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If Kyle Tucker were 100% healthy and hitting on all cylinders, he'd be worth 10/400.

Agreed, if we'd be paying him for his performance during the 2025 season.

Toronto, for reasons I can't articulate in this part of the forum. 😏

He's not Skubal, so I would be less butt-hurt to see him walk for nothing. I'm just a little concerned about signing him for 22.5 and he struggles for the whole year while we're like, hey, we bought him so we gotta use him. But yeah, there's no riskless choice here.

I don't think so. Tucker was both injured in September, but also, legit bad during the second half. I mean, like, switch-flipped-along-with-the-calendar-to-July bad. I think he might be had for as little as seven years and mid-twos.

Arm's gone and he's not the only one who knows it.

OK, that's plausible. Now the question is whether we want him back even for another year. With top prospects knocking at the door possibly as soon as March, I'm not sure he would be worth the twenty-two five.

Isn't large plot holes one must suspend belief basically built right into the horror genre formula?

I tried the softball schedule test in ChatGPT and the Google one, and they both failed spectacularly (and rather blithely at that). Here's the post I made about that: I recently consider giving it another try to see whether it's gotten any better at it, but really, if it can't accurately count the number of question marks in a short document, I already know it's not going to get the softball schedule test right. So, I still don't trust it. Hey, what can I say. I'm an Ailuddite.

That's a disingenuous take. This is clearly more than just "trying something else" as though they're filling a marketplace need.

Speaking of Mercator distortion ... 😝 But seriously folks—Russia is legitimately 115 times the size of Bangladesh, which is about the size of the state of Illinois.

We were the first in 1776 (actually, 1783 but whatevs). It took about 140 years for the next country to do so. Countries That Have Ever Gained Independence From The UK

I think most of us have seen corrections to the Mercator map before. I'd seen this one, too; in case you haven't, check it out:

You don't think anyone signs Torres for more than a year?

Also, kakistocracy, a word I learned in January, 2017.

The equation is something close to: 3(Clinton) x 5(Nixon) = .1(Trump)

I was fashioning some questions into a list. There were 18 questions overall, although some questions were actually two or three questions in the same little paragraph. So I asked it, how many question marks are in this document? And it said something on the order of, "there are 18 questions on the list, so there are 18 question marks." The only thing it left out was "duh". There was obviously many more than 18 question marks in that document. Also, the AI was still not capable of going into the document and changing all the instances of first person singular I had mistakenly put into it and change them to first person plural. AI might be OK at helping you ideate, but it sure ain't good at counting things, and it's not willing to help you correct mistakes. And it still can't put together a softball schedule to specs.

Vlad hits a home run off Shohei. If that’s not the perfect encapsulation of this World Series so far, i don’t know what is.

I’ve been thinking about checking in to see what the Evening News looks like but I’m afraid to look.

And if you yourself don’t need a food pantry, consider volunteering for one. Pack food, deliver food, distribute food, whatever. Inquiries have more than doubled just in the last couple of months. People know it’s coming.

God bless the Chicago Public Library.

I agree. I'm just pushing back on the idea that Vlad was robbed of an at bat had he held at third. He was never going to get an at bat either way—just a plate appearance at most.

Chip shoot? Comp shoot? Cusp shoot? Clap shoot? Am I close? 😉

Maybe he's trying to put some distance between himself and his family of criminal illegal aliens so he doesn't end up going to slave labor camp with them.

The difference is that Biden and Obama's own voters would slam them for engaging in shenanigans like that, but Trump 's voters think doing this is making America great.