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10 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

She got more votes than Trump. It's never the voters fault. 

But failed to campaign aggressively in some key states.  

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

This is what happens when people don’t vote for Hillary Clinton. 

Get over it.  She lost an election which should have been an easy victory.  She campaigned poorly.  Her fault. 

38 minutes ago, oblong said:

I think for me it's also part of growing older...  I don't know.  I just don't get worked up anymore. The 2013 ALCS might have burned me out.  Last year's ALDS and the year before was fun, but when they lost that game, I went right to bed.  It'll be what it'll be is what I told myself.  Maybe its because I figured they couldn't win it all anyway so just get it over with?

 

I think they could have won it all.  The went 15 innings in the deciding game.  The team that beat them went 7-games in the next series losing the final game by one-run.  The team that beat that team went 7 games in the WS losing the final game in 11 innings. 

But I do agree that most of us don't get as worked up about about games as we get older.  We realize that these games are just entertainment and that the experience of enjoying the games is more important than the result.  

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Sounds like a merry mix-up due to accents.

It was our fault.  The speaker spoke like an educated person with no discernible accent.  I do wonder if they did it to us on purpose though!

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

We will learn pretty quickly whether it's a lie ...

Not really.  It could all be true and he could still be out 2-3 months.  

5 minutes ago, Shelton said:

Is it true that ABS is expected to increase scoring?

Walks are up to 3.63 per game so far which would be the highest rate since 2000.  I am not sure whether walks are typically up early in the season, but walks also went way up after they started using it in AAA.  Of course, there could could be other factors which cause the increase, but it is plausible that ABS would be the reason.

13 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Indeed it is!

I saw an article in which Ernie Harrell was asked how he as a broadcaster can stay engaged while calling games when not only a team’s chances to win the division was loooooong gone, but they were mired firmly in last place, and he replied that you simply have to look at each game as a discrete event, one that’s the most important thing in the world right now, and you treat it as that in the moment. That makes so much sense to me, and remembering that helps keep me engaged with the team when things are going rough overall.

That's a great attitude which I used to share.  I find it more difficult to do now since I have too many competing activities.  

29 minutes ago, Shelton said:

Does this include extra inning attempts with the placed runner on second?

22 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

There’s an interesting article on the resurgence of the use of bunts not just for sacrifices, but for base hits in MLB and the Rays of all people are leading all baseball with bunts.

The article asks the question if the disparagement of bunting common for many years is making a comeback for sound strategic and statistical reasons.

I would provide a link but mlb.com doesn’t support posting something directly to Safari for some reason and I’m not interested in going directly into Chrome or anything.

And if you can’t look it up yourself, you’re pretty remedial.

Sac bunts, in the AL, dropped steadily from .45 per game in 1978 to .08 in 2024.  It was .10 in 2025 and this year it's back up to .13 which is close to what it was in 2016 (.14).  I am pretty sure it will never come close to what it was in the 70s, but perhaps they have recognized that they overdid the non-bunting just a little bit.  

The CDC came up to Boston a few years ago to train us on some new software for data on diseases.  As an example, they asked us to search for the hantavirus.  So, a lot of us typed in Hunter virus and couldn't get any results...

On 5/5/2026 at 2:28 PM, Edman85 said:

Short is out of options

Probably by both definitions of the word.  

48 minutes ago, chasfh said:

There’s no there there for Greene to be so publicly anti-Trump at this moment, so I am wondering whether her calculation is that Trump will inevitably crash and burn and she will be left standing to step in as leader of the movement once everyone recognizes the purity of her bona fides. This is not a prediction.

I think that is what's happening and I believe Tucker Carlson is doing the same thing.  

24 minutes ago, diaspora04 said:

Hessman might be Interim Manager in name, but we all know who is calling the shots.

And they never have to worry about Deuce offending women.  

9 hours ago, ewsieg said:

I have been fooled before, but i'm starting to come around on Green.  I don't think she's bright, but I am starting to think she went to congress for 'the right' reasons. (I'm not advocating that her 'right reasons' were good, just saying she may have truly felt she was fighting for the good)  It took her some time to realize the new swamp was the same as the old swamp (possibly worse).  At the time she appears to have decided to publicly go against Trump, that was still a death sentence though, especially in hard right leaning districts.  So choosing to run might have actually looked like less serious action than stepping down and using the media like she has to put doubts in MAGA minds.

It's not all about using Carlson and Green to flip people from red to blue either.  I didn't flip to blue in 2016, but I didn't vote red either.  So they may not flip folks, but it can cause them to not support the GOP either.  

I suspect not all of you will agree with that last statement, but man, when I point out something shady Nessel did, or something stupid Whitmer did, even though I voted for them and will continue to vote blue until a major political change within the GOP, it's met with fire.  Winning over voters from another party is a home run, but disenfranchising them from their own party still puts runs on the board if you get enough of them.

Does quitting two days after she qualified for her pension qualify as a "right reason"? 

I am glad she is pushing the Epstein thing, but I do not trust her intentions.  

18 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Yes but you must stipulate how much you had to drink....

If he thinks he is 24,then way too much.  

19 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Yeah, running laps, wind sprints, running stairs, rolls, burpees…..all of it tomorrow.  

They'll all get hurt.  

11 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Well, the Marlins DFAd Chris Paddack….. go get him Scott!

 

Is Charlie Morton available too?

4 hours ago, chasfh said:

"Small price to pay", says the guy who never has to buy any gas.

I love it so much when billionaires tell poor people how they should feel about money.  

Short stay.  

18 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Still, it wouldnt surprise me one bit if he was back in 3 weeks or so. Whatever Schilling want thru is meaningless, IMO. I'm not expert but it seems like every case would be different. With millions of dollars on the line, Skubal needs to be as close to 100% before competing again. Again, just an opinion.

Yes, every case is different and it's impossible for us to make a timeline.  I am just always pessimistic about pitching injuries.  If something can go wrong, it will.  

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

I was optimistic before reading this but even more so now. Tarik is a bulldog. He'll be back very quickly;

 

A pitcher trying to bulldog his way back from an elbow injury asking for big trouble. 

Curt Schilling? Maybe, Skubal can put ketchup on his sock when he gets back.   😀

7 hours ago, SoCalTiger said:

But does it feel like that to you ? I mean it seems far worse. Do those stats apply to close games or all games . It could be padded in blowout games or early in games which of course is still important but not like one or two run games 7th inning and later which seems real bad. But I do not have the facts like Joe Friday. 

Break it down any more than two outs with RISP and the sample size gets really small.  Thirty years of baseball social media have shown me that fans almost always feel like their team doesn't hit in the clutch.  I think it's because hitters fail more often than not in any situation, and fans remember the high leverage failures more vividly.  

37 minutes ago, UCFKNIGHT said:

It's not time to panic. Greene and McGonigle have been drawing their share of walks, but the tigers lineup just isn't clutch in 2-out situations. I'm hoping for a miracle and better results with RISP soon.

The Tigers are batting .318 with an .889 OPS with two outs and runners in scoring position.  

Apparently, Ricky Vanasco does not understand how pitching chaos works.