gehringer_2

too many LOB

This ump is pretty terrible. Guys getting rung up on both sides unjustly.

Beck report on Torkelson today. First I've in black and white that Tork is retooling: https://links.mlb.mlbemail.com/e/evib?_t=c632e003a756446c956a8e0347d00d08&_m=099969ed726d4b17849d932395292b70&_e=efARCvhx9gSLurF-J3zaXB2OcbwNK5oDKveqRw9gFHAFBj95sapqWgO5Y1hLLwxNFZKTs4AD6gS68LlMgEbx1Q%3D%3D

LOL - Minneapolis is full of young adults from N.Dak, S.Dak, Neb. and for good reason.

Urshella is quite the black hole tonight.

when the wheel come off, they come off fast. The last three batters - one loud out and two runs.

Trump has never been much in the way of a good candidate. All he has ever done is do friendly territory rallies and post on social media. There is no coherent world or economic view. So it worked against Hillary when he was a new thing, but didn't against Biden (even when he had an incumbent's natural advantage) so it really should not be enough against Harris either. Plus it's all old hat now. I mean how does he campaign on any issue like immigration when he had 4 yrs to fix it himself and never even tried? He doesn't really learn or adapt - if anything his public repertoire of behaviors is shrinking. So it's basically up to his political advisors run a campaign in which the candidate is only a sometime participant. And since the Trump machine has laid waste to so many local GOP operations and chased away so much local political experience, you can only wonder what kind of ground game they will be able to mount anymore.

Harris/Walz with a lot of momentum showing in the polls. Unclear so far what is just a news 'bump' and what is broader momentum, but they won't need to keep up this rate of movement for long to reverse previous assumptions about this election. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/polls-president.html

I'd make it as more likely they don't have staff, or maybe DJT is hoarding campaign funds to take with him if he loses, than that they are really broke.

do you think his rah-rah shtick will still play with pro players today? Or can he still recall the old NFL personna he once was?

I don't see a permit posted on it.

It would be nice to have a left handed 1B. Personally watching Riley swing frightens me. Everyone says they love the swing because of the bat path, but the contortion of his back to get that swing looks brutal. I will be not be surprised if in 5 yrs he has changed that swing or gotten hurt or both.

Yup. And one the boxes that MAGA have put themselves in by having their own mediasphere is that Trump can sit and post on TruthSocial all day and it never moves the needle beyond the 40% of the electorate he already has (if it even reaches most of them). So Harris and Walz run hard for 90 days, all those rallies drive Trump out of the news cycle. He's has to get out there or cede the spotlight. And therein lies the rub. Does he have the physical and mental strength left to do it? It was easy to keep up with an obviously slowing Biden, but his opposition is now 20 yrs younger and Vance is already a failure as an effective surrogate.

his team came back to get him off the hook for the loss but the pen lost it anyway.

Oddly, if you put the three of them in an OF, the problem is Riley. You'd like Meadows and Clark in CF and LF but Riley can't throw nearly well enough to play RF. I don't know anything about Max's arm other than he was labeled as '5 tool'. Maybe he is your RF if his arm is stronger than Parker's. Or you swap corners home and away.

IDK, If anything, Texas is always further away than it appears.

I think the next AG may want to be someone who has no further political ambitions because between fighting with the SCOTUS and prosecuting Trump, you're going to leave a lot of people mad.

Very possibly. Also, no candidate wants a more dramatic orator as their understudy. But the other side would be that the demographic where the Dems have the biggest hill to climb is white men, and Walz gives the white guy in the F150 permission to like a Dem more so than any other possible choice. My take would be that that was the single over riding consideration. And as I mentioned before, don't underestimate the importance what their internal polling may have been telling them. If they were behind in PA, maybe you need Shapiro. If you think you have PA, you make the broader play.

Yup. Minneapolis is less than an hour from Eau Claire- closer than any large population in WI. But it's clever strategy. If the start up had been a little rocky, the campaign would still have a packed venue to show in a competitive state and 90% of Americans have no clue about the finer points of upper mid-west geography. Given the response in Det it appears they didn't have to worry.

we are roughly back to April - the AI run up of the last couple of months had to capitulate.

Looking back it appears the IF glove was never much anyway. His fielding %, going all the way to A ball was never better than 950 at 2B or SS.

well if he did just lose it that's just bad luck and nobody's procedural error.

so is it logistically/legally possible for Trump to jettison Vance at this point? He has to be wishing there was a way he could fire his way out of this.

definitely

it makes perfect sense. The problem is always doubt about whether communication was received by the other party. If all communication is one way, doubt can remain about whether hearing footsteps means a guy is backing you up or about to collide with you. Parker said he knew he should have caught it. But it was pretty clear he had stopped so in reality in real time he thought Wenceel was taking it while Wenceel was also ducking out. "I got it, you take it!"