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I wish they did, and that their embrace of gambling hurt them in any way. But all it's doing is bringing people to the game who weren't paying attention to it before, and that's good for their bottom line. After all, you and I are in something like the 98th-percentile of fandom, as well as on the far end of the hate spectrum of gambling in baseball, and it's not as though either of us are boycotting the game in protest of it.

For a reason. 😏

To be clear, I'm not saying anything like, this has always been a conspiracy by Baseball to "Disneyfy" itself by exonerating all its bad actors. But Leerhsen did drop an opportunity in Baseball's lap to draw people's attention away from Cobb's violent behavior by casting doubt on it, which Baseball does benefit from. Because when people become confused about someone's issue—was Cobb a violent racist like I've heard all these years, or was that all a big lie?—they compensate by putting the issue out of their mind and focusing on the things about the people they do know, and bonus, can like and celebrate. Cobb is a core part of baseball history, but Baseball can't market the #1 takeaway fans have about Cobb, so once people stop thinking about that part of him, Baseball can then can comfortably market Cobb as one of the all-time greats of baseball history who fans can love without having to feel icky about it. It's not anything like a conspiracy, or even a plan, concocted by Baseball. I don't think it's even something that's in the back of their minds at any given moment. I think it's a case of, if the opportunity happens to present itself, they could take advantage of it if/when the moment is right. FWIW, I think Baseball would love to be able to so that with Pete Rose, too, since so much of Pete Rose on the field was so easy to enjoy and would make for great highlights, especially since they have so much video of the guy. But he's a harder case because his sin was against the game of baseball itself, and it was Baseball that made him permanently ineligible, so if they tried to celebrate Pete in any way, they'd have some 'splainin' to do.

This administration don't want a permanent DH, at least not in the foreseeable future, and besides, most teams don't even use permanent DHs, anyway. Almost half of all teams, 14 of 30, give fewer than 50% of their DH plate appearances to one guy, and only eight teams give more than two-thirds of their DH PAs to one guy. So I don't sentencing Tork to a year in Toledo and then making him permanent DH indefinitely is in anyone's plans. The teams that benefit most from permanent DHs are those that have strong offense at hitting positions, mainly corners, like the Braves (Ozuna), Dodgers (Ohtani), Phillies (Schwarber), Yankees (Stanton), and Astros (Alvarez). Absent that, permanent DHs tend to play on teams with big-contract and/or legacy guys who can't play anywhere else, like Mitch Garver of the Mariners, or Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates—or Miggy for the Tigers for the last several years.

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As long as Alito can figure out a way to frame it as Trump and only Trump, and anyone else Trump appoints to succeed him.

It is part of the Divine Plan that we pray to God to change his Divine Plan.

Just posting in the spirit of the thread …

Maybe we can move on from him when we find someone decent to replace him. And it doesn’t even have to be a stud with the stick—it could be a halfway-decent hitter with a plus-glove. But I’m pretty sure the last thing we will want to do DFA him out of frustration and get nothing in return, or exile him to Toledo and signal to the market that he’s damaged goods. If we want to get a return for him annd eventually end up with something better, we have little choice at this moment but to keep playing him and hope he figures it out at least a little.

I still have them winning 84.

That’s exactly what Harris always said the plan is: lay down a solid base via the system, continue to build from within over time via the draft and UDFAs, fill in the active roster with trades and free agents and the 40-man with waiver claims and MiLFAs, and don’t fall in love long-term with flawed players based on a good year or two. As for Tork, the tricky part with him is the tantalizing talent we don’t want to go get unlocked somewhere else, especially with the division or league. The talent is there, and the team that unlocks it is going to benefit from it for a while. But probably the best outcome for us here is that he goes on a really good run, and we flip him for a solid starter or major league-ready prospect to someone not exactly looking under the hood. That one would be a tall order, though.

FWIW Tigers are now 4-2 in the six games Javy got a walk.

Objection, badgering the witness. 😉

Baseball did embrace it—you yourself linked to an article on the MLB website that is completely and wholeheartedly accepting of Leerhsen's side of the story. Baseball likely did so because it's advantageous for them to gloss over Cobb's actual documented behavior that clearly portrays him as a virulent racist to the point that he injured people because of it, and portraying him as lied about and misunderstood instead. That way, fans can celebrate his historical accomplishments without feeling icky about it. And that's good for the business of baseball.

See, that’s the beauty part for the advertising side: games are indeed half an hour or so shorter, but that’s all coming out of the dead time on the field there had been before, which is to say, during play. But the advertising breaks are just as many, because the number of innings is the same, and they are just as long, as I have demonstrated in the earlier post. Same with pitching changes—I’m not sure whether the pitch timer has made them shorter, but I would bet the number of ad minutes during them is the same. I’m not sure what the average number of pitching changes are per game now versus what it was before the pitch timer came in, but it would not surprise me to learn that there are exactly as many as before. So really, the bottom line appears to be that there are as many advertising minutes during a game now as before, and that it is the ratio of game time-to-ad time that has dropped.

On the radio side, what generally happens with the shorter break that started last year is the DTRN did not alter their commercial break length, so they generally come back just as or just after the first pitch of the half inning takes place, over which you hear the intro rock music, Dan comes on and does introductory copy for a couple seconds, then calls the pitch that was thrown now 10 or 15 or 20 seconds ago as though it were happening at that moment, then he catches up to the live call on the second pitch. You might notice that sometimes his call for the first pitch and the second pitch comes only five or so seconds apart.

Matt Vierling is my Tiger at the moment.

“Oh, and if you don’t mind a fifth request, two large pizzas with pepperoni and mushrooms on both, and add onions on one.”

An inconvenient truth that will be conveniently omitted in all RWM mentions.

It’s because they did not break ranks from the Capitol Police and join the rioters in hunting down Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, et al.

I’m pretty sure the word count is a maximum because she’s not a reader.

But they’re going to come out of it all rich as Croesus. that’s the idea, anyway.

We already know just by reading history, only back then they were called “white people” instead of “MAGAs”.

Or, more exactly, stand-alone gambling kiosks.

The ironic thing is that gaslighting has lost its bite precisely because it’s overused, and it’s overused precisely because the Trumpublians engage in a whole firehose of it, so the tsunami of gaslighting becomes the exact reason the term “gaslighting” means practically nothing anymore. The Russians figured this **** out centuries ago. We’re just learning it over here.