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I think he’s going with what he’s got for the rest of this season and will work on changes or tweaks during the winter. It’s really hard to make wholesale changes at the big league level when you’re chasing wins instead of improvements.

This is not a map, but I do find this to be a fascinating revelation of how the various streamers time the release of their original series. For example, 80%+ of Netflix's series releases are all episodes at once; Prime, Disney, and Peacock are the most likely to follow a multiple episodes per week model; Apple TV+ is big on stacked premieres followed by weekly episodes; and HBO Max is all over the place on theirs.

fair enough.

Tigers are 19-8 in one-run games, which is great, but lest anyone believes that it takes a great team to have a great one-run record, just remember that in 2003, the 43-119 Tigers were 19-18 in one-run games, while the 101-61 Braves were 17-25 in their one-run games.

Probably equivalent.

MPLS-STP light rail is fantastic.

The weather forecasting continues to get noticeably worse.

It wouldn't be any fun for them if they couldn't mow down residents.

lol using the "all due respect" qualification to an algorithm. I get it, though—it's hard to be cold and mean to even an inanimate object that's just so darn polite.

I have been wondering lately whether Baseball makes more money in franchise fees if they can offer up Las Vegas and Nashville to potential Big Club members, versus offering up, for example, Salt Lake and Charlotte, or Portland and Montreal? If so, would it be more in their interests to block Fisher from moving to Vegas and more or less force him to settle in, I don't know, Sacramento? Or maybe even virginal Salt Lake? If Baseball tried that, though, Fisher might try to sue them, which might then put the antitrust exemption on notice.

Man, that is a really nice ballpark. Even if they have to play in 20-something-degree weather into May, they did a great job up there.

And it will be again.

If the bar is "reaching their potential", that's almost nobody, because almost nobody self-actualizes at 100% of their potential. If the bar is instead for all four of them to be positive contributors, then I think it's reasonable for Harris to plan for them to be so. Otherwise, if we enter into gaming out which two of them will be good and which two will crap out, then we have to guess which two of them will crap out so we can trade them for rentals, and it might well be the wrong two we send away, and then we just become Dave Dombrowski 2.0. Speaking only for myself, I wouldn't want that. I like the direction Harris is going in, as is, just fine. I get the urge to throw it all onto the table to go for it now, this year, because 7 1/2 games in first place on August 16 might never happen again as long as we live. I get that—I'm the same age as you. But speaking only for myself, I am confident enough in Harris's approach that even without trading away the top of our system for the shiniest rental pieces available, we are still going to be competitive for a ring in my remaining lifetime. And if we're not, then when you're on your deathbed, you can blame it all on me. 😁

There is nothing cool about Warren, in any way, shape, or form. Motown Bombers would co-sign onto that, I assume.

This pretty much sums up the relationship between the Putin/Trump/MAGA elites and the red hats.

The more games there are, the more teams/franchises regress to the mean. In the 125 of modern big league ball, fifteen of the sixteen original franchises have winning percentages between .469 and .534, essentially the equivalent of 76-win to 86-win teams. The Yankees, of course, are the outliers at .567.

I grew up a half mile from the Campbell-Ewald building from 1963 into the '80s, then bought a house a half mile from it in another direction where I lived until the end of 1991. So I lived in the shadow of Warren's tallest "skyscraper" for close to three decades. I never knew what it was almost until the moment I got a job at Doner (or, more exactly, W.B. Doner), and then I was like, oh, that's what Campbell-Ewald is.

Epstein who?

Holy. Fǔcking. Shǐt.

“Restore cleanliness”??

The idea that Trump abused middle school-aged girls and did criminal deals with Russian mobsters is so baked into his equation that actual positive proof might no longer have any practical effect. The bar for this guy is getting beyond merely low—it’s quickly disappearing altogether.

This is not a spoofy pitchbot headline. This one is actually true.

To build on Lordstanley’s point, we are now 12-6 after coming off the 1-12 skein.