Me starting an email:
Hi all! We begin, as always, with the boundary conditions of the universe

There’s been a good bit of development downtown. See also Clarksville bootstrapping a new downtown from scratch across the river

East of 2nd Street, north of Liberty: NuLu

East of 2nd Street, south of Liberty: Germantown

Beuchel is Germantown. Prospect is NuLu

Incredible that new fixed-route transit = *lower* property values in some people’s minds

This is…not pleasant to think about as a Cubs fan excited from a good 2025

Wild. So where did all that extra ERA come from?

Is this saying they played poor defense behind him for MLB or for the Cubs? -4 OAA compared to the Cubs’ baseline would still be good, no?

Not a fantasy guy so maybe this is priced in already but these are several ways of saying “he’d be worse in front of average defense” when he’ll be in front of GG defense as long as he’s a Cub

“Throw the good pitch down the middle” is the basically the entire Rays philosophy

When I watched Mason Miller throw 104 against the Cubs last week I did legitimately think “why doesn’t every pitcher just do this?”

So funny how a huge chunk of success in this sport boils down to “just swing harder, dummy”

Must be nice to have had a full week off before this game

How can Statcast disagree with itself?

New research indicates “cub” rhymes with “dub”

“Since each self-driven mile creates some pollution and carries some risk of a crash death, the rise in total driving will counteract the theoretical climate or safety improvements over a single, otherwise identical human-driven journey.”