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maybe our view issn't so different - what makes secondary stuff good? Part if it is being able to throw it for strikes so batters can't spit on it. In that sense, on a given night, better command == better secondary stuff

1st dead giveaway was to leave out "Thank-you for your attention to this matter"

Clark's sample is up to >50PA still small but getting significant, great BB/K ratio, great OBP. The only knock of any kind is 50 PA without a HR - which is also true of Torkelson and Greene right now....🤔

The short stroke is really working for Keith and he's even getting good EVs. Be nice to see him turn into the hitter he promised he might be in the minors.

Kieder's stuff is good enough when he has the command to stay ahead. He did that tonight.

gameday preview shows Baez in CF, Perez in RF, Kerry DH.

I don't know if unserious is the best description for Newsome - he's taken on major problems in CA has been willing to take his share or flack over them. But I agree it is easy to get a sense of something vaguely off about him. Not sure what I would call it. It's not necessarily 'Slick' like Clinton but something.

She had her chance against the worst opponent of the century and didn't close it. Move on. Go back to the Senate or run for Gov of CA

Clark probably doesn't get called until they are ready to play him full time and I'd guess Wenceel is not going to play CF full-time.

The GOP doesn't even recognize what success against maybe the nation's most devastating social problem of the post WWII era looks like.

we need a full fledged "Truth and Reconciliation" a la South Africa. Sadly we have no Mandela or Tutu to guide/inspire it.

I like Javy in CF and that also gives McGonigle a clear runway at SS and Keith at 3b. Not sold on Wenceel defensively but he'll play if he hits.

since he got up and into the cart without his hand dangling or them having splinted it, we can guess it is a non-displaced fracture. But without surgery that's still 8 weeks before he thinks about swinging a bat. Maybe they can cut that down if they screw it together.

so how good is Max Clarks glove supposed to be?

that's gonna be 60 days. Meadows family seems to have a baseball curse.

The social media debates are all just sub-text to the more important question though, which is do the people asking for, vying for your support see any intrinsic value in truth over falsehood? The answer in many cases on both side is, sadly, no. However the big difference is that today, there is NO ONE on the right side in office or running for office who can possible have any remaining regard for truth, it's a logical impossibility to reconcile even a shred of regard for the intrinsic value of truth and still be within a 1000 miles of the today's national GOP. It's just not reconcilable - whether we are talking political truth, scientific truth, journalistic truth, any kind of truth. There are plenty of liars on the Democratic side, but there is still some basic nod to truth in the Democratic party, and that difference is all the difference in the world right now.

Ha - I heard Jansen talking this morning about an OT that was in play for the Lions and he said after watching him that even though he was big, he didn't believe he would ever be able to keep his pad level low enough to be successful in the NFL -- and gave some detail as to why, but of course I never heard who he was talking about before I got to where I was going!

the story writes itself.

he won't get that kind of suspension when it was Soler that charged him. EDIt: He got seven and it was reduced to 5. Which for a pitcher might not even be one start. And TBH, the way Soler hangs over the plate, the pitch that hit him in the hands wasn't even that far inside.

when they were part of the Washington Post they were doing better work than either of those two, but that didn't sell enough magazines. The US is no place to get rich doing quality journalism.

well, he was bleeding from the mouth, couldn't move his left arm, and appeared to be concussed - any one of those could rate a night of observation I suppose. He was not in a good way when he finally got up.

Yes run prevention is the bigger issue, but while the offensive numbers are true in aggregate it's largely because of 2 lopsided wins, also true they've scored 3 or less in 6 of 13 games.

i've said before that at some level there seems to be disconnect between Hinch and whole 'control the zone' concept. Hinch constantly re-iterates that he is always telling his hitters to "get a good pitch to hit". Well what if you don't? A major league pitcher can easily throw you 3 pitches in the zone and none of them are going to be 'good to hit'. So you just give up any AB when you don't get a cookie? How is that controlling the zone? You can win a lot of games waiting for mistakes when you are facing bad pitchers, but what about when you aren't? If you make it 'defend the K zone until the pitcher makes a mistake' that means you have to have a real defensive two strike approach with a short stroke to keep fouling pitches off. Do we see a lot of Tigers with that? Riley does say he's trying it.

the problem with Riley is that he seems to go overboard with everything. He was hitting too many ground balls in the 1st couple of years to he revised his approach - to the 2nd the most extreme upper cut in all of baseball. Last yr he struck out too much, so far this year his K rate is down a lot, his walk rate is up, but he's not getting any hits either.

I've beaten this point like a drum. They cannot pressure the puck in their own end. They lack the quickness to challenge and the strength to get a take away if they do get there. That is a skillset, and it's basically the same skillset needed to forecheck effectively, and Wings simply do not pay any attention to it in their roster construction for forwards and have not going back to before SY took over.