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so the next step is a RHB uses a standard taper bat against RHP that is throwing him outside, and comes to the plate with a torpedo bat against LHP that's busting him inside....... If the torpedo works for many guys, we end up with an even more HR domintated game which I would hate to see happen. In truth, the more I read about aspects of the game that the increase in pitching velocity have affected, the more I lean toward toward just moving the mound back and deaden the ball a bit more. That gives the batter a few more milliseconds and make strike throwing just a tiny bit tougher for sharp breaking balls. Combined you get more contact without boosted HRs even more. Both those seem like good things to me.

Supreme Court election in WI next Tuesday will be a tell. Musk apparently pouring cash into it.

Op-Ed by the President of St. Francis U about their decision to leave Div1. tl,dr form if you don't have access is: the costs got too high, all their good athletes bailed on them anyway, and in the end the life of a D1 revenue sport athlete had become incompatible with being a student. And did I mention the costs got too high? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/28/saint-francis-division-iii-march-madness/

Auburn 2, State of MI 0.

Love the story of the The Righteous Brothers on this tune. First, the two of them flipped a coin over which of them would solo Unchained Melody. Imagine if Bobby Hatfield had lost! Then in the session Hatfield wanted to do another take, thought he could do better, Bill Medley told him - "No, you can't"

I had thought Malloy's return became more likely once they got past the Dodger lefty loaded bullpen regardless.

the physics get complicated though because the total amount of energy you can put into the swing goes up as the weight moves outward on the bat - so somewhere a trade-off exists - the question is always where. It might be the wood also. Possibly inward weighting might be more useful in a maple bat, (which is more resilient?) as compared to maybe ash or even hickory. Maybe back in the day someone had tried it but with different wood it wasn't helpful. Just spitballing here.......

This is pretty hard to believe. If that taper has always been legal and they've been turning bats for 100yrs do you seriously mean to tell me no-one ever tried it before?

In the depression you had a stock value crash, which coupled with tariff increases, slowed economic activity and threw people out of work. Since stock prices had cratered, it was difficult for business to raise investment funds to put people back to work - it was an unrighteous feedback loop - and pretty much directionally exactly where Trumps policies point. I think a difference today is the investment class actually has so much political power and is so much better politically organized, that if it comes to it, they will likely find a way to be rid of Trump before he can crash the market in anything like '29. But the other place even working class folks are affected by a market crash is that even if they've never bought a stock, if they have IRAs or 401 or even old style pensions, they are likely invested somewhere that will be affected.

Regression in the BP performance may turn out to be the soft underbelly of this team. A lot of guys probably were pitching better than their expected values last season. Also doesn't hope that we are getting zero from Lange and Foley, who as recently as a year ago were our expected 1 and 2 BP arms.

one for a bazillion with RISP didn't help either.

Does Michelin know that Bib is moonlighting as the Pope?

Not the guy I expected to struggle out of the gate.

Maybe if things go sour fast in April, it will at least be the end of Maeda and Baez.

when you have Kreidler, Jake, McKinstry, Margot and Sweeney in the line-up, Tork, Riley, Keith, Carp just cant be making many outs.

that *would* explain it

that was one of the weirder plays you'll see

if we can do anything with it.

they are going to overrule this. he took a couple of steps.

Tiger pitchers throwing OK - not getting beat up all that much, but too many mistake pitches

Middle/Middle hanging change. Goodbye baseball...

McKinstry got a glove on it, slowed it down which ended up hurting. Of course, every time this happens this year the question will be: Would Bregman have made that play?

Fast charging is a difficult subject to say anything absolute about, and the tech there is a rapidly moving target. As general principle, it's a higher risk to the life expectancy to fast charge any battery but the devil is in the details of each manufacturers battery architecture, instrumentation, charge controller and what you find at the place you stop to charge it, even the ambient temperature can be a factor. But if you are commuting everyday and have charging available at night, fast charging at least won't be a concern for the car's work day utility as your range is much longer than your commute. So fast charging is more a matter trying to use the car for long trips. My Sister recently got an EV and ended up less than impressed with how long it actually took it to 'fast' charge it the first time she decided to take a longer trip with it in CA. That is to say while the car performs as warranted, that didn't turn out to be quite as convenient as is implied. I've been doing homework on EVs also, but since we are a 2 car house with reasonably efficient late model SUV, I don't envision the need to use a new EV for long distance travel any time soon. So far the IONIQ seems impressive, and I like the Mustang just for itself. A hold up for me is that installing a charger is the pivot for doing a bunch of other electrical upgrades on the house I haven't completely sorted out yet.

As far as I understand it, the total value of the contract - as everything, has to be amortized over the playing years of the contract for lux tax purposes. Deferrals are discounted at some percentage that represents somebody's guess about future inflation (MLBPA and owners negotiate this number I assume.....?). I don't know what the forumula is for dividing up a front bonus but I'd bet it's in there. Looking at Snells deal, the both the deferred money and the bonus are in the total, which is then divided into the 6 playing years of the deal for an annual lux tax charge of 31.3 M. So they get to spread out the charge on the bonus but all the dollars in the contract end up in the tax charge somewhere.

I actually thought there was rule against inverse taper on a bat - maybe that was just ASA as some point when I was playing....