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Is Dingler both #1 and #2?

Guardians lose to Diamondbacks 3-2 in 10 Innings.

One of my friends know I'm adamant about the difference between "obtuse" and "abstruse", and he always uses the former to mean the latter, and I make a show of getting all mad about it, and we have a good laugh. But yeah, he's still a **** about it. 😁

Yeah, I don't doubt that the regime knew the judge would block the release so they could say to their acolytes see, we wanted to release it but the woke justice system is preventing it, so fly! Fly! Fly, my pretties!

At least he didn't say it was abstruse.

I still feel pretty good about this post.

They'll digitally drain my money before they put me to sleep.

So ... I notice there's a lot less chatter about Trump and Epstein lately.

Despite my pasty white skin and my drumpfy name, I have a trail of apostatic musings scattered around the internet several miles long, and presumably linkable to my PII.

You’re on the good guys’ side, so you’re going to be that guy in three years along with me. 😁

Tigers beat Astros, 7-2.

What is up with that font on Vanwey’s jersey? Dan is saying nothing because it has nothing to do with the game. I assume Benetti is weighing in on it?

It’s especially difficult for me to forget because I was there!

Several of us are going to be that guy three years from today. I can think of a few of us who won’t.

I have actually started wondering whether, if Trump were to die in office, they just won’t shuffle JD off to Paris Disneyland or something and Miller declares himself president.

I assume muskets and long guns are also A-OK? Glocks and Tec-9s, though? Off to Alcatraz with you!

I don’t think I like what I have seen during the last inning or so. Astros hitting home runs; Astro fielders making multiple great catches; Tiger runners making TOOTBLANs; Tiger infielders heaving throws past intended targets into the outfield. Taken together, events like these are frequently harbingers of a team collapse and a loss. Hope I am wrong.

So a few minutes ago, the TV crew named Luke Putkonen their random Tiger of the Day, and provided a few factoids, but not what I think is the most interesting one: he was the guy who threw the walkoff wild pitch in Miami during the Henderson Alvarez last-game-of-the-season no-hitter against the Tigers in 2013. Even better, Alvarez was on-deck to hit when it happened, surely making him the only pitcher in history to win a no-hitter while standing in the on-deck circle. He would never have even stepped to the plate, though: bases were loaded with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, so there was either going to be an out to end the inning, or a run to win the game.

Bob Gibson would have done it with a first-pitch fastball.

There are people in charge who would strongly disagree with that idea … OK, that’s enough of that.

Good points all, and it’s even worse than that: if a starting pitcher fails to go at least five full innings—if he pitches 4-2/3 innings of shutout ball, then leaves with the lead that’s never relinquished—then he is, by rule, ineligible for the pitcher win. So the official scorer is forced to assign the win to some other pitcher who didn’t pitch as long or as effectively, which is exactly what happened here. It’s beyond asinine. What really got me to start questioning the value of pitcher wins altogether was the season Nolan Ryan had in 1987. He led the league in ERA (2.76) and strikeouts (270), placed fifth in Cy Young voting—and finished with a “record” of 8-16. By pitcher record, he was terrible. By actual performance, he was arguably the best starting pitcher in the league. What else did I need to know?

Well done. Hadn’t even occurred to me.

That’s some old school **** right there

Jahmai stealing with a six-run lead. Fifty-plus years ago he gets a fastball straight at his head first pitch next time up.

Baseball's antitrust exemption explicitly allows them as an industry to willfully reduce output, even if most of the owners do not want that.