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Though, TBF, the 'whole world' will be fine if we manage to take ourselves out of it. It might even have better luck with the next big brained species it evolves. They could even be a species that never invents extra inning runners or hockey shoot outs. 🤔

Doesn't matter. I'd rather roll the dice on the chances a not very good reliever can get through an inning starting clean, than push a starter past when he's sharp. The odds of runs going up in the latter case always seems to converge to 100%, I'll take my chance with the questionable reliever over that every time. But almost every manager wants to will his guys to go just a little more. Especially with guys who have performed for him in the past. And of course fans and media will be all over him if the guy he does bring in fails because you can't prove what didn't happen.

Bullpen may be bad but Hinch still has to get back to having a quicker hook. You can't wish guys who can only go 4 into guys who can do more.

Pshaw TTBDNS

Kikuchi is sort of creatively wild.

And Earl had a lot of momentum to spare for about a 6 yr stretch around the end of the 60's

Yup. That should not have been a tough catch if he reads it correctly. Probably forgot about the breeze.

Rabbit Hole? Au Contraire! More like the Great Smials of the Tooks.

Hopefully the blow to the head will leave him with amnesia about his approach for the last 6 weeks.....

I haven't tracked his pitch location charts since he's come back from the set-back. Before that I was a little bit and his velocity was good and he seemed to on his way back but I couldn't tell you anything beyond his numbers recently.

someone will get cut when Lange is called back. He worked a back to back last week for the 1st time (though he gave up a solo HR the 2nd night). He had a couple of bad (as in multiple walk) outings in July, but generally seems to be improving - if he can stay healthy.

LOL - yes, there's that!

I would guess median also just because the ranges seem too small to be averages for the ritzy parts of London where a few billionaires would tend to skew averages strongly.

6 runs on 7 hits. Efficient at least.

That is really something. 22 players all on the same page there.

The first hit was a nice looking swing. Not so much uppercut, more in control. The second hit was a bloop - didn't square it up but he did get it in play and on the grass.

the handheld might have more RF range for when they wander around?

Dememtias can have a thousand flavors, hopefully Trump's is one that keeps him unaware - or at least in deep denial, of his own condition and he just keeps ordering aide to do today what he already ordered them to do yesterday. That's a possible recipe for increasing stasis, which would be good outcome with Trump.

Nice juxtaposition today with Tesla's board sending $30B Elon's way at the same time he shuts down the company's "Dojo" AI supercomuter program. A couple of years ago Morgan Stanley had projected Dojo to be worth $500B to Tesla's value. They are going to be a bit on the high side there.

if you work 150 innings with a WHIP of 1.25 you face just about 640 batters, and 650 PA is pretty close to a full season of AB for an every day lead-off hitter, so 150 IP is probably a good approximation as the break even point. If you get near 200 IP, your batters faced should be way above a position players AB. Of course if you play premium defense at a valuable position that also counts for something. Of course there is a little paradox there because you want a pitcher to pitch those innings while facing fewer batters. It's easy to have a big 'batters faced' number if your WHIP is high!

one would think that getting close to Trump would be the kiss of death for any NYC Mayoral candidate.

I think they have to be crazy. The conflict between the USSR as the vanguard of international Marxism and the US as the leader of the capitalist block was inevitable. If anything, it would have started long before the Atomic age but the alliance of necessity against Axis put if of a bit. But I can't see any logic in an argument that the that manner in which a war ended in which we were allies of the Russians had much to do with the ensuring tension between. That's an argument that reeks of force fitting the Cold War into a context to support a a prior bias against having dropped the bombs. There are better arguments on both sides of the ABomb issue without that kind of post hoc take.

We really have serious issues with corporate and tax law in the US. We've made it profitable to make money by gutting otherwise stable businesses. But it's one of those esoteric topics that democracy is really bad at because no-one understands how it works. You just have to have decent leadership to fix it and with Citizen's United making sure it's the profiteers that buy the politicians, that's impossible. I believe there are certain 'trapdoor' function errors a society can make that become fundamentally irreversible; that there is no way back from. Even though the consciousness of it seems to have faded from public awareness completely, CU and our corrupt political funding system is still at the fulcrum of what keeps US politics from ever-re-establishing anything like a public interest equilibrium.

My craziest lightning experience was one summer when I was a teenager - there used to be a couple of little 2 pump gas stations kitty corner at Bowers Rd and Lk Pleasant Rd (near Imlay city) - both just 2 laners - pretty much no traffic in those days, you were hardly off the road at the pumps. We were filling a couple of 5 gallon portable tanks for a ski-boat (there's a lake nearby) when lightning stuck smack in the middle of the intersection. I guess it couldn't decide which gas station to blow up and ended up splitting the difference 🤣. Once our hair settled back down we walked out to see the scorch mark in the pavement. We didn't care - we were all pretty young and stupid.

That's "funny" as in completely predictable and par for the course, of course.