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Not all of it. Maybe not even enough of it.

I wouldn’t bet real, actual money that Tump helped mastermind some elaborate scheme to strategically steal votes in swing states to put him over the top despite losing the popular vote.

Whenever some right winger does get caught on audio dropping an N bomb, I’ll lay 10:1 that Fox will invoke the First Amendment while defending them from the woke mob.

I saw the Tigers clobber Clemens in Detroit in 1987. I was behind the plate about nine rows up in the Time Inc seats. Might have been my first-ever free game courtesy of a media vehicle, because of my job. Great memory.

If Statcast is to be believed, Iglesias is worth -0.1 offensive runs to Baez’s -8.6, while Baez is worth +2 runs prevented to Iglesia’s -3. Slight edge to Iglesias for the moment.

I bet he would get more than 40,000 votes today.

Not necessarily either-or. Could have been both-and.

OK, I’m going to ask it: how many votes did Trump steal to win 2016?

Arm the nurses.

Well, thank god the five years we've spent in rebuild mode has prevented that!

The biggest pleasant surprise of this season has been the bullpen, and it’s not a particularly close race.

Can’t say for sure.

Looks as though mask compliance in Chicago grocery stores is up over 50%.

More to the point, they want to convert that particular workforce from being teachers to being babysitters. It doesn’t take much education or certification to impart to kids the kind of indoctrination some states are seeking to implement. That’s one reason the pay is so low: it repels degreed critical thinkers who want to make a difference educationally, while it continues to attract less-skilled people … OK, let’s be real: women … who prefer to work around little children all day. (I’m not being anti-woman here—rather, these states know women will accept lower pay for the same jobs versus men, and I don’t think many Christian states want adult men around little kids all day every day nine months a year.) It doesn’t take much knowledge to teach first- and second-graders: even high school grads with a 2.4 GPA who went on to obtain a smattering of community or for-profit college credits already know the entire curriculum for first and second grades. At that point it’s all about directing them how to teach the curriculum, which topics to focus on and, as importantly, which topics to avoid. With rare exceptions, I suppose, classroom adults with that background probably won’t be agitating for the academic freedom to teach critical topics to children. They’ll probably pretty much do what they’re told so they can keep their teaching jobs in order to avoid the deep fryers and the rubber gloves and the cash registers.

I tried to give you a laugh face on this but somehow I am already out of reactions on a day I haven’t given any.

I have long wondered how much a strike three call on a pitch that’s obviously out of the zone has to do with an umpire being annoyed when a batter presumes ball four and starts trotting toward first before the umpire makes the call.

I was wondering whether I could easily and quickly cut through last year’s and this year’s Statcast data to see whether I can locate some key differences, but that might take me the rest of the year, given my general lack of capabilities (i.e., Excel and nothing else). Tell you which slugger is doing just fine, though: our old buddy J.D. Martinez. In a league where batting averages are dropping like toilet floats, he’s basically leading the league in batting average, hitting around .360. But how he’s gotten there is a big deal: he’s changed the launch angle profile of his hitting so that his line drive rate is by far the highest of his career (31% vs previous high of 24%), and his fly ball rate is down to a career low of 32% (down from recent seasons over 40%). This is just one anecdotal example, but it is a clear indication of how a hard hitter can adjust his swing and still crush it in a new deader-ball environment.

Well played, sir.

Baseball job open locally for anyone interested. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/job-posting-detroit-tigers-data-quality-engineer/

No, but then, I think Morris might have been conflicted on whether the call was actually bad. EDIT: To be clear, I’m kidding about Morris being conflicted as a pitcher versus a hitter, not Morris as a Twin vs a Tiger.

Four hundred and sixty-two professional home runs in the majors, minors and overseas. Only 14 of those in the majors. Very strange ratio. I wonder who the active minor league home run leader is?

Jack Morris had a very muted criticism of it. 😏

Can you elaborate? I’m not sure were talking about the same thing.

It’s always nice to win, but did it really have to be a Pyrrhic victory?

On the other hand, McCoskey’s gotta work with that team.