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Also, I prefer it to shouting.

I use the bell on my bike. Works fine.

Director of Sleep wouldn't make any sense to me. Director of Biomechanics would totally make sense to me.

I would be surprised if any other city would get a new team before Vegas and Nashville.

I can’t pretend to know whether Gabe Ribas is the right hire for Director of Pitching, with all the responsibilities enumerated above, but I do know that I love that the team I’ve rooted for all my life is hiring a Director of Pitching.

I wouldn’t mind this at all, but I believe Baseball would never do this because it both reduces the number of division races, and it forces seventh- and eighth-place teams to try to market themselves late in the season. I get that a 55-85 team would have a bad time marketing itself in September under any circumstance, but it would still be substantially worse if they had to do so as an seventh-place team than as a third-place team.

And, once they hear that it’s already being done in Korea, “foreign”.

I’m trying to envision how they would do a 16-team (eight-per-league) playoff scheme after expansion, because we just know they’re gonna. So how do we make it work the best way possible? As we all know, baseball is the one sport where any bad team could beat a good team in a short series (ex: Rockies beat the Dodgers in a series at home in late August just this year). So maybe the way they handle this is, first round is best of three, but the division winner starts the series up 1-0, so they have to win only one on the field, while the wild card team would have to beat them two straight to move on. That way, there would be a much better chance the better team advances, and a mediocre team catching the better team in a three-game funk would happen less. Better teams make for better late October and early November matchups. One of the other good things about this is that this would make winning a division really mean something, so teams’ strategies would have to be, load up to win 90+ games and a division title instead of just 85 games just to sneak into the playoffs. It should make the trade market and the offseason free agent market more interesting and competitive.

I know we’re gonna get this eventually, but I don’t exactly love it, since it means almost certainly that 82+-loss division winners will make the playoffs occasionally. I don’t know how I’m going to feel once we see a sub-.500 tea, get to the World Series, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be warm and fuzzy, unless it’s us, and then it’ll be warm and fuzzy mixed with a touch of embarrassed.

I think the way they’ll do a 14-team (i.e., seven per league) playoff scheme is that all division leaders get byes, and the four other teams have a one-game knockout tournament across two days, with the winner advancing to the LDS against the top record.

Given our record against division opponents this year, I can see why you’d like that. 😉

I played for the Senators for two years. Yes, I’m that old. And we were terrible. All my youth baseball teams were last place, every one. I played on one team called the SuperSonics. I hated it because we were the only team without a big league name. The Macomb Daily misspelled our team name as “Supersonies” whenever they published the standings. One game, on my birthday no less, we were shelled by the Shell Cubs, 30-1. I don’t think they would let a youth baseball game get out of hand like that anymore. We finished 0-14. I hated playing organized youth baseball. I loved playing summer morning overhand-lob sandlot ball instead, with the same group of friends, just enough to field two teams while still having to close off right field to hitters. That’s where I honed my admittedly meager skills.

Ha haaa, I knew someone would bite! 😆 I don’t have the same hatred of the White Sox some here have. I root against them when the Tigers have at least a mathematical chance, of course, but as long as we’re out of it I’m fine with them, I think maybe because they’re the neglected little brother in this city, and I’m sympathetic to that kind of underdog.

I hate the Yankees and don't like the Red Sox anymore. I don't like the Braves chop. I don't like Cardinals fans. I don't like the cheating Astros. The Dodgers are yesterday's news to me. The Giants beat us in 2012 and I'm still sore about it. That leaves the Rays, White Sox, and Brewers, and I would be fine if any of them win.

Yeah. In Trump states.

For easy reference, here are the Statcast percentiles for Tiger hitter and pitchers this year.

Solid take, Mr. 1 Post. 😆

Pass on Tucker Barnhart. Hard. I'd rather cobble together another year of Haase/Garneau than spend too much for a year of a guy who's worse than both combined.

Haase appears to be one of those guys who, if you give him 250 at bats throughout a season, you can get a lot of value from him, but if you make him an everyday player, you consistently see all the things he can't do.

Ah, you mean I would have gotten a like from @CMRivdogs if I had announced my ignore add? Ah, lost opportunity ...

Devil's Advocate might say in reply: if you get a breakthrough case that's asymptomatic and you go unmasked around immunocompromised people who are vaxxed, you risk infecting them. It may not be fair to ask such people to cloister themselves at home 24/7 just so people can engage in unsafe social behavior.

I’m gonna say this just once, Bunker: you have no idea who “my guy” is, or what “my political party” is. You know nothing about me. After all, you’re new to this group. Aren’t you? So how can you know? You obviously need to pigeonhole people here into the democrat operative box for your weak, lazy, ad hominem-based narrative, because that’s the only defense you can muster for Trump in the face of the overwhelming incontrovertible evidence of just how truly terrible a human being, never mind president, that he was. He has wreaked incalculable damage to our country which we are going to spend the rest of my and your lifetime cleaning up—if we’re lucky. Since you have no interest discussion any of this in terms reasonable people do, I have no interest in engaging in any gainsaying games. I’m done with this.

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I don’t care about the money. I care about the years. So whether they sign a player like Semien for 4/60 or 4/120 doesn’t matter, except for the four years. I wouldn’t want to give Semien four years, let alone more. He has never strung together even two really good seasons in a row that might warrant four years for his ages 31-34 at the kind of money Wasserman will demand and get.