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The other thing that we have to be careful about also is not putting too rose colored a set of glasses on history. A LOT of pitchers did get hurt back in the day, but you only had half as many pros that had to have lucky genes and survive to keep the majors full when there were only 14 teams! And since pitchers did throw a lot more, including in the minors, maybe most of those guys got hurt and washed out long before they got to the majors (because there was no TJ in those days) and MLB fans never heard much about them.

I think working your endurance up from relief to starting is a different issue than wearing out your UCL. Plus UCL, while it is the injury that causes the most lost time, is not the only thing you have to protect a pitcher from hurting that mandate some processes.

but I don't believe these are fatigue mediated injuries. More inflammation/irritation type. You can't condition your way to a more wear resistant UCL. You have to stop doing what is causing it to fray or stay on a cycle that allows more effective healing. The truth is working shorter doesn't even help - if it did relievers wouldn't be going down just as commonly as starters. If you try to look back at why things are so different from the past, the one argument is that pitchers have to work closer to max effort a higher percentage of the time, and I'm certainly not here to dispute that, but I also wonder how much damage is being done to arms because few guys ever take the 4-5 solid months off without throwing that used to be the case. Joint tissues grow/heal slowly. That's just one thought, but for whatever reasons the situation is not getting any better.

I find it hard to believe that with all the medical technology being aimed at pitchers it is making virtually no difference in the injury rate. That argues to me that they already know the answer but it is just too devastating to the current state of the game to admit it out loud - it has to be something along the lines of "there is no safe breaking ball" or "pitch over 95", etc.

144,000 winning lottery tickets. Tough luck for the rest.

who's pitching?

Belief in democracy is the first casualty when your belief in your cause reaches religiosity. There is a kind of ideological convergence that takes place with all movements that decide their issue too important to just work and teach and advocate until the people are with them.

so it sounds like they don't really know anything about Mize yet - when they put him on the DL it was on the basis of him missing a start and not because they had any medical diagnostics yet beyond - "the kid says his elbow hurts." So we wait for the imaging.

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correct. Though I'm not sure even the "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" paradigm captures the full fatalism of Calvinism, which is along the lines that you are just destined to be what you are. The children of Ham are cursed, etc. Parenthetically - In defense of Calvin, from what I've read, he wouldn't necessarily recognize "his" theology in where his followers/interpreters took his movement.

well, to call 'agricultural' the cause is a bit of euphemism. MN, IA, WI, OH all have deep agricultural history. The difference was agriculture based on slavery and the ensuing decades of denial of economic opportunity or wealth accumulation to a big segment of the population that happened to be the descendents of those slaves.

It seems we know the real alternatives, regardless of whether we are willing to admit the political reality they imply to ourselves or not: Either improve living conditions and income for the US poor, or keep putting a lot of them in jail. I think America's real political/moral problem is that a majority of the public is perfectly happy with the latter instead of the former as long as it's cheaper for them. And of course even the savings is only short term, net national wealth would go up if the poor became more economically productive.

Sf and LA are also really high income! LA still has poor areas, prolly more so than SF, but how does the ratio of rich to poor tracts compare to a place like Det? Same arg would apply to NYC, which has poor rough areas, but so much more upscale population that overall crime rates taken over the whole city are never as bad as in a Det where most of city population is poor. so what I’d be curious about is when you break down an area like Little Rock, are rates higher than in LA in areas of equal income, or does it just come back down to a high proportion of low income areas with rates just like similar income areas elsewhere?

Probably because he’s making noise about ‘absolute free speech’, implying no bannings for looneys, at least until they start bad-mouthing Tesla stock…

I would guess it relates to lower pop density in CA cities and their generally high income

Always nice to see an org with poor, corrupt leadership make itself even more paralyzed with dictatorial purges..

they gave up 5 in that inning, but came back with 5 of their own the next inning and 2 more in the 7th to win the game. So Madden's back to being a genius I guess.

yeah - I think I even used to know that.....Seems now that you mention it I remember making a post about murder rates in the past after I had run down some numbers and the argument was that they tracked the highest poverty census tracts, but IIRC at the time the context was not red/blue or state vs state but just was that murder rates in some cities weren't really better or worse than others because of some unknown variables, but just because some cities had a higher proportion of poor census tracts, where murder always averaged something like 40/100K, while in non poverty areas it always tends to be 1-3/100K.

LOL. the Yankee relief saga continues. Boone put Chapman in in the 11th and Aroldis issues the walk-off walk with the baseas loaded.

Joe Maddon starting to suffer from Smartest Guy in the Room Syndrome?

Johnny Kane been in the sauce or what?

Always amazed to see how high Alomar on some of these counts.

he fooled one, that was enough.

I don't think Fulmer is fooling anyone tonight.

That is why Joe keeps getting chances - because when it works, he has a pure swing and miss fastball.