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I didn't watch, but the optics of that primetime speech don't look good to me at all.

Jaffe is always salty. I had to unfollow him, just to at least try to get my timeline to a simmer.

Are they really going into a discussion on team WAR? That's a stat that is pretty devoid of meaning when you have actual wins. I've noticed this when Shep overemphasizes a meaningless fact, but I get the feeling some of the issues with the broadcast are in the truck. Did they lose some production staff when Mario/Rod left?

My guess is it was Sartori who leaked it, but I could be wrong. Menzin doesn't seem like the type who would do that and I've heard some things about Sartori's people skills that hew too closely to how I would react in that situation, which would be to leak that to a reporter.

The math Gibby was asking for ended up being 0.376 seconds. Carry on.

Did you accidentally mix up the 20 and 80? I could have sworn it was 80% Neto, but Avila/Chadd overruled.

The passive aggressive "The people won't stand for it" should be criminal.

This storm is now a tropical depression in the Atlantic, by the way.

Not even Eric Eckenstahler?

Yeah, the tactics really weren't intentional. I didn't anticipate 13 exceptions, and it started to be a fun "remember some guys" exercise.

The interesting thing to me on the Jung thing is how somebody had to leak that to Stavenhagen. I wonder who, and how that reveals communication/relationship breakdown within the front office. If there was an uprising, is that what finally woke up Illitch?

I never promised one. Who's insufferable?

Which by the way, prospect twitter is pretty much all influencers right now, so thank you for making my point for me.

I intended to reply thinking there were only a few but it admittedly got obnoxious when there were 13. I don't know why a discreet dm is warranted. Influencers don't like being exposed in public?

Tweeting a "fact" that no Tigers draft produced three players on the same roster at once when there are 13 counterpoints among the 21 drafts is pretty bad, no? Social media engagement first, facts later. Providing inaccurate content is doing a disservice.

Man, as a fan of Blough's alma mater, seeing him get replaced by the QB from the rival school in that era sucks.

Part of me wonders if Hessman is part of the problem, since he was around with the old regime.

Inside the base only matter if there is contact. He did not attempt nor feign attempt for second. Bad call.

Just had a twitter experience that reminded me why the current state of Tigers Prospect Twitter is so bad. How wrong do you think this is and how do you think he reacted when I fact checked.

Apropos of nothing... https://archive.ph/OiU75

Welp, the bastard finally got me. Had a trip planned this week with four stops, starting with my brother in Cincinnati, parents in Dayton... Final night with my brother, I noticed a scratchy throat. He had been taking some Clairton for allergies, so we decide to do the home test before I go up to my parents today. His was very positive, mine was negative, so I got out of there, checked into a hotel, got the rapid NAAT this morning and started heading south, preparing to turnaround if negative. Sure enough, positive. I wanted to note two rapid Antigens (one last night, one this morning) Luckily I drove so was able to drive back today to quarantine at home and not get stranded or infect a hotel. Overall, just kinda feel like I had a vaccine yesterday minus the arm pain plus a bit of a head cold. We'll see how it goes.

A few other notes... The pitching motion has a very fast peak stress on the elbow, dependent, yes on velocity, but also on timing. If you can sync everything up in the body just right you can reduce the load. This is likely why pitching fatigued is such a problem and why injuries can cascade. Every pitcher's bone/muscle structure is different and will have different optimal mechanics.

True, but they are overusing torque too. At least in my training in mechanics there aren't really torques applied to a joint. (Note that I have seen moments applied to a joint, but torques are a specific type of moment, and it is possible there are subtleties in biomechanics compared to mechanical systems that lead to that terminology) Torque tends to be a term overused by people who don't know physics trying to sound smart. Not saying that is what Chaz was doing here because Driveline fell into that trap too, so there is some literature out there. I've just noticed that in ads and a lot of sport discussion. Torque, to me, is effectively a twisting force. I would call the load in question on the elbow a moment, since there is likely some moment couple leading to internal stresses. Perhaps the load causing suppination/pronation of the forearm could be called a torque. I just hear it often in situations where the load being talked about is a point load. When I was looking at research on elbow mechanics in pitching 15ish years ago when I had access to academic papers they called it "distraction" forces. Either way, the dynamics of any mechanism are clear: higher velocity = higher loads = higher stress. Since the elbow is stabilized by ligaments that cannot be strengthened, it is very clearly the weakest link, and becoming even more so as we are training pitchers to throw harder, there is very little we can do to strengthen that weakest link.

https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2017/02/fastballs-offspeed-pitches-comparative-relative-elbow-stress/

Velocity is the biggest driver. And torque is an overused term that really doesn't have much to do with this.