Jim Cowan

Malloy gets on base, he's got a chance to find a spot. I read something a couple of days ago written by someone who didn't like his arm, which isn't a fatal flaw in LF.

This is the legacy that Tim Scott, at one time respected, has chosen for himself. The Black man, grinning broadly, at Trump's KKK meeting.

Al Kaline?

If your "joke" causes someone to receive death threats, it's not a joke.

If you give in to Putin now, and concede Ukrainian territory, he will obliterate the rest of Ukraine within the next 12 years. It will all be Russia. So the only question that matters is, do you care?

Did Rodgers apologize? I don't think so, I can't find it anywhere, does anyone have a link? I know who did apologize, it was Tank-Top Punter F-Head, for "his role" in the defamation. But Rodgers? I imagine that the first words out of his lawyers' mouths were "don't apologize". But if anyone has a link to a Rodgers apology I would like to see it. Even stupider than the defamatory statement is the whole idea that he would want to trade with Jimmy Kimmel. Why would anyone do that? Did he think that Kimmel would give him the faux-rival status of Matt Damon? What an a-hole.

I still want there to be a difference between the 2 leagues. Late last season I looked at the top 10 hitters in the National League, and I didn't know any of their first names. That's how I want it, I don't want to care about the National League.

He's going to play out the Supreme Court appeals until he dies, which can't happen soon enough.

Our Lord sent Trump here to lead us. That's all I need to know. I don't need to read some old Jew books to know that Christ is showing us the way.

Well this guy clearly is no comparison to Malloy, 2 reasons: (a) his OBP in 2 years in the very low minors was .370, and then .400. Malloy's is .410 at every level including AA and AAA. (b) your guy seems to have hit 3 home runs in 1000 PA's at the very lowest levels of Milb. Malloy hit 23 in 600 PA's at AAA. So, I might have some doubts about Malloy, and I do, but not because of whoever this guy is.

Malloy has a .410 OBP at every level of the minors. Does that mean he could do .375 in the majors, with some power? If so, he has to be on the team at DH, mediocre defense in left, and relatively poor defense at third. If he does not make the team I don't want the reason to be "well the have Canha now and he's going to lead off". Canha is a nice player, for an old guy, but I'm not sure that he adds a lot more future value than Malloy or even Baddoo. We'll see next spring.

When I look at that aggregate photo of all the scouts I am genuinely surprised at how young they are on average. They aren't 65, they're 45. It's possible that only the oldest guys got fired, but is that because they were the most resistant to industry-wide changes in methodology? This feels like out-of-court, here's $30,000 each, your scouting recommendations sucked but anyway take the money, now f off.

If I were you guys I'd be more focused on finding those tunnels, the ones that criss-cross the country. They contain decades worth of food and fresh water.

My exact thought when I saw it.

If Toledo had a decent rotation in 2024, that would be light years ahead of 2023, when almost nobody here could have named even 2 starters.

Seeing BP used for "bullpen" makes me cringe. It means "batting practice". Period.

Try it the other way next time, none of your body is over the bag in either case. Look at the angle of Cobb's body rounding third, his left foot touched the inside corner, just barely, and his hips and shoulders are just about to make a violent turn that is a lot sharper than the slower momentum shift from starting the turn with the right foot. The only risk is losing your footing.

yes that is it.

I never got any coaching about which foot to hit the bag with but I saw that Cobb photo at a very young age and from then on it was left foot at every base and it wasn't that difficult to slightly alter your stride. It just seemed that the hockey stepover gave you a sharper turn, it shifted your momentum more quickly.

That famous photo of Cobb rounding 3rd base shows him touching the bag with his left foot and stepping over with his right, like a hockey player. I think he must have touched all the bases that way.

ERA was sort of next level, more difficult than batting average.

Figuring out batting averages at 10 years old, sitting at the kitchen table while listening to Ernie, was a good start at math proficiency.

Whenever I read KBO the pronunciation in my head is KYBO.

I saw a great photo of Norm Cash barbecuing in his back yard, it was one of those little round steel barbecues, and you could see the next couple of backyards, there weren't any fences. It was a solidly middle-middle class environment.

Bob Baun was traded to the Red Wings, went out to dinner with Gordie, and told Gordie how much money he was getting on his Maple Leafs contract. It was a lot more than Gordie was getting from the Red Wings.