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Langford K's. The guy's a bum

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/murder-rates-down-new-york-san-francisco-philadelphia-508b6855?st=2fkt047y43fn97i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email CITY 2024 HOMICIDES 2023 HOMICIDES CHANGE PCT CHANGE DATA AS OF Philadelphia, PA 75 114 -39 -34 4/9/24 Columbus, OH 19 45 -26 -58 4/7/24 San Antonio, TX 23 46 -23 -50 3/31/24 New Orleans, LA 44 66 -22 -39 4/10/24 Dallas, TX 57 79 -22 -28 4/9/24 Baltimore, MD 48 69 -21 -30 4/8/24 Phoenix, AZ 32 52 -20 -38 4/3/24 Detroit, MI 43 63 -20 -32 4/9/24 Las Vegas, NV 25 42 -17 -40 4/5/24 Washington, DC 44 61 -17 -28 4/9/24 What's this about JB and high crime rates?

Or as Sparky used to say "You can't tell anything about a baseball team until 40 games have bee played" The Tigers are on game 17

It could be worse. You could fans of the A's W-Sox, Marlins, Nationals, Angels, Giants, Mets.....

I just had to do this....

Last season somebody on XTwitter showed a video of Clark cleaning up the dugout following a game. Picking up trash and stuff, chatting with non player employees. He's 19 signed for a tidy sum of money and basically on his own for what may be the first time in his life. If a pair of cleats defines your opinion of him.......

I just found this while looking for something else, and a link from AXIOS Detroit. There some interesting maps at the parent site. https://www.detroit-neighborhoods.com https://detroitography.com

Who are you promoting and why?

One the surface and first glance I tend to agree. But with MiLB now under the MLB roof the push the last few years has been stadium upgrades a mandated by the Commissioner's office. Stadium size, team amenities and so forth. I also think that the minor league players are now somehow tied into the players association. A company owning the rights to several teams opens the possibility of negotiating vending prices downward, possibly consolidating some of the front office work (accounting, national or regional advertising sales, etc). Maybe the ability to entice concerts or other draws to several venues rather than just negotiate each venue separately. Minor league stadiums are usually owned by the community and leased to the team for X number of games so if a community wants to continue to host a team at their venue they need to keep the facilities up to standards. (I'm seeing that now in Richmond,Va where discussions over financing upgrades for the minor league club continues despite missing the deadline (again). I get the downside, having spent nearly 50 years either working or closely watching the broadcast industry (radio) to anticipate the pitfalls. A perfect world would have the parent clubs own all their development teams. That's never going to happen in my or my 12 year old grandson's lifetime

He's basically anointed Tina Fey as his replacement https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lorne-michaels-tina-fey-replace-him-saturday-night-live-snl/#

Interesting article in The Athletic about Diamond Baseball Holdings buying several minor league teams in recent years including the Lugnuts. https://theathletic.com/5408834/2024/04/15/minor-league-baseball-team-ownership-diamond-baseball-holdings/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=213687 Reading the comments there were some good thoughts on the plus and minuses of private equity starting to move into that area of the sport. I've got mixed emotions, but if they are able to standardize to a certain extent the quality of the fan experience side of game (minor league) and work with clubs and franchise cities on ballpark improvement and that rather leaving it up to several individual owners it might be a good thing. Especially after watching the ongoing fiasco in Richmond, I'm all for it for now.

Anything to appease MTG and friends

Just wondering how jury selection is conducted in NYC. Are both sides limited to the number of jurors they can select or is Trump's strategy to reject everyone and hope for a mistrial.

There is an Adderall shortage

Just like Infrastructure Week under The Former (now indicted several times) Guy

BTW Inter City Press (intercitypress) is doing a good job on XTwitter

A Gentleman in Moscow. Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov (played by Ewan McGrgor) is imprisoned in a luxury hotel in Moscow following the October Revolution. Interesting historical fiction

Ohio State Spring FB game

Straight out of Central Casting. Who's paying for these props?

I'm convinced Angel Hernandez is on the take from companies that manufacture the robo home plate umpires... https://x.com/umpireauditor/status/1779005111525867814?s=61&t=akgNyUltuSb7RN54lulxTw