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The upcoming 40 man clearing that will be needed for Manning, Brieske, Wingenter, and Skubal may make Schoop a logical 40-man casualty with somebody from the Toledo logjam being a logical backfill.

Keith to Toledo

That is one. The other theory is a lot of re-org and consolidation that decreased ingredient quality.

Okay, I have noticed restaurant food has gone downhill since 2020. I didn't have a confirmed case until August 2022 (after four shots), so noticed this before then. I have some theories, but one is that I just improved my cooking quite a bit in that time such that spending money on restaurant food is a complete waste.

If you don't know this by now, none of the thousands of links we can send you from credible scientific sources will do the trick when you will believe Robert Malone and his ilk over them. But anyways... https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccine-effectiveness

So... May we be approaching an answer to the thread title?

All he does is project, so this tracks.

Crazies will be divided between Trump and Ronnie. If Dems are more worried about the health of our nation than winning elections (Yes, I know they are definitely not mutually exclusive now), they will load up in the Republican Primary and vote for the candidate in the sane lane.

What was your favorite moment of the Seth Elledge era?

My pie-in-the-sky hope is that the field can be so divided that it ends up being a reverse of 2016 and the sane candidate is able to be one of five and rack up delegates with 20% of the vote. Moderates from states with open primaries can do their part. I plan on registering with them early next year so I can try to strategically vote for the sanest one possible and maybe keep this party from running our country off a cliff.

Danny Serretti to Erie...

I still do

Even in the NFL draft, aside from like QB, positional need doesn't matter. If you go back to drafts 5-10 years ago and consider them a win, do you think "Man, we really plugged that hole at linebacker" or do you think "Wow, that was a great player we got in the 5th round." Ditto, MLB Draft, but even moreso.

The ignore feature falls apart when people quote the ignored member. Sorry to people who ignore Lee.

Not entirely true. Hicks was signed that morning/afternoon. Greene was injured that night, and Marisnick was acquired that night as well but really to add some depth because Vierling was hurt.

Yoenis Cespedes, Miguel Cabrera, Placido Polanco, Omar Infante. Do we count Jeimer? Delmon Young, Cam Maybin in 2016 for Ian Krol, Johnny Peralta, Gary Sheffield, Carlos Pena,

And the fact that he... you know... cooperated. I'm sure Smith would make a deal with Trump.

Chaz, don't you work in Chicago? If somebody is early, is that just a sign they planned on traffic and it didn't happen? A former boss of mine used to comment I was always right on time for meetings. I don't know if it was a complement or an observation, but it is my goal to maximize my time and other's times. For my barber, I like to show up early. Usually I'm his last appointment so I'm actually trying to help him out if he has a gap before me and can end his day sooner. If not, I can knock out Wordle or catch up on the day's news in the waiting area.

The Tigers retweeted some hype thing about Mike Rothenberg hitting three hrs today in the complex league. At 24, two years after being drafted from college, he should be hitting at least that per game.

https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/1670960898129764353?t=Hm2W9gTbeJRzdyXB97Ou8w&s=19

Out of pocket most of the weekend, just seeing this. A lot of the insurance policies teams take out against players are not public, so it would be pure guessing and speculation. I want to say Kevin Goldstein put something on Fangraphs about it in the time between his employment with the Astros and Twins, but I don't remember.

MLB Teams have that information (hence why exit velocity is a thing, but EV doesn't factor in batter's eye). I'm not sure people who gripe about Comerica at Henning's level are factoring that in. Hell, Harris pointed out over the offseason that they are just now factoring weather into the internal metrics.

Dimensions are only part of the equation. Batter's eye and weather (wind, humidity, density, temperature all affect drag) are others, and those are ignored by the very rudimentary (X ball was hit this far at Comerica and would have been a home run at Park Y)

They have. He's a good writer who actually does have journalistic principles. He can sometimes go down some rabbit holes that may not be correct, and those may be more frequent now than before, but on the whole there is a reason he has stuck around covering the Tigers for a long time. He's good at his job, or was before he retired to part time work. I have some quibbles with him, but there are a lot worse people reporting on the Tigers.

I haven't played softball since before the pandemic but I would be shocked if I didn't have serious throwing elbow damage, that if I were a pitcher I would need Tommy John. The only sport I play now with overhead motion is volleyball. Attacking isn't so bad because so much of that motion is derived from the core. Serving can be tough when the elbow is tender since the arm sometimes needs to adjust to the toss and there are some odd motions, especially when trying to get a nasty float serve going. Softball games where I got more than 5 or so throws to make from left field left me in a world of hurt, but I had to play out there because I suck at infield and have some decent range to track balls down.