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Kid still has some work to do. 4 walks and 2 HR in 4 IP isn't going to cut it most nights. Can he learn it all on the fly?

I think 'tipping the change-up' seems like a pretty good theory right now.

would have been tragic if Keith had been out there but he should have been!

Tork flashed the leather then blows the throw.

Petry is a really likeable guy but jeez he gets exhausting to listen to. Take a breath - you don't have to fill every second with your voice.

If the radio and video are going through different IP paths how could they guarantee the feed from two different sources get to you in sync even if they wanted too? Each network path is going to get buffered as per the requirement on that network. Not to mention the Video people have zero interest in you listening to the radio while watching their video, so they aren't going go out of their way to help you do it! I wish it worked together too but I'm doubtful it ever will. 🙈🙉

Tigers have had a number of guys that stood very straight in the box, going all the way back to Alex Avila. I never liked it, not only because it's not a very 'athletic' position to reach pitches from, but just the distance your head starts away from the zone and the resultant tendency for your head to still be moving during the swing. For sure it works for some guys, but I'm glad Tork has gone to a more typical crouch.

Jobes's FB seems to be a little flat. When guys time it they barrel it up. You expect to be able to 'get away' with 99 a good portion of the time even if it's middle middle

Of course, Stanton having the fastest swing would not be a surprise no matter what he was swinging.

Other than Baez and Sweeney in the game together this could have been a 2024 lineup.

In my head I hear Tim McCarver's voice saying the line but I have no idea if it was his or he was just repeating it.

If he's back from an oblique in 10 days I'll be surprised.

Keith, Tork and Malloy at 2b, 1b, DH is fine.

The hitters are getting more bat speed, but that is simple physics since the bat of the same net weight with that weight moved inward absorbs less angular momentum to reach the same rotational velocity, or conversely, the same arm energy generates more bat velo, but that is tempered by the fact that the tapered bat doesn't actually have any more angular momentum than the regular bat moving at slower speed. I think that's why if this makes a difference, it must also depend somewhat on the spring in the bat. If the bat were completely rigid, I don't think moving the weight would matter, but of course the bat isn't rigid, and different bats have different rigidities. Elastic flex in the bat should add to exit velo and the torpedo shape actually may make the bat stiffer/less springy - there are a lot of possible variables! 🤷‍♂️

so the next step is a RHB uses a standard taper bat against RHP that is throwing him outside, and comes to the plate with a torpedo bat against LHP that's busting him inside....... If the torpedo works for many guys, we end up with an even more HR domintated game which I would hate to see happen. In truth, the more I read about aspects of the game that the increase in pitching velocity have affected, the more I lean toward toward just moving the mound back and deaden the ball a bit more. That gives the batter a few more milliseconds and make strike throwing just a tiny bit tougher for sharp breaking balls. Combined you get more contact without boosted HRs even more. Both those seem like good things to me.

Supreme Court election in WI next Tuesday will be a tell. Musk apparently pouring cash into it.

Op-Ed by the President of St. Francis U about their decision to leave Div1. tl,dr form if you don't have access is: the costs got too high, all their good athletes bailed on them anyway, and in the end the life of a D1 revenue sport athlete had become incompatible with being a student. And did I mention the costs got too high? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/28/saint-francis-division-iii-march-madness/

Auburn 2, State of MI 0.

Love the story of the The Righteous Brothers on this tune. First, the two of them flipped a coin over which of them would solo Unchained Melody. Imagine if Bobby Hatfield had lost! Then in the session Hatfield wanted to do another take, thought he could do better, Bill Medley told him - "No, you can't"

I had thought Malloy's return became more likely once they got past the Dodger lefty loaded bullpen regardless.

the physics get complicated though because the total amount of energy you can put into the swing goes up as the weight moves outward on the bat - so somewhere a trade-off exists - the question is always where. It might be the wood also. Possibly inward weighting might be more useful in a maple bat, (which is more resilient?) as compared to maybe ash or even hickory. Maybe back in the day someone had tried it but with different wood it wasn't helpful. Just spitballing here.......

This is pretty hard to believe. If that taper has always been legal and they've been turning bats for 100yrs do you seriously mean to tell me no-one ever tried it before?

In the depression you had a stock value crash, which coupled with tariff increases, slowed economic activity and threw people out of work. Since stock prices had cratered, it was difficult for business to raise investment funds to put people back to work - it was an unrighteous feedback loop - and pretty much directionally exactly where Trumps policies point. I think a difference today is the investment class actually has so much political power and is so much better politically organized, that if it comes to it, they will likely find a way to be rid of Trump before he can crash the market in anything like '29. But the other place even working class folks are affected by a market crash is that even if they've never bought a stock, if they have IRAs or 401 or even old style pensions, they are likely invested somewhere that will be affected.

Regression in the BP performance may turn out to be the soft underbelly of this team. A lot of guys probably were pitching better than their expected values last season. Also doesn't hope that we are getting zero from Lange and Foley, who as recently as a year ago were our expected 1 and 2 BP arms.

one for a bazillion with RISP didn't help either.