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I've gotten to the point with Trump where I hope he lives long enough to see his name taken off every single thing he has polluted with it, and that will happen.

I think that was an error. The transaction logs have had weird things all year. I do wonder if this is a clue that he may be the DFA for Finnegan. In other words, whoever enters them had the DFA all ready and quickly just listed him as active. But he was already active.

Trump probably only found about Venezuela nationalizing their oil industry in 1976 less than a week ago.

Even if you get past him ****ing everything that moved in Kalamazoo, he's still a ****ty coach.

If he thinks he's getting economic rights back in S America by force without keeping a standing army there he hasn't paid much attention to history. There probably isn't a Venezuelan alive that won't back even Maduro if it comes down a choice between that and US 'gunboat' diplomacy.

just a guess. It surely wasn't because we were getting much from Duren!

They cant get memory for it.

which is another incentive for skubal to sign long term with detroit...

If owners try that, we may not have baseball after 2026 for a long time.

unpopular opinon: "super teams" like the dodgers drive interest in baseball. it attracts new fans who like winners and it creates an enemy for everyone else to root against. unpopular opinion #2: baseball does not need a salary cap or any further restraints on salary. there are already a tremendous amount of devices in place to hold down salary and force players to work for much less than thrir market value. a team can draft a player and pay them a "slot" of predetermined money, then put them in the minors for a period of time, and then have them at up to (in most cases) 6 years below market value. years that can coincide with their peak production years. and then they can trade them for more underpaid assets. baseball's current structure is very "owner friendly." all owners. including the owners of the pittsburgh pirates, milwaukee brewers, and tampa bay rays. the difference is that two of those teams have (or, have had) competent management and the other is pittsburgh.

Oh definitely, he just didn't think the game well enough to effectively use his speed in my opinion. Plus he always seemed on the lazier side but it could have just been him trying to process the game.

Stay classy.

Careful....Harris may stop paying you. 🤣🤣

I agree with this. Dynasties and villain teams are great for sports. There is nothing more fun than having your favorite team beat one of them.

So you're saying he needs just one more to tie Davenport.

well, the Lions used to be a parody of a football team, but I don't think that ever helped their ratings...... 😉

Kerby Joseph needs to come out on the field on a pair of crutches and intercept Rodgers one more time.

Nice. Pulling things out of datasets that were only in there implicitly was something I did a lot of when I worked as a process engineer. You could amplify the time calc a little bit by subtracting the minimum 2min per half inning inning break from every game (minimum of 34 min for a home team win) plus a couple of extra minutes twice in each game for brooming the field.(maybe 5 min) which is guaranteed dead time - the order wouldn't change but the %difference and the net time per pitch would be closer - but still not that close given all the umpire time-outs, to the real number. The other thing that *might* play into this is the amount of foul territory in the ball park. If park has a small foul area, there probably is less time spent after a ball goes out of play, than if the foul ball stays on the field and either a play is made or it has to be retrieved by a ball boy or player. But this factor would follow the park, not the team.

If Trump runs in 2028 (I don’t think he will. Hes too old), I can guarantee he won’t lose, by hook or by crook. Most likely by crook.

Browsing reddit, I saw a great idea for the next Lions TD celebration. Whoever scores runs over and takes a knee at the 1 yard line while the other players all signal TD. 🤣

I think I figured out a hack to get at time in between pitches. Fangraphs has pitches per game at the team level for both batting and pitching, in their Leaders area. Reference has time of game by team under Seasons/Other. My simple hack is, take the total number of pitches faced by batters and thrown by pitchers for each team, and divide that by the average time of game multiplied by 162 for each team. For example: the Tigers threw 24,044 pitches and faced 23,339 pitches as hitters, for a total of 47,383 total pitches thrown in their games. Their games averaged 158 minutes in length—multiply by 162, and we conclude that they played baseball for a total of 25,596 minutes during the regular season. (Apropos of nothing, that works out to almost 18 full days spent playing regular season baseball during the year.) Forty-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-three total pitches divided by 25,596 total minutes equals 1.85 pitches per minute on average in Tiger games during the regular season. Maybe it's not perfect, but it's probably good enough. Here's the resulting table for 2025. Team Pit/Min NYY 1.75 TOR 1.77 NYM 1.78 SDP 1.78 TEX 1.78 HOU 1.78 MIA 1.79 BAL 1.80 ARI 1.80 TBR 1.81 SEA 1.81 BOS 1.81 PHI 1.81 LAA 1.81 CHC 1.82 STL 1.82 LAD 1.82 CHW 1.83 MIN 1.83 WSN 1.84 KCR 1.84 COL 1.84 PIT 1.84 ATH 1.85 MIL 1.85 DET 1.85 CIN 1.85 CLE 1.85 SFG 1.87 ATL 1.87 MLB 1.82 The team's in red are the playoffs teams from last season. My takeaways: Yeah, the Yankees are decidedly the slowest team in between pitches. The best teams are not necessarily the slowest teams. Those Yankees/Blue Jays regular season games must have been murder to sit through.

He had spent a considerable amount of time arguing for the second front in his essays. His is an amazing body of work. I recommend!

Can't one argue that parody has helped the NFL increase their ratings? Since the implementation of a rigid salary cap ratings for the NFL have done nothing but go up, in big markets and small. It has become the number one sports product in the US in its post salary cap era. Over the past three years you know what team has been one of the very best for TB ratings? Not the Giants or Jets in NYC. Not the Chargers or Rams in LA. But our Lions, right here in little ole, midwest, Detroit, MI. Imagine if the NFL had no cap and a big 6 of the Chargers (LA), Cowboys (Dallas), Giants (NYC), Jets (NYC), Patriots (Boston), and Rams (LA) buying all the players, while everyone else lost all of their good players to them and the small market teams lost literally anyone good the minute their rookie contracts expired. I would argue and think it could be stated, that the NFL's ratings would be worse and its growth stunted as smaller and mid-market fans wouldn't have as much of a reason to care.

I was agreeing to ... Oh, Lee beat me to it. Yes, I was agreeing with you.

The idea that was swimming in the back of my head that prompted this thread was trying to figure out some way to get a salary cap, but also give the players some slice of the revenue outside of salaries... thereby eliminating the idea that MLB is artificially limiting players salary and pocketing big chunks of money without any cap there. Of course this would be a major change for everyone so I'm not sure how it would go over and I'm not sure I'm smart enough to have thought of all the unintended consequences, but my idea would work something like this: Part 1: Salary Cap and Salary Floor are set (I'm with @chasfh here of the floor being closer to 90% than 40%). I would also set the cap lower than most people probably would expect it. Part 2: All media revenue is pooled together. 70% is distributed to owners based on their teams salary. 20% is distributed to players based on their individual salary, 10% is evenly distributed to players. Now I suspect part 2 might be confusing so here's a simplified example: Owners 70%: To make the math easy, let's say the Salary cap is $100, the floor is $80. There are 5 teams. Media revenue totals $50K. Then each team's portion of the media revenue would come out like this: The idea here is that the teams that spend more on their salary get a larger share of the media revenue. This way teams are encouraged to spend more on salary to get more media revenue. Players 20%: This would work out similar to the owners 70%. Players get a chunk of money based on what percentage of total players salaries equal their current salary accounts for. Players who have a bigger contract get a bigger cut. Players 10%: This would ensure that even those who are making league minimum would get something extra from media revenue. Obviously the percentages can all be adjusted here to what makes things seem fair. But my goal here is to set a salary cap to try to enforce a bit more level playing field for all team. I also want to make sure teams can't just pocket the big market revenue and not spend it on improving their team. I also want to try to make it so that players aren't locked out of making extra money if profits for MLB go up.

We need something more granular. I would like to see time in between pitches and pitches per game.

There are no great teams in the East this year. Only 3 teams in the conference have a better goal differential than +7.

Could the NHL please take all of March off this season for the Olympics?

Just like how you said Killian Hayes was the #1 pick in his class?

Sorokin just wasn't using his head.

DeBrincat gives the Wings a late lead!

Unfortunately looks like this was a nobody cared election: 5178 votes cast, total. There are 80K registered voters in the district. https://www.wlky.com/article/democrat-gary-clemons-wins-senate-district-37-seat/69790740 https://elect.ky.gov/Resources/Documents/voterstatsdistrict-May 2024.pdf

Venezuela is all about oil. Simple as that. That's been the plan since we needed oil. Also why the POS Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0 as the person to make that happen. For every unit of growth, it takes a unit of energy. And now we have all these data centers!!! Git-r-done! No energy, no growth. Physics can be a bitch.

I happened to notice that the Yankees had the longest average game time last year: 2:51. That's still almost three hours, and is two minutes more than their 2:49 from last year, and eight minutes more than their 2:43 average time in 2023. Another thing I noticed is that, when I looked at all the teams ranked by highest average time of game, the teams at the top tended to be those with good records. In 2025, the six teams with the longest times of game were Yankees, Mets, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Mariners, Blue Jays. So I did a quick and dirty correlation between teams' average game times and their winning records since 2023, when the pitch timer was implemented, and the result is +.294, which is not statistically significant, but then, not nothing, either. What I found more interesting, though, was when I broke the correlation down by season: 2023 0.159 2024 0.378 2025 0.413 The correlation between winning percentage and game time in minutes has been rising each year. I think there is a possibility that certain teams may have noticed that by stretching out the game to fit the maximum amount of time they are allowed between pitches, plays, innings, etc., that they gain some edge in terms of performance, perhaps from maximizing their rest time in even minute, marginal ways. I wonder whether anyone on the inside has noticed anything like this, and how they regard it, if at all?

I don't really give credit to either Avila or Harris for anything extraordinary. Hinch has been fantastic though and that's coming from someone who usually says mangers don't matter. Also Skubal.

If a salary cap is required then a salary floor should also be required, although I don't think it should be as low as 40% of the cap. The NBA has a salary floor of 90% of the cap, which keeps teams from spending their way to titles. I'd like something a lot closer to that. Also, I'm not wild about whatever the unintended consequences of allowing opaque private equity money in the game is, since EPETD.

Mistaking correlation for causation.

If Trump doesn't make you deranged, that says something more about the person not deranged.

TDS is a tool of control. Screw anyone who uses it. They should be shunned as shills for the regime.

It's a deliberate action to avoid going there. They are literally right next to each other. If the shoe fits... in other words there is no middle ground when it comes to fascism. It's not my problem to reconcile. TDS is a myth used to deflect accountability for principals, logic, and decency. Its easier throwing that term around than thinking.

- Institute a hard salary cap for competitiveness. No defferred payments. Owners and Players association get a vote and the Commissioner acts as an arbiter. Cap goes up 5% each year. (Owners win - Their biggest ask by far) - Free agency though, comes to players after 6 years of being drafted or originally signed. No more Qualifying offer allowed. (Drastically speeds up process of reaching Free Agency) (Players win) - Salary floor being 40% of the Salary Cap. So example: if Cap is $400 million, the floor is $160 million. (Players win) - Allow Private Equity groups to buy into MLB Franchises (Helps if owners can't afford the minimum salary floor. They should probably sell their team then anyway.) (Owners win) - Eliminate draft pool amounts, but put a floor of draft pool. Something like $8 million. (Players Win) - Greatly increase league minimum to let's say $250,000. (Players win) - 15% of all MLB revenue profit, is put into a pension fund for players. Tiered system based off players time (Players win) - Owners get 20% of all marketing money made by players under their team's logo (Owners win [NIL anyone]) - Create an International Free Agent draft (Owners win) - Allow contracts to be performance based instead of guaranteed in addition to guaranteed contracts (either or); Example: A player has OBP over .350 they get 5 million salary, over .360 is 6 million salary and for each home run is $500,000. (Both Owner and Player win as Owners pay for production and players can bet on themselves if they choose to do so). _______________________________________________________ Just a couple of thoughts there to get started.

In depth BA discussion of the Tigers farm. Much optimism and in-depth tool discussion.