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File under - Not likely to be reported on Fox: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-retail-sales-unexpectedly-rise-123759878.html

with a very few exceptions like Joaquin Benoit, the problem was never the pitchers, it was the batters. They could give the pitchers all the time they want and the game time wouldn't change much as long as they make the batter get in the box in 8 (?) seconds. They call the system a 'pitch clock' but the timing that made all the difference was on the batter. So a little semantic misdirection at work.

I think this. It's easy, it creates a bit of a niche where he's not competing against anyone, and some people certainly do find it interesting, though the comment about Grossman enjoying success at the hand of his old team seemed almost to be gleeful at the thought of the Tigers losing, which is sort of ass for a your local reporter. semi-related: I also saw Carlos Monarrez with another Tiger column (to say he thinks they will catch Minny) and he reported that he has been spending more time with the team. I wonder if one of the current Freep guys is about to move off the Tigers or if the Freep is just expanding the level of resourcing on the team.

Now why would the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager? OK, I admit, dumb question.

Casey would be a good candidate to use an opener so he could come against the bottom of the order and settle down.

un-freaking-believable.

was listening to a pod cast with a dem pollster the other day (sorry I can't find the link!) and she broke things down in fine detail. The core support for Trump is two places - we know about the racists and misogynists, they aren't ever voting for Harris. But one group the Campaign has identified that is still recoverable to the dems that they have to target hard is Hispanic men. The pollsters work says all they care about is the economy, and they are sold on the idea that Trump, as a supposed successful businessman *must* be better on economic issues. If the Dems can break through to that group with a dose of economic reality, they would easily be over the top and the election would be over - but it's going to be hard because the Dems are not strong in the information universe that cohort lives in and their job is to find a way to be there. The other overarching issue for the campaign is presenting Harris as stronger than Trump. According to her data (and no surprise) a woman running against a man loses the presumption on being a strong enough personality for the job. Curiously though, Harris benefits because there is a general perception of black women being stronger than white women (I thought that was interesting but it does ring true - all the way back to Margaret Mitchell's Mammy and Hattie McDaniel's great performance in that role)

bingo

The thing that I think is so amusing with the ads from some of the sites is that they depict the target customers as lonely and stupid. The "parley time" ads especially. You normally want make your customer associate your product with being a successful/smart/socially adept etc. (note the contrast with the glitzy high-life MGM ads).

watched the film and no doubt he never gave Tork a stop signal. Interesting how quick the guys in the radio booth were to throw Tork under the bus - they have replay, should have seen what was pretty obvious.

Only the Phillies and the Dodgers still have a mathematical chance to get to 100 wins. It would require taking 10 of 12 for the Phils, 11 of 12 for the Dodgers. Given the hot starts by a number of teams this season I'm surprised no one is going to end up having that kind of year.

So Keith in the middle of another huge DP in the 8th. Stat nerds having trouble deciding about Colt. BR Rrds still hates him - has him at -10. At Statcast he's up to +3 OAA. He made some errors early but is currently on a 27 game errorless streak. I think he's going to be fine there. Of course, I'm only slightly biased.

I don't much like the matchup for Mize. Casey needs his best FB - breaking balls don't fool KC much, hardest team to K in the AL.

Baltimore could be a problem. If 1st place is out of reach for the Birds by that last series they might just rest their pitching. Last 6 at home should be good for Det but they haven't actually been any better at home this season.

Step by step. Picking up 3 games in 9 is a lot better than having to pick 4 in ten. ESPN playoff odds reach double figures.....😳

I'm on the radio now and Scales and Dickerson claim Cora made the right signal and Tork didn't pick it up. He waves the trailing runner with one arm the other (according to Dan) was pointing at 3rd which means stop but they admitted he waits very late make the stop sign.

In Stevie we Trust.

I wonder what happened there. They used to have one of the best challenge teams in the league and now they miss so often it's almost embarrassing. Somebody hired away somebody or they went cheap on equipment upgrades or what?

Yeah - I think sometimes you have to realize that expectancy tables are averages and sometimes you just are not facing an anything like an average player. Give up one and take you chances with the normal players.

Well. Instead of a guy that throws to the wrong team, a guy who can't throw at all.

DeWine said the state is making a driver's ed push in Springfield because a lot of the immigrants never learned to drive at home. You might call that the right kind of response.

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.