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Vest and Brieske both pitched for the Hens last night - as far was we know neither had their arm fall off.

Riley's such an odd bird, and bird is what come to mind because he just doesn't move like a typical athlete - you can't even say if it's necessarily an asset or a deficit but there is nothing typical about his kinesiology. But whatever, it's really nice to see him hitting more like the promise of 2024.

I'll be surprised if Riley can find the base with anything he tries to throw hard.

He had to swing just out of the zone to get that. The other night he took strike three in almost the same place with the game on the line. And he went to RF.

walk and a hit - Torkelson has to get back to that being his normal night and maybe he'll be OK.

but not that time.

Carlos Pena for a couple of years after Clark

The running game has blown up in their face way too much this year.

interesting thought, but you can probably forget about ever seeing a 3-6-3 DP. 🫤 Might be better on foul balls....

stole 2nd, then doulbed ott

yes the continuity was the driver. I suppose there is such an ephemeral aspect to the whole construct of an US cable news source that that is why the continuity is important. It's understandable they needed to rename without risking the loss off the old identification and since they couldn't use the 2nd half they had no choice but to re-use the first, but that combination of circumstances still yielded what strikes me a very silly result.

talking about odd echoes in station branding I've wondered what they were thinking with the "MS-Now" rebrand that has nothing to do with MS. One possible angle is that for people that have their channel guides indexed alphabetically, keeping the "MS" does insure that people don't "lose" track of where to find them. IDK for how many people the alphabetically indexed guide is a thing, but it's about the only angle I've thought of where "MS-Now" offers anything.

I learned about hard 'ch' in Italian when I got my Bianchi bicycle frame.

With Mize something unforeseen is getting to be foreseeable.

at the rate they are giving up runs, the offense hardly even matters. They might as well get over all their slumping before the pitching (hopefully) becomes competitive again.

has someone checked the flight logs to Katmandu? I guess they have put out that he's having a health issue. Apparently something that has taken his ability to speak.

I'm pretty sure it was Ch 7 "ActionNews" that ran the spots but I've forgotten the target - could have been when WWJ/WDIV hired Mort Crim?

Riley has made a good step this season. nice OBP improvement, though still too many Ks

indeed. doesn’t fully explain why guys that are playing are playing below optimum, but you can’t discount the snowball effect.

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'