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Pretty good rain falling in A^2 again. Don't give up the lead.

kind of an interesting relay throw, looked like it wasn't a serious attempt to beat him there, just get it there in case he overslid or something.

anderson with the shut down

exactly, he misjudged how long it would be up - but you charge anyway and then it's easy to adjust later.

easy catch for Vierling and he never calls for it. Outfield just isn't that hard..... Esp centerfield - you just call for everything you can catch - period, always.

Colt has given two a ride tonight with nothing to show. Think they are going to need Bert + 2 to win this one

tork late on a good fastball to hit.

OK, so this is more my kind of silly

Melton is getting some outs, but he doesn't to have gotten into any kind of rhythm tonight.

this is getting silly.

a rare bad AB from Gleyber

If we take the least biased esitmate and say that some other pitcher gives you half the advantage those two did (i.e. split the diff) , that would be 9 of those 18 extra wins, which would have left them in 1st by 1/2 game going into the crash rather than 9.5 up but whatever, no team can lose it's number one and two starters and not need help just to stay even, esp when one of them is the best pitcher in the league. Now if the totally strange and bizarre happens and they retain Skubal.....

Tork swung at ball four then popped out.

Kerry too aggressive in that AB, swung at 3 balls.

humid air feels 'heavy' -- is actually lighter than dry.

after the dinger, TTBDNS

Tigers making loud outs, Torks stuck at 1st.

OK, the Twins have had all the BaBIP luck they have coming.

inning would be over if Torres was playing straight up 🤷‍♂️

maybe Tork needs to play 1st with an OF glove. Knocking down a lot of balls he can't put away.🤔

In hot weather on the bike I usually don't care if *I* get rained on, but I always hate having the bike get wet. Anyway I've been lazy this week, I sort of/maybe/minor tweaked by back and I'm being super careful with it for a few days. Got out three times last week though.

You are the empiricist here. Going into the same on Sept 1, 2025, they were 22 over, and 18 of that was games started by Mize and Skubal, the rest of staff combined was 4 over. The numbers are what they are. When those guys pitched they won, when they didn't, they were barely 500. That's data, i'm just the messenger. 😉

yeah, I hear that, but all of that margin over 500 was games started by Mize and Skubal. Take those two guys out at the end of this year and you have a huge void to fill. Maybe Melton/Jobe/Olsen can be their equal, but it's not accurate to say we can just add *from* the point we were at in July of 25 because there are major losses almost certainly coming from where that team was.

works for some things - but certainly not all. If you want a good fish dinner the buyer is way more important than the cook! 😉

while the saying is apparently not true that the Chinese ideograph for 'crisis' is 'danger' plus 'opportunity', it applies in this case. The Wings are in a stuck place, Yzerman needs a deep move that can make a bigger impact on the roster than anything on the horizon. Heck - a major move for young talent make so much sense for the Wings, maybe Yzerman should have been playing 4 dimensional chess trying to get Larking to ask to be traded.