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Actually didn't AOC call MTG "baby girl", that's a pretty good slam, though maybe not in MTGs exurban neck of the woods.

I can cut people a little slack around Thomas because he had honed the act of the aggrieved black man to an art and was able to take in a lot of people with it - but it shouldn't have taken too much of his record on the court to prove to anyone that he is a hack and a schill for his various sugar daddy business 'contributors'. There's the ignorance part I guess. With Alito, there is less excuse, he has been a small minded off the wall medievalist, royalist nut job from day one.

Or change the process. It was sort of telling to hear Hinch praising the team approach and having it be in contradiction everything Tork said the team preaches. But that's cool, I'm always happy to take practice over theory. But I would guess from all the chatter in the booth about the statistics on first pitch strikes that they picked that up from from Hinch pregame and that maybe it means the team has realized that in the ebb and flow between the objective of trying to make pitchers throw more pitches and pitchers thus striving to throw more 1st pitch strikes, the world has shifted so it's time to revisit. The one issue with being data driven is the need to remember the data is always the past, so you may end up behind the curve when things change. In baseball you are not always measuring a static system - the underlying conditions that create some of your data can change because it's present tense decisions of players that are creating the data sets, and those are subject to change/evolution. The best launch angle to hit a HR doesn't change, but player tendencies do.

I'm embarrassed for the Tigers for any out of towner to see one of those.

LOL - I think Parker has had a fire lit in him.

Ibanez, Vierling, Urshella can all hold down the defense at 3rd - at least well enough not to hurt. But as McKinstry just demonstrated, it would get painful if McKinstry plays many innings at SS.

Wentz gives up some shots - no runs

I think at the end of the 3rd, Nelson was over 70 pitches and Skubal was at 34.

what I look for is whether there they are actually doing something different, and they are not letting too many called strikes go by. Now quite possibly tomorrow the DBs will decide not to throw so many 1st pitch strikes and the chess match restarts from a different board.

Tigers have 7 fly balls over 100 mph. Any of them might be HRs somewhere else. Kirk's been talking about this park being bad for HRs with the roof closed.

they will always be looking for excuses to get Riley off his feet.

2nd long sit down. But Skubal still in the game....

they aren't facing a lot of velo, and they haven't been smart enough to even pitch Javy outside, so there's that.

Keith now 8 for his last 21.

must be the green batting gloves.

One in 125 if they are all 200 hitters. One in 27 if they all hit 330!

could tell if Kerry was calling it - if he was he wasn't being real demonstrative.

Gibson and Benetti lobbying for the Tigers to swing the bat more.

Tork goes opposite field on a FB high and away. Hope springs eternal

Jinxed it. Jansen with a single EDIT: LOL - and then a 2 run dinger to Schnneider.

until he faces a RHP? Seriously though, the difference was that almost to the end Miguel could still hit whenever the knee settled down so there was always that tease/hope that if somebody found something that helped him drive off the left leg again, he'd be able to be more productive. So he would have those stretches where you saw him pick up the front foot again and you knew he was going to hit - for a while - and it got to where it might only be game or two and you'd see him go back to trying to hit flat footed. The overall result may have looked the same in BR as a bad player that had an occasional hot streak, but the feel of it was a lot different for me seeing that the talent was still there but for a piece of bum orthopedia. It's does happen to a lot of players and I always think itis a sad thing.

although she did have the sophistication to frame it as a hypothetical. The real bad guy here is Comer - who is no better than a carny barker with the whole preceding and wouldn't know decorum or want or know how to enforce if it slapped him upside the head.

The only thing with Miguel is that he could still flash a little brilliance now and then. Just to remind you. But it got to be so seldom. Even as late as '22 he could tease a month hitting 320 and being productive, but he couldn't sustain it and soon enough he'd be back to futile.

The other big single event that hurt Ford a LOT was the 'Poland is a free country' slip (not be the exact syntax but is was along that line). That was a pretty serious error at the point were the cold war was still pretty frigid and it wasn't just a misspoken word - there was a thought there but it so muddled and poorly executed it had to make you wonder.

We all do it, but maybe we give Watergate too much credit for the outcome in '76. It was going to be a tough climb for Ford anyway. Carter was the more appealing personality and much better in front of the cameras - stagflation was already setting in. If Ford hadn't carried MI as a favorite son, which another Repub probably would not have, Carter gets 318 EV.