Buttermaker

Today's pitchers are biomechanical engineers in cleats. Their deliveries are studied frame by frame. Their grips are optimized. Their arsenals are built to tunnel, spin, fade, rise, and vanish. The mound is no longer just a battlefield—it is a laboratory. Kids now train to throw like scientists. They may dream about being the next Nolan Ryan. But they're studying Rapsodo charts, analyzing iPhone video, tweaking finger pressure to vary spin efficiency. They are searching for any edge they can find. The tools are everywhere. Edgertronic cameras capture video at over one thousand frames per second. Motion capture rigs track the body down to the millimeter. Pitching machines replicate the exact release point and movement of Big League arms. A pitcher today has access to more information about one throw that an old school Hall of Famer had in a lifetime. #RobFriedman Unhittable 📖 © #Pitching #Baseball #FantasyBaseball

Know what you own, and know why you own it. #PeterLynch One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market 📘 ©1989 #Investing #Wealth #StockMarket

Bryce hits one wayyyy out of here!

To expect politicians to put the public interest above their own personal interests is to defy thousands of years of history, in countries around the world. #ThomasSowell Dismantling America 📙 ©2010 #TermLimits #Congress #History

This is the nastiest kickball pitch I’ve ever seen 😂

The language Congress uses to describe their spending is corrupt beyond redemption. Think about the term entitlement. If one American is entitled to something he didn't earn, where in the world does Congress get the money? It's not Santa or the Tooth Fairy. The only way Congress can give one American a dollar is to first take it from another American. Therefore, an entitlement is a congressionally given right for one American to live at the expense of another. In other words, Congress forcibly uses one American to serve the purposes of another American. As such, it differs in degree, but not kind, from the uglier part of our history where black people were forcibly used to serve the purposes of their slave masters. #WalterEWilliams American Contempt for Liberty 📙 ©2015 #Congress #Taxes #Liberty

Epic FAIL

This dad tells his son in the car that he’s going to his very first Cubs game at Wrigley Field, and the kid instantly gets emotional. Kid’s about to have the time of his life.

He didn't even hesitate. His parents raised him right.

@JonPgh I feel the same way when the @whitesox started Grant Taylor 4 games for 1 inning each. What a waste of talent. Makes absolutely no sense.

Why put your best pitcher Dollander in there for the first inning when you can put a horrible reliever in there first to make sure he’s pitching from behind? Brilliant stuff from the Rockies!

Ballparks should be happy places. They should always smell like freshly cut grass. #BillVeeck The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations ⚾ 📕 ©2007 #Baseball #FantasyBaseball #FenwayPark

“Moral paralysis” is a term that has been used to describe the inaction of France, England and other European democracies in the 1930s, as they watched Hitler build up the military forces that he later used to attack them. It is a term that may be painfully relevant to our own times. Back in the 1930s, the governments of the democratic countries knew what Hitler was doing and they knew that they had enough military superiority at that point to stop his military buildup in its tracks. But they did nothing to stop him. Instead they turned to what is still a magic mantra today—“negotiations.” No leader of a democratic nation was ever more popular than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain—widely cheered in the House of Commons by opposition parties as well as his own when he returned from the negotiations in Munich in 1938, waving an agreement and declaring that it meant “peace in our time.” We know now how short that time was. Less than a year later, World War II began in Europe and spread across the planet, killing tens of millions of people and reducing many cities to rubble in Europe and Asia. Looking back after that war, Winston Churchill said, “There was never a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action.” The earlier it was done, the less it would have cost. At one point, Hitler could have been stopped in his tracks “without the firing of a single shot,” Churchill said. That point came in 1936—three years before World War II began when Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, in violation of two international treaties. At that point, France alone was so much more powerful than Germany that German generals had secret orders to retreat immediately at the first sign of French intervention. As Hitler himself confided, the Germans would have had to retreat “with our tail between our legs,” because they did not yet have enough military force to put up even a token resistance. Why did the French not act and spare themselves and the world the years of horror that Hitler's aggressions would bring? The French had the means but not the will. “Moral paralysis” came from many things. The death of a million French soldiers in the First World War and disillusionment with the peace that followed cast a pall over a whole generation. Pacifism became the vote among the intelligentsia and spread into educational institutions. As early as 1932, Winston Churchill said: “France, though armed to teeth, is pacifist to the core.” It was morally paralyzed. #ThomasSowell Dismantling America 📖 ©2010 #WWII #WinstonChurchill #History

SIERA [Skills Interactive ERA] is far from perfect, but many studies over the last 15 years have proven it to have a slightly higher correlation to ERA than the other indicators (xERA, FIP, xFIP). #VladSedler “The Trade Desk: Luckiest and Unluckiest Starting Pitchers” 📃 April 21, 2026 @fangraphs #Baseball #Statistics #FantasyBaseball

@TBTimes_Rays Thanks for the update. I've been holding him in my IL spot. Now I can waive him and pick up another player.

ICYMI: #Rays starter Ryan Pepiot will have hip surgery and miss entire season tampabay.com/sports/rays/20…

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Baseball? It's just a game —as simple as a bat and a ball. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it's symbolizes. It's a sport, business—and sometimes even religion. #ErnieHarwell The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations ⚾ 📕 ©2007 #BaseballTwitter #DetriotTigers #FantasyBaseball

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@JonPgh In the process of trying to flip Wrobleski. He's got one more start this weekend and I hope it's a good one cuz that will help me get more in return. 🤞

ERA Regression Coming - Bad News SPs with ERAs below 3.00 and K-BB% below 10% 1) Chad Patrick (0.95 ERA / 2.7% K-BB%) 2) Justin Wrobleski (1.88 / 4.3%) 3) Clay Holmes (1.96 / 7.5%) 4) Eduardo Rodriguez (1.96 / 5.2%) 5) Martin Perez (2.21 / 5.1%) 6) Edward Cabrera (2.38 / 6.6%) 7) Nick Martinez (2.45 / 7.6%) 8) Mitch Keller (2.79 / 8.7%)