If I’m paying for a streaming service, there shouldn’t be ads. Not on Disney+, Amazon, Hulu, or anywhere else. Ads belong on the free tiers of these platforms. If advertisers are already paying to put ads in front of me, why am I paying to sit through them too?
What the Peterson trade shows is that you never know what you are going to get for a guy. It’s a sellers market, and teams are desperate. Just gotta find the right team.
So it’s not just about trading Chapman, Gray and Duran. It’s also guys like Wong, IKF, Coloumbe, Kahnle, Sandoval, Weissert, and Guerrero
Clear it all out.
Notable Third Basemen to change teams this offseason
Alex Bregman: 2.0 bWAR, $35 million salary
Eugenio Suarez: -0.7 bWAR, $15 million salary
Bo Bichette: -0.3 bWAR, $42 million salary
Kazuma Okamoto: 1.3 bWAR, $15 million salary
Caleb Durbin: 1.1 bWAR, $800k salary
Have we considered the fact that maybe Griffin and McGonigle would rather just play pro ball than go to college and that is why college baseball is a good product?
The @DrivelineBB coaching tree - and influence tree (there are Edgertronic cameras/weighted balls in about every pro bullpen and facility) - have proliferated throughout baseball. The Driveline Way shouldn't be controversial: ask questions, try something, collect data, create a feedback loop, adjust. It works! Yet, when an MLB team has a down year, baseball's most influential garage startup is cited as a problem. When an MLB org with Driveline influence has a good year, it's ignored by the usual suspects. ... "You're biased, Travis." OK. But I also have conviction in this belief that the process/systems are the correct ones. The conviction is born out of extensive reporting.
Ultimate TOs for the love of God stop rigging your fucking brackets. Been going on for years. There have been multiple s tiers where I am projected to fight 80 Steve’s in a row because I have to be fodder for them to eliminate themselves and there have been many regionals
The lowest number of wins to make the AL wild card since the new format was introduced in 2022 is 86 (twice).
To reach 86 wins, Boston would have to go 57–34 (.626) over their final 91 games... a 101-win pace.
Blow it up.
The Mermaid Mask - our new mystery detective adventure game (and the follow-up to 2019's Tangle Tower) launches July 16 for PC, PS5, Switch and Switch 2
If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.
If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.
This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.
Rookie Ceddanne Rafaela:
.246 | .274 | .390 | 26.4 % K | 2.6% BB
81 wRC+
Year 3 Ceddanne Rafaela:
.287 | .344 | .457 | 20.4% K | 5.6% BB
119 wRC+
That’s the type of growth you want to see from your young players.
Josh Hart:
"I kind of wish the ticket prices weren't as crazy as they are. I feel like a lot of people who have been waiting for this moment for a very long time unfortunately aren't able to get into the building. The cheapest ticket $7K, $8,000. That's ridiculous"