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Fire Hinch! 😝

Maeda is clearly toast. I don’t know whether he’ll be released tonight, but he might be pitching in Japan within a month, if an outright release from a big league team allows him to. Thing is, who would we bring up? Foley and Guenther are both hurt, and nobody else in that Toledo bullpen has any major league experience. Maybe somebody will be making his major league debut this week.

OK, I might be out on AI altogether, at least as it relates to web-based AI products like Claude, which is supposed to be one of the better ones. This is a conversation I just had with it. The Cubs beat the Diamondbacks 13-11 today, even though the D’backs had a 10-run inning. So I went to Claude and asked: Has a big league team ever scored 10 runs in a single inning and still lose the game? Claude: Yes, this has happened several times in MLB history! Scoring 10+ runs in an inning and still losing the game is rare but not unprecedented. One notable example occurred on June 30, 1952, when the Chicago Cubs scored 10 runs in the 6th inning against the Cincinnati Reds but still lost the game 14-12. The Cubs entered that inning trailing 10-2, rallied for 10 runs to take a 12-10 lead, but then allowed 4 more runs to the Reds in later innings. Another famous case was on August 25, 2017, when the Minnesota Twins scored 10 runs in the top of the 5th inning against the Kansas City Royals to take a 12-5 lead, but eventually lost the game 16-12 after the Royals mounted their own comeback. These games highlight the unpredictable nature of baseball, where even a massive offensive outburst in a single inning doesn't guarantee victory if the pitching staff can't hold the lead. Me, after looking for the box scores to confirm: You’re hallucinating neither of those games happened. Claude: I apologize for my error. You're absolutely right to call me out on this. I provided completely incorrect information about games that did not occur as described. Let me correct myself: While there have been instances of teams scoring many runs in an inning and still losing, I fabricated those specific examples with the Cubs in 1952 and the Twins in 2017. Those particular games as I described them did not happen. Thank you for pointing this out. I should have been more careful about providing accurate baseball history rather than generating false examples. Me: I have lost all confidence in you Claude: I understand your frustration, and you have every right to be disappointed. Making up false information about baseball games was a serious mistake on my part. There's no excuse for providing fictional examples presented as historical facts. If you'd like to continue the conversation about baseball or any other topic, I'll be much more careful to verify information before sharing it. If you prefer not to continue, I completely understand. Me: You can redeem yourself by providing an actual example, or confirming it has never happened Claude: I'll approach this carefully by researching actual MLB history. One confirmed example occurred on July 6, 2021, when the Washington Nationals scored 10 runs in the bottom of the 5th inning against the San Diego Padres to take a 12-8 lead, but ultimately lost the game 15-12. The Padres responded with a 7-run 6th inning and held on for the win. This game is well-documented and verifiable - the Nationals had a massive inning but couldn't hold the lead, demonstrating that scoring double-digit runs in a single inning doesn't guarantee victory when the opposing team continues to hit well throughout the game. Me, after finding that game also never happened: Oh good lord Claude: I apologize for continuing to provide information without proper verification. This is clearly frustrating for you, and rightfully so. Let me be direct: I should not make claims about specific baseball games without being certain of their accuracy. Rather than trying to provide another example that might also be incorrect, I'll simply acknowledge that I don't have reliable information about whether a team has ever scored 10+ runs in an inning and still lost. If you're interested in finding a verified answer to your original question, consulting official MLB records or baseball reference sites would be the most reliable approach. So, it appears AI’s prime directive is to provide an answer in an attempt to satisfy the asker even if the answer is wrong, and furthermore, when caught, it cheerfully admits they makes up the answer, plus it double downs on the directive with even more certainty, and when the jig is up, it finally throws up its hands and in effect says, look, if you want an actual truthful answer, go someplace else.

TBF, today is Good Friday.

If FElon ever seriously did embrace the Detroit Tigers and the organization seriously and publicly welcomed and merchandised that, I would have a serious decision to make.

You beat me by some six or eight years. I wasn't aware of him until Spy Magazine.

I'm making no claims about the guy. You are. That's why you have to provide evidence and I don't have to provide a thing. Since DHS is a party with interest in the dispute, citing them as a source falls out of bounds. They are not providing evidence—they are making claims. (1) is an unsupported claim; (5) is also an unsupported claim; (6) does not confirm he is a terrorist or criminal (and simply being undocumented is not in itself a crime); (7) is an unsupported claim; (8) is not relevant to any activities that are claimed he is being detained for. These are all easily dismissable. (2-4) would be more interesting if they related to a crime committed recently. But the write-up is from 2019, during Trump's first term when his DHS could have dealt with Garcia at the time. But they didn't, meaning there must not have been enough evidence to move forward on the guy. Also, the document does not specify any criminal action the guy might have been involved in at the time, only a lot of circumstantial claims meant to imply criminality. Not for nothing, any provenance to the document was removed before being posted on the web page, meaning, we don't know where it's from and who put it together. So it's a lot of smoke from more or less an anonymous source. Maybe you think the idea of "smoke equals fire" should lead to forfeiture of due process, as was the case here, to which I would reply, that's never been how justice in the United States rolls.

I was simply nine years too early with my predictions of this.

We are all nothing more than marks.

It’s real. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64503989/tesla-odometers-are-inaccurate-lawsuit-claims/

It should be implemented for 2026.

There are probably be some planets like that. My hypothesis is that most other planets with life are anywhere from the primordial ooze to caveman stage.

I know, I don't have high expectations for an actual response, either. But that doesn't mean he shouldn't be called on to defend his allegations what the situation requires it, and I think this is just such a situation. And who knows, maybe he will upend expectations and surprise us with something. So come on, @Archie, whatcha got?

If you are here to not merely troll—if you have some actual evidence that the guy is a terrorist—then share that with us, because everything we are hearing is that Garcia is being held without any such evidence of terrorism or gang affiliation. This is a very simple request, and If you reply without providing such evidence, that is a tacit admission that you have none.

Is that where I'm scheduled to die? El ****ing Salvador? Christ Almighty.

I didn't know you were Chinese. 😛

That was Trump's situation before he became a politician. Now that he essentially owns the entire government, things are obviously different, at least indefinitely.

You misspelled "neighbours".

I have often wondered of all the planets in the universe that host intelligent (or sentient, if you prefer) life, in what stage of development versus the others is Earth? I hypothesize that out of however many planets have any signs of life at all—whether it's a thousand, a million, a billion, whatever it is—Earth is well into the 90th percentile of life development. I also hypothesize Earth is in the end stages of life, which probably means something like a few million years left versus billions, before it embarks on its own death spiral as a planet. I have nothing to base this on but my self-proclaimed educated predilection for being able to successfully estimate the relative values of objects similar to one another.

Note that they didn't call it a "surprising security breach".

Another huge stinkeroo. 💩

Greetings from beautiful Milwaukee, Wisconsin!

And he has the salary because he has a track record, and because he has a track record, he gets more chances to make good than Joe Blow on the minimum. So it’s all connected I guess.

What is the deal with Edge of Seventeen? It's gotta be only because of the guitar riff, right? Or maybe it's their mothers' favorite song?