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Also happy to not have gotten swept in April. Not sure when that last happened. Probably 1984?

Which Marathon? Or …

I’m guessing they start out with odds based on some combination of recent and total history, and then apply AI to betting in progress from the jump to even the money bet on both sides. That’s how I imagine it, anyway.

Except the odds are bastardized by the gambling company to keep betting even on both sides. They’re not true probabilities based on anything besides business imperatives.

Then I apologize for misunderstanding your post.

Just remember that after the 1984 Tigers went 35-5, they immediately went 4-8. Although I recommend you push out of your memory the fact that after May 22 of that year, the Yankees had a better record than the Tigers. 😉

Yes, not in so many words.

Are we great again yet? Is this the great again part?

I couldn't give less of a **** about that.

You're lucky to have lost.

This guy is a Joe Blow content creator, but he does do a pretty fair job highlighting Javy's CF work in this sub-two-minute video.

Sounds like you've made your peace with players fixing games, and that's OK for you, I'm not criticizing you for it. Everybody is free to consume baseball in any way they like. But speaking only for myself, I can never and will never accept that. If players fix games and Baseball accepts, encourages, or promotes that, then I'm out. I love baseball for the competition, and fixing games is not competition. It's theater. If that makes me a sucker and a loser, then I'm proud of that.

They're definitely still in the game.

I have nothing against the family. It's a critique of Fanduel for romancing the kid's mowing down our team that first inning by showing his family cheering every time he threw a strike or got the out. He's the other team's guy!

Reinstating Rose would exponentially increase the encouragement and amp up the brazenness. Unless what you’re saying is that the encouragement of players and managers to throw games is already at its zenith due to Baseball’s partnership with gambling companies, and that reinstating Pete couldn’t possibly do anything more to add to that, with which I couldn’t disagree more.

JAVY WITH THE SLAM! He is all the way BACK! Come on, Fanduel, let’s see the Blubaugh family in the stands now!

Get Nido some oxygen after that sprint home on the sac fly!

If we were to ever learn that players and managers were fixing plays and games and baseball knew about it, and either willingly turned a blind eye to it or even backchannel promoted it in order to make more gambling money, then yes, I would weep real tears as I turn my back on the major league game.

College > high school as a tiebreaker.

When Harris took Max and Mac as high schoolers in 2023, we were building for the long term and probably didn’t expect to be in the playoffs the following season. Now that we’re that team, we need to draft top players who get here a lot more quickly. So I am guessing top-end college players are at the top of his shopping list.

Why doesn’t Fanduel Detroit show the Blubaugh family now, after the home run he gave up?

Colt crushes the other minor leaguer! Because BASEBALL!

Blubaugh #69 really is an unfortunate combination.

I don’t agree that this is only about a guy who did a thing nobody cares about a long time ago so who gives a **** anymore. We’re talking about players gambling on a game they have a duty to perform in—even worse, a manager who can implement strategy in the service of his own bet. If they allow Pete to ultimately get away with it, how can they stop anyone else from doing it, fixing plays or games or even more, just to satisfy bad guys they’re in hock to? Maybe you think it’s no big deal, but I would be really surprised if it were to pass unnoticed by everyone except you and me and maybe six other people, and is forgotten within a single news cycle.

I’m annoyed that Fanduel Detroit has to show the family cheer after every strike the kid pitcher throws, as though he’s on our team and it’s not our team he’s mowing down.