Edman85

Your title says median, the graph says average. Which is it?

On a personal level, one thing I could see happening if he truly does develop it (and is actually transparent about it, which given the last 9 years of Oval Ovice Opacity with regards to health isn't a guarantee) is that the GOP lines up and reverses the cuts to ALZ and dementia funding that have stopped some great research in its tracks. If it can help dear leader, maybe they would do that... Or... they can do what they did after he was shot and just stump for more guns.

And I'm not calling you out here, but the people flippantly calling accusing this and the previous president of dementia as if it is an insult are painting way too big a brush and insulting a lot more people than the president of the other party.

I hope they all get to be caregiver and get to live that experience. They have enough money that they don't, but a man can dream. They deserve that suffering.

She looks more and more hideous every time that synthetic face shows up on my screen.

In what baseball sense does it make sense for a team having a snakebitten injury year with most of their core under contract to add money at the deadline?

HR allowed tends to be pretty noisy.

If they blow the division and miss the playoffs, probably would have done that if they gave up prospects for a higher priced reliever anyways.

Today in Lightning... A storm is rolling through town but doesn't make it to the beach. The commish of the volleyball league cancels games because lightning is in range and he doesn't want his helpers to have to set up the courts in that. The group text is ripping him to shreds because it isn't raining there.

Gonna go on a limb and suggest this doesn't change the next 3.5 years or so, or the decades it takes cleaning up this mess.

I had a former colleague who got a huge dataset and ran some quick code on it, promised our bosses it was a panacea and it was on me to validate it. I spent months trying to clean all the data his automated code missed and eventually rejected the database because the data was incorrect in far too many places.

Now now, Riley Greene was the Tigers nominee last year, and Niko Goodrum in 2019. But yeah, a lot of Eric Haase, Matt Vierling, and Robbie Grossman in between.

The lightning safety advocates I have started following on the socials have started going after MLB for not being strict enough. Notably leaving the umpires in charge of making the lightning call. The balk call in Jacksonville last month being one such incident...

Oh... I didn't mention I was struck when I was 15, laying inside by a window when it struck the tree right outside and got into our house's electric system via electric dog fence. Not a direct strike, but enough to make me numb and slur speech for 30 minutes or so.

If you are connected with me on the socials, you know this is a hot button issue for me. This may belong in the pet peeve thread, but hey. I'm fired up this week because in the past week in my beach volleyball leagues, I have walked off the court when lightning was clearly too close and everybody just kept on playing. While I am outspoken about it and bring it on, I am insulted regularly for this, masculinity questioned. People in the league just keep on playing until the rain comes, and then when it is finally cancelled they hang out at the outdoor bar near the courts. Last week my playoff game was a forfiet (until it wasn't when they called it ten minutes later). Often, people will wait out lightning delays under a tent. One time several years ago golfing, I heard thunder, saw lightning, but was not driving the cart and had to walk basically a mile back to my car because the person driving the cart refused to go to shelter. Earlier this year, I was boating with friends. I had been monitoring the weather all week and thought we were likely okay if we got back to the dock by 3-4pm. The sandbar we were at was an hour or so away from the dock. I saw clouds building up around 2:30 and was ignored for 45 minutes by the masses who relied on "future radar" to say we are okay. We got caught in a nasty lightning storm after waiting too long. Time and time again, other people around me ignore the danger of lightning or just do the dumbest things during storms, and I feel like I am on an island taking precautions. Just needed to vent...

He re-signed.

More gerrymandering means more districts where the only competitive race is who can out extreme the other in a primary. No thanks.

The 40 man is going to be crowded; I don't know that he gets protected.

The break-even rate for that situation is pretty low, though. I don't mind the aggression.

A good dive into Alt National Park's blatant plagiarism. https://jjoycelynch.substack.com/p/the-alt-national-park-service-on?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

Tigers reply guys on twitter being used as an authoritative source is an absolute hoot.

Midterms and some checks on this maniac's power can't come soon enough.

My Occam's Razor guess is park effects/weather.

Statistical bonuses are allotted based on % of that stat accumulated with each team. There's a minor bug in my table, but I will address that once Paddack or Montero hit their numbers. Postseason/award bonuses are allotted based on when they happen. The Tigers are on the hook for whatever percentage of the stat came with them. I found out last year, these are paid out at the end of the year, not when triggered, to avoid constant denominator changes.

Tyler Owens released. Very likely procedural and he'll be re-signed. He's injured, so they couldn't outright him.