chasfh

Pitchers are valued for their ability to induce high levels of swing and miss, because they can’t give up hits and runs on balls that don’t get put into play. That’s always been the case, but that ability was considered special and limited to a small percentage of pitchers. Science has allowed more pitchers to figure out how to get much more swing and miss, and that requires a kind of max effort from most arms. But that’s where the money is, so pitchers will gladly risk their arms falling off for a chance at the big payday. Seems to me the thing to do is to change the game to reduce the need for swing and miss. Not eliminate it, just reduce it, to the same degree it was when a teams averaged 130 homers instead of 190. That way, it wouldn’t be so horrifying for a pitcher to give up contact. That sounds like changing the ball to me, which I’ve advocated for more than a decade now, but maybe there’s more to it, I don’t know. But there’s got to be something that can be done to eliminate the idea that a permanently shredded arm is a mere occupational inconvenience. Of course, chicks still dig the long ball, and Baseball makes a lot of money off that, so it would take some real business discipline to strive to put that genie back in the bottle.

That’s what makes it bold and not stupid: there’s a reasonable path for it.

Because a number of them are openly in a minority class, including the team captain, which is not true of the men's team.

Most of us know that, but hardly anyone steeped in RWM knows it. They hear nothing about Trump's health on Fox, Newsmax, et al, except when Ronny Jackson calls him the healthiest president in the history of the universe.

I will reject this idea up to the very moment they announce it's going to be implemented.

Now we know he's in for the win.

Thanks for pointing this out. We had noted this last year but it was easy to get past people. There was no way they could use a 3-D representation of the plate area where not only your example of catching just the front corner would be a strike, but also a floater that comes in and passes you up around your eyes clips the back of the plate area for a strike.

I don't hate Avila, either. What I do hate is when people insist that Avila deserves as much as or more credit than Harris for the recent run of Tigers' success, and there were plenty of people here insisting as much.

Shep is probably how most people here found the audio overlay. 😁

For any lingering thoughts of wanting to see Harris get replaced, this pretty much puts the nail on the coffin of that thought. Are we beyond all that now, for certain? Is everyone on board with Scott Harris now? Am I no longer uniquely the board's Harris slappy?

Even better—MEXICAN beer!

Quick, find all their descendants and deport them all.

I heard someone predict on a top pod this weekend that Trump might end up just canceling it outright because he's struggling to make it through public events more and more. I don't know how likely that actually is, but it does seem likely that he will have some portion of it that makes everyone question his health.

Man, I gotta give it up to the AI video creator. As nauseating as the content itself it, the technical quality of this is outstanding. Good enough where there will be millions of older red hats who actually, honestly believe this is absolutely real.

The fault baked into this lead sentence of your post is the assumption that Trump actually cares about bringing down the price of oil. First of all, from a 30,000-foot view, it's faulty on its face to assume Trump cares about making life better for the American people in the first place. He doesn't, which he has demonstrated so often that I can hardly believe people can keep a straight face whenever they say he does. Secondly, to this particular point, it assumes that Trump is actually racking his brain trying to honestly figure out how to bring the price of oil down, but he simply hasn't been able to do so yet. As the authoritarian president of one of the world's largest exporters of oil, and who likely directly benefits financially from it by dint of how he has redefined his office, the interest he has in bringing down the price of oil can be safely assumed to be zero. Apologies because you didn't ask for this, but I think the sentence would be far more accurate if rendered as:

When pressed on it—if he's even inclined to address the actual question at all—he might well reply that no one really cares about that.

When you figure it out, I for one would be interested in why specifically you hated Thomas Massie at one time.

I think in this specific case, this particular media vehicle is helping create the bull**** propaganda, versus just buying it.

I would bet there is a lot more asking and a lot less telling these days.

You gonna save 15 minutes and switch to GEICO now?

Trad militias would never want them around, and a whole militia of trans people would be fired upon by other militias and the actual military.

Some will like this, some may not.

The way Ttump meddles in private enterprise to assert his will (and also get paid off, I assume), no one who supports him can call themselves a conservative and expect to be taken seriously.