gehringer_2

this is getting silly.

a rare bad AB from Gleyber

If we take the least biased esitmate and say that some other pitcher gives you half the advantage those two did (i.e. split the diff) , that would be 9 of those 18 extra wins, which would have left them in 1st by 1/2 game going into the crash rather than 9.5 up but whatever, no team can lose it's number one and two starters and not need help just to stay even, esp when one of them is the best pitcher in the league. Now if the totally strange and bizarre happens and they retain Skubal.....

Tork swung at ball four then popped out.

Kerry too aggressive in that AB, swung at 3 balls.

humid air feels 'heavy' -- is actually lighter than dry.

after the dinger, TTBDNS

Tigers making loud outs, Torks stuck at 1st.

OK, the Twins have had all the BaBIP luck they have coming.

inning would be over if Torres was playing straight up 🤷‍♂️

maybe Tork needs to play 1st with an OF glove. Knocking down a lot of balls he can't put away.🤔

In hot weather on the bike I usually don't care if *I* get rained on, but I always hate having the bike get wet. Anyway I've been lazy this week, I sort of/maybe/minor tweaked by back and I'm being super careful with it for a few days. Got out three times last week though.

You are the empiricist here. Going into the same on Sept 1, 2025, they were 22 over, and 18 of that was games started by Mize and Skubal, the rest of staff combined was 4 over. The numbers are what they are. When those guys pitched they won, when they didn't, they were barely 500. That's data, i'm just the messenger. 😉

yeah, I hear that, but all of that margin over 500 was games started by Mize and Skubal. Take those two guys out at the end of this year and you have a huge void to fill. Maybe Melton/Jobe/Olsen can be their equal, but it's not accurate to say we can just add *from* the point we were at in July of 25 because there are major losses almost certainly coming from where that team was.

works for some things - but certainly not all. If you want a good fish dinner the buyer is way more important than the cook! 😉

while the saying is apparently not true that the Chinese ideograph for 'crisis' is 'danger' plus 'opportunity', it applies in this case. The Wings are in a stuck place, Yzerman needs a deep move that can make a bigger impact on the roster than anything on the horizon. Heck - a major move for young talent make so much sense for the Wings, maybe Yzerman should have been playing 4 dimensional chess trying to get Larking to ask to be traded.

Sure - It's true Chris I and Yzerman go back a long way, a lot further than most but even that will only go so far. Teams that lose are a big ego downer for billionaires.

and then he'd bolt like Holland did when some one gets the real job? Trammell was a legend, Joe Schmidt was a legend, Frank Robinson and Ted Williams and Yogi Berra were legends, they all got fired from management gigs.It only gets you so far. Owners are gonna owner.

The possibility of a priori knowledge - IIRC Eric Coe used this gif as his avatar on the old site. Kant spent many hundreds of pages of dense german syntax to prove the impossibility of most of the 'transcendental' knowledge that philosophy had long accepted, including almost all the classic arguments for the existence of God. The work was considered monumental. Then he wrote another shorter work to try and carve out his own exception to his prior proofs to create an argument for the existence of God - It is largely forgotten. 🤯

Bibi finding out he may the the next discard in Trump's long game of Rummy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/08/trumps-grip-gop-leaves-netanyahu-with-few-places-turn/

Just burn the 1st amendent, the 14th amendment, the 5th amendment the 19th amendment, then the 16th just for good measure, and re-write the 2nd in all those spots.

notable that in Manfred's comment to ESPN he did not say anything about capping contract terms. I suppose if they really get full TV revenue share and a hard cap Manfred will have done enough to earn his statue.

Heck - does the oppo research even matter in today's politics?. (Not talking just Maine). Folks will AI fab deep fakes of stuff whether real or not. In that sense it almost doesn't matter any more - the process is so debased that there is always going to be grist provided for the people on both sides of any issue to grind whether it's real or not.

LOL - yeah - biggest indictment I've seen of Dylan so far is that Carlos Monarrez supports him.

good question. But one way to look at it is that it is not credible that you could have gotten the Dodgers (it will cost them about $2B), Mets and Yankees etc on board for full TV revenue sharing if there was any indication there was an intention to penalize them for their current payrolls - so I think we can rest assured things will grandfathered somehow or another.