Tiger337

If MLB wanted to make the regular season more interesting for losing teams, they could do this! It's a lot more exciting than a lottery pick or seeing how much money your favorite team can save. Yeah, I know we don't know how to do that in America and it will never happen.

YES! You can never ever have too much pitching.

Skubal, Faedo and Peralta get regular starts. Then you have two bullpen games where 3 pitchers pitch 3 innings apiece. Isn't this where baseball is headed anyway? That's what the Rays might do in this situation.

I know. They are now down only 7% for the year, although they are doing poorly again today.

Not all churches are scams. Churches are like other businesses. Some are good. Some are scams.

That is probably the most cynical view of treligion I have ever heard! I don't think religion began with that intention, but there is no doubt that rich expolit it to take advantage of the poor.

The consumer staples sector fund (VDC) got crushed yesterday, more than 6% loss. I started investing in that fund in Februrary because consumer staples as a group tend not to have big highs and lows. It had been working great up until yesterday.

The problem is when that certain group of people includes politicians.

That's not how it works in cowboy movies.

Jim Adduci shaking his head. The key is not to get caught. https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/yankees-cut-prospect-jake-sanford-for-allegedly-stealing-equipment/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&sr_share=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPSportsTwitter "According to a source, the 24-year-old outfielder was released last week after a team investigation found Sanford had stolen from teammates, including equipment that he would then try to sell online, as first reported by NJ Advance Media. Additionally, a source said Sanford, who played college baseball at Western Kentucky, also accepted money from prospective buyers for the equipment then failed to deliver the products. "

Yeah, not everyone has the time or resources or knows how to interpret journal articles the right way. That's why most people should find a doctor that they trust and ask him/her.

Based on what I have read, I am not confident that Ivermectin is effective for Covid. I am confident that the vaccines are generally effective in protecting you from getting really sick and that side effects are rare. So, that's what I took. However If people are afraid of the vaccines and they think Ivermectin might work and they know enough not to overdose, let them do it I guess. I recommend that most people take the vaccine, but I'm also not in favor of mandates.

That's the thing about journal articles. You can trust them, on average, more than the media or some podcast, but there are still a lot of bad ones out there. You can't just take one and point to it as evidence. You need to look at all the evidence from all the studies and make decisions based on that.

Moderate certainty evidence= "We are moderately confident in the effect estimate: the true effect is likely to be close to the estimate of the effect, but there is a possibility that it is substantially different" That's better than "no evidence", but I'd like to see more than that especially when other studies are showing no evidence.

Should of signed Iglesias!

Or maybe it goes back to the theory that some guys just get hurt more easily than others whether it's through stress or impact.

They have really been hit hard with injuries, but we also need to remember that Rodriguez and Pineda came here with injury histories.

Is this real? Santa Claus?

Wow, Jim Woods! That brings back memories. I grew up listening to Martin and Woods doing the Red Sox on the radio in the 70s. Whenever I couldn't get good reception on WJR, I would tune into those two. They were a good team. Not as good as Harwell and Carey but really good. Then the station inexplicably fired them which nobody thought was a good idea.

The flu is usually a worse outcome than Covid at this point.

Next year at this time, we'll have a whole new set of pitching situations that we didn't anticipate.

It won't be a problem. Pitching depth "problems" always take care of themselves.

They can all make a good case. I would rank them 1. Whitaker 2. Freehan 3, Lolich. I probably wouldn't put Lolich in because there are a number of pitchers a little ahead of him that haven't gotten in but I think he's done enough for strong consideration. Whitaker's candicacy has been beaten to death. His lifetime numbers make him a shoe in. He is an odd case in that he has had more good years than almost any player ever, but never had a career year. He was TOO consistent and too quiet. Freehan is definitely on the short list of best catchers not yet in the HoF and I think there is a catcher shortage.

The 87 pennant race was fantastic, one of my best Tiger memories. Overall, I agree they were a disappointment after '84 though. They had a potential dynasty, but management did not seize the moment.