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NYT Story today that *50* ex-staffers signed a letter telling him to get out and calling for investigations. Whether he's guilty of the particular accusations at play here or not, how do you tick off that many of the people who have worked for you? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/eric-swalwell-staffers-campaign-governor-resign-house.html

I have zero confidence this FO could put together any trade that was long term net positive for the Wings.

they've achieved the best run differential in the division as of today. I wonder if this year's Pitching Chaos innovation is going to be Anderson as a virtual split starter for either of Mize or Flaherty to get them out of games early before they self-immolate without burning 4/5 relievers to finish the game. I might like to see this become a thing - If Anderson holds up.

the baseball world is a lot better at 70F.

It's just not that complicated. In a capped league there are only so many avenues to get better - lopsided trades, drafts, and better development. Unless your FO can outperform other FOs at those tasks, you will never put a better team in the ice than your competition. So to say that this FO "did as well as.." is useless. They have to do *better* than the other guy, otherwise you just stay where you are. So not many second rounders make it? That's a loser's take, if you are going to win *you* need to be the guy that finds the 2nd rounders that do. That may sound harsh but that's the reality of pro sports, it's not a forgiving business. SY often bemoans the fact that it's hard to better - so the 1st step is finding people who can do what's hard. What sports organization goes 10+yrs under performing its competition without any personnel changes being made? We are basically waiting for the blind squirrel to stumble into a nut somewhere with this org (OK they did once with Moritz so they've already burned one allotment of luck). If they want a different result, it's time to have different people driving the result, or maybe turn it over the ClaudeGPT.

The question is whether he is a poor coach given that his team collapsed at the finish, or a good coach that had them playing way over their heads through a good part of the season until reality struck against other teams raising their games? Personally it always seems unlikely to me the personnel on this team should have been able to achieve and hold a divisional lead for as long as they did at all.

today’s money supply drives tomorrow’s inflation.

Slight hole in the baseball terminology. You can reach base in ways that don't count toward an 'on-base' streak - in this case he reached by fielder's choice, which means from a batting standpoint, he made an out. But runs scored count to your credit regardless of whether you were on base because you were 'on base' or not. 🤔

Conditioning issue?

bad chase from Tork.

Riley's best AB this year. You could see Junk was setting him up for a high fast ball but then he left it middle middle instead of getting it up high enough and Riley didn't miss.

that's cold.

TBF, I didn't posit that anyone was - other than possibly media or fan speculators. All I said what you don't decide on what to do with a major leaguer based on prospects with better gloves - at least not until they are closer than someone like Ranier.

So how/who do we organize to get something like this on a Michigan ballot: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/08/07/transparent-election-initiative/ https://dailymontanan.com/2026/04/01/montana-supreme-court-dismisses-constitutionality-challenge-to-the-montana-plan-initiative/

I'd love to know Maxwell's real story. She was in the middle of everything with Epstein and Brunel.

The other risk is that relatively little loss of alignment in that area can result in reduced range if motion of the joint. Generally a pretty trivial issue for a civilian but maybe not so much for a major league hitter.

yeah - it's basically Greene and Carpenter who are making too many outs. Torkelson a more mixed bag - His OBP is OK because he is walking and he has been a bit BABip'd. He's already got a handful of warning track shots over 100 EV.

Fair point. Maybe I'd have been more accurate to say that the difference today is that there seems to be no cost to be caught lying. We lost that somewhere after Nixon, but may be it's unclear exactly where.

Maybe not. I broke my forearm much more severely than parker just about this time of year and had unrestricted use back before the season was over. But it depends how close it is to the wrist - the closer you get to the wrist and that little knot of bones sometimes the more complex it can be to get it to heal. I broke mine just about in the middle.

Understood. I was using the 2nd person 'impersonal' "you" there (a glaring deficiency in English un-addressed for a millenia!)

every system has slick fielding SS prospects. Few of them ever hit. I'm sure the Tigers (and we!) will be overjoyed if Ranier or Peck turn out to have an MLB bat that bumps McGonigle to 3b, but the probability of that isn't bankable for deciding anything about KM today.

this was posted in the middle of the afternoon. I've pretty much assumed he posts the ones from the middle of the night himself, middle of the day seems more doubtful.

I broke my left arm years ago and it became uncomfortable to wear a watch but it didn't take long before I realized I really didn't miss it, then the cell phone appeared. The only time I carry watch any more is if we are going to a wilderness area for a long enough period a phone might end up dead.

Given that lying is the political tool de jure now-a-days, I try not jump to conclusions about any of this stuff. I believe two things are both true: 1) men have gotten away with this stuff in the main for a long time, 2) there is no XX chromosome linked truth gene either.

I'll say one thing, if he's going to have success against LHP, the stance change should have moved him in that direction. He's looing so quick now that he's giving himself more time to see the LH breaking ball. Of course still small SS on the new stance but so far so good.