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Everything posted by chasfh
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They would have been in dereliction of their responsibility to taxpayers had they not had an insurance policy on the Trop.
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Actually, there were a lot of empty seats all over the stadium, based on the crowd shots on foul balls. Yankees fans are such dilettantes. As an America's Team™, the Yankees draw the most casual fans in the country. Most people who say they are Yankee fans are basically front runners who only show up for the big win, and judging from the stadium we saw last night, maybe not even then. This is not to disparage Yankee fans who grew up in the tri-state area and came by their fandom honestly. They're as good as fans as anyone around the country. It just annoys me when people are dilettantes about it. I cheerfully acknowledge that’s a me problem.
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Pays to be lucky!
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Any idea what they’re hiking prices by for next year? It’s got to be double digits after this surprise run, right? Make hay while the sun’s shining and all that.
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People who can assemble cars out of a box like a child can? They won’t care about it being characterized like that. They’re just happy to be off the dole or out of the mine or off the Walmart payroll.
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I wonder whether DJT is basically a money laundering operation, anyway. I would imagine there’s a lot of foreign oligarch money flowing into it. Same as with his crypto scam. They’re not primarily about bilking retail investors, although that’s a nice little bonus.
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That’s as clear a signal as I can imagine that Trump wants to put autoworkers out of work as punishment for some of them voting Democratic.
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Thank you for using “coincidentally” correctly instead of “ironically” incorrectly.
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I have always refused to vote for unopposed candidates. That’s not democracy. That’s autocracy.
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I watched John Oliver from Sunday night. His long form story was about the 2024 election, and it profoundly bummed me out.
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So they halted trading because the Trump stock was up +13% but then was down -6%, a 19 point differential? Is this what normally happens to stocks when they fluctuate like that? Because I seem to recall countless instances in which I saw a stock go down more than 20% in a day without something or someone stepping in to protect it.
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Almost as though it were performative rather than existential.
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I really think the whole club seat business model has resulted in really bad optics on home plate shots during games. This is an ALCS game and half the seats behind home plate are empty. It’s just a bad look.
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If I had to guess about a Tork trade one way or the other, I would guess that Harris would trade him for players with a future rather than players with a past.
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Yeah, I wasn't trying to suggest I knew anything about measuring that, just that it is a thing like everything else that has the potential to be measured. I would think a catcher's ability to work with pitchers would affect the performance of the pitchers, in that a catcher who is great at it gets more, maybe even a lot more, out of his pitchers than other catchers can. And who knows, maybe some of these Ivy League astrophysicists or quantum algorithms researchers, or whatever they are, that organizations hire for their data science departments may have gotten to that somehow. I would think it's one of those seemingly ethereal things that, if someone has cracked that code, they would hold it for ransom. In any event, if/once they have cracked it, then it could be reduced to a component in the WAR formula along with the other four components I mentioned, and I'm sure there are a couple or three other components to evaluating catchers I'm not even thinking of, or perhaps have not even heard of.
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I’m kicking myself a little bit for not paying more attention to Aurora Borealis (“At this time of year …”). I was in Menominee that night, which means it probably would have been even more spectacular watching it up there, but I just wasn’t aware of it because my wife and I were on a driving vacation, so we were missing a lot of daily news coverage.
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I watched it for maybe a couple shows and I crapped out, basically because cop shows were never my thing. But I was very impressed with the innovative way they started out building up one of the characters to make you believe he was going to be a main guy throughout the series, and then toward the end of the series premiere episode they unceremoniously killed him off. That got my attention. I may give it another whirl.
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What ever happened to indented paragraphs? 🤔
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Isn’t this exactly what WAR is intended to address? How many wins does your bat adds, your defense adds, your baserunning control adds, your framing adds, your handling of pitchers add? I’m pretty sure they don’t have the measurement for all of these locked down, but in theory, you should be able to add all these up for every catcher and come to how many net wins each catcher is worth, no? If a glove-first catcher adds 6 wins on the defensive side of the ball but loses 4 with his bat, that should net out to 2 wins. Compare this to a bat-first catcher who wins you 6 games with his bat and loses 4 on defense, that should net out to 2 wins as well, which would mean they are a wash. In terms of wins to the team, they’re even. At that point you’d have to consider other aspects, such as, pitchers almost certainly don’t want to throw to catchers who lose bunches of games while he’s behind the plate no matter how well he hits, so a team might take the glove-first catcher, or even a glove-first catcher who nets out to one less win than the bat-first guy, just to keep the pitchers happy, and besides, the team can work on the catcher’s hitting, because we see a hitch in his swing we think we can fix with an adjustment and then some cage and soft toss work. I would think those are the kinds of criteria organizations probably make decisions on all the time.
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I don't know how much we can count on Liranzo making the big leagues as a catcher. I have read there's been some improvement, but if an offer for a better catcher presents itself, even if the stick is a step or two below Liranzo, the Tigers might jump on the opportunity. But this "might" is based on imperfect information.
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Cal Raleigh is going to win the award, but the second banana in the Verlander trade is looking better and better. If Jake could come within shouting distance of being a league average stick, he'd be a legit All-Star. Too bad he'll be 30 next season.
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