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TBF that is what it looked like at the time.

Whoa, sh*t—this is a very big domino.

Mass protests probably will be a catalyst to change, but in the end, real power change in Washington would have to come through the political process, and in a two-party system in which one of the parties is completely in thrall to a foreign power, that leaves only the party that is not. Unless you mean a new political system ruled by mass protests of the people, which, who knows that would even work. I also agree a substantial event would have to trigger the mass protests, but I don't think we are all that far from seeing that.

I've been coming around to this more lately. I mentioned this the other day to a guy who sits next to me at ballgames. He seem offended by the idea.

The only reason he's now retroactively joking is that he came to realize he couldn't do it.

They want to cull people they would consider “weak” in body, mind, and spirit so they can make America “great”.

I wonder how much taxpayer money is being funneled under the table to the Kremlin right now? Presumably for the purpose of annexing Ukraine and eventually the other ex-Respubliks, but maybe for other things, too, who knows.

Maybe the current crop of Democratic leaders won’t dig us out of that, but the people who do dig us out are probably going to have to come to that through the Democratic Party, because ultimately this is a two-party power system, and it’s not going to come through Republicans by magic.

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I don’t love that either, but that was in the international rules before the big leagues adopted it, so … 🤷‍♂️ When that runner scores, it is an unearned run, which is also logical because the runner did not earn his way on against any pitcher. That came up at the game I was at Wednesday because when Noah Davis came into the game, his season ERA was shown to be 0.00, even though he was the guy who gave up the walk off hit in the 10th inning on his one and only pitch the night before.

There were a lot of very angry people here years because we’d even hired him. I wonder whether they still feel that way?

You’re sooooo cool … 😉

Is that Reese Olson in glasses?

One of the beauties of baseball is that it is a game of logic, with double-entry bookkeeping, so charging fielder errors for one position as earned while maintaining they are unearned for the other eight positions—and also, maintaining that such runs are earned against pitchers while it is considered not earned by anyone on offense, apparently to satisfy some sort of maximal punishment directive against pitchers—would be illogical and capricious. There is a specific rule in the book, 9.16(e), which addresses this: An error by a pitcher is treated exactly the same as an error by any other fielder in computing earned runs. And that’s logical because once a pitch crosses the plate, a pitcher is no longer pitching. He is fielding, and fielders’ errors can’t count against the pitcher record, because fielding does not occur int he act of pitching. They are neatly separated functions, so by rule, nothing a fielder does, short of the specific function of turning a ball into the out he is presumed to, affects the pitcher record. This also helps explain the whole deal about why, when there is a strikeout, the putout goes to the catcher, not the pitcher. Once strike three crosses the plate, the batter’s plate appearance ends and it becomes the fielders’ responsibility to complete the out. The closest fielder is the catcher, so he gets most of the putouts on strikeouts, although sometimes the first baseman gets the putout when the ball gets away from the catcher and the batter runs toward first. This is the key reason the batter evens gets to run on strike three: once the at bat is over, the pitch becomes a live ball until the putout is made. This is also why, when the batter manages to reach first after strike three, the pitcher gets credit for the strikeout even though the actual out is not recorded—he completed his end of the bargain, so he gets credit for that. It is the fielder (usually the catcher) that failed to record the out.

How can an error count against the pitcher's record when it's made by a player fielding and not by a player pitching? And how can it can called an earned run against the pitcher when it is not credited as a earned hit for the hitter?

You're right, it will not come from CNN or any other one entity. CNN is not leading this, and I am not suggesting as much. They are part of what might be a building wave. I just think it's good to see. The pessimist is allowing a little hope to seep in.

I would normally agree, although this hopeful pessimist wonders whether there might be some turning point evolving as there appears to be increasing pushback on Trump in general. As his approval goes down and the business community hammers him on the economy and the international community unites more against him, among other things, he might start blinking even more, and he's already blinked a bunch.

Thank you, CNN, for using the L word.

Apparently, if we get rid of pennies, the mint would have to make even more nickels to make up the gap on small value transactions, and nickels run at even more of a deficit versus their value than pennies do. A penny is worth 1¢ but costs 3.7¢ to make, whereas a nickel is worth 5¢ but costs 13.8¢ to make.

That's a big part of it. Stay is staying healthy. Or at least that has always been the thinking. The Tigers appear to be upending that one, too.

Does the hitting team earn the run when the pitcher makes an error but not when any other fielder makes an error? Is the hitting team more deserving of credit when pitchers make errors?

Speaking of roll, I think it costs us more than fifty cents of our time to put fifty pennies in one of those paper rolls.

It would be nice to take credit for compiling it, but I just copied it off website and posted it here. I did go in and clean it up some, and added a few things, e.g., the Pete Rose pardon and the Gov of PA mansion fire.

But he's not making the error while he's pitching. He's making the error while he's fielding. Why should it count against his pitching record?

Remember when major leaguers left their gloves on the field while they came up to bat? Neither do I. And neither do you unless you're at least 80, because the rule requiring players to bring their gloves off the field was adopted during the winter of 1953-54. But, as with every rule change, there was vociferous opposition by the conservatives in the game. Well, going into 1954, those conservatives included the American League itself, which voted 7-1 to not require their teams to enforce the new rule. They objected partially on the basis of it never hurt anyone before (dubious claim), but, also, on the basis that it would unnecessarily delay games. Why, just imagine a player stranded on second base with the third out. All he had to do is trot to his glove just a few feet away and he's ready to go. But noooo ... now he's got to trudge all the way back to the dugout to get his glove and then go back out to his position in the field. Can you imagine how much time that will take?? Why, ball games will balloon to three hours if we make players take their gloves into the dugouts with them!