If you keep looking for the reliever who might not have it that day you're bound to find one sooner or later. That's a pretty solid principle. It is. Another solid principle is that the reliever who was lights out in the seventh inning can, just the same, stink up the joint in the eighth inning if ...

I could see this happening in a roundabout sort of way. Maybe it already did happen. For example, Ohtani had no interest in coming here. Because the Mets, relative to the Dodgers (and the Yankees), sucked. And so the Mets weren't gonna win as often. And if the Mets don't win, Obtani ain't gonna get ...

Cobb was an old confederate. "Confederate" was singular. Who cares about Cobb's family? Hitler's mother was kind to Jews. What? Cobb wasn't a racist? What the hell does Cobb's family have to do with anything here? And they weren't even MLB players. Pierce wrote "old confederate",...

Good ol' Charlie Pierce on the inclusion of Negro League stats into the main body of MLB stats, which I'm a little surprised didn't get its own thread (till just now). My favorite line is the one about federal matching funds. I am a complete agnostic on the ongoing religious war among baseball savan...

According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, one in 10 Republicans are less likely to vote for Trump after his felony convictions.

bmfc1 wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 10:09 pm DiComo: Reed Garrett, called upon to finish this one off in the ninth, has his own (temporary) closer's entrance now. The lights flashed off and Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba" is blasting at Citi Field.

And to think I liked Reed Garrett.

I know whatchoo mean. I think.

No fucking way! 49er Gene was #18. Viking Gene was #84. I know my Gene Washingtons and l'll know this till the day I die.

But I appreciate the reference. Never thought I'd hear it during a local Mets broadcast.

I was just trying to find out what the parameters of the question were. I thought the question spoke for itself: an elected president who, during his term, has a prison sentence hanging over his head. And so I made a joke about Rikers. I suppose that in reality, the Governor of NY would agree to su...

A lot of lawyers have been deployed to research this exact question, and so far, the answer seems to be yes. Nah. Alito and his gang of scumbag partisan hacks will grease the skids for Trump. And did I say "run the country"? Because I meant "ruin the country". Ruin. Well, I unde...

Steve Cohen's art collection is valued at about one billion dollars and is considered to be one of the most impressive collections in the whole wide world. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/steve-cohen-art-mets (long read) I knew that Cohen owned one of the original Warhol Marilyns but Cohen al...

Eight Republican senators announced Friday that they would boycott Democratic legislative priorities and nominations as payback for former president Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his New York hush money trial. That's all for show. They haven't supported anything Biden proposed (legislation or no...

Eight Republican senators announced Friday that they would boycott Democratic legislative priorities and nominations as payback for former president Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his New York hush money trial. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/05/31/trump-guilty-verdict/#link-QOAS72HV...

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 4:09 pm If I had a time machine, I would go back to the Constitutional Convention and tell James Madison about ... Sandy Hook.....

You'd have to. Somebody would have to anyways. The framers couldn't have imagined a firearm that shoots more than 500 rounds per minute.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 4:03 pm A lot of lawyers have been deployed to research this exact question, and so far, the answer seems to be yes.

Nah. Alito and his gang of scumbag partisan hacks will grease the skids for Trump.

And did I say "run the country"? Because I meant "ruin the country". Ruin.

What if the conviction is upheld on appeal and the piece of shit gets jail time and wins the election? Is he gonna hafta run the country from Rikers? That'd be some fun.

I've never had any faith in this case, particularly with anything substantial holding up over the longer term. Do you have reservations that there'd be a conviction? Or that the conviction would lead to jail time? I was of the camp that a conviction of some sort would be found, but that the sentenc...

But the run potential going in are different between the two situations so the batter is credited with how much he exceeded, or didn't, the expectation. I get that. And it's accounted for in the 2.6 and 0.3 or 0.4 RE24's in my previous post. A batter has nothing to do with how many runners are on b...

The two out three run triple is worth approx. 2.6 in RE24. The two out bases empty triple is worth about 0.3 or 0.4 in RE24. See what I mean?

Each will get credited or debited based on the run expectancy in both the bases loaded ABs and the bases empty ABs. The 3B w/bases loaded has a much higher run expectancy and therefore will get credited only with the difference between what he did and the typical amount from that situation. The bas...

Okay. I shouldn't have used "clutchness" because RE24 accounts for all 24 of the base/out possibilities, even when runners aren't in scoring position, or even on base. But still: two batters each go one for two, tripling and striking out. All plate appearances are with two outs. All plate ...

So is clutch hitting. A batter who didn't get a hit in a so-called clutch situation didn't get a clutch hit.

Wouldn't you have to believe that clutch hitting is a skill in order to believe that RE24 measures a skill?

I'm certain that Haley would pardon Trump even if she was never asked. They pretty much all would. Except Liz Cheney, if she ever won the WH. Maybe Chris Christie wouldn't. But I'm not so sure.

But does RE24 measure a skill? Or randomness? Luck?

This piece of shit scumbag should get jail time just for the lunatic unhinged public comments he's been making about the trial.