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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.

Without doing any math on actual BABIP from the last few years, I could see batting averages leaping by 20 points or more, tempered, of course, by the strikeout increase. BTW, here’s a clarification on the rule limiting throws over to first that I did not realize: the technical limitation is not on throws, but on “disengagements”, meaning, a disengagement of the pitcher’s foot from the pitcher plate to engage with the runner on first. IOW, a step off the rubber and a movement toward first counts the same against the limit as an actual throw. I don’t love the rule, but if they’re gonna have it anyway, I rather like this.

Between this, the shift ban, the pitch clock, and, I assume, a juiced ball, run scoring is going to leap by perhaps a whole run per team per game. The only thing that’s going to keep it down will be record strikeouts by a record number of pitchers per game.

The state income tax savings alone will save Jacob deGrom close to $19 million during the course of his contract versus if he’d made the same salary with the Mets,

The government taxpayer will, and the money will go to the biggest companies, who will pocket the lion’s share of it and use the rest of it to pay employees who will generate that portion back into the economy. Rinse and repeat until corporations with government connections and their bought-and-paid-for lackeys in Washington and America’s capitals control literally all the money and then parcel it out on an as-needed basis to keep the workers showing up for those jobs. Oh … wait …

Score one for the free market!

Oh, man, how many 2A people on the old board maybe 10 to 15 years ago did I enrage by making fun of their “I can fight and defeat the tyrannical government with my Glock” claim?