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That’ll make someone here go open MAGA … 😉

Rage “Know Your Enemy” for me.

Holy shirt, Riley!

I am frankly surprised that Holton is being brought in to the middle of games versus toward the end. I thought he had a good shot at the closer’s role after last season’s efforts.

That’s fair, although analytics could be at the root of some disagreements he might have had with other in the front office in terms of whom to sign or lock up, how much to offer, etc. This, in addition to other possible explanations such as burnout and racism.

I’m sure they’re sold. It’s just that everyone you don’t see in them is inside the nice warm club nibbling on swell food and drinking top shelf drinks. Just as with so many other organizations, the Tigers ae targeting super high net worth individuals and companies at the cost of the terrible optics of all those empty seats on showing up on TV.

Trey Sweeney’s got a little bit of pop.

Dillon Dingler’s walk up song is “Edge of Seventeen”? Is that for his mom?

Oh, Jerome Powell is so ****ing fired for this apostasy.

Here is how red hats on the ground are justifying tariffs. This, from a Facebook post from one of my wife's former high school classmates in small town Wisconsin. One might ask, "Isn't this demonstrably untrue?" Another might answer, "Does that even matter?"

And it's not even an actual defense, since prices on domestic products will rise to fill the new price gap created by dramatic increases in the prices of foreign products. The only thing that might delay that some is a honeymoon period in which domestic products do not rise yet, which will immediately trumpeted as a triumph for the American consumer, and then as soon as the next horror takes over the news cycle, the prices will unceremoniously increase, and then when the media finally notice, Biden policies from years prior will be blamed.

They're laying down in Europe. Can't have them there when our new allies attack and invade.

At least one of these was an unforced purposeful tanking.

Or maybe he wasn’t very good at the way Scott Harris wants to do analytics, which wouldn’t surprise me if it’s true. The timing is kind of interesting, though. Reddit is all in on the scandal angle.

I’ve been out of the game for a long time now so I was not aware of NPS. But I am now. https://zapier.com/blog/nps-net-promoter-score/

And to me, the most baseball aspect of that 35-5 start is how the Tigers went to Seattle and promptly got swept.

I was going off how Dan was calling the game on radio. He had said Colt was so far off second he would have been doubled off anyway, so why not keep going? But I have heard from others Colt’d’ve been nailed at the plate, so I don’t know what Dan was seeing.

The NFL and NBA and their broadcast partners would never allow it. I’d like to see MLB Network air some Caribbean league in-season games. The Puerto Rico season runs November into January. I don’t understand why they don’t do that. I believe games are already televised there, why not just pick up the feed and have a couple of minor league broadcasters call the games from a studio in Secaucus?

The Pacific League had a well-over 200-game season in 1905. Three different teams both won and lost over 100 games. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/league.cgi?id=47653d3c

Yes. Yes, they are.

They probably shouldn’t take any meetings in any skyscrapers.

I had never understood the rationale behind 154 beyond mere nostalgia for something almost no one today was alive to see, but it can actually work, mathematically, in a 30-team situation: 12 games with your division rivals; 6 games with the other ten teams in the league; four games with a designated rival in the other league; and three games with each of the other 14 teams in the other league. That’s 154. It might get a little touch trickier when they go to eight four-team divisions and they want to maintain separate leagues. 12 with each team in your division; six with the 12 league teams outside your division; and three with the 16 teams in the other league equals 156. If they want to maintain four games with a designated rival, that’s 157. If they don’t mind an odd number of games in a season, and i don’t see why they should, that should work okay. The Players would be thrilled by a reduced schedule that also reduces the 172-day service year to 164 or 166, although they might accept 172 as long as it includes more in-season games off. One of the main concerns is how Baseball would reduce salaries by 8/162 = 5%, but I could see Baseball agreeing to maintain current contracts in exchange for reduced minimum salaries.

I have a scheduled call with him next week where I can bring that up.

Barron's Headline: Trump Tariffs Are a Nightmare for Stock Markets. Next Quarter Could Be More Terrifying. Me, to my advisor, on Tuesday: Hi [Name]—just an example of the news we are all seeing every day. All signs continue to point to down. Do we continue to believe in holding all equities for the entire ride down, however far it may go? This is not an order by us to sell, but rather a question about the efficacy of sitting back and watching what everyone appears to know is going to happen happen ... Does it continue to make sense to keep holding all of it during the easily foreseeable drop and hope we can make it up within several years, or does it make sense to shed at least some of it (sort of like a “sell in May [or in this case, April] and go away” kind of thing)? Advisor: This market selloff is disconcerting on many dimensions. We do think it is temporary. Our recommendation is to stay invested. We think lower interest rates and an accommodative Fed will have a positive impact on stocks in Q2, Q3 and Q4. So, hold on and ride it all the way down, make no changes, because it will come back starting in Q2, because this is all very normal and the market will respond to normal Fed policy. OK. FTR, I do believe he is right at least directionally. After the Great Crash of 1929, the market did come back to its previous level ... in 1954.