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As much as I no longer claim Verlander for Detroit, I claim Max even less. He is most definitely going into the Hall wearing the curly W.

By the way ... Assigning the byline to an assistant nobody makes it easy to fire her if any **** hits the fan from this.

She seems nice.

First step toward full deputization.

Noted. Point being, I don’t buy the idea that journalism is cooked as a concept and the MSM news merely engages in leftist diatribe the same way Fox engages in right wing diatribe. If you find any instances of that, please share it, because I don’t see it. And again, MSNBC and op-eds don’t count.

My hypothesis here on Saturday morning is that Ohtani will start the game for the Dodgers, go one time through the order, then they bring Glasnow back in for what they hope is the rest of the game. And if Glasnow gets in trouble late, maybe they bring in Snell for the ninth. Point being, Dodgers will want to avoid bringing in their bullpen as much as possible. And then, win or lose, the main thing we’re going to hear all winter is, how are the mighty Dodgers going to fix their bullpen? EDIT: And then I find an article filed overnight contemplating that very thing: https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-world-series-game-7-2025-pitching-role Looks like everybody was thinking the same thing. So much for clairvoyance. 🤡

It also depends on whether the hitter is right or left handed. Sliders heading for the LHB box’s corner and diving out of the zone at the last millisecond in the same way tend to get called strikes on right handed batters and balls on left handed hitters.

Or maybe more than we think. Who knows.

That’s exactly it. These are betting odds, not objective assessments of the relative strengths of teams and organizations versus one another. It’s a prediction of how the mob bets today.

The conservatives are no longer in control of that Party. It’s White Nationalist Socialism now.

They were prevented from releasing the files by a judge’s order. Trump explicitly ran on releasing the Epstein files and now is quashing it. Cab you explain that?

Not for nothing, their healthcare is safe.

Because it’s a challenge system, not fully robo umpires, so catchers will still frame to get border calls and dare the batter to call for a challenge, putting the batter at risk of being wrong and losing a challenge for his team.

Jinx 😉

Apparently, they’ve calculated that more people are winning to bet on Baltimore to win than Detroit.

We can’t know how low it is because we don’t know what all the teams will look like next March 25.

Catchers will not be doing more framing. They will be doing less framing. They will also not be doing no framing.

Where it matters is whether the batter will call for the challenge. Because determining whether the ball is a strike below the zone is harder than in other areas, it will be harder to call for a challenge below the zone than inside, outside, or above the zone, and the cost of being wrong on the challenge is high. So a catcher will probably benefit more by framing pitches below the zone than above it or to either side.

Sorry to disappoint you, but we’re not trading Skubal this winter. 😉

The bottom rail is where batters have the most trouble telling whether pitches hit the zone or not, so that’s where catchers should have the most success framing in the ABS era. Top rail, inside, outside, batters have a much better idea whether a pitch hits the zone.

He's not actually confused. He knows exactly what you're talking about. He's trying to wield the confusey face as a weapon in an lame effort to delegitimize the truth of what you're posting. But what he probably doesn't realize is that by posting only a confusey face, he's tacitly acknowledging that what you've posted is actually true. Otherwise, if he firmly believed it wasn't true, he could easily refute it with words demonstrating the untruth of it. But he can't, so ... instead.

Isn't this less breaking news and more old news by now?

Let's not pretend that journalistic integrity is some airy-fairy thing subject to strictly personal interpretation. There are well-established ethics in journalism—accuracy and truthfulness; independence; fairness and impartiality; accountability and transparency; duty of care—that are obviously ignored by RWM but, despite the longstanding cynical right-wing campaign to convince us otherwise, have been rigorously followed by the best of the MSM, including AP, Reuters, BBC, AFP, New York Times, CNN, and the letter networks. (Note that I am talking about the news-gathering and investigation sides of these businesses, not their op-ed side.) I also don't take at face value the allegation that journalism was much better years ago. That sounds like your opinion to me, and I grant that is an opinion widely shared by many. But I do believe that many have come to that opinion not because they objectively tracked changes in the quality of nonpartisan journalism over the years, but because some truthiness outlet hammers that same point over and over, and through frequency of messaging, people simply accept it at face value. Now CBS is in grave danger of falling by the wayside, and given their new ownership, they may never recover/ The first shot across the bow was the paying off of Trump simply because they did their job; the second was the sale of the network to the Ellisons; and the latest is the placement of a hack as head of the news division with the apparent intention of stripping the journalistic integrity they have remaining. But, tell you what: since you apparently are convinced that no MSM organization is any better than any RWM outlet, I invite you to keep me apprised of those instances that pop up in which one of the organizations I named engages in what you believe is leftist slanting of the news in their reporting and investigations. I want you to show me what you're talking about so I can consider actual examples, versus entreaties to accept repeated allegations. Just remember, op-eds and truthiness (e.g., NYT op-ed pages; MSNBC panel shows) don't count. Looking forward to hearing from you on this.