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It’s been pretty well-established that A.J. was not behind the scandal and in fact the players went around him and worked directly with the front office on it. So I can see how players who played during that time would remember that and not respect his not going down together with the players on it. The ironic this is, A.J. was the only field guy to be sanctioned for the scandal.

The Tigers have won 81 and the Royals have lost 69, so the magic number to win the division outright is still 13.

Isn't he outright telling us that by removing, I assume, "political dissidents" from the jobs numbers, the regime will be cooking the books?

Extract a huge bribe out of manufacturers and then look the other way? Is that a thing for RFKJ?

Joke's on Bag O'Rocks: the regime is already rounding up people who fled the Venezuelan dictator, temporarily holding them in squalid conditions, then flying them out of the country on DoW transport to various countries where they can be killed. So the regime is just short-circuiting the process and saving on admin costs to boot.

Not for nothing, changes in the way autism is diagnosed has also led to higher reported numbers of that.

Except create a super cool video they can use to recruit psychopaths.

Depending on the manner of interrogation, that could make for a good video recruiting tool.

There's been a suggestion that Finnegan has also been taxed, working more innings in a month, for us, than he had in any other month of his big league career.

More like tragic number for Cleveland, anyway. Magic number over the Royals is still 13.

And Hinch took Javy to task a little this past week in a presser as well. Looks like he might be calling out the big money vets who are flailing. Another hypothesis: maybe those guys have been showing a little 'tude toward A.J. and the system.

A lot has happened on the mound this season for Flaherty that didn't last season, so who knows how he's feeling about being a Tiger and whether it's any different from last year. It's only a hypothesis, anyway.

Pitching from a flat-ground box fifty feet away stiff-armed and underhanded agreed with Old Hoss!

Here’s a wee bit more context, offered without further comment.

Crypto has practically the same value as tulips did. In theory people can spend crypto like money, but in practice nobody does (unless they buy sketchy stuff on black and dark gray markets). Only 2% of people cops to actually spending crypto, so it trades on speculation alone, as in the Dutch tulip market of the mid-1630s.

Saw this in one of my media newsletters this morning, although the survey is six months old. Still, I would not have put any money on NYTimes being younger than Joe Rogan podcast.

So you're all for killing suspected drug dealers on sight instead of arresting them and giving them due process. You're going to fit in nicely with the new regime. In any event, how do you know for sure they even had drugs?

Might as well invest in tulips. In that regard, it is the exact same thing.

This has gone under the radar here, but the last vestiges of Al Avila's Reign of Error are getting swept away.

I don't think that would change things. Even if he kills it for the next month, is someone going to pay him more than $20 million? There is also the possibility that he simply doesn't like it here. I have no evidence of this, just that it is a hypothetical possibility.

Even if the boat were carrying drugs, since when is doing so a death sentence instead of being merely an arrestable offense?

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You are probably on to something here. Taking a look at last year’s result for relief pitching from August 11 on, the Tigers had the lowest BABIP (.230) by over 20 points; the second highest LOB% (78.0%); and were 8th in lowest HR/FB (8.3%). All are markers of luck, which helped lead to us having by far the highest RA9-WAR (the results-based WAR) with 6.5, far ahead of Cleveland and Milwaukee, who were tied for second with a mere 4.0. That said, the Tigers were also #2 in regular WAR (the process-based WAR) with 3.3, behind only Milwaukee at 3.6. We achieved this because while we were #30 of 30 in relief pitcher strikeout rate after 8/11, we were also tops in walk rate and #7 in HR rate. This led to us being 5th in FIP, even though we were 13th in xFIP (the quality of contact FIP). TL;DR: even though we did get quite lucky with the results from our relievers after 8/11 last year, we were also very good underneath the hood. BTW: in the second half of this year, our RA9-WAR from relievers is 2.2, 6th-best in baseball, even though our regular WAR is 21st at 0.3. That’s because we’ve been 3rd in BABIP and 4th in LOB. Either we’ve been nothing but lucky in this way for two years in a row, or there’s something we have that makes this happen—maybe defense?