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Twelve strikeouts, five innings, 65 pitches. Holy Mary, Mother of God.

I’ll take that strike three call on Nootbaar, but man, is Hunter Wendelstedt ever bad.

Could have had a Fister today, but alas, only seven in a row.

So of course I had to look into this ... Pulled down from FanGraphs all teams since 1901, a total of 2,646 in the AL and NL only. Isolated two types of teams: all with with good pitching (better than 95 ERA-) and below average hitting (less than 95 wRC+), and those teams with below average pitching (worse than 105 ERA-) and good hitting (better than 105 wRC+). Of total teams, there are 288 in the first category and only 50 in the second. It's apparently a lot less likely to have good hitting with pitching worse than 105 ERA-, than it is to have bad hitting with pitching better than 95 ERA-. Anyhow, here's how it comes out: 288 teams with good pitching and bad hitting: record of 23,380-21,338 = .523 WPCT 50 teams with bad pitching and good hitting: record of 3,728-3,589 = .509 WPCT So it appears your hypothesis has some merit to it!

I would be interested in your take on the current top 30.

If the idea behind this is boy what a good start for a change, then I would consider March/April taken together, which websites already do, in which case we are already there!

Examples?

So honest question: if the jury finds him not guilty, could Merchan then sentence him to the pokey for contempt? because I would definitely recommend against that.

Republicans will fight back by redirecting our attention to the actual fact that Muslims generally and genuinely loathe dogs, and Muslims vote D.

Would that this would make any difference in November.

Fake news. They are all and always murdering terrorists.

Meaning they will have to sentence him to jail or prison in order to better survive an appeal?

OK, and what's Merchan going to do about it when he inevitably violates it next time? They're not going to throw him in the county pokey, are they? Because that's what he wants! Although I'm not sure that would have the effect of bringing moderates over to his side. After all, practically by definition, moderates don't have the same burning despite of government as people like Trump do. I would guess that if they were to "incarcerate" him—which, I don't know whether they would actually go through with it, but if they were to—it would be at one of his suites in Trump Tower, and it's probably better than 50/50 they would allow him to maintain access to the press and communication devices, so he would continue to violate while "incarcerated", and then they'd have to escalate the punishment, and the more steps they are seen taking to escalate the punishments, the more it looks like the deep state is hammering him, and I think that might start bringing moderates over to his side. So, to avoid that, if they're actually going to incarcerate him, I would think the only effective way would be to rip off the band-aid and throw him into the county pokey right off the bat.

Not sure how aware people here are of how much the national press has noticed Riley Greene, but here is yet another story I am seeing. he keeps this up and he will get MVP votes this year. https://theathletic.com/5445695/2024/04/30/mlb-hitters-hot-starts-barrel-rate-improvement/ Riley Greene, Detroit Tigers We’re focusing on batted ball quality here, but this is truly a breakout in all regards for the 23-year-old outfielder in Detroit. Consider that, so far this season, he has: • Reduced his whiff rate by a larger margin than all but 16 players in the bigs • Reduced his strikeout rate by 2.4 percentage points • Reduced his chase rate by a larger margin than all but 18 players in the bigs • Increased his walk rate three-fold (the biggest improvement in the bigs) • Reduced his ground-ball rate • Increased his fly-ball rate by a larger margin than all but five players in the bigs • Improved his range defensively Often across-the-board improvement like this is due to a player settling into his approach, and that seems like the case here. “It’s been a lot of nibbling to get me to chase,” he recently told the Detroit Free Press. “The more that I don’t chase, the more they’ll come back in the zone and hopefully try to challenge me.” Players generally see more pitches, chase less and lift the ball better as they age, but this is a more aggressive version of that natural improvement. This is a player coming into his own. He may not be stealing bags like he did last season, but Greene seems likely to be able to hit .250-plus with 25 homers this year, with the type of defense and base running that could make him an All-Star.

Well, at least we know where it all comes from now. 🤨

Sounds exactly like my mom and my oldest brother telling me when I was in college that I was a liberal because I read garbage like Mad Magazine and Metro Times.

TBF, that’s a lot a lot more imported from the land of Elsewhere as well.

Yeah she did a great job.

My buddy the PBS hotshot worked hard to paper over his!

I can hear the boos if I strain to, but the cheers basically drowned those out.

I have noted on a few occasions here that his Queens stevedore accent is a huge part of his appeal. If he talked like Bill Buckley he'd be just another criminal real estate nobody.

So of course I’m gonna critique it. The lady in the red dress looks too in on the joke. The guy needed to turn his head and body more. The lady in blue looks more pleading than pissed off. Otherwise, spot on.

Regrettably, they vote, too. They are voting for the personality more than the fascism. Not that they are anti-fascism, or even agnostic about it, but if it weren’t for the personality, they wouldn’t be voting at all. They certainly wouldn’t be coming to the polls if Mike Johnson were running, and he is easily as fascist as Trump, if not more. That’s going to be the challenge for the Profa movement after Trump leaves the scene: getting someone with a personality to front it. The personality wouldn’t even have to know what he’s doing. Kid Rock would do, if he could get the olds to show up. And Don Jr doesn’t have anywhere near the broad-based charisma that Agent Orange has, try though they might. It will be an actual quandary for them, which is why this election is probably the last best chance they will have for maybe decades to win and finally destroy democracy.

God, I love that woman.

And then after you answer “yeah I know”, they invariably reply, “so why didn’t you do it??” And you wanna answer, “because I’m ****ing human and I made a ****ing mistake. Do I really need to defend that?!” But you don’t, because it just doesn’t matter, and you just want it to be done with already. But it’ll still bother you for a few hours. Then you’re over it, and everything resets.