My wife is applying for a VERA because she’s terrified of whomever would be appointed to run her agency after the current guy’s term. Another buddy who was close to retirement just decided “why bother” and went early.
“Explosive Regression” would be a heck of a thriller title for a book about a baseball analyst who also solves murders in a small town somewhere resorty.
Contra Carlos Monnarrez take...this gives me great giddiness
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2025/08/03/detroit-tigers-fun-in-philadelphia-reminder-of-alan-trammell-kirk-gibson/85494589007/
I know he said that the Tigers had nothing to worry about in the Guardians series after they took the lead in the series. That was when i knew they were cooked.
As for the point about his being bad or good. He's unlucky and a counter-indicator. That is the baseline of my suspicions about him.
The ways in which things are not paradise (say all the great music made in Jamaica) are that they are because the people making the music are in poverty. The famous John Thompson who coached Georgetown MBB was always saying on his local radioshow that its hard to run windsprints at 5:30am when you got out of bed in silk pajamas.
Appears mentally unbalanced, appears unkempt and makes bizarre Tourette's-like gestures in public or just won't roll over for any deal that MLB Network talking heads would approve of are two different ends of that spectrum.
I think he proved he's not "it" but he could be "it" for the CFL if he does well the next 3 weeks in place of Goff who should not play much in the preseason.
This is where the science of whatever the science is called it is were they track athlete performance (kinesthetics?) meets medicine. You need people who know how much stress is being inflicted on the athletes body and how to manage that. Supposedly the Tigers are decent at this but the injury bug has been kicking our ass too.
Yeah, being decisive is not the same as desperate. I'm just saying that if we are going to be rolling the dice in October anyway...don't throw away a decade of baseball success on that dice roll.