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Mike Schilling
Mike has been a software engineer far longer than he would like to admit. He has strong opinions on baseball, software, science fiction, comedy, contract bridge, and European history, any of which he's willing to share with almost no prompting whatsoever.
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on The Mandate That Wasn’tGaetz always seemed like a negotiating tactic to me. A ready-made concession to get other nominees l…
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024It was an IRBM. Still nuclear capable, but not quite as scary if you're not in Eastern Europe.
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024I hope that there was a "by the way, this isn't a nuke" call on the red phone first. on The Mandate That Wasn’tOh, so you see what I did there.... Congratulations? But at last ... finally, something worth discus…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tI'm curious to see if he takes his seat in the next congress... I'd assume yes, but seeing some armc…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tGaetz may not be able to accept it but I think Trump just used him to see where the bar would be wit…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tLook for a soft landing at Heritage.
on The Mandate That Wasn’tVery interesting. If I had to guess someone figured out that there was no way in God(ess?)'s green e…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tThe sort of pedantic dude who is going to pull out Merriam Webster for the sole purpose of having a… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Over in 1 day!
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Let’s see, Schilling at the end of September. Gotta be something obscure about baseball playoffs…Report
Riffing off this, I’d say biggest jump in wins for a team that went worst-to-first.
It can’t be single season or specific to this year because Boston is listed twice and Brooklyn is on the list.Report
Unless one of those Boston teams is the Braves.Report
Of the original sixteen baseball franchises, the first season of their current nickname. Many existed prior to that with different nicknames. Also, nicknames were not as official in the early days as they are now.Report
Exactly.Report
The full list:
Giants 1885
Reds 1890
Phillies 1890
Pirates 1891
*Tigers 1895
*White Sox 1900
Cards 1900
A’s 1901
Cubs 1903
Red Sox 1908
Dodgers 1911
Braves 1912
Yankees 1913
Indians 1915
Orioles 1954
Twins 1961
* As minor league teams.Report
There were separate minor and major leagues around the turn of the 20th?Report
There were minor leagues as soon as the National League declared itself the first major league in 1876 (and actually began to distinguish itself as superior during the 1880s). But you’re probably thinking of a minor league as a farm system for the major leagues, and that didn’t start until Branch Rickey began to develop them during the 1920s. Before that, a minor league team was an independent business that signed players, sold tickets, and occasionally sold the contract of one of its players to a higher-level team (major or higher minor.) There are still a few independent minor league teams around (though obviously they can’t sell players anymore), but they’re a tiny minority. Anyway, given that there was no baseball west of the Mississippi or south of the Potomac until the 1950s, minor league baseball was what the majority of the country had.Report