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Is it Gen X versus anyone anymore? All we ever hear about are the boomers and millennials and Gen Z. I don't hear boo about Xers, in any way. Talk about a silent generation ... 😏

One hundred percent grammatically correct post. 👍🏽

This probably doesn't rise to the level of pet peeve, which is why it's not going there, but I guess it wouldn't not belong there. Anyhow ... We've all had the experience of being humped for a survey after a customer service phone call. Almost all companies with phone-based customer service do so now. A lot of time they do so before you get a CSR on the phone, so you feel obligated to say yes you'll take it because you wonder whether they won't take your call if say you won't. And sometimes it's an email after the call, like this one: Conceptually, I like the idea of taking this kind of survey because I have had the idea long established in my head that they would ask questions about how they can improve their service, preferably with a text box I can put comments into. But they almost never have that, and the question above says exactly why. The first, last, and only thing they want to know is, do you like us and would recommend us, and give us a 10! So, any survey that leads with this question, I never take it, because it's clear as day that it will have nothing to do with improving customer service, and everything to do with marketing their brand as one that customers love and would recommend. It annoys me to no end, because it's so gaslighty, leading you to believe they want to actually hear about the customer service experience you just had. Hey, Synchrony: I'm not here to help you promote your business to other customers. Do your own goddamn marketing heavy-lifting. Or at least pay me for my time helping you with it. I'm a professional, after all. Maybe this was a pet peeve after all ... 😏

I crapped out of the Bear a few minutes into the second episode of the first season. I just couldn't connect to the characters, and I'm not a fan of shows about damaged people that induces anxiety in me as I watch it.

So this is what we've become ... 😉

This is only a snapshot, too. The only attributes Maeda's showing red in is inducing pop-ups, limiting hard contact, and preventing swings on pitches within the zone, and it's not as if any of those are bright crimson. Although he does come in among the top 15 of all pitchers for run prevention on his changeup, so ... there's that, I guess? Too bad he throws it only 2% of the time, which might be why it's so effective on a SSS basis—no one is looking for it!

****, yeah!

I love me some Small Sample Size Theater.

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This seems like pretty valuable IP, so you should probably watermark it so people can’t steal and trade on it. Like so …

I like the idea of the conditional formatting, but I prefer the original Statcast colors of redder is better and blue is bad.

I didn’t see the interview, but my buddy who works as a public TV programmer and is blue to the core said to me, “Don’t think the ABC interview helped his case.” What could I say but, “Ah s***”.

His enablers in the media bull**** themselves into believing he’s joking when he does this, and the red hat faithful don’t have the critical thinking skills to vet it in any event, so they go with what the friendly people tell them.

Well, he put three of them on there, and he had fully co-opted Alito and Thomas going in, so he has his bulletproof majority. Robert’s is just a bonus throw-in most of the time. It’s clear that they work for him, and for nothing else.

He says he wants to use the police to go kill wicked people. Glad I don’t live in North Carolina.

You think this? You’d be the only one.

And even the bullpen was decent to start the season. They have really frayed in the last month or more.

And it defintiely should, since this is an actual morality issue, as opposed to steroids, which was more an incentives issue. JMO

I’m wondering whether the episode will cost them votes. Writers withhold Hall of Fame votes for “morality” reasons a lot.

You are just so relentlessly negative on every. Single. Aspect. Of this team. You seem so unhappy about everything, all of it, and I just want you to be happy. Also, I don't believe he never told his players to stop, because the overwhelming evidence revealed by the reporting all but confirms that he did tell his players he wanted them to stop. And he's not giving back his ring because no one told him he has to. The players who absolutely did engage in the cheating are also not giving back their rings. We'll have the agree to disagree, but I'm pretty sure the evidence for my position is a lot stronger.

It's always on his record, so it won't go away in that sense. But he served his time for it, the time that Baseball itself imposed on him, and now his slate is clean, and now he gets to move on with his life. And your 100% certainty to the contrary, I don't believe Hinch never told the players he was against the scheme. His actions (e.g., smashing the monitors they used to see the stolen signs) say otherwise, so again, that simply makes no sense. Look, if you hate the Tigers so much because they disrespected you by hiring someone you despise, then maybe this isn't the team for you. If you want to follow a team you respect, maybe consider following some other team. The Twins are doing pretty good these days.

The way I read this is that the Astros players who got busted and then started singing in order to avoid serving any time themselves were eager to push the responsibility of this to literally everyone else but themselves. Of course they're going to blame Hinch for not telling them to stop, even though it was widely reported that he did not approve of the scheme, which he surely communicated to them. It just doesn't pass the smell test that he would have said nothing to them.

Are you saying the Lajoie and Dombrowski front offices wanted to implement cheating schemes but knew they couldn't because Leyland and Anderson? 😉

Yes, A.J. Hinch was the field manager of the team, and he is responsible for what happens in the clubhouse, even if it's a cheating scandal everyone knows he was opposed to. And he was fired from the team for it, and was also suspended from the game for an entire year. He served his sentence, and as with all people who serve the sentences that are imposed on them, now he gets to have a fresh start. That will never be enough for some people.