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San Antonio, comeback story. Good narrative for the league.

F#@K!

The music is so precious.

I’ll be happy with top three. I think Wemby goes to Portland or San Antonio. The league would like either one. Good narrative.

Sure, it's a grotesque version of a symbiotic relationship.

There's a bit of luck to his numbers out there. His LOB is high, his BABIP is low, his HR9 is one is the lowest on that team (which plays at 3,700'), and his walk rate is over double what it was in Toledo. As a result, is FIP is 3.64, whereas in Toledo it was 3.88, which is not all that different. However, his ELP xFIP is 4.46 whereas his TOL xFIP was 3.78, which is decidedly all that different. The one possible good thing for him is that he has been beating the ball into the gorund at a 50% clip, which, still, could be SSS theater. Bottom line, thought, the Padres are a bottom ten bullpen in many key metrics, so even Drew Carlton will get a fair hearing out there.

This sounds very much like the time a poster on the old board tried to invalidate my theory that private medical insurance is basically socialized medicine by trying to trap me on not knowing or being able to explain with a risk pool was, and that argument made no sense back then, either.

This may be the most logical, believable thing you have ever posted here.

I sometimes regard myself as far too cynical, and yet this never occurred to me even once, and it simultaneously shocks me and doesn't surprise me in the least.

Believing someone could be this sexually predatory is the easy part. Even people we all think of unconditionally as heroes can be like this, and many are. It's the submission by subordinates to the grossness that makes my brain explode.

For anyone even a little invested in this: bottom line is none of the five people I talked to across some 2-1/2 hours could help. They all introduced themselves as "senior advisors", yet they clearly do not all have similar levels of training or maybe even knowledge. A couple sounded like they could pass for senior; the other three definitely did not. Plus, they apparently don't read notes presumably taken by the prior advisor, so the later ones had me try all the same things the earlier ones did that failed, and one even said it was impossible to do screen-share on both my phone and my PC at the same time, when the second advisor did that exact thing. I finally just said "hey, listen, thanks for your time" and hung up on the last "senior advisor" because she had this kind of cavalier not-really-working-or-caring-much attitude during the call, talking at me like she might talk at her little brother, and when she said had to try all these things I told her had already failed on prior calls because she would be "docked points" if she didn't, that's when I knew it was over. I then went to the local Apple store, and the advisor there suggested that the recent update of my phone to iOS 16.4.1 (a) may have broken compatibility with iTunes 12.12.8.2, which none of the other advisors brought up even once. That actually makes some sense, so I am waiting for another iOS update, and if it still doesn't work, I'll go back to the Store and we'll see whether they can help. But right now, I can't sync any calendars to my phone, and I can't even sync my current phone calendar to the iCloud calendar. I'm thinking the phone, still less than two years old, might have ended up a lemon.

Well, if you were amused by that, you will go into hysterics over this: After being on the phone with Apple for well over an hour, after getting passed to three different people for whom I had to describe my problem from scratch all over again, after having gotten to a senior advisor who asked me to wait on hold while she was to check into something ... the call got cut off. Square one.

We are orange. I wonder whether we are ever even yellow.

I call Apple because I am having a syncing problem with my iPhone. While you wait, they give you choices of music to listen to: (1) modern pop music; (2) classical; (3) jazz; or (4) nothing. Definitely not modern pop music. And the jazz, which I like, I was afraid it would be some soft R&B or what they used to call "smooth jazz", Kenny G stuff. Not a fan of that either. So I selected classical, hoping I would got the kind of string quartet music you can push to the background while you do other things. Nope. Turns out what they call "classical" is John Williams-style movie music, with huge orchestras and endless flourishing crescendos, which I didn't even think was possible, since you typically need soft passages in music to set up the crescendos, and there were no soft passages. It got so bad I ended up hanging up and starting over, and choosing "nothing". So, the peeve, I guess, is organizations that have no idea what classical music actually sounds like.

Thank you, Donald Trump, for reinforcing our border with the military earlier this month after President Illegal Alien refused to.

Ha haaaa! I know right! I wouldn’t say I would be thrilled with a 75-win season, but almost regardless of how many games they end up winning, I believe in the direction this front office is taking the organization. Anything can happen and I could be disappointed, but I am willing to put my faith out there and risk getting dragged by the cool kids here for it. 😁

With the win today against the M’s, the Tigers have now completed that tough 40-game stretch to start the season that we’ve been talking about basically since last October. We finished this stretch 18-21, with one game postponed until July. That’s a lot better than the 12-28 I had thought would be the acceptable floor. Not only did we beat that record pretty well, but we have looked very, very good at times while doing it. I still like my 75-win prediction.

It’s OK we got one of the three. We didn’t get swept, and it kind of looked like we might earlier in the game.

Walks continue to be a problem for Lange, and I guess that’s to be expected to some degree given how electric his stuff is.

Eugenio Suarez is having an MVP season for my OOTP team, but we need to get him on a double play right here.

Here comes my first ever AAT to try to close it out.

Shreve gets Kelenic swinging, then Ks Haggerty and gets Crawford on a lazy flyout. Hinch’s chess move to replace Foley works. 😁

Miguel Cabrera has been even worse than Schoop. He is definitely falling off the planet at the end here. I think we might start seeing the one-game-per-series thing plus the occasional garbage time pinch-hitting appearance from here on out.