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56 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

You're the one saying you know the outcome to something that didn't happen and you're calling someone else a moron.  Bold move, Cotton. 

Every loss is always Hinch's fault.  

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

My kids are millennials, neither has ever done social media. One is a gamer and has a long-standing online connection to a stable community (not unlike this one I suppose).

I would question our stability.  😀

10 hours ago, chasfh said:

Oh god, please let this be true.

1 big thing: Gen Z leads social media exodus

Some Gen Zers — ages 14 to 29 — are ditching social media in pursuit of better mental health, Axios' Rebecca Falconer reports.   It's part of a wider digital detox movement away from screens and toward analog options.   Research suggests that social media use is waning — and that more people are embracing app-blocking products and "dumbphones" that lack social media apps.   📵 Chris Wells, a self-described former "Twitter and Instagram junkie," tells Axios that he's "99% off" social media after doing a "Month Offline" challenge.   The 26-year-old says: "I didn't know who I was without my social media accounts, and when I quit, it was pretty miraculous."   "The one thing that really came back to me was a sense of privacy. I hadn't really felt that since I was a kid."   🗑️ 17-year-old Aditi Ediga deleted her phone's social media apps last fall.   Ediga says: "One reason why teenagers don't want to delete apps and stop using them is that they're scared they're going to miss out on stuff, and then I realized I wasn't really missing out on anything."   🤝 NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of a bestselling book on the effects of childhood tech use, tells Axios: "What you're seeing now, especially among Gen Z, is a self-correction back toward real-world connection."   "They've felt the costs of isolation and are rediscovering what actually leads to flourishing."   🤳 Yes, but: Plenty of young Americans are still spending countless hours on social media, with platforms facing calls to ban or restrict teen access.   Go deeper.

I like my Gen Z students.  They are smarter and more respectful than our generation was at their age.  Yes, I have a biased sample.  

6 hours ago, pfife said:

Never forget someone didnt support the same candidate as you 10 years ago!!!  Dont tread on you!!!!

You need to fall in line and vote for who the Democrat leaders tell you to vote for.  You have no choice.  

9 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Game 40 tomorrow. I don't think Sparky would be impressed. 

Didn't he say that in 1987 when they got off to a slow start?  I am not sure, but they were were 19-21 after 40 games that year.  However, they had begun to heat up by game 40 whereas this team appears to be going nowhere until they do a whole lot of healling. 

I am glad the Tigers focued on fudamentals in Spring training.  It is really paying off.  

7 minutes ago, Shelton said:

I would think that all else being equal, a increase in walks would increase scoring, of course. Are strikeouts down?

I’m surprised that batters would necessarily be the ones to use the challenge system to their advantage relative to pitchers. And I’m also surprised that umpires would call the zone differently to the batter’s benefit now that challenges are a threat. 
 

I guess we will see.
 

 

Strikeouts are about the same as last year so far.  They are down from 2018-2024.  

51 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

 

ah Crap, now Edman needs to update his CBT list again.  

How can that POS talk about beautifying the country when he is allowing drilling for oil is natural presevation areas? 

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.