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if you challenge when you don't have one it should be a penalt ball or strike.

another gift from the Mets.

Valdez is clearly tired. Time to take him out.

There are no make up calls in baseball, of course there aren't.

Terrible umpiring there - he never got his hand above his face. Meanwhile - Framber with the QS.

Unreal. Baseball gods give the Tigers two freebies in one inning and it's the Tigers be like: "We don't need no steenking luck!"

after getting a pitch clock violation gift, Tork flails at ball 4

Keith with 104 EV on the DP ball - that's enough to get out of a ball park, unfortunately the launch angle was 1 deg.

Not much funny anywhere. Did Cooper have any OEM business? Selling tires in the after market only has to be tough business.

From today's NYT

Some of the political coverage coming out of CA is predictably silly. Porter pilloried because she yelled at a staffer, Steve Hilton's biggest coverage seems to be about the definition of a 'street Taco'.

not really a choice - gotta fight fire with fire.

Beck confirms that Mize will probably make a start next week - no trip to rehab. https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/jack-flaherty-struggles-to-give-tigers-long-start-in-loss-to-mets

Reese is why Avila took so many 6' 4" pitchers. My biggest worry when they took Jobe what that with a guy who spun his breaking ball that hard you might as well block out the lost year for the TJ surgery in advance. If he comes back from TJ spinning the ball just as hard, I'd guess he can be effective but the arm will always be a time bomb.

People who have visited Israel recently also. For good reasons or not, not one of my rather normie non-evangelical liberal friends who has been to Israel over the last decade or more didn't come back deeply disturbed by how Israel forces West Bankers to live. The trip tends to puncture their long held default idea of Israel as a liberal democracy. I'm sure the Evangelical side probably run through different tour programs, but it is what it is.

We come If you come in from the West, I like to take 94 to Livernois, South down to Mich Ave, East to Cass turn north, cross Grand River and all the lots on the West side of Woodward are right there. Also an easy exit going back the same way as you stay out of the ramp traffic near the stadium. Haven't been down this year yet but I think those also were $20-30 as of last season.

LOL - China would be odd-bedfellows. The Russians may value Iran too much to go there.

FWIW I saw somewhere that Mize might not go to rehab because it was a short DL, but I still kinda doubt it.

Of course - you know he's still obsessed with a Nobel right? He'd throw almost anything under the bus if XI gives him a way to settle Iran that makes him look good.

I don't think Hinch can do anything about having poor players. Hinch is about as good managing a pitching staff as I've seen and that is 90% of a manager's job. Yeah - I think his motivational talent is maybe marginal but I don't think that is all it's cracked up to be in baseball and we don't seem to have clubhouse issues. I haven't seen figures for this year but I still feel like the Tigers take too many strike ones, but I'll live with the two latter nits for the sake of the former.

I agree with this. The problem is that mainstream Dem policy disagreement with the current Israeli government draws an Arab emigree population (among others) to the party who actually are revuanchist wrt the existence of Israel and eventually they become a constituency for harder anti-semitism - IOW the situation brewing in Dearborn MI or Omar's district in MN. This is a hard problem because I don't want the main stream Democratic party to be in bed with Netanyahu.

doesn't all the "sports reference" site block ad blockers now unless you pay up?

Paul Krugman posts to a substack since he's left this gig at the NYT, and he's been writing about the comparison between Europe and the US recently, and that's a big part of his point. The US looks richer but it's really just in the bias of the accounting system. Labor productivity the EU is just as good, but Europe always looks like it's lagging because Euros have just decided to work less per capita - they actually value quality of life so they take time off to live it. Same applies to the fact that public goods are far better in Europe than in the US (healthcare, transportation etc), and finally, social equity is much better in Europe than the US which is a driver of social unhappiness in the US. And the proof is in recent (well, pre Trump) immigration figures. People came to the US from Western Europe all through the Post WWII era. Few have recently. Euros are only 10% of the immigrant population today and many of them are H1Bs recruited by US industry.

I have nightmares about the Orioles a couple years ago who everyone thought were the up and coming team and then just crashed back to futility after only one and a half good seasons.

Mize's last two injuries boggle the mind. How can an athlete trained for doing a couple of hours at maximum full body exertion hurt himself twice doing basically nothing? I keep hearing that training for injury prevention is now a sub-field within athletic training - pushed early on by guys like Tom Brady. I wonder if the Tigers are hip to that or not?