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tying runs on the bases for Angels with 2 out top of the 9th. Angel got one in the 9th but games ends 6-4 Twins.

Bah! Twins go up 8-3 in the 7th

Nice play there by Jake Rogers, A seldom reported item from Jake's bio is that he ran away from home the summer he was 14 to join the circus, where he became a juggling sensation.

terrible AB by Torkelson. Took the FB in the zone, swung and missed at two breaking balls. I watched Brandon Inge do that exact pattern a thousand times - take the FB and then swing and miss at the breaking ball out of the zone. I've never understood why any hitter would expect a fastball on 0 - 1.

the number on the league page can't be the player totals even though it appears to purport to be.

Vierling walks on 5 pitchers, not one of which was noted by Benetti and Gibson

tigers hitters leaving all kinds of runs out there. Pitching better hold up.

it won't always line up that well. A team full of zero WAR guys should be under 500 but you also see teams further over 500 than their total player WAR.

Mize can't get through 5 with a big lead against a bad team. Not good

Meadows was not the only guy out of the lineup over most of that period and Maeda was still in the rotation etc.,

I guess some some endorsement do make a difference.

one of enduring legacies of Western Civilization that has come down to use from the Greeks, re-enforced by another 2,000 yrs of Judeo-Christian ethos, is the idea that Truth has intrinsic value in and of itself. That to Trump and the people like him in the GOP, speech is a purely transactional act is a repudiation of all that. They live by a literally pre-historic morality, they are modern barbarians.

Vance is basically dumb people. No thought at all goes into what they say, just grab any nonsense even if it has implications that come back at you like a boomerang. And why does it work> Because their target audience is just as unpracticed at logical thinking. It's all politics by appeal to the lizard brain.

this is all true, but an alternate solution to the valid problem you raise would as easily have been to play each division rival once, half home, half away each season. To me a football season is too short to play anyone twice.

actually I would think that if vital national security information was coming in hot any President would excuse himself politely and just say "Excuse me but this is a job that sometimes makes a call." He could always reschedule with the kids. W was in so far over his head it literally became tragic before all was said and done. It's just a testament to how useless what transpires in a presidential campaign is wrt actually picking a competent leader. Of course who really knows if Gore would have been any better. Kerry almost certainly would have been but it's difficult to defeat any incumbent prez - esp when the country is at a war footing. And it's just as well he's gone to ground and is staying there. I can't conceive of the man having anything useful to add to the national conversation.

Ilitch won't do full Tampa - you'll see them spend to keep selected player, just not very many.

She told Hinch they might need some bunting but got an earful back "Heather, we don't bunt around here!"

Two games in and Rainer Sabin with knives out for Sherrone Moore and his staff in the Freep. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2024/09/10/michigan-football-coaches-sherrone-moore-reality-check/75151712007/

this speaks a lot louder than the voices in any spin room.

Their numbers have come back in a really stupendous fashion. Lewis and Clark reported a goose population so large they darkened the sky. A couple of years ago we were out on Lake Superior at dawn at just about this time of year and we saw a dark streak across half the sky which we thought was just an odd cloud. Grabbed the binocs to see it resolve into thousands of Canada geese flying in formation.

the challenge to another debate was good, just arrange it not to happen. Hillary killed Trump in their 1st debate and he came back much better in 2 and 3. Don't give your opponent a chance to get off the mat.

I think Texas had already made that pretty clear. 🫤

and don't cancel any trips to Wisconsin!

Middle of the season is fine for playing it, but It should be voted at the end of the previous season. Or do the note during ST to help drum up interest pre-season.

always double down