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I love how Bryce Harper stared down Orlando Arcia during his home run trots.

How do you think this looks?

Right. Just because we all hate Boras doesn't mean Harris won't work with him.

Bargain for whom, though? Whom do you think the Democrats and this moderate wing can agree on?

Any Republican caught talking to the Dems is gonna get kicked right in the nads. And that might not even be metaphorical.

Sold! I'm checking this out of the library!

Haven't they been emptying the prisons and the gulags for this war?

I can pretty much guess that Matt Gaetz is not one of them.

Which is probably the least surprising thing I could have learned about him.

I wonder whether God and country is a harder sell now that belief in religion and even God has waned over the centuries. Centuries ago, life for the masses was such a slog that dying in a war to ensure a spot in heaven might have seemed like a pretty sweet deal.

Nine of the top ten free agents are pitchers (including Ohtani), so we will not be remaking our offense through the market, and the one hitter, Chapman, is probably going to sign with a team that can win in 2024. And I doubt Harris will deal from the top of the system to get an impact bat. I wouldn't be surprised if we got one of those top ten pitchers, though. This team has a better rep for its pitching coaching, so pitchers may find this a more attractive destination than a hitter might at this moment. Lucas Giolito might be gettable.

I agree that not all internecine violence would be wiped out were religion also wiped out, but it's at least a debatable proposition that the world would be a better place.

You won't talk me into it. 😁

I prefer the 162-game season as is, even with the current playoff situation.

I'm fascinated by Excel's ability to automatically update tables connected to websites or databases. I have a few of those, connected to Fangraphs mostly, although they are a pain to diagnose when they inexplicably break. Sometimes it's FG's fault and it gets fixed eventually; other times, who knows. I also keep Excel sheets that are connected to CSV files I download from OOTP to help me manage teams, set lineups, etc.

There was actually a very recent 15-game winning streak from 2015 into 2022 by teams with 4+ days rest over teams with two or fewer days rest. I wonder whether that made it into the Rosenthal article?

Yes, it is possible that a team could qualify for the playoffs in the first half, then become completely decimated as they simply play worse and get injured and start losing and then sell off at the deadline, and by end of September they are a shell of their first half selves, and yet here they are getting smoked in the playoffs and giving a legitimate good team an easy ride nobody else is getting.

I've been wondering about this really great workbook you keep—is it automated in some way? Such as, do you have it connected to other databases and then you refresh it to update it? Or do you manually input each data point yourself?

This is the kind of sht you see in failing democracies and banana republics.

But ... but ... Ukraine is so corrupt!

This is basically what I meant when I said they are regarded separately. No one remembers who won divisions or even had the best record in the league, but they do remember who won the tournament.

Fair question. It would seem like a lot more work for them than they need to take on.

Being the Speaker would also make him third in line to the presidency, should the unthinkable happen.

The two leagues have not been separate business entities since, I believe, 2000? They both subsumed their business operation under Major League Baseball, so they could not, as you imply, expand or move teams on their own, or make their own rules. I put together a SABR presentation during which I learned that neither league could move teams without the general consent of their other league anyway until December 1952. They then went to a system that required no no input from the other league. It would be unanimous consent for an NL team to move, and a minimum 6-2 vote for an AL move. The idea of consent from the other league was dropped because they were basically killing off every move the other league wanted to make. That's a key reason there were no franchise moves between 1903 and 1952.