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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.

Yes, it did air here. Since I've moved here the local Fox station always prioritized the Lions behind the Packers and Vikings. Now that the Lions are actually on the brink, local Fox might start airing Lions over Vikings. But I can't see them ever airing Lions over Packers no matter how good the Lions get.

I find it interesting how the postseason has evolved from a single World Series to determine the best team in baseball to playoffs that is a tournament separate and distinct from the regular season. I understand that the better team didn't always win the World Series back in the pre-divisions era, but the setup was compelling enough—one series, our league's best team versus your league's best team, mano a mano—that that's what we grew up believing. Now that I'm supposed to understand that all it is now is a postseason tournament that has little to do with anything that went before it in the regular season, I'm not sure how I should feel about it.

Both the Cubs and the White Sox have primary PxP guys who not only take games off so they can do national work, their contracts obligate them to privilege the national work over the local baseball work. I would really hate for the Tigers to hire someone like that.

He won't, but if he does, I'm going to too.

lol Astros fans have the unironic temerity to boo Carlos Correa.

The best part about this win is that it was a blowout. Good and great teams are supposed to blow out bad teams, not play them close. This was a big step in that direction.

Map of the situation in Israel.

Also, not only know when, but know how to cheerlead. It’s one thing to say, in a sort of excited and breathless voice, “Tigers trying to score some runs here and put this game away!”, versus, “Come on boys, let’s score some runs!”

He’s advocating for fascism, which is politics by violence, because he and his cabal know that in a free and fair elections, his side gets smoked. So if they can’t keep their opposition from voting at all, and if they can’t fix the voting machines, and if they can’t overturn elections after the fact, all they have left is to start killing people en masse. Otherwise, they lose their chance to control America and, by extension, the world. Big stakes here.

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So the unreliable combo agrees with your reliable sources? What next, dogs sleeping with cats? 😝