Edman85

Last week, I had a haircut scheduled around lunch time, so went to a local Cuban chain's spot near my barber to pick up lunch. It was in a stripmall. The adjacent store was a crematorium.

Deivi had a 77 OPS+ in his years with the Tigers, which matches Javy.

The 84 Tigers had platoons. Dave Bergman and Darrell Evans weren't allowed in the ballpark when a lefty pitcher was on the mound.

I saw this ad on here, thought it was funny if you dig enough.

By the way, the "Are you better than you were four years ago?" answer changes pretty significantly over the course of this week. March 12, 2020, at this very moment I was at the first round of The Players Championship with my parents and my phone was blowing up with everything being cancelled. The uncertainty of the next few days wasn't awful. Hell, the next month or so with social time on Zoom wasn't awful either. It's around May when people started doing things socially and left responsible people behind when things went to ****.

By bWAR Cordero: 16.4 Catalanotto: 13.6 Zaun: 12.8 Gonzalez: 8.6 Kapler: 7.0 Patterson: 2.4 Haselman: 1.5 Thompson: -0.2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2019/03/18/did-trump-executive-orders-further-weaken-faa-oversight/?sh=4c25d743ca78

Quick search of Trump's EO's and searching "Aero" "aviation" doesn't really yield much. I'm not saying I didn't miss it, and far be it from me to doubt this, but it'd be better if this had a little more meet behind it and validation before being shared.

Wasn't sure what thread to put this in, but I saw some buzz about a panel the founders of BP are doing and decided to find their first article posted on their website. At least the first one available on the website today. The founders "founded" the company the year before, and the author in this case wasn't among the five. Having said that, it has several ties to long-running inside jokes and topics here. Let me share: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/3/interview-with-frank-catalanotto/ Here we have... Keith Law pumping up a Tigers prospect. A Tigers prospect Keith Law calling it the Rule V draft. Anyways, 27+ years ago, I thought that was funny.

It made WAPO, but still cites Katz. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/09/fact-check-katie-britt-sex-trafficking/

There will be some, but there will be fewer. My brothers and I are going to put the full court press on our dad to join the Biden train instead of writing in Haley/Kasich.

I came across this obit.

Neither was Saddam, but he still slipped through

My immediate family hasn't been splintered. I have cousins/aunt/uncle that live close to me that have been splintered by it, particularly COVID, but we are mending those fences ever-so-slowly. I've noticed it quite a bit when trying to put a golf foursome together. Granted, some people are just tougher to get on the course due to growing families, but there's 1-2 people in my former group who kinda took my place when I wasn't too willing to venture out in those times and they don't want to play with me, so I'm not really invited along, and when I initiate it's tough. Stuff like that... This comment was from March 5, 2020. My next seven weekends at this point were filled with trips, multiple social gatherings. That was the norm from roughly 2010 until 2020. It's kiiiiinda true now, actually, but the reason one of those weeks was shot was my grandmother's 100th birthday. She's gone now. I have another family member potentially dealing with dementia likely accelerated by shutdowns. Life isn't better now than it was four years ago, but it is better than three years ago.

@Tiger337's favorite pole vaulter getting a workout in in Full Swing..

I mean, the same is true for me in the first paragraph, but the fractured family and social circles are something I would pay all that money to amend.

I got a text from a colleague on March 16 reaming me for telling an employee of his who shared a supervisor with me that we were good to go home. You will never believe that colleague's vaccination status.

I will say life was better for us March 6, 2020. That answer will change if you move forward a couple weeks.

Two of his last three... Kris Anglin is out of baseball after being acquired for Grossman.

Actually, @chasfh I'm having a hard time interpreting this. "Actual Club Payroll" is effectively the CBT payroll. Actually, now that I re-read... Cash considerations in lieu of a PTBNL if announced that way counts toward the CBT. Trades like Lipcius (or Leonard) do not.

I don't know in that regard, but when it comes to the CBT, cash exchanged in deals only counts when it is covering salaries, not being used to effectively purchase the player.

I had meetings all afternoon. What did people think of Benetti? And was he able to get more out of Monroe?

It reminds me of Norm MacDonald's joke about cancer. You don't beat cancer or lose your battle with cancer. At worst it is a tie. As with COVID, the strong mutations of the virus died with the people it killed, or their symptoms were so severe they quarantined. As it evolved, the minor variants that are out there, that people may be more likely to spread by being out in public, effectively act as vaccines.

I hate to bring back the term covidiot, but I will... The victory lap they are taking in light of the updated CDC guidance is definitely something. No, they weren't right all along. Our immunity has strengthened, and the virus has evolved to become weaker.

Ah, I was wrong... Just double checked the CBA. The Tigers, assuming they remain a revenue sharing payee, would not lose international cap space.