gehringer_2

that's the thing about a baseball game though - runs in the 1st count just as much as runs later and any pitcher can end up on the ropes at any point in a game, so I guess I'd just as soon press any advantage at any point. But I will admit there is a difference between burning your 1st and your last challenge. If a game looks like it's going to stay close I'm more on board with trying to keep the last challenge in your back pocket.

The other aspect that is going to evolve is that ABS gives a player his own, custom, consistent zone in the up and down direction. Hopefully you have players who gain confidence in their own judgement in the vertical direction as they only have one standard to internalize rather than every umpire's estimate of their zone. I think there are other things that should evolve as well. I would guess players will figure out that in and down are the places they see as well or better than the ump, while they probably want to feel more certain before challenging an outside call.

I hope it does force them to move on from Umpires that aren't very good. There are an enough guys who call a good game behind the plate, MLB has had no real need to keep the guys who don't. It's just been habit, but now it's a habit they have more motivation to fix.

It is exactly set up so no one get to see video before the challenge is made - it has to be a player's live judgment vs the Ump's live judgement. I'm actually OK with that.

the old saying is that the Stone Age didn't end because they ran out of stones. If the US ties itself to oil, industrial efficiency in the rest of the world will just continue to pass us by as they operate on an energy economy that is not only cleaner, but CHEAPER. A lot of oil is going to get left in the ground around the world because it will have no economic value at its cost of recovery.

And it shows up in March because when the stakes are higher and other teams play a little harder, the Wings have no reserve, no margin to raise their own game. Maybe McLellan is too good a regular season coach 🙄

Not a very entertaining game, but I can still thank the Tigers for a much less frustrating evening than watching the Wings would have been.

Keith needs a little work on the throws

McGonigle needed to have challenged the 1st one, which was a ball.

I suppose in the long run, anything and everything that makes oil more expensive can only help jolt the US into a better, future success oriented energy policy, at least after the Idiot has left the scene. From that standpoint a Persian gulf that is open but expensive wouldn't be the worst thing, EXCEPT that whatever $$ go to the mullahs definitely is a worst thing.

Tork getting BaBIP'd already this season.

that's how they are going to get their reparations. If they are half way reasonable they'll get their way and make a nice bundle.

another little detail. McGonigle with no hesitation calling Keith off the pop-up. SS should take that ball but you often see a rook be a little deferential.

even the SO said that.

There's a little D.

he might have been in too far to make the tag, I didn't think the angle they had on the replay showed his depth very well, but if he was in the wrong place it still means if he was in the right place it's an out.

Tork been skipping the weight room or what?

the throw was there in time. It went by Tatis when he was still 3 feet from the bag.

that's about as bad a play as a major league 2b can make.

it’s always a fine line. as long as he has a high enough percentage of successful ABs. It’s just harder for a guy to make progress if he’s making too many outs.

Still, not sure why they started him at AAA when he only had 41 games at AA and struggled there most of August before having a better Sept. That's SSS to prove he had mastered the level though. Always easier to bring a guy up than have to send him back down..... He's always had a very high GB rate though - something he's going to have to fix at some point.

UNRaid. There are a bunch of candidate plugins for it but I figure I'll give it a few days to see if DSN lifts the blockade before I spend a lot of time on it.

so far, DSN is on DirectTV, but only live. It is not allowing broadcasts to be provided via DirectTVs "DVR" library, i.e. you can mark a game to 'record' but if you try to play it back you get a message that its owner is not allowing streaming. First time I have ever seen that on anything at DTV. I used to have a spare computer I had set up as a physical DVR, unfortunately it is now my NAS. There is probably a way to get the NAS to make a recording but I'm a long way from figuring that out as I sit here. I know I could use something like OBS but I want something that can read the guide and schedule unattended.

It's two days, he may be playing on unsustainable adrenalin - in fact he is certainly playing on unsustainable adrenalin. So he's going to come down off the cloud, but right now he is high enough he can come down quite a way from the last two days and still be pretty good.

and the other thing that Trump's real estate background has never taught him is that unlike property that just sits there waiting till a deal closes, the interconnected web of the world economy doesn't just start back up when the fighting stops. Oil fields, large industrial processes, supply chains all take time to start back up once damaged. Futures markets are already telling us that the expectation is that oll prices are not coming back down for months even if the fighting ends tomorrow.