans can leave the game and about a mile away to see people finish.

This is another distraction.

I think they’ll be released. The regime will orchestrate a big build-up to it, and we will be riveted to a date that will come and go with either no release, or a release of nothing-burger or already public documents, and we’ll all be grousing and joking and laughing about the ongoing clown show while countless more deaths and billions more in thefts occur in the background completely unnoticed.

Maybe we should start a sort of behind-the-scenes thread where this kind of thing gets highlighted: while we’re being distracted and outraged by stupid **** like Doctor Jesus memes and fake bible verses and Trump hitting on UFC fighters, serious **** like this and timed bets and billion-dollar transfers to offshore accounts are happening essentially unnoticed.

That’s a salient insight thanks. I had never heard of the Jack White Ian Kinsler business relationship and looked it up. That is pretty cool.

I think Buddha is referring to one of the candidates running for election on the Dem side in 26, Amir Maklid - a̶s̶s̶u̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ h̶e̶ g̶e̶t̶s̶ p̶a̶s̶t̶ e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ A̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ o̶r̶ B̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶r̶y̶, w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ i̶s̶ q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ -̶ ( my bad - Regents don't have to primary)- but the guy had already lost his endorsement by the SEIU. On the GOP side, I don't think I'd have any real lssue with Schostak, I don't know anything about Epstein but there is a good chance she's not an anti-semite. It's a complex situation in the world right now. You have a traditionally discriminated against ethnicity/culture, which now has a nation state created in its name that has become a violent, repressive, apartheid practicing nation state. The subtlety is that unlike the case of most rogue nation states, we don't want to see them defeated, for instance as we would be happy to see happen to Putin's Russian kelpto-facist-state, we want them to be able to carry on but but just stop being a terrible national actor. That's a very murky position to be in.

Watched "Project Hail Mary" during most of the game but finally got home and watched the condensed game replay and Framber was throwing darts. Woof. Good signing. At least the March and April 2026 version so far.

Which of the 5 families gets the LSD franchise?

Noticed a comment elsewhere in the Michigan Men's BB thread about U-M's regents being "anti-semitic" which was read by me at roughly the same time as reading headline about Ohio University (not TOSU) students having a poll that was 86% against Israel. Israel having just dragged the dumbest and most craven US Presidents into a war after failing to convince the previous several US Presidents to do the same. Israel having just stomped all over the people who also claim their land who did horrible terroristic things. You can't conflate the two. The European Jewish people have the long history of oppression leading to the Holocaust. The Holocaust happened. It was horrible. Beyond horrible. As horrible as any of the 20th century's other horrors (i.e., Stalin's Holodomor and others, the Armenian genocide, Cambodia, all of Mao's horrors, Rwanda). Certain very powerful evangelicals trying to make Jesus come earlier and the manipulation of same by certain Israeli leaders is creating a horror all its own. People who have ethics and view the World (in its current form) as their project to reform and protect are naturally going to be against genocide.

He was there to get Trump to sign an EO to legalize magic mushrooms. Coming to a Pizza! Pizza! near you.../s And Trump, with no investigation by experts, agree to move forward.

i don’t think there is anything like a 1 to 1 correspondence between the voting population for regents seats and the mi dem party, but we’ll see

Don’t see the giants taking a WR that high. They already have Nabers.

I don't think Robby will have left for more than a week. I've been in a job where the boundaries between life and job get blurred. It's not easy to take a vacation, let alone a sabattical.

Yeah. I think asking someone like that to have an artists imagination is going to lead to pain. I think I would imagine Ian Kinsler who was in the bat business with Jack White might have been like that. Maybe JV who is married to a woman who is sort of plugged into the art world (as much as a bikini model might be).

I think it was the shameless commercialism it appeared to be.

I am sad to see Mohan leave. That actress is lovely. Mel is possibly leaving but not sure if that is a negotiation ploy. Her wacky personality change now that her sister is no longer hanging on her every move might be a fun one. She suddenly goes all hedonist, etc. I was resisting the importance of the Dr. Robby death wish until the last two episodes and they handled it pretty well with his friend and with dr. Abbott talking him through it as men. Sort or ties to first season of True Detective where two men who fought like brothers eventually have a moment of spartan truth.