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Sorry to disappoint you, but we’re not trading Skubal this winter. 😉

The bottom rail is where batters have the most trouble telling whether pitches hit the zone or not, so that’s where catchers should have the most success framing in the ABS era. Top rail, inside, outside, batters have a much better idea whether a pitch hits the zone.

He's not actually confused. He knows exactly what you're talking about. He's trying to wield the confusey face as a weapon in an lame effort to delegitimize the truth of what you're posting. But what he probably doesn't realize is that by posting only a confusey face, he's tacitly acknowledging that what you've posted is actually true. Otherwise, if he firmly believed it wasn't true, he could easily refute it with words demonstrating the untruth of it. But he can't, so ... instead.

Isn't this less breaking news and more old news by now?

Let's not pretend that journalistic integrity is some airy-fairy thing subject to strictly personal interpretation. There are well-established ethics in journalism—accuracy and truthfulness; independence; fairness and impartiality; accountability and transparency; duty of care—that are obviously ignored by RWM but, despite the longstanding cynical right-wing campaign to convince us otherwise, have been rigorously followed by the best of the MSM, including AP, Reuters, BBC, AFP, New York Times, CNN, and the letter networks. (Note that I am talking about the news-gathering and investigation sides of these businesses, not their op-ed side.) I also don't take at face value the allegation that journalism was much better years ago. That sounds like your opinion to me, and I grant that is an opinion widely shared by many. But I do believe that many have come to that opinion not because they objectively tracked changes in the quality of nonpartisan journalism over the years, but because some truthiness outlet hammers that same point over and over, and through frequency of messaging, people simply accept it at face value. Now CBS is in grave danger of falling by the wayside, and given their new ownership, they may never recover/ The first shot across the bow was the paying off of Trump simply because they did their job; the second was the sale of the network to the Ellisons; and the latest is the placement of a hack as head of the news division with the apparent intention of stripping the journalistic integrity they have remaining. But, tell you what: since you apparently are convinced that no MSM organization is any better than any RWM outlet, I invite you to keep me apprised of those instances that pop up in which one of the organizations I named engages in what you believe is leftist slanting of the news in their reporting and investigations. I want you to show me what you're talking about so I can consider actual examples, versus entreaties to accept repeated allegations. Just remember, op-eds and truthiness (e.g., NYT op-ed pages; MSNBC panel shows) don't count. Looking forward to hearing from you on this.

With ABS coming, the skill of framing is going to be even more valuable, especially below the zone. Catchers who are good at doing it subtly are going to succeed while catchers who are super obvious about it won’t be as successful with ABS. Jake was not as good as Dingler at that this year, but he was still in the top third of the league, so that might be worth the three bills we’ll have to pay.

We should probably remember if the Tigers were to trade Skubal, they could kiss Bichette or Bregman or Tucker or Cease or just about any other halfway decent free agent goodbye. There’s no way any good player is going to want to come to a team that’s just traded their two-time Cy-Young-winning bird in the hand for two in the bush, and they are not making any decision to come to Detroit before they know that bird is definitely staying here. And this doesn’t even take into account the effect such a trade by a team that’s on a two-time LDS run would have on the rest of the guys who are already here, as well as the guys who are due to come up. Who’s going to gladly bust their ass for a team that purposely trades their way out of playoff contention? Skubal ain’t going anywhere. We’re building around him for next season.

Jake might be on the bubble. Three and a quarter million is a lot for a catch and throw guy, but then, he is a well-known quantity to the pitchers and that counts for something. If he does come back, pretty likely it’s his final year here.

There will be no "Second amendment rights" when they draw up the new constitution. The possession of firearms will be strictly controlled to ensure that only those connected in some way to the regime will be able to have them. Firearms will be verboten for everyone else. So if you want to make sure you have a firearm available to you to protect yourself if the government were to abuse its authority, or you do not want to be disarmed and defenseless against private, state-sanctioned attempts to instill fear through violence, you better act fast to loc up and protect yourself.

Yes, they could, and be assured that they will, eventually. But first, they will use this as an opportunity to delegitimatize the Democratic Party and hurt as many people as they possibly can with this tool until it has outlived its usefulness. Once it has, they can set it aside, do what you suggest, and then ratchet up the war on 60% of all Americans with something even more horrific than this.

Jesus would punch you in the ****ing face for posting this. 😉

We'll have to agree to disagree on this. As I see it, the only way your supposition here works is either/or (1) Bari Weiss knows in her heart of hearts she's a regime hack but she goes through the mental jujitsu of convincing her topline self she's an honest actor for the sake of appearing consistent in public; (b) her idea of integrity is wildly different than the definition that has been established for traditional journalism as practiced by the most respected organizations around the world—by which I mean, integrity as defintionally reworked by people who openly want to smash tradition journalism to bits as their first priority.

I'd rather try to flip at least one or more of them for a controllable starter, which I think we will need starting next year. Jobe might be out all next year, and Olson is starting to look like a 50/50 bet to totally crap out on injuries. The way Anderson is raking in Arizona, plus his breakout at AAA last year, he might be the top chip that unlocks someone. Maybe not Alcantara level—although who knows, maybe. (Marlins do have a pretty good 2B already.) Sign Bichette—which was the genesis of this sidebar—and a Anderson/Rainer-plus package should get at least one controllable guy in the top half of the rotation. Lee seems like that guy who will play second and third for us as either a fourth guy, or as a platoon partner with Keith at third (or platoon relief for McGonigle at second). I think we'd like to keep the flexible guy over the other one.

Which almost certainly still wasn't good enough for Skubal. That would just give him 2027 here to get terminally hurt and not get the big payday starting that year. But even without an injury, he's way more attractive at 30 than at 31, and maybe even loses more than one year off the best deal coming out at 31.

I did a double take until I read pass the headline. I thought maybe we were gonna lose a poster we’d just gotten back.

So what's more likely now? Is a red hat going to move out because someone speaking a different language moved in next door? Or is the red hat going to use his second amendment rights to persuade the someone speaking a different language to move out?

He knows we did, but he is gaslighting the red hats into believing we didn't, and they will believe it because he's told them to.

With as high as the ceilings are on the five system guys you named, would you prefer to keep them all and potentially under-utilize several of them? Would you not prefer prefer to trade any of them sooner to fill holes elsewhere? Because we have plenty of those.

I think the fault is lack of talent.

I wouldn’t think Sasaki would be happy to come here.

My friend from Cuba, who has been working hard to get his permanent residency here, still had a wife and child there, as well as his parents. He reports they lost furniture but otherwise the housing structure is OK, and thankfully, so are they. Very scary time for a guy living in a foreign land separated from his family.

Everything is an option, but if we’re signing Bichette for the seven or more years it’s going to take to get him to come here, we’re probably going to have to trade three of McGonigle, Anderson, Lee, and Rainer. OK?

I believe even that part is a head fake, because they want us fighting about stupid **** like this post, and even though I totally agree that Trump is cognitively compromised to a significant degree, I do think he is with-it enough to understand the value of head faking America about stupid **** to keep us from looking behind them and really taking in what they are actually doing to dismantle American governance. As for J.D.: this is why I keep telling people who wish Trump would just expire already because they think Trumpism would simply end and we would go back to normal: hey man, careful what you wish for. A key reason everything is happening at firehose-speed is they're getting an entire infrastructure in place that they plan to be impossible to dislodge.

See, I kind of believe that there's an explicit acknowledgement among movie producers that because people expect to suspend belief about the existence of paranormal nonsense, the filmmakers have much more leeway to fudge or even completely disregard key details about the real world parts they depict in ways they could never get away with in a real movie, and that goes double for what happens in police investigations, court proceedings, business offices, college campuses, you name it. In fact, I firmly believe that a high percentage of the most avid consumers of horror movies actually believes paranormal definitely exists, which means they almost certainly don't have much of a clue how police stuff etc. actually works, so the filmmakers can depict it in practically any way they want and not have to worry about getting called on the carpet by Internet scolds for it. And even if they are, well, all they have to do is reply hey, it's a movie about aliens/voodoo/super killers/etc., lighten up, d*ck. Put the scolds on the defensive, make them the wet blankets. Filmmakers would totally get support from all the non-scold fans on it.

OK, now I'm sorry I dumped NVDA at 123 last summer. Although in my defense, I was still ahead on the sale as recently as May 12.