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Hey, what would you rather have? A kid who’s sucking at the teat of the government “education” system so they can follow in their cuck parents’ libtard footsteps? Or a kid who ignores his loser parents and starts pulling his own weight by getting a job and finally contributing to the economy? Bring your factories on down, gentlemen! Arkansas is open for business!

I don’t think they are going to reduce local game broadcasts to only the home feed because viewership from the visiting team market would crater. People want to hear the game called from their team’s perspective, and they also want continuity of personalities they listen to from game to game—not, Tigers are in Kansas City, who’s calling the game now? If Baseball seriously wants to grow its base, limiting broadcasts to only the local team would be one of the worst things they could do.

Are you thinking they will lower the price of your cable or streaming package if MLB takes over local broadcasts?

I just hope the broadcasts don't look like MLB Network broadcasts, complete with MLB Network promotional and gambling odds detritus on the screen.

That's fine as long as he doesn't take the ball with him.

I think "ERod" falls into that "not so much" category. 😏

I would think that Hinch would not force Rodriguez to throw pitch he has no command of or feel for in a particular moment just because the data say, although who knows for sure. But Hinch strikes me as emotionally intelligent enough to get on that same page with Rodriguez and still maintain control of the game plan, provided Rodriguez will allow that. Based on the reporting coming out of camp this past weekend, though, it looks as though Rodriguez might be trying to take that control into his own hands, and using the media to put pressure on the issue. It will be interesting to see how it all comes out.

It is very traditional and even romantic for pitchers to call their own pitches based on their gut instead of the information about hitters they are provided. It very much dovetails into a heroic narrative about the pitcher as a gunslinger taking on and beating all comers on his own terms. The $64 question is, does a pitcher calling a game based on his gut lead to more wins than the dugout calling the pitch based on the information?

I just logged onto my SSA account and what I am due to receive at 67 is not 75% of age 70 (i.e., 36/48), but actually 80.6%. So if I wait until age 70, it would take me until I am 82 years and five months before I match the total amount of money I would get if I elect to start at age 67. So it looks like we were both off roughly the same amount in opposite directions. If I take what I am due at age 62, it would take me until age 80 and six months to match the figure.

Yeah, this definitely fits here. From Friday:

How so?

Nothing. Baby born, life wins, the end.

Shouldn't this have been tweeted by Conservative Self-Owns?

This is the exact point. By putting 100% of their politicking efforts into culture war issues, Banana Republicans effectively excite and energize their red hat base so much on this one thing that they don't even think about the economics part at all, except when it's time to blame Democrats after Republicans make their retirement years go to shit.

Flip side: if you take your fully-due 100% benefits at age 67, it takes until age 86 or so before you get as many dollars if you wait until 70, and even then that's three extra years early on to take the money you get from SS and invest it for the kind of long-term return that could wipe out even that difference.

I was thinking it’s too bad we couldn’t find a couple million to take a flyer on Will Smith for a year, since it seems like he probably still has a few miles left in the tank for cheap, but it reads as though he was never going to sign for a Harris/Hinch-type team, anyway. We’ve talked some about how players sign with teams for soft reasons (i.e., other than just the most dollars), such as playing for a contender or playing close to home. But it looks like a team’s analytics philosophy could be another factor for some guys making their decision. Will Smith is probably right about that age where it could break either way for a guy.

I don’t think people always trash the old regime when a new regime comes in. I think they sometimes do. In this case, it appears to be deserved.

I guess Avila deserves some credit for talking to Fetter in 2017 before passing on him. Chris Bosio is still out of baseball.

A’m shoked

I dont think Avila led the hiring of Fetter.

I’m saddened to hear of your aunt’s predicament. I hope she’s all right. This is the second blood-curdling violent crime that’s been posted here in just a few days, so I’m just suggesting if that’s gonna become a thing here, maybe set aside a thread dedicated to it. Or maybe counterbalance the hate by posting a video of two people making love.

Hopefully we will find we have already hired that guy.

Oh my god, this is so thrilling to read. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2023/02/26/detroit-tigers-top-secret-lab-giving-pitchers-new-tools-to-dominate/69942299007/ Check out what Chases Shreve says here: In January, after left-hander Chasen Shreve signed a minor league deal with the Tigers, with an invitation to major league spring training, he met with Hinch and pitching coach Chris Fetter. “We were talking about analytics and what they want me to do,” he said. And he found it so refreshing. “I've never really been on a team that told me how to use my analytical numbers,” he said. “Nobody's really ever been like, ‘Hey, this is what we think you should throw your fastball, your splitter and in what counts.” This is a guy who has nine MLB seasons behind him, as part of five organizations. “On the teams I’ve been on, nobody has ever been like, OK, this is analytically what we see and this is how you should pitch,” he said. “Nobody's ever said that to me until I got here. In our meeting, they were telling me what they thought, and I told them what I thought, and we were bouncing ideas off each other and I was like, ‘I've never done this, like, with a team before.’ ” He found it refreshing and encouraging. Think about that: here is a guy who spent a ton of time in the Braves’, Yankees’, Cardinals’, and Mets’ systems—all considered top tier systems—and here he is saying that no one told him how to use the numbers from analytics until he came to the Tigers this year. The Detroit Tigers, on the forefront of applied analytics. WOW! I never imagined I’d ever see something like that!

Man, can you imagine just how big that guy is gonna be in five years?

I’ll love it when it destroys them. Until then, remaking society along those lines is all still in the realm of possibility. I learned my lesson in 2016 rooting for a Trump nomination.