Cy Young, some signings, the push to create gambling addicts, the Queen's "new phase," Thanos, "Achtung Baby," Gosar, crypto dudes, James Bond, and time slips
...on the future of QE2 (the monarch, not the ship), she's already said it in her remarks made live on the BBC world service on her 21st birthday, when she was still Princess Elizabeth:
... I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
...she's there for the long haul, folks.
On "No Time to Die"', as an avid JB fan, I couldn't stand the direction of this film; walked out just before the finale: incompetent direction of a ridiculous storyline.
I remember my first listen of Achtung Baby very vividly. My father took me to the mall so I could get the cassette, we got in the car and the distorted guitar and percussion of Zoo Station start and I thought the cassette player was broken. I had to fast forward to the next track to realize that distortion was intentional. Still love that album 30 years later!
As a British person, who’s always found the concept of monarchy absurd and anachronistic, I’m glad I’ll be living in the US when she pops her clogs as the long period of enforced national grieving, where everyone will been expected to show an undeserved degree of reverence, will be unbearable. I suspect everything I like about Britain - the music, the sense of humour - will be effectively outlawed by the BBC etc for a prolonged period of time. Here’s hoping the idea of Charles on the throne finally snaps the British people out of the idea that monarchy is a good idea.
That NL Cy Young looks like a philosophical disagreement, as others have noticed:
Wheeler 213.1 innings, 2.78 ERA, 2.59 FIP
Burnes 167 innings, 2.43 ERA, 1.63 FIP
So Burnes "deserved" a much better ERA than he had. But the batters kept on hitting the ball where the fielders weren't, either by luck or by bad fielding or something. Luck may regress to the mean next year- other things, not so much, not that we're talking about next year.
I would have gone with actual results and voted for Wheeler. But as I get older, I tend not to care. Next month I will have forgotten all this.
Max Scherzer may not be as pink as you (whomst amongst us?) but based on his time here in DC I think he’s remarkably enlightened as ballplayers (and people) go. I’m confident you’d mostly buy what he’s selling.
That said, if any Scherzer ever runs for Congress it’ll be Erica, who is truly a force to be reckoned with. Plus, the sight of Max as political spouse is something I’d like to see.
My first stupid thought was "Who the heck is going to bet on a simulated sporting event where the results are generated by random numbers?" Until it downed on me that obviously most gambling is based on random events like card game draws, dice rolls, and roulette wheels, so it will surely work fine for them.
That is really weird phrasing for the announcement about the queen, as though they are trying to find a nice way of saying she's currently pupating over the winter and will emerge early next year as Mothra, Queen of the Britons or something.
Hal Steinbrenner addressed the media yesterday. From what I could tell in several different articles, he more or less ruled out going after a pricey shortstop since the Yankees have good prospects in the minors, and he seems to be in favor of an even lower luxury tax threshold. Once again, the question is: have the Yankees joined everyone else now and forever in putting profit ahead of victory, even if it hurts the team's chances? Or is there something we don't know about how much money the Yankees are making? Keep in mind that baseball is the main source of revenue for the Yankees, and if the pandemic dragged down the profits, the Steinbrenners might really want to cut corners for now.
Either way, I marvel at how conservative the Yankees have become. Oh, and they are still in no rush to commit to Aaron Judge, and are just assuming that him saying he wants to be a Yankee for life is a guarantee he won't bolt next year. I think that is stupid, but what do I know?
Burnes missed 2 or 3 starts because he didn't get vaccinated and got Covid in May, before the rise of Delta and the waning of vaccine immunity. Damn moron. And FIP shouldn't be used in Cy voting. That's a hill I'll risk serious injury on, if not death. Voters should vote on what pitchers actually did, not what a formula predicts they might have done. But his other rate stats were so good... maybe I still would've voted for him over Wheeler. Idk.
My Brewers have been linked to Suzuki and as someone who remembers Norichika Aoki very fondly, he had a good little run in blue and yellow, I'm all for taking a run at some talent in from the NPB. They do need a damn right handed bat, that's an understatement.
Achtung Baby made a HUGE impression on me when I first heard it, on a mixtape my cool uncle made me. Viva the Cool Uncle Mixtape! It was one of my favorite albums during my early adolescence, by any band, period. I still really like it, but these days I come back to The Joshua Tree more when it comes to U2, an album I didn't even own until I was in my 20s.
Bigmouth Strikes Again
"Nerds convinced us that innings don't matter!"
*looks at 2021 NL Pitching bWAR leaderboard*
"Ah, well, nevertheless."
...on the future of QE2 (the monarch, not the ship), she's already said it in her remarks made live on the BBC world service on her 21st birthday, when she was still Princess Elizabeth:
... I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
...she's there for the long haul, folks.
On "No Time to Die"', as an avid JB fan, I couldn't stand the direction of this film; walked out just before the finale: incompetent direction of a ridiculous storyline.
I remember my first listen of Achtung Baby very vividly. My father took me to the mall so I could get the cassette, we got in the car and the distorted guitar and percussion of Zoo Station start and I thought the cassette player was broken. I had to fast forward to the next track to realize that distortion was intentional. Still love that album 30 years later!
As a British person, who’s always found the concept of monarchy absurd and anachronistic, I’m glad I’ll be living in the US when she pops her clogs as the long period of enforced national grieving, where everyone will been expected to show an undeserved degree of reverence, will be unbearable. I suspect everything I like about Britain - the music, the sense of humour - will be effectively outlawed by the BBC etc for a prolonged period of time. Here’s hoping the idea of Charles on the throne finally snaps the British people out of the idea that monarchy is a good idea.
That NL Cy Young looks like a philosophical disagreement, as others have noticed:
Wheeler 213.1 innings, 2.78 ERA, 2.59 FIP
Burnes 167 innings, 2.43 ERA, 1.63 FIP
So Burnes "deserved" a much better ERA than he had. But the batters kept on hitting the ball where the fielders weren't, either by luck or by bad fielding or something. Luck may regress to the mean next year- other things, not so much, not that we're talking about next year.
I would have gone with actual results and voted for Wheeler. But as I get older, I tend not to care. Next month I will have forgotten all this.
Max Scherzer may not be as pink as you (whomst amongst us?) but based on his time here in DC I think he’s remarkably enlightened as ballplayers (and people) go. I’m confident you’d mostly buy what he’s selling.
That said, if any Scherzer ever runs for Congress it’ll be Erica, who is truly a force to be reckoned with. Plus, the sight of Max as political spouse is something I’d like to see.
My first stupid thought was "Who the heck is going to bet on a simulated sporting event where the results are generated by random numbers?" Until it downed on me that obviously most gambling is based on random events like card game draws, dice rolls, and roulette wheels, so it will surely work fine for them.
Jeff Passan is being ironic when he calls out nerds, right?
That is really weird phrasing for the announcement about the queen, as though they are trying to find a nice way of saying she's currently pupating over the winter and will emerge early next year as Mothra, Queen of the Britons or something.
Hal Steinbrenner addressed the media yesterday. From what I could tell in several different articles, he more or less ruled out going after a pricey shortstop since the Yankees have good prospects in the minors, and he seems to be in favor of an even lower luxury tax threshold. Once again, the question is: have the Yankees joined everyone else now and forever in putting profit ahead of victory, even if it hurts the team's chances? Or is there something we don't know about how much money the Yankees are making? Keep in mind that baseball is the main source of revenue for the Yankees, and if the pandemic dragged down the profits, the Steinbrenners might really want to cut corners for now.
Either way, I marvel at how conservative the Yankees have become. Oh, and they are still in no rush to commit to Aaron Judge, and are just assuming that him saying he wants to be a Yankee for life is a guarantee he won't bolt next year. I think that is stupid, but what do I know?
Burnes missed 2 or 3 starts because he didn't get vaccinated and got Covid in May, before the rise of Delta and the waning of vaccine immunity. Damn moron. And FIP shouldn't be used in Cy voting. That's a hill I'll risk serious injury on, if not death. Voters should vote on what pitchers actually did, not what a formula predicts they might have done. But his other rate stats were so good... maybe I still would've voted for him over Wheeler. Idk.
My Brewers have been linked to Suzuki and as someone who remembers Norichika Aoki very fondly, he had a good little run in blue and yellow, I'm all for taking a run at some talent in from the NPB. They do need a damn right handed bat, that's an understatement.
Achtung Baby made a HUGE impression on me when I first heard it, on a mixtape my cool uncle made me. Viva the Cool Uncle Mixtape! It was one of my favorite albums during my early adolescence, by any band, period. I still really like it, but these days I come back to The Joshua Tree more when it comes to U2, an album I didn't even own until I was in my 20s.
Pretty sure the KC uniform being teased has been confirmed to be an alt, not any change to their regular uni.
I think Scherzer knows that Dems are on board with sustainable energy, so it’s the other guys he needs to jawbone.
Also, he and his wife have done great work with animal rescue.
Baseball uniform reveals are so boring. My take/prediction on the Royals:
They're adding a black outline to their 3rd alternate text around the numbers. Wheee!