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the infamous 6 miss walk

Have I mentioned how thoroughly unimpressed I am with Margot? I understand beggars can't be choosers when injuries leave you desperate, but I hope is is gone soon. Jake certainly saved his rear there.

Moreno's Angels are a lot like WCF's Lions. Give the fans a really big star or two and everything else should take of itself.

True - but there is another way of looking at it, which is that if I'm good at what I do and bust my ass always being the best I can be, why do I want to keep serving the profits of an incompetent FO/ownership that can't or won't perform at the level I hold myself to? That may be just a little Ayn Rand-ish, but even as an everyday working stiff I've been in jobs where I resented the incompetence of the people I was working for. I can only imagine how much worse it could have been if I was as dedicated to my performance level as a pro athlete has to be.

I could be wrong, but I'd estimate the two things killing Americans at XS rates in recent years have the opioid epidemic, and the fact that Americans are epidemically obese. Not sure why it's so much worse here than in other developed countries, but we are a stunningly overweight nation, and right down to the elementary schools now.

I wouldn't be surprised. Seider is at his best when he is skating hard all over the ice. I always thought Lalonde played him too many minutes to keep him fresh. I'm not sure but from the boxes I've looked at since McClellan took over I think he has cut Mo's TOI some, but he is still always the highest on the team. The thing with Seider is that you sort of have to make up your mind what you want him to do. Since he's big and strong you can have him be that physical presence but if he plays that game hard it's going to take a lot out of him being able to the play the skill side puck possession game he is also capable of. OR TL/DR, the wings need to be a tougher, stronger team across the board so Mo doesn't have to be the only guy on that end of things.

So we have them right where we want them - ripe for regression!

Need to respect the wind today. Walk Judge and pitch the left handers inside.

No crash but no bounce either. Market down 1.5-2.5%. Bitcoin and Tesla under pressure. Someone(s) trying really hard to support Tesla at 230.

WAAAAA! if you don't give me what I want I'm going I'm going to shoot myself!

So in the 7th inning of this game, the Tigers pinch hit an infielder for an outfielder (who is a converted infielder) and sent one of the other infielders to the outfield on defense. In the 8th inning, they again pinch hit an infielder for an outfielder and moved a 2nd starting infielder to the outfield. All Hinch needs now is a catcher who can move to the infield and the whole defense would have an outward flow going.

No joke, it wasn't 5 min after I read this post I got a fund raising text from Hines. 🙄

Dammit Lee! I'm an engineer, not a mind reader! (--apologies to DeForest Kelly's memory )

Notable that after how badly the trajectory of these two teams seemed to be diverging after 3 games, we come into this series only one game behind the Yankee's pace. The bronx bombers have scored a ton of runs, but they have also given up as many as the Tigers have scored. The air will be cold but the breeze will be out to left today and tomorrow. Some advantage for the Tigers' RHH with the Yanks starting a lefty.

Author of paper Trump admin used to justify tariffs completely rejects their mis-interpretation and mis-application of his findings: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-tariff-math-formula.html

TBH, I also don't see that the Tigers have ever owned up to the fact that for two years they were constantly telling him he had to be more selective about getting 'good pitches to hit', only to realize last year that his real problem was not covering enough of the zone. IIRC it was Harris that started the shift in that conversation.

Clark will just have to hit enough for the both of them.

Amazon is an almost rationally priced stock at 30 times earnings. Bezos owns about 10% of Amazon which is valued at about 2T so there is his ~200B net worth. Tesla is not a rationally priced stock, even with the recent drops, it's still selling at ~120 times earnings. At this point the odds of Tesla improving its earning by the factor of 4 needed to make its price reasonable seems unlikely at best. But enough people disagree with that assessment to keep the stock bid up to where it is. Musk owns ~400,000,000 shares of Tesla at ~$250 which is about $100 billion, and then he owns 40% of SpaceX. SpaceX is valued at $350B but it's not publicly traded so we don't get to know it's financials in much detail. The last thing I saw estimated SpaceX's revenue for 2024 as $13B (that's revenue, not profit), so a valuation of $350B is pretty rich there as well. But in any case, that adds ~$150B, and 'X' is supposed still worth ~40B. So that gets you to around $300B. Of course If Musk tried to cash out it would probably tank the value of either SpaceX or Tesla. Bottom line is Musk has more net worth because more investors have believed/do believe he was going to generate, or at some point will generate, a whole lot of revenue that actually hasn't been generated yet.

don't look for your invite to the annual Pitcher's Benevolent association ball this year.

Phyllo dough, honey and nuts.

Oppo on a cold day no less.

he was actually part way there when he came back from Toledo - at least in terms of being more aggressive earlier in the count and trying to cover more of the strike zone. Because it's hard to move averages late in the season I think people tend not to realize he did hit at an OPS rate 200 pts better than before he was sent down. I would guess that once he decided that covering more of the zone was an imperative, he also knew an adjustment to his stance would be needed, but that would be an off season task. I think it's also possible that once they told him he had lost his starting gig, he stopped worrying about a lot of things, like whatever baggage he had accumulated with the Tigers - he probably figured - like a lot of us, that he was destined for another organization

Definitely happy for Ibanez since he is off to such a bad start with the bat. Ending that inning would have been a very bad day for him.

Fair enough - but if there is a difference it's that JV's FB was so live he could throw a lot of it - guys could maybe foul it off and stay alive and drive his pitch count, but he didn't walk them that much. Jobe needs his breaking ball more (doesn't everyone today?) so if guys stay alive against him the probability of the walk goes up because he's going to throw more spin, and his walk rate has been his problem in these two starts. Or the short way to put it is his still has to improve his command, but by nature that is harder throwing more spin than throwing more heat.

Games all moved up in the day to make sure the Yankees' torpedo bats torpedo bats don't freeze.