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Someone on this board already stated that arming teachers as a measure of safety is an open admission that you don’t really have a solution, only a reaction. That is the absolute truth! Seriously, this would be the ultimate demonstration of failed ideas.

My wife is a teacher. We know a lot of teachers. Most teachers get into teaching to teach. My guess is if they wanted to be in law enforcement rather than education, they'd have gotten into that. And as for arming teachers, a hearty GTFOH to that. They're usually busy teaching. How effective can they be at teaching if they are constantly monitoring the doorway/hallway?

Honestly, if I thought my child’s teacher was armed, for whatever reason, we’d be looking elsewhere or homeschooling. This idea is as bright as 💩!

This is ignorant as hell. You should absolutely be ashamed of yourself.

Arming teachers is nothing but a lazy response that admits you have no interest with actually fixing the problem at hand.

Again as well, we're talking about (in Texas, that is) a state that thinks so little of public school teachers that it's spent the last Legislative session passing a bill that would limit how history is taught, by penalty of law... There's something logically broken about paying teachers below what they should be making and not treating them as professionals and trusting their judgment in the classroom while simultaneously saying that they should all be packing heat. It's ridiculous.... and our Governor, who recently told the TEA to set up a task force to explore why Texas has a teacher shortage, wonders why we have a teacher shortage. Also, if you're gonna do that, why stop at schools? We just had a grocery store massacre a couple of weeks ago, didn't we? Just following the logic being employed, we need to "harden" every public place in America. That's particularly ironic coming from the "we cannot live in fear of COVID" crowd.

Seeing Clemens in the stands of a baseball game reminds me of that scene in The Office where Michael thinks he saw Johnny Depp at his condo complex only for Jim to mock him for thinking that which makes Michael say "remember how you were so excited when you thought you saw Roger Clemens?" to which Jim responds with something like "Seeing Roger Clemens in the stands of a baseball game sounds a little more believable than Johnny Depp at your condo complex."

If there is one thing in this world that needs to be perpetual, it's Twitter!

There is actually an app that allows you to keep tweeting after you die. It designs your death tweets based on your tweeting history.

Haha i forgot about that, well that explains the lack of check mark. He had like 5000 followers so even though there was no check mark I thought it may have been legit.

I just got a like on Twitter from Gary Carter so whatever happens in tonight's game is just gravy to me.

Every other developed country in the world has those same rabbit holes, without churning out anywhere near the number of mass shooters per capita. Blaming them is like blaming television or video games, they are just symptoms of, or responses to, a violent subculture that already exists on its own.

From the folks who once upon a time championed personal responsibility Mr Big Mouth, It's a Little League game, nothing was at stake. You took a teachable moment for your son and probably embarrassed the hell out of him. Instead you showed him how to be a giant asshole. If anyone needed to challenge the call it was the coach, not some jerk in the stands. I hope you're banned from future games.

I think the other big problem here is that a person can become acculturated to a lot of garbage ideas, and when they then act rationally within such a belief system, the rest of us want to take solace in calling them mentally ill, when what has really happened is exactly that they fell down some kind of 'rabbit hole' that created a distortion of their reality and thus warped what they believed was rational action. We don't want to describe it this way because once we do, the onus falls on society to do more than just fix broken patients therapeutically, the requirement is to fix the broken society whose terrain has become so littered with those rabbit holes, and no-one wants to hear that, especially the 'don't-tell-me-there-is-any-thing-wrong with-America-too-many-immigrants-already-want-to-come-here' crowd.

Whoa after our 4 run outburst last night Hinchie is now going in for the kill by having Dos Castro batting 1 and 2.

Why would any pitcher ever throw a strike to Baez? Bounce it or throw it head high. He'll give it a mighty swing either way. I have never seen such an undisciplined hitter. Kinda hard to watch.

He was wearing a Tigers Jersey in the suite. Of course it was the shitty home jersey with the wrong D on it... still bitter about that.

He's that tight with the Adduci Crime Family? I didn't know that...

And critical thinking, despite what some people think

Maybe a trade for Luke Kennard?

The biggest pleasant surprise of this season has been the bullpen, and it’s not a particularly close race.

I just feel the need to maybe correct an inaccuracy in this particular paragraph of yours, Chaz. Teaching grades pre-K through third grade, usually entails not only having your degree in primary education, but additional certification to teach the younger grades. Because it’s not just knowing the curriculum at that age, it’s knowing how to teach math skills, how to teach someone how to read,. Believe me, not everyone can do that part of the job. It takes additional skills. The same way that after I got my degree in primary education plus the special certification for pre-K through third grade, it wasn’t until I found myself, about 30 years later, back in the “education game”…(my venture into the financial industries & systems processing careers sidetracked me for decades 😁) where I was now teaching at a special ed school, and needed to go back to graduate school for 21 credits in teaching special ed students. Just a shout out to all my education professionals out there… I know you want nothing to do with arming yourselves…. And you know that would compound an already deadly situation.

There are few things on this forum that bring me as much joy as when Chuck comments on Jack Morris. I'm not being facetious, I really enjoy it.

I was wondering whether I could easily and quickly cut through last year’s and this year’s Statcast data to see whether I can locate some key differences, but that might take me the rest of the year, given my general lack of capabilities (i.e., Excel and nothing else). Tell you which slugger is doing just fine, though: our old buddy J.D. Martinez. In a league where batting averages are dropping like toilet floats, he’s basically leading the league in batting average, hitting around .360. But how he’s gotten there is a big deal: he’s changed the launch angle profile of his hitting so that his line drive rate is by far the highest of his career (31% vs previous high of 24%), and his fly ball rate is down to a career low of 32% (down from recent seasons over 40%). This is just one anecdotal example, but it is a clear indication of how a hard hitter can adjust his swing and still crush it in a new deader-ball environment.

I’ll get excited when they have an open GM position.

Tigers are 6-4 in their last 10, hottest team in the AL Central

potato, potahto

whoever made Spring Training only 24 days instead of 40.

Just looking at this list. See the Cubs,,they have 16 listed. Madrigal expected back today.. https://www.covers.com/sport/baseball/mlb/injuries

maybe not quite to the degree that the Tigers are, but Scherzer, who was almost never hurt, is out for 6 weeks or something. Dan has mentioned other cases and that it's happening across the league, but I don't remember half of the examples he's cited.

I just looked it up. No info whether they use peach tree dishes..

it's awesome how much maga stuff falls apart if it has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I'm recalling that amazing 1-62 record they had in 2020 election fraud cases.

UI just got Chasfhtized.

It is OK now to be stupid, to even be proud of it.

yeah, it's not not good for fans. When I look back even to the 70s and 80s after free agency started, I think of star players staying with the same team. I associated Brett with the Royals, Schmidt with the Phillies, Aaron with the Braves, etc. That doesn't happen so much now.

It's a love affair with one's self that we have not seen the likes of before, maybe not even from Triple7even.

He can't bat for the hitters. If the guys would hit this conversation is not happening period.

1) because the rest of the league was doing the same or very similar things. houston just got caught. 2) hinch was going to get the white sox job until reinsdorf decided to hire his old buddy larussa. 3) hinch got more out of this god awful team last year than we were entitled to see. this year? injuries and a piss poor talent base have caught up with us. it happens. this team had little margin for error and needed a lot of luck. theyre not getting any luck.

Dead balls are good for the game. If there are really dead balls this year and it's not just a weather thing, the Tigers will need to adjust long term. MLB will surely liven them up though.

half the board wanted them to deaden the balls. now they have and predictably everything sucks.

Slugging .301 as a team now. At some point it cannot be written off to random variance; so either 1) Coolbaugh has done something; 2) Manfred is sending dead balls to Comerica; or 3) we are part of an alien experiment in phycological torture

it more than more a matter of detailed, it's a matter of unavailable. I guess I am more over sensitized to this issue, but I spent most of my career in a particular engineering field that is full of 'one-offs' being grilled by management types that had been through 6-sigma classes taught by mass production manufacturing engineers bitching at us about why we couldn't give then certainty about what was going to happen in their particular process that didn't even exist anywhere else in the world or had never been in the particular state it was in. You can't do that kind of analysis when the data don't exist and in baseball there are enough situations that don't happen often enough to gather reliable statistics, and that is always going to be the case.

What's fun is that a manager has to consider not only stats, but game theory and risk analysis as well. (of course none of them do that explicitly, that's the part they are talking about when they say they 'had a feeling'). You don't get to repeat a game 10,000 times in a monte carlo simulation where eventually the average outcome converges to mean statistics. The game is played once and whatever happens is what happens - outliers and all. So you are actually faced with not only what might happen on average, but how much risk you want to take that a lower probability result that has a higher severity rears its head like a badly played OF ball that leads to multiple bases and an extended inning for a rookie pitcher who may already be at the edge of his mental endurance. That kind of complexity is one of many reasons why I don't think we will ever reduce managing a baseball game to just reading the analytics.

A hard throwing right hander who won't be ready for three or more years and then gets hurt when they call him up.

It might be too early to pull the trigger on a trade involving Mize or Manning, since you generally don’t want to sell low on a struggling green asset, but it’s probably not too early to hypothesize that Tairik Skubal might have established himself as the best and most dominating of the three young pitchers.

John Rosengren did a really good biography on the Hebrew Hammer for anyone interested.

The one kind of encouraging thing Haase does have going for him, at least regarding the bat, is his super low BABIP, which is .125. Since 2000, the lowest BABIP any player with at least 250 plate trips had was .171, which was Mark McGwire in 2001, which was the end of the line for him. The problem with Haase is the same problem so many of his ilk have had this year: they've bought completely into the homer-or-bust game, and this year that just isn't working. If FanGraphs is to be believed, last year, Haase put 42% of his batted balls in the air, and 22% of them flew out of the ballpark. This year Haase is still hitting 42% of batted balls in the air, and only 7% have gone out of the park.