Crazy Cat Gentleman

pretty much what I was thinking. if the Tigers can pay part of Verlander's salary after trading him, they can afford $7.5M to make room for Kreidler or whoever.

sadly, no.

so Schoop has a player option for next season? that sucks. I kinda like this Kreidler dude.

Haha, well, you're not totally wrong. I don't know that I care for most of their stuff for reasons along those lines. And I love synths.

got mine Friday. had a lot less of a reaction than I did after my OG booster. maybe a couple hours of chills and a headache, and that was it.

I discovered this wonderful song just the other day. original Copland really isn't my thing, but this is a fantastic version of it.

hahahahahaha, that just about killed me.

whew! I just barely caught that, too. my Roku was so annoyed by the walks that it unceremoniously dropped back to the home screen.

uggggghhhhh 😒

I saw that and was pretty surprised it was 22/30. Kreidler's was only 20/30.

haha, 2nd 4-homer game for the Tigers this season.

KREIDLER! B2B!

and just went up!

timely. even if Willi/Carpenter had a little help from a bad outfield arm.

I'll admit to not even knowing who Lester is. just thought it was hella weird to have such a long interview (or much of any interview) with an opposing player's family.

434 feet!

was that a TORQUE BOMB?

Oh, yeah, major peeve for me. I don't seem to come across that as much as I used to, but it's a total teeth-gnasher when I do.

for a little extra fun, consider this case, which sounds kinda skeezy but totally isn't. two brothers in a small town fall in love with and end up marrying two women who happen to be cousins. (think of it as two trees growing near each other and their branches becoming intertwined, like this only at two locations on each tree instead of just one. definitely not the same tree looping back on itself.) one of the resulting kids—let's call him "CCG"—has a cousin (well, two, but...), and we'll call him "Pebu". CCG traces up through his father and Pebu's father, landing on the grandparents they have in common. "but wait", says CCG's mom, "your aunt and I were already related to each other before we got married!" so CCG traces up through his and Pebu's mothers this time and finds great-grandparents in common. "you're right," he says, "Pebu and I are also second cousins! and my aunt is also my cousin once removed! boy, does that sound skeezy."

that's correct! I imagine we were told there would be no math, but most generally, what you do is find the nearest/most recent common ancestor between two people count the steps down to each person of interest if the paths are of different lengths, subtract the number of steps in the shorter path from the number of steps in the longer path subtract 1 from the number of steps in the shorter path the number in step 4 is the degree of cousin-hood. two people who share a grandparent will be 2 steps from the grandparent; subtract 1 and you have 1, or first cousins. second cousins have someone's great-grandparent in common. the number in step 3 is the removal. for you and your cousin's kid, you'll again find that you're two steps down from your grandparent, while the cousin's kid will be 3. the difference is 1, so once removed. and the same would happen if your cousin's grandkid did the same—"Sue is 2 steps, and I'm 4 steps, so we're first cousins twice removed."

Same degree as your cousin and once removed.

oh, and he even came out of the game. ugh.

man, Haase must have really taken a shot there. 🤢

Kreidler gets right into the game, catching a popup on the first pitch. and Javy makes an excellent snag of a liner.