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Exactly how are the Lions going to manage to get nine points?

The way we bought what they were selling about Dan Campbell, I’d say we’re the ones who got Lionized.

You can blame me for the Lions losing today since I started Goff at QB.

No score going into the 14th inning. Unbelievable. Almost even more unbelievable is that the teams have gotten only seven hits between them.

Or else Long Island.

None. On to the 12th. This is only the second postseason game in history to go into the 12th scoreless. The only other game: Braves-Reds Game 1 WC in 2020. That one went 13.

That’s OK. Fascists don’t want smart people among the population anyway, because smart people question things, create dissension, and sow the seeds of change. That’s why one of the first things fascist dictators do, once they achieve unchallenged power, is round up all the intellectuals and murder them. Fascists don’t like or trust smart people, and neither does their support base.

Man, yet another great game in Cleveland. Scoreless going into the 11th? More, please!

Right—nothing about Miguel Cabrera is going to be resolved until well into spring training. They will give him the chance to be born again hard, and really, I’m fine with that idea. But once they see that he is not only as bad as 2022, but even a year worse, then they will have to aggressively manage the situation to limit his playing time, and I can see them doing that with IL manipulation.

The one advantage to shortening daylight is that when I wake up to daylight in the morning, I don’t get up and look at the clock only to see it’s still 5:15am.

Too hot for the MLB postseason thread …

Bottom of the ninth, Cards have scored a run, two on, two out, Future Hall of Famer Yadier Molina at the plate as the tying run! God, I love baseball ...

I think Youngkin is managing this one exactly the way his voters want him to.

Cardinals completely falling apart in the ninth inning in St Louis, giving up a six-spot to the Phillies. I love it.

Bad in that they might lose, or bad in that they might win?

Maggie gets slapped …

Good lord, Michael Kay is calling the Phillies-Cardinals game.

Clase just mowed down the Rays 1-2-3 in the ninth for the save. The game took 2:17 to play. If only they had the pitch clock, it could have been done in 1:50. 😏

It’s incredibly hard.

Really good (and fast) one in Cleveland right now. Isaac Paredes, he of the 116 wRC+ that’s not so impressive to some, just chased Shane Bieber off the mound.

I’m not sure we have ever done one of these in our MTS/MTF history before, so let’s see whether this concept has any legs.

Given how certain it looked that they were going to fall short of it, 110 homers represents a pretty good finish. OBT jacked bombs after September 1 at the rate of 172 per 162 games, which is right around league average of 174 for the season and, of course, way ahead of the 95 homer pace we'd been setting through end of August. One more data point for the camp of "Yeah, it was the coaching ..."

Looking at the monthly splits table, it occurs to me: we avoided the dreaded Under-One-Hundred-Homer club.

Following up on today's announcement ... This might be meaningful to the degree that Melheuse contributed to our improved September hitting, such as it was ...