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There were also 119 Americans who died, along with 49 Syrians, 20 Canadians, 3 South Africans, 3 Uruguayans, 2 Chinese, an Australian, and a Mexican person.

Local tastes.

Just 243,000 (0.9%) Of People In Australia Live In The Red Area

Where Men & Women Are Most & Least Likely To be Friends

Map Of The Town of Springfield From The Simpsons

Oakland > Macomb and Wayne

What else is there to do in Iceland?

I think I figured out a hack to get at time in between pitches. Fangraphs has pitches per game at the team level for both batting and pitching, in their Leaders area. Reference has time of game by team under Seasons/Other. My simple hack is, take the total number of pitches faced by batters and thrown by pitchers for each team, and divide that by the average time of game multiplied by 162 for each team. For example: the Tigers threw 24,044 pitches and faced 23,339 pitches as hitters, for a total of 47,383 total pitches thrown in their games. Their games averaged 158 minutes in length—multiply by 162, and we conclude that they played baseball for a total of 25,596 minutes during the regular season. (Apropos of nothing, that works out to almost 18 full days spent playing regular season baseball during the year.) Forty-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-three total pitches divided by 25,596 total minutes equals 1.85 pitches per minute on average in Tiger games during the regular season. Maybe it's not perfect, but it's probably good enough. Here's the resulting table for 2025. Team Pit/Min NYY 1.75 TOR 1.77 NYM 1.78 SDP 1.78 TEX 1.78 HOU 1.78 MIA 1.79 BAL 1.80 ARI 1.80 TBR 1.81 SEA 1.81 BOS 1.81 PHI 1.81 LAA 1.81 CHC 1.82 STL 1.82 LAD 1.82 CHW 1.83 MIN 1.83 WSN 1.84 KCR 1.84 COL 1.84 PIT 1.84 ATH 1.85 MIL 1.85 DET 1.85 CIN 1.85 CLE 1.85 SFG 1.87 ATL 1.87 MLB 1.82 The team's in red are the playoffs teams from last season. My takeaways: Yeah, the Yankees are decidedly the slowest team in between pitches. The best teams are not necessarily the slowest teams. Those Yankees/Blue Jays regular season games must have been murder to sit through.

Perhaps because world war was being waged there during ten of the previous 34 years.

Time between pitches could probably be extracted from freely-available Statcast data. There’s a guy who makes them available on his GitHub.

If it’s a free and fair election, yes, it will be a blowout.

If he’s even allowed to run, then democracy and the Constitution are literally over. At that point it will be Xi, Putin, and Trump explicitly carving up the world among them, and EU Europe will basically become the Warsaw ghetto.

TDS has been fully embraced by Trump as a nice little cudgel, although I don’t think he could ever have come up with it, because he truly has no innate idea people could ever not love or respect him, except for mentally disabled (or, as he and MAGA would say, “retarded”) people. I think someone had to come up with it for him to explain to him how anyone could ever not love him.

Murdering drug smugglers? I thought Trump was pardoning drug smugglers? 🤔

Trump wants to be all things to all people at the same time. He wants to be both the president who satisfies most people by keeping us out of war unlike those RINOs and Democrats, and be the guy who thrills soldier sniffers with the rapacious overseas adventures they crave. This is not unlike Jesus who is also all things to all people—he’s the Prince of Peace to most Catholics and mainline Christians, and, at the same time, the ass-kicking no-prisoner-taking architect of the Apocalypse to the evangelicals.

Trump despises norms and institutions because they serve to constrain his worst immoral and antisocial impulses. Norms and institutions are for suckers and losers, people with no balls. Trump is sending a message to everyone in the world: we are the biggest, baddest mother****ers on this planet, and we have a divine right to control everything and everyone on it, especially you. Dare to complain or push back in any way and we’re gonna destroy you, too.

I’m pretty sure Trump’s talking about the oil under Venezuela soil that American companies started taking after it was discovered there in the 1910s, then Venezuela booted them out in the 1970s.

Of course Trump thinks this is the greatest economy in history. That guy is cleaning up.

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EPETD = Everything Private Equity Touches Dies. Private equity firms do not buy businesses to build businesses. They buy them to quickly extract whatever remaining value there is in them before leaving them for dead. I would prefer they not leave the carcasses of numerous big league teams strewn in their path as they move rapaciously through the big league baseball landscape. In a way, though, that is kind of how some billionaires see the opportunity of buying into sports teams now. The ability to make oodles of cash without having to seriously invest in the product, driving up the desirability and thus value of all franchises, is what makes owning the Pirates, Athletics, Marlins, etc., such a sweet deal for people who are far more fans of money than of baseball. Not for nothing, this is also why that particular faction of owners is spearheading the move toward limiting the amount of investment teams can put into technology. In a competitive business landscape, teams have to amp up that kind of investment so they can effectively compete and win in the marketplace. In a monopolistic/trust business landscape, the owners can conspire to squelch such inconvenient competition by forcing everyone to forego that investment, which serves in the long run to degrade the end product consumers receive. As for the NHL, they generate only half the revenues MLB does, although I also wonder whether there is a basic psychological difference in the expectations of hockey versus baseball players when it comes to the pay. I have no idea what that would be.

Would tat also be true of the Rockies? They have among the fastest games.

Glad to see I could unite all you guys! Looks like my work here is done …

I happened to notice that the Yankees had the longest average game time last year: 2:51. That's still almost three hours, and is two minutes more than their 2:49 from last year, and eight minutes more than their 2:43 average time in 2023. Another thing I noticed is that, when I looked at all the teams ranked by highest average time of game, the teams at the top tended to be those with good records. In 2025, the six teams with the longest times of game were Yankees, Mets, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Mariners, Blue Jays. So I did a quick and dirty correlation between teams' average game times and their winning records since 2023, when the pitch timer was implemented, and the result is +.294, which is not statistically significant, but then, not nothing, either. What I found more interesting, though, was when I broke the correlation down by season: 2023 0.159 2024 0.378 2025 0.413 The correlation between winning percentage and game time in minutes has been rising each year. I think there is a possibility that certain teams may have noticed that by stretching out the game to fit the maximum amount of time they are allowed between pitches, plays, innings, etc., that they gain some edge in terms of performance, perhaps from maximizing their rest time in even minute, marginal ways. I wonder whether anyone on the inside has noticed anything like this, and how they regard it, if at all?