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As far as the new schedule layout is concerned, I'm fine with it. Baseball went all in on interleague play a couple of decades ago, so they were never going to de-emphasize or get rid of it, and that goes double for expanding to 32 teams, which would be the perfect opportunity to leave interleague in the rear mirror. IOW, they ain't gonna. So I guess it's way past time for me to stop whinging about it already. So, as long as interleague is going to rule the day in any event, then I actually like that every team is going to play every other team outside their division the same amount. It removes any advantage a team might have had loading up on the weak division in the other league in any given year. And now every team has the same six-game home-and-home schedule against non-division teams in their own league, so that evens things out some. If that costs me the chance to see an extra five games against the Guardians or Royals or Twins, I can accept that. The only thing I dislike about it is that the Tigers come only twice to my city and not three times, but that's my personal problem, so oh well.

Looks familiar ... 😁

The thing that pisses me off about the zombie runner thing is that they talked about delaying it to the 11th or 12th inning, and yet they still applied it to the 10th! Arrrrghhh! I’ll bet the players pushed for the 10th.

Who is their employer?

Sure this is normal. Everything is fine.

I think this is less about favoring the Yankees and more about protecting the game from any whiff of scandal whenever possible. Scandal is bad for business.

This is probably as good a time and place as any for this. Open the article in a private window if your browser is blocking you from it.

Here's another newsflash: both union organizing and union-busting were always political at their core. It was always about class struggle. Always. "Unions weren't really political." Ha. That's rich.

Are they promoting the product effectively? If so, they're sticking around. Don't fight it—just sit back and enjoy it.

Well, it's hard to make young Joan Collins look bad, but that hairdo is working hard trying to make it so. I remember the Polish ladies were more likely to have that one, like Mrs S across the street. Picture that hair on the face of a gym teacher. That's how I remember her and neighbors like her. My mom and her bridge club ladies all had the hair I showed, throughout the 70s.

They’ll do their dirtiest work while we’re not looking as long as we’re focused on Ukraine.

I did have a nice comeback on TQQQ, though. Bought it Tuesday when it butted up against support, sold it Friday after it rose to butt up against the 50-day line. This might be one of those rare chart-based wins.

Like this? I’ve seen pictures from the 1950s of young women with this hairstyle, but by the time I was alive, only middle-aged women wore this, so I think of it as Old Lady Look. Even this model: she might be in her 20s here, but to me the hair makes her look like she’s in her 40s.

Pretending Trump was concerned only for the American people is so precious. Fact is, Trump wants as close to a lawless frontier as he can manage, because his style of business wins in that environment.

Are you implying that Leave It To Beaver isn’t a documentary after all?

It seems to me it would be super difficult to pull off an effective assassination of Putin that results in a smooth transition to a pro-Western regime which would immediately halt the invasion and then re-ingratiate Russia to the established world order, which would essentially cede whatever remains of Russia's position as a world power to reckon with. Hard to imagine how any cabal could get close enough to Putin's inner circle and still carry that sort of secret desire and will all the way to the top like that.

It was never about COVID restrictions.

How great would it be to get anything at all out of this guy?

Max Boot said on Maher that if Trump were president, Putin would not have had to invade Ukraine because Trump was a fifth column in the White House undermining America from within. Trump would have pulled us out of NATO, and with us off the table, it would have been a lot easier for Russia to just pressure their way in a la Crimea. It’s really because of Biden that Zelenskyy is emboldened in the fight. Without the US, Ukraine would have been cooked by now.

Maybe Correa needs to prove he can play a couple or maybe even three years in a row of 150-ish games with 7+ wins before he gets his megadeal. He’s got one under his belt.

We are also in a hopefully short era that sees a wide distribution of wins across the league which might actually allow an 85-win team to sneak into the last wild card slot. So maybe Minnesota is looking at that.

Although with Correa’s injury potential, who knows.

What, 3/105 is all it would have taken? Shit, man, we could’ve offered Correa that! Good for the Twins and/or WME for being creative and coming up with it. That gets Minneasota to about 81 wins. Where do the other six or eight wins come from for them to get to October? I guess it’s gonna have to be overachievement.

Fangraphs has the rotation with Pineda 3 above Skubal and Manning.