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I keep hoping for strike outs looking because I like how Porter calls them.

Probably a lot of Tigers fans on social media backspacing after that Baez hit.

2-3-1 inning.

The Polanco trauma is real.

Surprisingly (at least it surprised me) the difference between a mediocre and optimal line up is probably only 10 runs or 1 win per year. No real reason not to have high OBP hitters batting more often, but you can bat your Don Kelly types second every once in a while. Sometimes they'll homer in game 5 versus the Yankees.

Varland is having a really tough day- two sliders on pitches 4 and 5 that even Baez wouldn't swing at.

The force out at second

That challenge was worth 1.3 runs if successful. When will it be worth more?

Still laughing at "Third prize in the Kid Rock look-alike contest"

Bases loaded no outs 2.9 RE First and third one out 1.6 RE What are you saving the challenge for?

Also, sad

Uh, isn't Ibañez on the bench now? I guess you have to do the parlay ad anyway if they paid for it.

I wonder if it were 2-0 if he'd have played it more aggressively.

Sad

I'm waiting for some researcher to send over to the booth "This is first time a team ever won it's first three games by one run, it's next two games in extra innings and took a no hitter to the seventh" like it would be a surprise.

Good thing for Holton he's not paid by the pitch.

If there is going to be a closer I like using them in the ninth. While someone else might have to pitch a one-run save, there is also a chance you score 5 runs in the top of an inning and then you never use your best reliever.

Gasp. And we know how serious the House GOP is about gun laws lately given their concern over Hunter Biden.

That's the whole set of home runs, I guess.

Just dropping by to congratulate Lorenzen on pitching the Porcello.

Isn't a political favor at the state level worth a lot more than sex? I mean I don't really know the market for either but I'd think tens of thousands versus hundreds or something like that. If true this is not only corruption but bad corruption.

Why do health insurance policies in Michigan cover autism care? Why didn't they have to do so 30 years ago? The empathy of the right extends as far as they can see.

I do like Hazy. My best (worst?) experience at an all-inclusive was discovering Brugal XV on ice. Mrs. HighOPS tips above local conventions and so my glass never emptied. Amusingly at one pool I was ordering it as Brugal Quince and the bartender served it. A couple days later at the other pool I tried to order it and both bartenders looked confused. I guess it is really named after the letters (approx "Brugal Eckay Bay"). We had a good laugh.

M43 or any Old Nation IPA. I obviously think society works better without the recent revisions on first amendment law by justices reflecting the values of those who appointed them. I would argue that my example is the opposite of extreme compared to allowing bias in the public sector We know from recent history that allowing private citizens to discriminate in the public sector is problematic and I'm shocked we are returning to it. I'd also argue that my example is less of a strawman argument than the reference to free speech. No one said someone can't protest to the board. But, clearly religious groups are behind most attempts to restrict LGBTQ focused materials in schools.

What are the "sides" here? Whatever. I'll join whichever side opposes a Fundamentalist Christian Theocracy in the United States.