Floating Change Up

There is no way that map is accurate.

California is 100% the epicenter of H-1B. :lol:

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Hitters now dump the barrel in an attempt to get on plane, but they:
• Struggle to stay inside the baseball
• Lose adjustability
• Operate with slower effective bat speed

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I probably agree with these bullet points. However, he does ignore some very relevant points of the barrel dump:
• Players are much more athletic today than they were 30 years ago. On whole, they are stronger and faster. Yes, they may suffer some of the negatives of the barrel dump, but because they are stronger and work on twitch muscle response into their game prep, most of those negatives are minimized.
• Analytics has made the game somewhat more predictable, so the need to adjust to individual pitches mid-pitch (like a Vlad Guerrero was so famous for) really isn't needed. Analytics has the hitters much more prepped in understanding expected next pitch. And where that fails, there's always trash cans available to bang on.
• I disagree with his take that pitchers are not throwing harder -- mostly. Yes, there are always outliers of elite hard throwers... JR Richards, Nolan Ryan, Satchel Page, et. al. But even the great hitters of the 80's and 90's pretty much agree -- todays hitters face the challenge of hitting more elite hitting on a daily basis than of decades ago -- 95 is no longer an outlier, it is the norm.

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Pitchers are taught max effort on every pitch. Starters rarely exceed 90 pitches or five innings, work almost exclusively to either arm side or glove side, and live in deep counts. Relievers are almost universally max effort, arm-side only.

The consequence is obvious:
• Poor command
• Inconsistent control
• Little ability to sequence or adjust

Despite all the technology, pitching command and overall feel are as bad as I’ve ever seen at the big-league level.

More data didn’t make the game smarter.
It just made it louder — and in many cases, worse.

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Again, I don't disagree with his bullet points. But I do disagree with his conclusions.

More data isn't the problem with baseball. The drive to get mega-contracts and the minimal effort curtail them is what has caused baseball to be in its current state. Sign a guy to a $400 million long-term contract -- no problem if he only gives you 40% value on that contract because he blew out his arm -- there's always someone else willing to take his place.

Now we have mega-contracts with mega-deferrals. What a recipe for disaster. It is going to drive the cost of watching a game live to astronomical prices in about 15 years. And they're pretty much at stupid level already.

That MFer supposed to be 23?

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Dua Lipa's current squeeze.

Vanessa Kirby's former squeeze.


Significant upgrade.

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AP? Reuters? Fox or CNN?

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Here lies the problem.

If the propaganda machine of the democrat party does not report that the tree fell in the woods, then make no mistake, that tree did not fall, it merely grew that way on the ground.

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Regime change has really worked out well for the US. This will surely make health premiums here cheaper.

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I know you experienced 4 years of being told that there is only one problem facing this nation, white supremacists, so you are now brainwashed into believing there can be only one problem at a time.

But our nation is full of problems, and it will require many solutions.

So keep clutching your pearls and pretending that Obama is not the cause of rising premiums.

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undisclosed location

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Words matter.

Undisclosed and unknown are completely different things.

I guarantee Trump’s inner circle knows exactly where he is.

1. Get caught texting while driving, car AND phone impounded for 30 days. (Increased duration for repeat offenders)

2. No free stuff. SNAP benefits welfare, etc requires working for government part time, while also getting soft skills training part time (must learn all the proper social etiquette skills you didn’t learn from parents or schooll, benefits directly impacted by performance of both school and work).

3. Term limits for Congress.

Died Tuesday. (SIAP - nothing on first 4 pages)




Death announcement on Yahoo News.

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That’s SlowFlowPro. She’s looking for a discount divorce lawyer.

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If that’s the case, OP should be celebrating.