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and if they wait until it really does rain, fans complain that "they just wanted the parking and beer money before calling it". Pro Tip: If you use the ParkWhiz app and search for the lots based on "Detroit Tigers" in the search criteria as an event, rather than just randomly searching for a lot, if the game is cancelled you get your money back. At least that's how it was a few years ago. Pleasant surprise.

This was the radar at 6:00 PM yesterday, this is moving south.

which should be the point of a historical record such as stats. LIke I pointed out with regard to the other leagues in the 'official' record, they are already sort of 'messed up' so this doesn't degrade the quality. There's such inconsistency in the early part of baseball's history on how stats were calculated anyway.

I am not expecting a guilty verdict. I admittedly didn't follow the trial beyond what was posted here. But he gets away with everything and these lawyers and experts on TV still think we are living in a former life where things played out normally and this man will be held accountable. This isn't 1996. Crackpots have learned they can disrupt the system by being steadfeast and they'll do it on juries and on committees and anywhere else in a civil function.

I take it to mean they won't spend just to make a marketing splash but for specific players that will help that at that moment in time. They have to find out who on the current roster can play and how the kids in the minors develop to see what their needs are.

good day to pound those budweisers

Really? I'd be interested in learning more. Maybe he swung too far the other way but I'm sympathetic to the idea that Cobb was given harsher context due to the work of Al Stump and when you compare Cobb to his peers he's not such an evil caricature... unless you want to say all of them were.

I have similar thoughts with regard to Jackie Robinson Day. Nothing against him at all. But by making it about him it appears to whitewash why we know his name so much. The focus is on his "achievement" rather than why it was necessary. I don't know what they are supposed to do to be honestly other than just acknowledge it. Don't say "he broke the color barrier" as if he was Chuck Yeager. Use other words.

You realize that official MLB stats already contain other leagues besides the AL and NL? MLB for most of history was just a legal agreement between the two regarding items like # of games played and contract enforcements. They were separate legal entities.

Did it ever rain at Comerica? It didn’t in Dearborn. The radar was nuts. Giant green and yellow blobs heading south but it seemed to dissipate around 696 or M 59. I got some lightning alerts from my apps. postponing was the right call based on the radar. It seems like the last few years they’ve been more proactive in doing that rather than waiting it out. It’s my second one this year and I had several last year.

It goes about as far as possible. You can’t change the history of what happened but you can sort of welcome those guys into the club a little bit more by elevating their record. It does nothing to alter anything going forward and nobody is being stripped of a title or accomplishment. We don’t have to worry about integrity of the numbers. We aren’t doing financial auditing or messing with insurance actuarial tables. It’s just sports and a record of what happened in US professional baseball at the highest levels for about 50 years. It’s symbolic. Nobody’s pay is getting docked. It hurts nobody. People are just being contrarian to sound smart. I mentioned before avout reading Joe Posnanski’s book “top 100 players” or something like that. It was phenomenal and covered many negro leaguers and a common theme was… “they were good” as the chart above proves. Once more came into the AL and NL we saw the talent was legit. Sure it may not have been deep but that runs both ways. Many of the AL and NL stats prior to 1947 wouldn’t have been as high if they faced black players.

What problem is created by doing this? Who does it harm? There’s already so much disparity across eras anyway so this just adds another but big deal. It rights a wrong that was deliberate.

Not sure what to make of the weather situation tonight. Spotty stuff coming down from the northwest with pockets of storms. That could be enough to delay if lightning is around the area even if no soakers.

This situation has made the word genocide meaningless. If Israel wanted that they would have done it many times over the decades let alone months.

I blame the metric system

They should totally hire him to be the guy who gives opinions on challenged calls and what the league will do.

She has to wait for the experts from the Federalist society to tell her what to do. They are the ones who are running this case.

Had an uncle who took up smoking after his wife passed. He was of the WWII or Korea generation. Like most he smoked then quit for a long time, from like the 70s onwards. Then in the mid 2010’s he’d sit outside the small house they bought in the 50s and raised 3 kids in and smoke and lived out the rest of his life. Had a quick illness but nothing out of the ordinary. I always told him I wanted to be him when I grew up.

He always said managing in the AL was harder than the NL. Once the game starts the managers primary job is pitching management. In the NL the P in the batting order often made that decision for you. Throw in the “roles” then why do you need a manager? at the end of the day the players have to make the outs and they determine whether a move is good or not. A manager is there to guage the situation with regard to that particular matchup in that moment. The stats won’t always be there.

Eeewwwww.

Big fan of the T shirt hoodies. T i got a sleeveless one. Is great for working outside when it’s slightly chilly.

as someone with a kid in college... it doesn't. I went to college in the early and mid 90's. I could pay my way just working odd jobs part time. Granted I commuted, but so does my son. It's about 5 times what I was paying back and he goes to the same school.

Interesting... and you couple that with what I observe on social media of older generations constantly talking down generations that came after them. I hate that **** with a passion. Even something as simple as "Kids today should be taught cursive!" It's a constant drum beat to make them feel bad or not up to par. I got snippy with someone who was a boomer complaining about how "kids today don't play outside like before". I told him if that were true then blame the people who raised today's parents... meaning... you boomers. But it's not true. It's just different. The kids in my neighborhood may not be outside in a free for all like we were "in my day" but they are always busy with activities. The families are never home during the week. They like to push this narrative that kids just sit around playing video games. So given that.... I understand the jadedness of certain generations.

Of what benefit is there to the runner trying to advance to touch a fielder? By obstructing them you are also obstructing yourself. There needs to be some kind of subjectivity for the umpire rather than the 1999 NHL style "In the crease rule"... which itself was hilarious as all seaon long they called it then the stanley cup winning goal it was overlooked.