Jim Cowan

He's going to play out the Supreme Court appeals until he dies, which can't happen soon enough.

Our Lord sent Trump here to lead us. That's all I need to know. I don't need to read some old Jew books to know that Christ is showing us the way.

Well this guy clearly is no comparison to Malloy, 2 reasons: (a) his OBP in 2 years in the very low minors was .370, and then .400. Malloy's is .410 at every level including AA and AAA. (b) your guy seems to have hit 3 home runs in 1000 PA's at the very lowest levels of Milb. Malloy hit 23 in 600 PA's at AAA. So, I might have some doubts about Malloy, and I do, but not because of whoever this guy is.

Malloy has a .410 OBP at every level of the minors. Does that mean he could do .375 in the majors, with some power? If so, he has to be on the team at DH, mediocre defense in left, and relatively poor defense at third. If he does not make the team I don't want the reason to be "well the have Canha now and he's going to lead off". Canha is a nice player, for an old guy, but I'm not sure that he adds a lot more future value than Malloy or even Baddoo. We'll see next spring.

When I look at that aggregate photo of all the scouts I am genuinely surprised at how young they are on average. They aren't 65, they're 45. It's possible that only the oldest guys got fired, but is that because they were the most resistant to industry-wide changes in methodology? This feels like out-of-court, here's $30,000 each, your scouting recommendations sucked but anyway take the money, now f off.

If I were you guys I'd be more focused on finding those tunnels, the ones that criss-cross the country. They contain decades worth of food and fresh water.

My exact thought when I saw it.

If Toledo had a decent rotation in 2024, that would be light years ahead of 2023, when almost nobody here could have named even 2 starters.

Seeing BP used for "bullpen" makes me cringe. It means "batting practice". Period.

Try it the other way next time, none of your body is over the bag in either case. Look at the angle of Cobb's body rounding third, his left foot touched the inside corner, just barely, and his hips and shoulders are just about to make a violent turn that is a lot sharper than the slower momentum shift from starting the turn with the right foot. The only risk is losing your footing.

yes that is it.

I never got any coaching about which foot to hit the bag with but I saw that Cobb photo at a very young age and from then on it was left foot at every base and it wasn't that difficult to slightly alter your stride. It just seemed that the hockey stepover gave you a sharper turn, it shifted your momentum more quickly.

That famous photo of Cobb rounding 3rd base shows him touching the bag with his left foot and stepping over with his right, like a hockey player. I think he must have touched all the bases that way.

ERA was sort of next level, more difficult than batting average.

Figuring out batting averages at 10 years old, sitting at the kitchen table while listening to Ernie, was a good start at math proficiency.

Whenever I read KBO the pronunciation in my head is KYBO.

I saw a great photo of Norm Cash barbecuing in his back yard, it was one of those little round steel barbecues, and you could see the next couple of backyards, there weren't any fences. It was a solidly middle-middle class environment.

Bob Baun was traded to the Red Wings, went out to dinner with Gordie, and told Gordie how much money he was getting on his Maple Leafs contract. It was a lot more than Gordie was getting from the Red Wings.

I agree 100%, you need local journalism. I pay for my local rag, the Hamilton Spectator, and also for the Toronto Globe and Mail, the only quasi-national paper that does not have a hard right or hard left agenda.

He's still young enough to have a hot mom.

I didn't mind lending you my Lear, but for Pete's sake at least fill up the tank before you return it next time.

Scott Harris: "Also, he's lefthanded and has a pulse". The hubris demonstrated in his comments is not something that I welcome, it reminds me of the Twins 20 years ago. They signed "third baseman" Eric Munson and his hands of stone, and Terry Ryan said "once Gardy and his staff have a chance to work with him he'll be fine". He wasn't fine.

Your Mom is my clone. I agree 100% with her observations, I could not have said them so well. Biden has a tough row to hoe here. As an example on the CBC news recently a Jewish couple from Toronto, leaders in their diaspora community, described how much anti-Semiic prejudice they were experiencing and as a result, more to the point, how much they hate Netanyahu. They hate Netanyahu, they freaking hate him. So Biden is on an island that is getting smaller and smaller, an island that the ultra-progressives have probably already abandoned.

It appears that the answer is that he got $300 up front, $300 deferred, the likelihood of earning about $30 per year, a staff of 10, and use of a royal family private jet. It's a 4 1/2 -year deal. Jon, watch you don't sit on any forensic evidence on that airplane. All the people murdered by MBS will still be dead.

"Having an owner who won't spend" appeared again in a Motor City Bengals article again last week.