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A little OOTP humor for you ...

Yeah, and he’s going down, because he has zero teflon. He’ll be the sacrificial lamb to Democratic pressure on Republican criminality in general, and perhaps even a bargaining chip as well. “OK, fine, you got one of ours, now you owe us one of yours … we call to the stand Hunter Biden …”

They were always jealous of Kennedy. Young guy, articulate, eloquent, charismatic, hot young wife, groupie magnet. Who was the last Republican you can think of who filled that bill? Honest question, there might be one, I’m just coming up blank on it.

They’ll just argue the verdict was cooked, and besides, the only ones they will blame for this whole thing are Justice and the judicial system, which, obviously, will have to be reformed. #Trump2024

There are no absolutes. Everything is negotiable.

Winning games is also one of the skills organizations want to teach in the minors. Handling winning is also a skill. But yes, they are more likely to go against the book on what’s needed to win this game today in order to test someone’s mettle in a high leverage situation instead. Kind of like Hinch is doing with this team.

Another hit for Cups!

It's because of him that I even knew what Infowars and ZeroHedge were. There's a war on for your mind!

"You know what it really means when she says no, right?"

lol as if she's going to get even a single penny.

That was already the first take from Chicago Tribune's alerts!

J Ro's batting ninth still? Damn ...

I remember the first time I'd ever heard the term "false flag". It was only about a decade ago, and it was by Ballmich on the old site. I seem to remember it was something—maybe Benghazi?—that he was trying to accuse the Obama administration of perpetrating. I'd never heard anything referred to in such a way before that. Now seemingly everything is a goddamned false flag.

That's fine by me.

I'm sure they're not.

I don't know, either—Jung? Keith? Flores? Whoever this year's 1-3 pick turns out to be?—but just as a general statement of principle, I prefer they not mortgage any future pieces now in-house that they've determined would be top contributors for run at a ghost of a chance this year.

Thank god John Candy isn't alive to see the Canadian right to dress in drag abridged.

Here's another way of looking at it: This breaks down batting averages in for ground balls and line drives, both overall and by handedness. The row at the top is 2023, with the shift ban in effect. So far, the results show increases in batting averages in all situations to varying degrees this season versus last, although this compares this year's partial seasons to last year's full season. It being only early May, it remains to be seen whether teams are going to moderate their positioning to become more shift-oriented than they have been so far. For example, speaking just anecdotally, I seem to be noticing more shortstops positioning themselves right up to the imaginary second-base middle line for LHH—basically, playing right up the middle—whereas earlier this season I thought they had been shaded more toward the traditional shortstop position. But this is just one guy talking more or less out of his ear—surely someone has positioning data they will be looking at and reporting on at some point during this season. But point is, these 2023 figures may change as teams presumably become smarter on how to position themselves vis a vis the new rule.

Baseball America shows here that it did not affect BABIP at the minor league level: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/banning-shifts-had-almost-no-effect-on-batted-ball-outcomes-in-the-minors/ As for the majors this year, MLB BABIP through yesterday, 1,058 team-games so far, shows a BABIP of .298. Last year, through May 17, a total of 1,060 team-games, BABIP was. 282. That's a pretty substantial difference, and runs counter to BA's finding for the minors. Is the difference in the majors due to the banning of the shift while the minors was an anomaly? Or is the majors the anomaly and the minors the real difference? I think probably somebody would have to dive deeper than just raw BABIP to find out.

Perhaps but, FWIW, I posted standings yesterday showing our performance since 2-9, and even though our record had been 13-9, our pythag was still about .500.

If we do way outperform our pythag, enough to legitimately contend for the playoffs, I hope the Harris admin will stick to their long-term plan and not make any ill-advised moves so they can take a shot at the third wild card spot this year. I assume the temptation and pressure to do so would be very great.

I wish they loved children as much as they love guns.

You were obviously hanging out with the wrong 35+%!

I also had no idea there was this ZIP code-like system to international calling codes.