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The disconnect between the radio audio and the video is greater tonight than I have ever seen it. I mean, maybe four or five seconds the audio is ahead of the video. Looks like I’ll have to slum it with Jason and Petry tonight. 😏

Or 1/100th as powerful.

If there is any coming back from it, you and I won’t live to see it.

Good work, keep it up.

I don’t know about you, but I definitely did not have Tork ending Opening Day with an 1193 OPS+ on my bingo card.

Also the second series.

Take THAT, stupid sexy libtards!

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Exactly. ChatGPT can't do it, either. Is it really impossible to do? I should sit down and try it myself to see whether I am smarter than an AI.

Can I just tell you how completely underwhelmed I continue to be by AI and its capabilities? I have a standing test for AI to see whether I feel I can use it reliably and trust its accuracy, and it's this: I have a softball league of eight teams. We play a seven-game season, with games times at 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, and 9pm. Devise a seven-week schedule in which each team plays every other team once and only once, and every team plays no more than two games maximum scheduled for any one game time throughout the season. It's a simple math/logic test. None of the AIs I've used can do this. Some of them will schedule one team against another four times while not even playing three other teams at all. And some teams will have five games scheduled for a particular time and no games scheduled for one or two others. If you tell me I am giving it an impossible task, that's fine, but before I accept that, you'll have to tell me exactly why it's impossible. Now here's a new example of uselessness: I used Microsoft Word to develop a set of questions for something my wife and I are exploring in which I mixed first person singular with first person plural. They should all be first person plural. Microsoft Word has their Copilot AI built into their 365 package. So I asked Copilot within Word: "change all first person singular to first person plural". This was its reply: "It looks like you want to change all first-person singular pronouns to first-person plural pronouns in your document. Unfortunately, I can't make changes to your document directly. However, I can help you with other tasks such as summarizing documents, generating content, or answering questions. Would you like me to assist you with anything else? 😊" Oh, come ON! Seriously? You really can't do even that? I've never wanted to punch a smarmy useless smiley emoji in the face quite so much as when I saw this.

True, although I think in this case the tradition being referred to is so retrograde and out of touch with modern values that it would have to be regarded as being radical.

I'm pretty sure they don't see it that way. They don't spend any time comparing one to the other. The point of the exercise is to supplant Signalgate with Hillary's Emails in the public conversation.

No doubt. I might be duly concerned were he 26 and had three full years under his belt already.

Lol, no, seriously! https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA197407010.shtml The best part is that this game brought Freddie's slash up to .218/.299/.299 which, even for 1974, was just ****ing execrable. Freddie really put the "short" in shortstop.

I'm pretty sure the FBI is the bad guy in the story.

I tell you the only relevant difference: the question of Hillary's emails was asked and answered during that campaign and is now firmly in the rear-view mirror, while the Signal debacle is a clear and present danger to American security today within the current sitting government. So, relitigating Hillary's emails is nothing more, nothing less, than a dodge in order to excuse the current criminal behavior happening right now, not nine years ago.

Unless I'm misunderstanding his statement, this is the first time I've ever heard a politician on either side admit that people voted against Kamala simply because she's a black woman.

Oh, no, Catholics are the good guys nowadays, for the moment, anyway. Hell, Catholics might even qualify as honorary Christians for the time being. This is what they mean.

But at least he calls it "Gulf of America".

Maybe because Avila forced Tork onto the active roster and Hinch didn't agree with it and/or think Tork wasn't ready for middle of the order.

I don't think the Tigers are committed at this moment to making Colt the permanent first baseman. I'm thinking they moved him there for thsi year because they want him in the lineup to get big league trigger time, they were planning for the contingency that Tork might be done here or never be able to play first effectively again, and they found a better hitting second baseman as a stopgap than they could a first baseman. Colt could move back to second next year, with Tork at first, or else someone else holding down the position while we wait for Liranzo or Briceno to take it. Or maybe Colt will long term at first if Jace Jung or McGonigle come up to play second. I guess it's certainly possible Colt will long term it at first, but I don't think that's the committed plan as of this time.

I'm willing to give the 23-year-old a few more games against not-World Champs before I push the panic button on him.

Apropos of not this, I listened to the Arizona feed of the Cubs-Diamondbacks last night, and they played local Phoenix commercials, which I was thrilled to hear. I always have loved hearing charming local commercials during ballgames. Last year, MLB At Bat would play only commercials that are local to the subscriber, meaning Chicago commercials for me, for every team's feed, not just Cubs and White Sox; and not only while I was in Chicago, but no matter where I was, anywhere in the country. Turn on a Tigers game on At Bat while driving in North Carolina, and there's a commercial for some Chicago-based ambulance chaser. And since it was a streaming ad deal instead of local radio commercials, it would be the same. God. Damn. Commercial. Over. And. Over. Every. Break. It was maddening. I hope they maintain commercials local to team feeds going forward.

To be fair, we are short a few key offensive pieces.