Steven Anderson

It infuriated the third base umpire. Rain McCann energy

The “don’t rush to negative judgement” crowd uses the “bad guy gone” to kinda of be in favor. But it is tepid at best

Todd is gone for a minute and the cats are everywhere now!?!

I think you are unnecessarily surrendering the research process to AI.

One analogy I’ve been thinking of is students learn better with a peer than with an expert tutor. In large part, this is bc the student is skeptical of the peer, and critically thinks. Treat AI like a peer, not an expert, imo.

Why not? You don’t have to surrender critical thinking to AI. You can. It makes it easy to. But I still think it is very plausible to ask AI, critically think about what it generates and the lead yourself to something totally new that wasn’t where you started out intended to go.

Wasn’t it even worse? In that, a positive test was revealed after the appeal was decided. But because the appeal was granted to the player, the whole thing was to be kept private and MLB was pissed?

Arike is made for the moment

It’s literally Horst’s job to convince the owners to get rid of Doc. If he can’t do that, he is a total and complete failure

Mist has to attack her. She can’t defend without fouling if they go with speed

@rdtopp.bsky.social pedantic, I know, but Andrew Vaughn joined the Brewers on July 7th. From July 7th on, the best hitter on the Brewers was Brice Turang:
.298/.370/.519 for a 147 wRC+! FIVE NINETEEN! (also wild that minimum 70 PA everyone but Perkins and Joey was > 110, 11 guys!)

Anyone who thinks Portis powered helpful doesn’t understand basketball

Even with a Doc trying to kill em.

My exact issue with the false precision in offside calls. So perhaps I’ve already been convinced

Perhaps not, though. You could just have an image that was the boundary minus the margin of error as a Red “Strike zone”and a cloud of blue outside the boundary plus the MOE labeled “ball zone” and in between, a “call stands” zone.

I actually wouldn’t mind either. I’ve wanted this more the marginal offside calls in soccer. I just think the PR lift of the two zones would be quite heavy.

Actually, it would give you two different zones: one for called balls & one for called strikes. For Called balls, the boundary minus the margin of error and Called strikes, the margin plus the margin of error.

I’m sure people would love having two different zones depending on the umpires call.

The Sal quote isn’t saying he doesn’t know thats what is happening, he’s saying his disagrees with that choice and thinks it is a bad idea.

I was with Taylor Anderson-Heide with promoting the guard. It seemed like an easier shot, but they barely considered it

Ryan McMahon

Wood

Dieng?

a baseball player with the number 2 on his jersey sliding into base ALT: a baseball player with the number 2 on his jersey sliding into base

If a podcast about MLB’s best team neglects to mention its best player, did the podcast even happen?

Outdoor hockey season

FTR, my 10 year old just walked home from school, dropped off his backpack, grabbed his hockey skates and won’t be back from the community rink until 7:30/8

Substacks

The Brewers used to be a darling of PECOTA with projections exceeding pundit expectations. Since the Arnold takeover, that has... shifted. Anything to that? Did you stop putting your finger on the scale (jk)?

Words for sure, and I would have agreed on actions… until this. If Joey starts to play 3B, I’m going to come back to this chart. But you’re probably right and Joey will just play SS and my chart will be meaningless

Joey ortiz stats at 3B, SS OAA, DRS, DRP

Could this have something to do with it? Perhaps the Brewers internals look more like DRS or DRP and think Joey helps at 3B, but is kinda mid at SS. Let Jett take over SS and then Joey can pick it at 3rd. Worst case, Joey still doesn't hit and 3B is A LOT easier to upgrade than SS.

Back to back Cy youngs is a good start

Dieng it Doc, please stop with the Bobby and Sims minutes