Tiger337

Mark Teixeira is running for Congress in Texas. Not surprisingly, he is hardcore MAGA. He wants the seat vacated by Chip Roy.

The Republicans have always cut mental health and substance abuse treatment programs since I've been in the field. It might not always make the headlines, but it always happens. This year, more than others though.

It's really sad what has happened to this country the last ten years, but I suppose it's been that way a lot longer and I just didn't see it.

I think I would start getting irritated if they became like Tampa Bay selling every player when they started to become expensive, but I am pretty satisfied with what he has done to this point. I have advocated being more aggressive about the present at times, but I'm not upset that he's not.

It was mostly just a flip remark about Veryzer. Anyone that can play that long must have had some value. Just being able to play a passable shortstop had some value back then. However, I don't remember him having an especially good glove for a shortstop and what stats are available don't support him being a good shortstop. My impression of him was that he had potential which he never lived up to, possibly because he didn't stay in shape. I remember him once being referred to in a Boston paper as "six pack Veryzer" which suggested he might have had another problem.

Of course people who shoot up schools have mental health problems and that should be addressed. People in other countries have mental health problems too, but there are far fewer mass killings. Why is that? People being disconnected from each other due to technology could certainly be part of the problem, but I can say with a lot of certainty that it's not going to get better. It is mostly likely going to get worse with AI.

Ed Romero played one year for the Tigers. I know it's just a fun list, but I think some of thosre guys might have been better fielders than their metrics suggested. There were a lot of utility players on the list and I have always suspected the metrics don't work well for them because they had small sample sizes at every position, so your combining a bunch of unstable numbers together. For example, I remember Flynn and Romero were regarded as good and versatile fielders, but who knows? I can confirm that Tom Veryzer did indeed suck though. I do remember Meyer's neck roll.

Your reasoning is probably correct, but his career is still remarkable.

It's so great having him be the boss of the agency where my organization hopes to receive contracts.

More like several cuts below. Sure, catchers didn't need to hit back then but Bergen was really extreme. Nobody came close to being as bad as him.

That is pretty bad, but the all-time champion in hitting futility is this guy: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bergebi01.shtml 21 OPS+ in 3,234 PA But he was gritty and clutch and had a veteran presence.

He probably does. Medication works really well for that. It kept my father going for about 15 years, but he was retired, let alone being President.

He didn't put on a tough guy show though.

I didn't say "good". I said "better". 😀

Right, you can't bank on any prospect being a good major league player, let alone a generational talent. The good thing is that the Tigers have more top propects than they have had in a really long time. This gives them a better chance that a couple will emerge as above average major leaguers.

I don't see a benefit either. One obvious negative is that it's a waste of resources.

If you regard division titles as an important achievement, I can see where one might think that a tie is not as pure as an outright title. However, the magic number is not about purity.

Not really. He has a better chance of making MLB money over there.

Is that what Robert Kennedy Jr has?

The 1899 Cleveland Spiders were 20-134 with a run differential of -723. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLV/1899.shtml

I wish he was too. They would have a better line-up with him.

I think they want 4-team divisions because it gives the impression that the local team has a better chance at the playoffs. If fans are that shallow though, how do they follow the wildcard races? Isn't that more confusing for them? It is easier if they have no divisions and just take the top 6 teams (or 7 or 8 or whatever they end up with) Then everybody knows that their team has to finish in the top 6 and they don't have to do any math.

Barron Trump knows how to turn on a computer. He's got a great future in technology.

I don't know about t-mobile, but it sounds like you would have to purchase both mlb.tv and ESPN in order to watch the games. In other words, you'd have to pay more. That's how I read it anyway.

I never said anything about the owner. What's the longest contract Scott Harris has ever given as a GM of any team? Valdez is going to be 32 and will probably get 5/180. Would Harris do that?