The fact that most modern cars run remarkably quietly is thought to be a factor as well, since there’s less obvious clues that a car is running than has been the case in the past.

Also, you’ll have to pry my proximity keys from my cold dead hands.

I am procreating as I type this. Nobody is cheering.

Yeah, they should totally give Division titles, League championships, and World Series rings to the team whose pitchers garner the most Quality Starts.

I just read the relevant rule, and apparently American League teams have the OPTION of starting the game with a DH. If you don’t start the game with a DH, you don’t get a DH for the rest of the game. Further, you can’t have someone slip in at DH if they first entered the game in any other capacity.

If you take Ohtani out off the mound, does he have to stop being the DH? The DH is allowed to bat and he never steps foot on the field?

I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for Ohtani to get a ND after pitching like that, knowing full well he has a better bat than 6, 7 or 8 of the players in the lineup.

No disrespect intended to Albert Pujols, but I wonder if the Angels would be better off letting Ohtani DH for himself and letting Pujols rest on Sundays, as God intended.

Damn it, this means that the New York Yankees have cornered the market on full-on Wellingtons (Caceres and Diaz).

This series should prove, once and for all, that of the two Chicago teams, the Cubs have the better catcher with initials “WC” and double-Ls as the third and forth letters of their first name.

Silver lining: he got 10% bump in followers off this.

It’s impressive in the context we are used to, but this was hardly a group of “hangers-on” like we’d seen in previous expansions.

That’s pretty much what happened, but the larger point is that even though only one team was added that year, there were two teams vying for the castoffs from the rest of the league. I don’t know how it works in other leagues, but the NHL is kind of goofy.

You’re an angry little mutt, aren’t you?

That was actually a weird expansion - the owners of the North Stars wanted to move the franchise, and rather than let them, the NHL gave them an expansion franchise (the Sharks) and let them draft a bunch of players from the North Stars. Then the North Stars and the Sharks drafted from the other teams to round out…

McPhee did the absolute best he could have given what was available, but it helps that A) he wasn’t competing with anyone else for those players and B) the league has transformed a LOT since the last expansion, with an emphasis on schemes and tactics, where the 3rd and 4th lines and 3rd D pairings actually matter game…

Well that, and what was to prevent Strange from opening a portal back to Earth while they were hurtling towards Titan, or from using the Time Stone to go back to any point prior? Why did he waste time talking to Tony as he was erased when he could have astral projected and pissed his plan in the dust for Tony to read?

See what I get for not watching SNL? Still, it struck me funny.

Agreed, and whatever the winning scenario was meant Thanos had to first succeed. I’m guessing Strange knew the others wouldn’t go for that, so the (known only to Strange to be pointless) battle HAD to happen, just to sell it to Thanos that he was making hard-won progress.

I took it to mean Strange saw the only way Thanos would let his guard down is if he accomplished his mission AND Tony Stark was still alive to do something after the purge.