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Ironic, maybe, but not surprising, since the focus was on right-handed pitching for most of the tank.

The rest of the season.

And how about a .300-hitting Miggy? Who offered that one up as one of their bold predictions?

Miggy with the walkoff!

Here's a pretty fun article in the Athletic if you have access to it. It's a guy's attempt to track every baseball used in a selected major league game, i.e., Tigers and Guardians. Spoiler alert: the number of baseballs used in this game was 115.

I'll bet he noticed the pain and tried to pitch through it a long time before this.

Yeah, I get it, it's the prevailing mentality of young men competing together to defeat an opponent, whether we're talking about sports or we're talking about war. The individual is expected to fully subsume himself to the group's goal, and to do anything, including perform through pain, to help achieve the goal, because god help you if you admit you're hurt and pull yourself out of commission, only to lose by the margin that would have turned on your contribution.

Not 100% sure, but I think you're agreeing with me that the messaging here is probably influenced by state politics. I also notice in the tweet that the original statement was attributed to the director of the Texas DPS, while the statement changing that story was issued by the Texas DPS, not the director. I wonder whether that's an intentional or accidental distinction. If it's accidental it might mean nothing, but if it's intentional, that would mean the institution DPS would be at odds with and is contradicting the messaging of its director.

God damn that warrior mentality, trying to push through the pain and getting hurt worse because of it. Especially true for a guy who's going to get every chance to succeed.

Well, A.J. has to work here, so what else is he going to say, right? But as long as he gets major input on getting this franchise's processes out of the red and into the black, I can't see him bailing on us. I believe if he does bail on us, it will be because promises to him were broken.

Mize picked up the splitter again on his own during the offseason.

They need every possible vote.

Feels like the least likely scenario here is that this is all an honest mistake.

"We need to do a better job with mental health" = "we need a more effective way to blame Democrats for mass shootings".

I'd think at that point they would have to assume multiple bad guys, right? If they can't identify exactly who the extra armed people are and what their purpose is, what else could they do?

Doesn't he say stuff like that on the TV broadcast when he's doing color there? I'd be really surprised if he doesn't.

I think the parents' issue is: why are the cops not going in to engage the shooter and rescue children while he is inside murdering them? And if the cops are not going to go in to do it, someone has to go in to stop the guy and/or rescue children. Otherwise the shooter is going to murder all the children.

Until he was ten, by which time he'd already grown to 6'1" and 210 lbs.

Almost a Little League Home Run!

He's even top 20 on RA9-WAR, which is results-based and doesn't adjust for BABIP or LOB%. In other words, as good as his results have been, he's actually been a little unlucky. Speaking of luck: Justin Verlander has a 2.8 RA9-WAR with a 1.5 WAR. Two reasons: (1) .195 BABIP; (2) 95.7% strand rate.

It definitely should have been double errors on Segura and Herrera, but only Herrera got dinged for one.

So ... what's the latest with Casey Mize?

These are sample jock talk statements. I can't remember exactly what he'd said but they ere statements along those lines. Dan also responded with silence when, with a 3-0 count on Eric Haase with one out in the ninth, C-Mo said something like, "Would I give him the green light on 3-0 here? You bet I totally would" in a heh-heh-heh-type voice, sorta like, yeah, E-money, you a playa, kick it. We can't see Dan's eyes during the broadcast, of course, but they might have rolled just a little after that one.

One of the things I liked about the radio broadcast yesterday is that whenever Craig Monroe trotted out his jock talk crutches—“he’s a professional hitter”, “he just knows how to win”, “he gives 110%”, etc.—Dan would respond with silence.