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Bash was still completely incompetent in the interview. She gave him a complete pass on his repeating the false claim that the people in Springfield are illegals, also the 20K number, which is more like 12-15K.

They used to let you watch one game on a trial without actually signing up (maybe still do?), which I did last season. But once you had done that if you went back to Apple TV for anything else you had to subscribe, and I never went there.

ran away with it, 9-2 final. Gain no ground today.

I've come around more to blaming bad relievers on the GM. If a guy is hazardous the GM has to get him off the team. There aren't enough roster spots to carry guys you can't use.

Adley makes it a one run game. I think the Tiger BP is starting to get run down.

How often can AJ work Holton without killing him. We’re going to find out.

It’s just a terrible presentation. Hard to believe there is some sentient being deciding that is how to broadcast a ballgame.

Yup. Ohio is a place where I can see large slices of the population getting silently pissed off and you won't hear a thing until 11/5.

I probably didn't put that correctly - what I mean is that I don't want them signing pitchers to move, but pitchers to keep.

big challenge next season will be to sort out all the arms. At this point, given that they are still stuck with Maeda, I don't want to see them bring in another reclamation product or 'innings eater.' if they sign a pitcher it should be serious multi-year signing of a #2/3 guy.

I'm going to take Torkelson's single to right to keep the game going as a sign he's trying to become a smarter hitter. It doesn't seem like it but he's hitting 270, 780 OPS since his return. Hope not dead yet.

scored just enough to be irritating.

The jinx is Dickerson. It never fails he’s talking up a pitcher when he gets hammered, as he was with Kenya just now. 😵

MLB hitters crack me up. They want to swing the bay so badly they are dead meat for a guy like Burnes that just won’t throw a strike if you don’t force him to.

Slip sliding away….

Burnes has Tork completely befuddled. Hot Tip: Just take everything if you get another AB against him.

So why use an opener if you aren’t changing sides? Maybe Guenther later.

Tork did it again. Took the 1st pitch cutter middle middle, swung at the second way off the plate, then can’t fight out of the hole. Stop it already.

are there any young fans? <j.k.>

I'm just thinking along the line that they banned the shift when they could have left the rules alone and eventually they would have has a generation of hitters that learned to go the other way. The fewer rules/constraints, the more likely the game can fix itself if left alone, people don't have patience for that.

Considering we have no visual and intonational clues I'm surprised message boards can work at all.

I have to wonder if the players association isn't or won't become another source of subtle pressure about it. Increasing use of openers is going to reduce the value of a lot of lower skill but high HR production players. If a guy with a high ISO but also a high platoon split can't be guaranteed his 2 or 3 AB against the correct sided pitcher, teams may move away from that kind of player.

Chas - I think this 1st sentence of your original post is what sent Lee and I in the wrong direction in our responses. I can read your post as either asking this question - which can be read to apply directly to Trump OR more specifically to the latter sentences and the second paragraph where you drive more directly to PB as the subject. In my case my bias toward reading the question as about Trump is because I find that the more interesting question. Pete is an auxiliary messenger in the campaign, I don't take that much significance in analyzing his particular take because I would think the campaign sends people out there to cover as many ways to make the case as they can. For instance Walz is already out there making the "Trump is crazy" case in all his appearances.

The Tigers have had enough success with it that I look for the league to do something to outlaw 'openers' in the off-season.

the only part I remembered myself is that there were a lot no-hitters that season and people were starting to talk about it being 1968 all over again and when were they going to make a rule change.