lordstanley

I went to at least one Bat Day in the ‘70s. There was a Helmet Day too, iirc.

I bet kids who attended games in the ‘50s received giveaway packs of cigarettes with faces of their favourite players on it.

While Strasburg had high moments or periods, I think overall his career has to be a considered a disappointment, no? https://x.com/mlbonfox/status/1694780343554060449?s=61&t=don8lQTnTq5FKXq14p2GMw

Heavy on launch rates, exit velocity, OPS+ and wOBA. Or Corsi if he is tutoring hockey-playing kids from Windsor.

Right. And this random nobody woman was quoted in many stories even though almost all the replies to her post disagree with her. https://x.com/jensplain/status/1693362985224355842?s=61&t=don8lQTnTq5FKXq14p2GMw By the way, can we no longer embed X posts so we see more than just the link address, or am I doing something wrong?

A lot of Leafs and media are griping because they don’t think there was enough trade off in terms of a lower salary in exchange for the the shorter term than the Leafs had wanted I think they’re missing the big picture though. Matthews has no obligation to take a hometeam discount and there is probably one team who would have given him more money next summer. The Leafs’ window would have been closing if this was Matthews’ last year unless one has confidence Treliving would have deployed the cap savings wisely.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/auston-matthews-signs-historic-four-year-53m-contract-with-maple-leafs/# I’m guessing Leafs fan should be happy with that. If my math is right, only about $1.3mm per year more than his current cap hit.

Twins are 5 up on Cleveland and 7 up on the Tigers. All have 36 games to go. Wild prediction: the Twins will finish 3rd in the AL Central this season. The collapse will be talked about for years.

Wrong thread

Tigers win. This has been an entertaining two games.

24. I would have thought that's old enough to not give up a homer to Jeimer Candelario.

A lot can change in 16 minutes!

Reese with a really nice bounceback start so far.

The Lions will fall behind 21-0 to KC by the end of the first quarter of the opening game. Will come back in 2nd half to lose but only by 31-21. Will still start the season 7-3.

Not to mention tonight's starter for the Cubs ...Drew Smyly

https://i.imgur.com/sstJzip.mp4

4-3 White Sox so far, but 6 games coming up the first two weekends of September.

That's probably somewhere on the Internet, but because I don't know where here is this for now, the standings and differentials at the All Star break. Then the same for right now, this afternoon. The Tigers were -86 at the break and are now at -98, for a -12. The Yankees are -46 since the break.

Tigers are 10-8 in August, a game over .500 since the All Star Break, and since ending their 9-game losing streak on June 10 the only winning or losing streaks more than two games have been one 3-game losing streak and one 4-game winning streak. If not for the fact they've scored the 2nd fewest runs in MLB ahead of only Oakland, the 2023 Tigers seem about as unremarkable as can be.

Pirates break up Dallas Keuchel’s perfect game bid with one out in the 7th.

I saw The Who, or whatever they were referring to themselves as, around 5 years ago and it was quite good. Maybe it was “Daltrey & Townsend of The Who”. They made it clear everyone else on stage was not to be considered part of their band, ok for them to contribute sound but had to stay far, far away from Roger and Pete.

Bottom of the 9th was blissfully anti-climactic!

Reaches base all four times today, with a double, a single and two walks. OPS now up to .749.

Tigers content, kinduv, in today’s Times of London.

I’ve been looking at these lineups and have never figured out: is there a reason there is an arrow beside a different player’s name each game?