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and there are multiple levels of this. you can do a period piece and want the characters to have period sensibilities, e.g. barbarians talking like barbarians, or you set an essentially modern fable in period and want those characters to have a ‘modern’ outlook. my compliant about Nuremberg was even narrower than that, which is the unnecessary use of particular words/idioms that didn’t exist in the era when the language of the era would be perfectly intelligible to the viewer if the writer had bothered to look for the anachronisms he had let creep in and purge them.

i disagree on this one. something they did in red october on a different aspect demonstrates why: the cinematographer on hfro realized that he needed some way for the viewer to instantly recognize which sub he was looking at, so he lit each one in a different color. the subterfuge works perfectly, your brain picks it up but you hardly notice at the conscious level. IIRC a similar trick was used in VanillaSky to id dream sequences. accents work the same, it maintains a level of illusion identifying the difference in context but still allows you access to dialog you understand.

Tork is a mixed bag right now - he's walking enough to be keeping one of the better OBPs on the team but he's fallen back into the his usual rut of taking so many strikes looking for perfect that his K rate is too high. He strikes me as a guy who just can't get out of his own way mentally to maximize the physical talent he does have and it's frustrating to watch. He needs to go to RF more and he needs to swing at strikes both of which he is perfectly capable of. If we had a LHB that could play first you could sit him against tougher RHP ( of course Anderson is a RHB) - you'd think that guy could be Keith, but he's a worse defender and until he finds some ISO he's no more productive than Tork has been. This team just is not gelling according to plan.

anyone have a good rationale for why Riley isn't batting behind McGonigle where he could be driving him around once in a while? Or at least 3rd if you wanted to get a RH bat between them.

Max Anderson is tearing it up at Toledo. I don't think they think his glove plays on an MLB middle IF but he'd probably do at 1st.

Years ago, when local TV ratings wars were the thing, one of the Detroit stations brought in a new crew, mostly hired from out East. The station with the people with most local depth started running commercials against them that highlighted an anchorperson representing one of the foreign imports mispronouncing Gra.tee.ot. It was a very well done takedown. In the Detroit area there are two road names that betray the foreigner - Gratiot, and for West siders 'Lahser' which the unfamiliar (including too many Detroiters actually) invariably dyslexicly read and pronounce as 'Lasher'

we have DSA candidate for Mayor in A^2. I don't agree with the DSA on very much but I'll vote for anyone against Chris Taylor. If Taylor wins the primary, Mayor will be the only R vote on my general election ballot.

I think it goes back a way in Canadian and Aussie English.

just end every critical sentence with "anode"

Reed +7 in 5 minutes on the court. 🤷‍♂️

batters 5->9 were 1 for 18. They are walking a lot but walks are a really hard way to score runs unless you hit too.

prediction:Ewing steals 3rd, scores on a sac fly... EDIT: same difference

Tigers dont' even move the runner to 3rd

Keith could have done that.

a lot to optimistic about in the pitching tonight. A lot to be depressed about with the hitting. ( I needed to write this before the BP had another chance to lose the game.)

I wonder if that was also about the on-deck circle stuff. this is a truly, truly offensively challenged team right now.

8 more guys like Kevin and that's a winning team.

MsKinstry and Short scheduled up in the 9th. Oh boy.

It was a strike, but he's got to protect there.

that AB was lost on 3-0 Tork's continuing weakness as a hitter is his refusal to protect the plate when he needs to

He can't take 3-0 with the guys behind him.

if you challenge when you don't have one it should be a penalt ball or strike.

another gift from the Mets.

Valdez is clearly tired. Time to take him out.

There are no make up calls in baseball, of course there aren't.