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Yeah, JHM may be coming around.

Wings will have mold him into a better shot blocker though.

Somebody out there needs to invent better training regimes for athletes. Nothing Casey did going for that ball should have resulted in injury.

Mannings last start was actually pretty good. Can he string together a few?

Which, given the quality of the starting pitching is even worse than should be.

So much to look forward to.

Yup. Strip away all the breathless anxiety and hidden agenda's, here is the reality: If Biden withdraws, I simply do not see Harris emerging with the nomination at the convention, and if she doesn't, and Black America says to itself - "this system is always going to shaft us no matter which side" and stays home, the dems cannot win anyway. On the other hand, if Harris were to be the convention's choice, then it's a pointless exercise because she is already next in line if Biden is incapacitated - all it does is create likely convention chaos for people for all angles to get their panties in a bunch over.

Dems had a big hole to dig out of after the mess at the Chicago convention. The country wasn't used to seeing that kind of thing - it must have been the Dems' fault. Mayor Daley made it easy for anti-war liberals to hate their party, the anti-war side made it easy for the Scoop Jackson wing (the anti-commies) to hate their party.

He definitely fell off a little last year, though that could just that he played hurt some.... Funny thing is one story said the Rangers were moving Trouba to clear cap space and they wanted Kane. Ooops.

Shelby Miller has become so radioactive I'm surprised we're not seeing a blue aura around him when he take the mound.

He had 8 whiffs on 31 FBs last night - maybe not JV level, but not terrible. He was not getting much S&M on his slider - only 2 whiffs on 24 of those. All we/they can do is see how it goes the rest of this season: can he learn to sequence more effectively as more of a power pitcher; can his slider command keep improving; will the % of non-competitive pitches of all types decrease? As long as he can be competitive in his starts as per last night there is no better alternative anyway.

Vaguish stories floating around about "serious family concerns." I don't know if that's just code for the SO not wanting to leave the big Apple or if they think all the schools in the US outside Westchester Co are the blackboard jungle.

Good question - they pitched around him a lot, so he did have a lot of walks at ASU, but what that looked like at finer grain I have no idea.

In all seriousnessn, I think a good exemption to the three batter rule would allowance to immediately remove any pitcher that hits someone in the head.

I don't know if he needs to be particularly worried. The big injury was the CS and that generally does not recur after surgery is done.

I would guess that closes the books on Peron. But who knows.

FIFY

Not sure why the 1st HR wasn't enough for Hinch.

tying run on deck. You can't make it up

depends on how many batters Miller is allowed to face apparently

How much is it going to cost us to give away Shelby Miller before the deadline?

Pitcher runs 50 ft. Take him out. Whatever - fine outing for Casey.

7 run lead. Is 7 enough?

What a total misread. Johnson didn't withdraw because it was 'popular' he withdrew because he didn't want to be embarrassed by losing the nomination in a party that wanted the war over (or alternately splitting the party so badly he couldn't win). Johnson was at the end of his rope over Vietnam - he had no idea what to do next and everyone, including LBJ, realized he was paralyzed. He knew if he pulled the plug the US public - the voting public that had won WWII, would never accept a 'loss' (which in 68 was absolutely still the case), but he also was figuring out that the DOD had no idea how to win either.

Nice play by Kreidler.