No, it wouldn't have affected my father. I was using him as an example to point out the absurdity of it.
Biden did not refuse to address the southern border. A bipartisian solutuon was made to address the border, Trump convinced them to go against it. He wanted the problem to remain so he could run on it.
Obama certainly didn't fail to address the problem either. He deported more immigrants than Trump.
Interseting data. I am just not sure how to interpret it. I would think that percent of innings in which a team scores runs would be highly correlated with how many runs they scored or a production stat like wOBA. Is there a prediction advantage to knowing how many innings they scored in compared to just looking at total runs scored?
My father, who lived to 99, was born in the United States to immigrant parents. He also did more for America than most Americans can even imagine. He fought in the front lines of WWII.
Power is not the problem. The Tigers were 10th in the league in home runs last year playing in a tough home run park. Greene, Torkelson and Carprenter can all hit home runs if they make enough contact.
I think they all used to "pitch to the score". It's a different game today with practically every hitter being a home run threat. It's all about maximum effort the whole game now.
I don't agree he is only a ninth inning pitcher. His splits suggest he does well in 7th and 8th as well. If he really is a 9th inning only pitcher though, then he's not a good fit for a Hinch managed team.
Mize and Flaherty have a lot of blue too. The predictive value of Statcast pitching numbers is overrated. It's better than ERA, but still not that predictive. I am concerned about Verlander mostly because of his age.
Maybe not long-term, but this year is really important and Greene, Torkelson and Carpenter need to be reasonably productive for them to have enough offense to support the pitching.
Carpenter leading off is not a new thing. He led off in 41 games last year and batted .254 which is pretty much the same as his overall average (.252). He is definiely anusual choice to bad leadoff but I don't think that's why he hasn't hit yet.
I don't think Trump ever distinguishes between right and wrong. What is right to him is whatever helps himself personally. Sometimes those things might also be good for some of us, but what's good for us is not how he sees right or wrong.
It never got really bad. At my school, if you ignored the punks, they eventually moved onto somebody else and I never gave them the reaction they wanted. There was some good and bad in high school, but yeah I didn't miss it once I was done.
That is my recollection. I didn't pay a lot of attention to politics back then, but he was widely criticized for his handling of the hostage situation.
I also remember being mocked for looking like an Iranian. There was this big dumb kid on the wrestling team who used to yell here comes the Iranian every time he saw me and his friends thought it was hilarious.
Who is the batter between Fidrych and Greenberg? I originally thought it was Horton. It's too skinny, but I thought it was maybe a weird angle. Is it Leflore?
I still maintain that the rapid expansion, which diluted pitching staffs, and the introduction of juiced balls to recover from the strike were just as responsible for the offensive anomalies of that period as PEDs.