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Pinch hit in the 11th if we need him?

No Arm Tork strikes again.

No Range Tork strikes again.

Greeting from beautiful Chicago, Illinois!

Sorry, man, I was just trying to make the joke that Bert must be high if he thinks the Tigers are gonna win and it just unexpectedly spiraled.

Erik Fedde is starting for the White Sox. 0-5, 5.64 ERA. I will make no further comment.

So much for freedom.

When did they get medical cannabis in Idaho?

As will I.

Here's what I don't understand: were J.D. and whoever is supplanting Boog sleeping during the actual pitch? How did they not jump right on that in the moment and say it wasn't even close? I understand being cautious on very close calls, but this was not that.

I think the Bicentennial served as a balm to help heal some of those divisions, and there was zero attempt at the kind of us vs them these people are engaging in.

Not saying those threats can't happen, but they have been debunked so often, I tend to believe off the bat that they are false flags.

What were these?

If she’s actually ****ing Stephen Miller, she should get hazard pay.

According to the article, the “flailing authoritarian regime” he is fleeing is California.

According to the article, the “flailing authoritarian regime” he is fleeing is California.

I’m thinking the team misfortunes are just snowballing, the guys are getting frustrated and just having trouble concentrating on every single play, and that’s just making things worse, and the more games that get away from them, the harder it becomes to just show up to go through it again. That’s a very human thing to happen. I think it’s possible things could still turn around—in the sense of anything can happen, as is 2024—but maybe they need a small bit of success to build on, then their heads will get right, they’ll get back into the game, and then they’ll be back on the horse. Going through abjectly horrible stretches has happened to teams since the dawn of professional baseball leagues. Now it’s our turn. It’s practically everybody’s turn at some point. The Cubs are an actual good team and they just went through a 10-game losing streak. Now they’ve won the last couple and maybe they’ll get back on their horse, too. When we do the postmortem on this team in a year or two, I think we’ll accept that this was never intended to be the end-game roster Scott Harris came to Detroit to put together and win championships with. He’s still in the rebuilding phase, but while he’s rebuilding, he still has to run a team out there, even when almost literally half the major league roster lands on the injured list. Rebuilding franchises from the ground up is simply not a fast process.

This would be out of character for the Brewers.

Injuries is what happened, and I think it might be more than just the lost WAR of front-line starters going onto the list. I also believe there could be something to idea of a very human response to hopelessness manifesting in lackadaisical play leading to an accelerating downward spiral. IOW, it looks like they’ve just stopped trying because they can’t win.

It was right in the middle of the Nolan Ryan era when the pitch count function started to gain some adherents, helped along by a book called The Diamond Appraised, written in 1989. It basically served as ground zero for the discussion of pitcher abuse and pitch limits.

I don’t think a guy hard-wired for competitiveness would lie to make himself look like he’s working less hard, so I would take Mickey’s word on this.

I would think Nolan would go all Robin Ventura on A.J. if he tried to do that.

And that was before the new ball every few batters era, precipitated by the Ben Chapman beaning. Can you imagine a dirty brown baseball winging toward your body at 90 miles per hour in the late innings of an April game with a sunset looming?

Not the majority. But yes, a lot, including names we all know.

2002 for pitch type, pitch value, and plate discipline; 2007 for velocity and movement; 2008 for contact and strike zone location; 2014 for spin; 2020 for arm angle Pre-2007 was measure by Sports Info Solutions; 2007 and on, Statcast and Pitch Info started measuring.