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Yachts for the rich. Yacht rock for the rest of us.

Fox would sooner give Dominion a billion dollars with no admission of guilt before they do what you suggest.

Ironic because Townhall readers almost certainly agree with the sentiment said anonymously.

Front-running bandwagoneers. They're probably Yankees fans and Cowboys fans, too.

I find it interesting how they are going to kill off Social Security just as I am approaching the age to be able to take it. 😏

There's a difference between being intelligent and being studious.

Well, that's one of the things TORK! has to prove this year, isn't it?

I thought I'd been seeing a ton of fluff pieces by Petzold, but mostly on the minor league free agents and whatnot.

I don’t know how everyone feels about network sitcoms, but Ghosts on CBS Thursday nights is one of the best in a long time. I knew that it was based on the UK series, but I just learned that HBO MAX has the UK Ghosts available, so that gives my wife and me another series in the queue to tackle.

Boring is the most effective kind of crime family. Drama’s bad for business.

Buscemi’s has (had?) a party store situation at their location at Martin and Hoover in Warren.

Something something tree of liberty something something blood of children.

That would empty out two-thirds of Congress!

I would never have considered Musk liberal, but I wouldn’t call the people who revered him liberals, either. True liberals generally have a distinct, defined ideology they base their belief systems on. The people in the Musk cult are basically contrarians who crave the recognition that they’re smarter than anyone else, so they embrace whatever new idea or icon that comes along that they believe will help prove that. That’s what I think the sudden surge of red hats was all about: people who discovered “politics” for the first time through RW online media and now want to demonstrate how smart they are about it by endlessly spouting all the talking points to the rest of us. It’s also why I believe people like this will bounce from new extreme left-wing ideas to new extreme right-wing ideas in basically the snap of a finger. They want to stay one step ahead of the sheeple.

Except he’s not a woman, so he won’t get crushed by the justice system.

That’s one of the reasons they’ve been doing it in international games, too. I like it better than declaring a tie after x innings. We ain’t Japan. 😉

Will Smith is as decent a flyer to take as anyone. He’s been bubbling around league average for the last three or so year so I wouldn’t expect much from him, but another LHP out of the pen can’t hurt. Sure, he’s not the future, but we gotta put big league pitchers on the field today while we’re waiting.

I don’t mind it starting in the 11th. I’d like them to play the 10th as normal. If they would have decided that I would have been totally cool with it.

But that also works against the scoring of runs and deciding a winner more quickly.

I think they don’t put them on first because that would just set up a double play.

Speaking of coaching, here's an anecdote reminding us the damage bad coaching can wreak on a player. https://theathletic.com/4198162/2023/02/15/tigers-spring-training-pitching/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983 The Tigers are implementing science into their pitching programs more than ever before, thanks largely to Lund’s professorial background. They’ve had Faedo throw at Joker Marchant Stadium with Hawkeye radars monitoring his every movement. They analyzed the results and worked to optimize his mechanics. That, in part, led to Faedo returning to a three-quarters delivery that he abandoned not long after coming to the Tigers organization. How’s this for an interesting quote? “I think it’s more of my natural arm slot,” Faedo said. “They’ve always been like, ‘When did you start trying to raise your arm slot?’ I was like, ‘When I first got here.’ I felt it was one of those things with prior people that I wasn’t throwing correctly … and as a player your like, ‘OK, I have to change, this is what I’m being told.’ “(The new staff) kind of relayed to me that that was incorrect and what I was doing was correct, like the guy that they drafted. Use more of that three-quarters arm slot, play more like an athlete.”

I don't think we'll be worse, either. PECOTA takes into account only past stats and works mainly if nothing about how players are coached changes, but I believe we will see significant changes in hitting instruction approach, particularly around improvements in fixing players who drift away from their strengths, that may result in improvement all by itself, in addition to simple regression to the mean for key players.

I would be OK with starting it in the 11th, which I believe is what they do with international rules. At least player the 10th inning like real baseball.