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How did you generate this on ChatGPT? I mean, what steps did you take?

Riley got called out in the first inning on a nearly-as-ridiculous miss for a third strike. Cubs announcers are borderline apoplectic about it. Their response to Riley’s called strike? A smirky “oh well”.

Welcome to the Alarmist Non-sense side.

This is what “thin” looks like, baby.

Who’s going to do what about this?

They’ll start following the Constitution at the same time they’ll start following the Bible.

Not anymore, he’s not.

Three walks and a single and no runs. Almost as though Jack was trying to give them some runs. But man, what a wild catch by Parker out in center.

Call stands. Pete’s RBI attempt is thwarted.

Catches Suzuki looking, now we are in range of an inning-ending GIDP. EDIT: and Pete thwarts that, as if we were going to get him on the back end anyway. Happ looked out at the plate because the throw definitely beat him, but he might have slipped in before the tag. Hopefully inconclusive.

I swear, Chicago must be one of the gamblingest cities in the country, because literally every pod has at least one gambling commercial, and there are a bunch of different casinos that advertise here.

Inside-out double by Riley, which is how struggling hitters hit doubles.

Changing swing path might be the kind of thing that is exceptionally difficult to change during the season. A change that significant probably doesn’t happen in a single day, and he will be playing live games in between sessions.

That was a beautifully easy inning for Jack.

If that were the case, it could cost him his career. EDIT: I went with your supposition that it was Jones before seeing your follow-up post.

Yeah it is really getting to be too much.

I wonder whetehr that two-run Tork double goes out of the yard anywhere else?

Off to a good start.

Cade Horton is the #35 Pipeline prospect.

One of a handful of Haitian Dominicans in the big leagues.

Every time I have looked into an AI image generator, there’s been a substantial charge for using it, like, $20 a month. Not interested in that. Are you paying for this or is it easier to find a free one now?

I am still totally iffy about using AI for anything, given its propensity to hallucinate. I do admit I have dipped my toe into the AI waters for little more than search. When I try to have any of the major AI systems put together a softball schedule with specific game time and opponents-played parameters, it never gets it right. I plugged in some medical test results and it spit out an overview, which I thought was pretty good, although it didn’t give me any more insight than I got from reading it myself and discussing them with a doctor. I didn’t see anything it said that was off base, but I also don’t know whether it left anything out. Either way could be a disaster as it relates to any action items someone might have to take from test results. And who know who is going to do what with the results I voluntarily gave up to the AI bot. Maybe my insurance rates skyrocket even more than they were going to anyway. For fun, I told it I have a million dollars to invest in the market (ha!) and asked it to put together a recommendation based on income and growth goals. It came back with some interesting ideas, but I would definitely never blindly follow its recommendation. I haven’t been able to think of any heavy lifting thing I could have it do and be confident in the results. Anything that’s low stakes I pretty easily could do myself; anything that’s high stakes I would insist I do myself. So I am still struggling how I, a retired almost-senior, can incorporate it effectively into my everyday life.

The reason for this is simple: they want to make us a country of stupid people, because stupid people are easier to control.

We have 30 teams now versus 20 in the mid-60s, but the US population is double what it was then, there's a more active pipeline from Latin America than there was, and the best players from Japan are coming over to play here. So I would say the opportunities for a larger pool of potential players are fewer than they were, which should accrue to better depth, which I believe we do see. As for the idea that the pool of potential players is way down from what it was in the 60s because kids aren't playing as much baseball, that's an open question, but any paucity might effectively be back-filled by Latin America, where soccer-style academies are training kids to be much more technically skilled ballplayers to a degree not only not available to Latin American kids 60 years ago, but also to American kids even today. So, I am dubious about the idea that players are on balance worse today than 60 years ago due to dilution through more opportunities to play big league ball. I'd bet an team of the very best bench and back of the rotation/bullpen players from 2025 could be very competitive over 1,000 games versus actual All-Star teams from 1965. No way to know that for sure, of course.

Riley went on record a week or so ago saying he knows he is out of sorts when it comes to swing and miss and he's got to work on it. I feel pretty confident he'll fix it, although it may not be soon enough to satisfy us.