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the width is easy enough, but I always wondered about the top and bottom myself, but the other day one of the analysts said that they keep a running average of each hitter's last 100AB and the top and bottom lines are the average over those AB of the what the umps have actually called. If you follow a game on MLB gameday where the 'cartoon' has a fixed background, you can see the top of the strike zone box change a bit wrt the background on each hitter.

this I can believe. The one thing the Tigers have working is none of these guys are are near FA yet and most are not even into their later arb years so no-one is leaving any real money on the table for not being a starter or closer....yet.

True, but if the competition committee brings them something with a lot of old-timey Tony LaRussa like sage of the game we know the game better recitation, how likely are they to shoot it down?

Campaign is over at our house, dropped off our ballots this afternoon. Have to give Harris and her team a lot of credit - so far a pretty flawless campaign - just need to bring it down the home stretch.

IDK, Cleveland KC is at least as bad marketing-to-the-coasts wise. At least Detroit gives them the Cy Young pitcher to hype.

well, maybe more like lukewarm, but it was enough!

Three straight shutouts in this series.

Glad to see good Holton back.

Noel swings at 3 balls.

Riley should have hit that one at Fenway.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Will Vest.

Jace Jung sighting!

Smith out after 3 pitches. I'll take it.

I'm sure that was 6 more pitches from Vest than Hinch wanted to see that inning, but no damage.

6 to go

so long Sean, we hardly knew ye.

Beau's velo is down today - good place to pull him.

Vogt doesn't want a ball in play here.

Drats! Foiled again.

well, that worked.

Lets see if Malloy can work another BB off the righty. Wait, what, another LHP?

Jeez AJ, stop asking Parker to bunt, he can't, OK?

If an election goes to House, each state gets one vote. An individual House seat only matters if it swings the majority of the delegation of a state from one party to the other - so a house seat in a lopsided delegation like CA would not make any difference.

the SO has become a bit of an Aurora tracker. It's been active on and off most of the month but can't see much during the fuller phases of the moon (or cloudy weather of course!). Monday night there was visible aurora just west of town in Ann Arbor, but at least where we were there was no pattern, it was just sort of uniform background glow so not very exciting. I took a photo and there was decent red/green in it so no question is was aurora.

unfortunately probably mostly this.