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For college basketball fans, he was on Robbie Hummel's podcast this week, and confirmed they will be working college hoops games on Peacock together next year. They were a great team on ESPN, then Benetti went to Fox. Then Hummel left ESPN for Fox and they teamed up again, only for Hummel to leave Fox this year and Benetti to follow him to NBC/Peacock the next year. For the purposes of this thread, college basketball and baseball only really overlap in Spring Training. Also, worth pointing out NBC has the first round of MLB playoffs, so we could get Benetti those games. I am really curious who they get for the other three crews.

Good riddance to this canicidal battleaxe. Melt in hell.

Taiwan being called Chinese Taipei in international sports competition.

... which is to say I don't limit adversaries to only hostile state actors. Organized crime counts too

Southeast Asia Organized Crime too... Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand...

Just bringing this up again that this thread should be deleted...

A little easier to pull off if an AI agent is able to piece together your health problems, no? https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA250627

Maybe my profession has given me some experience and training on cyber attacks (Shout out, Jeff... iykyk)... Maybe the alarm bell has been ringing extra hard to the point where it was advised to alert friends and family. Maybe I see bad habits all over the internet that are leading people to get hit. Maybe even if somebody isn't worried about the effect on them, the mere fact that so many people fall for them empowers and funds the scammers and leads to new scams. If you don't think foreign adversaries aren't behind many scams that are exploiting people and potentially bringing down systems, you aren't paying attention.

I will just say I can't get into specifics, but have seen ample warnings from people in the know they they are planning cyber attacks and to be extra vigilant for scams right now because Iran is going to try. Phishing links, chain copy and paste posts on Facebook, clone accounts, etc. 2FA with an authenticator where you can, no repeat passwords, etc. Also. For the love of God, purge the Health Thread please. Adversaries having health data on people if they are able to connect dots can lead to them using AI to impersonate doctors, for example.

Everybody put 2fa on everything you can and make as much social media as you can private. Be extra vigilant for scams/phishing. Putting this in the Iran thread on purpose.

It wasn't, but you were still paying for stuff you didn't watch as part of the bundles.

En****tification at its finest. But on the plus side, these games are available now. When I grew up outside of Michigan in the 90's, I could maybe watch two Tigers games a year. Now I can watch 153. You were already paying for the Tigers games, it was just baked into your cable package.

So even if you didn't have it, the "Free game of the day" during the season wouldn't be free?

You can't just go to the website and pull it up?

The spring games are free on mlb.tv

Agreed, but as a jumping off point, I should put it this way... If innings and innings alone is the only marker, starters should be dropping off 3x as much as relievers. To me, 6 max effort relief outings are much more dangerous than a 6 inning start.

I am saying throwing harder over fewer pitches is worse on the elbow in particular.

Johnny Blue Skies dropped an album in the past hour on Youtube... On Spotify et. al. March 13. The first song is called MAFA...

I just wonder what media diet the people have that are cheering this on like their alma mater has a 2 touchdown lead on their rival.

Fangraphs dropped their Tigers list yesterday. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/detroit-tigers-top-47-prospects/

I don't understand the "Limit guys' innings to protect their arms, but let them max out in relief" strategy...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/scouting-explained-the-20-80-scouting-scale/ This and many other places say it comes from standard deviations. However, I have a hard time believing the scouting demographic was pushing up their glasses and citing standard deviation when it started being used.

Also Cots and Roster Resource calculated Valdes' deferral wrong, and overshot it by 50,000 or so. I know 100% the number in my sheet is right.

Found the error in Roster Resource CBT numbers. They were off by 10M due to Flaherty's Valley charge, and should have the Tigers under the CBT once they fix it...

Pretty sure he won't do both Fox and NBC.