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This might be a little more complicated. The story below paints a picture more sympathetic to the league. I won't vouch for its accuracy but it's a counterpoint to be considered. Obviously it hinges a lot on whether the alleged maintenance required is real or not and I have no idea about that. But that said: The current stadium is publicly owned, the Brewers lease it, but are not responsible for upkeep, the gov is, and the complaint is the gov entity has not funded maintenance (LOL -maybe because supporting spending on the stadium got one legislator recalled?). League is demanding the public side put up the money to keep the ballpark up to the standards agreed to in the Brewer's lease. The various units of government can't agree on how to provide funding (there is already a local 0.1% sales tax but it's apparently not raising enough). Sounds to me that the public made a bad deal for itself 20 years ago that now has no political support and the team, or at least the league, is caught in the middle to some degree. (Hmm - you wonder if having committed public money for private business back the 90's might be exactly the kind of thing that has driven Wisconsin voters more red!) In any case, the article argues that the league's concern is not having another team start down path Oakland went with the coliseum, where the ballpark became an orphan allowed to decay to where the situation became impossible. https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/common-sense-central/content/2023-05-24-exclusive-mlb-tells-brewers-they-need-to-repair-american-family-field/#:~:text=Public financing of Milwaukee's stadium,%2C Ozaukee%2C and Washington Counties. BTW - Tigers are responsible for the maintenance on COPA, though the DDA does also make a small contribution each year.

Right. The world is awash in failed SS looking to land at 2B. There was another play last night - men on 1st and 2nd, 2 out (IIRC), chopper to 3rd and the out at first was probably hopeless. Colt fielded the ball still looking at first - seemed to have second of indecision then made the right play to beat the runner to 3rd to end the inning. Only reason I mention it is that you could see he had to think it through, in contrast to a guy like Baez whose instincts are so good he's always already mentally ahead of whatever play he's going to make. Hopefully that part gets better with innings.

Yes - I loved Cabrera as a 3b. The problem with that IF was not Cabrera at 3B, it was having Prince in the field with a glove on at all.

that one. and the other one is getting thrown out at 2nd because you thought you were watching yourself hit a HR, but then not so much. Eddys Leonard guilty at Toledo tonight.

So we sat almost behind the plate at 5/3 tonight and twice when an Omaha player asked for an appeal on a called strike, it was overturned and called a ball, and then he struck out anyway. Was interested to see the challenge system work though. I don't really like it. Suddenly the game stops and your not sure why if you missed someone tap their helmet (the appeal signal), then 15 sec of mill and dawdle waiting for the call. I get the idea that the league doesn't immediately want the umps to lose their practice calling balls and strikes if you give them every call electronically, but it would be a better fan experience that way.

He made a couple of decent 3B->1B throws also. Nothing extraordinary but routine plays properly made.

Gipson-Long 1H 12k after 6

Colt goes deep! 1-0

Gipson-Long has Kd 7 of the first 9 outs for the Hens so far

Could get back to 10 under!

Makes sense because you get Wentz today on the 27th man double header roster waiver. You'd have to do a regular call-up if you wanted to use Manning today and Wentz later.

Oh - we've had enough roster crunches. The problem is that the typical Tiger roster crunch has been 4 guys who are all equally mediocre vying for 2 jobs.

actually, I think some team named "Indian" should keep their name and change their mascot to a Ganesh. Just put a baseball bat in place of the sceptre

OTOH, Anibal Sanchez pitched years after enough surgery to have led to a much lower expectation. I don't know if the surgeons can tell anything about what kind of prognosis they expect based on what they see and how the procedure went but unpredictability seems predictable....

the other difference is that Skubal's stuff is miles better than Fulmer's.

Lynn's big suggestion for the future is to trade Skubal, because so many teams win WS without staff aces.

Mortgages and that 10yr bill tend to track and right now the yield curve is still inverted. If the Fed does not begin to reduce short term rates soon, long term rates will still be seeing upward pressure as the yield curve begins to normalize post inflation - so mortgages would follow upward as well, and that will pressure housing. If the Fed relents, then maybe not. The thing with the Fed is that talking tough in public to set psychology is almost as important to their success as their market moves, so even if any of they were thinking rates could come down soon, telegraphing that it is the last thing they will want to do.

Correct, but you're describing a symptom, not necessarily a cause. If he was still physically unable to go hard because of the knee, or that they didn't want him getting tackled, that is one thing, but he had no excuse not to know the offense if that was an issue. So it reads whichever way, depending. For now his coach is still talking him up. As long as he doesn't burn that bridge he'll have the chance to prove himself.

In those first few games after the trade, I remember that Brooks was reporting life/spin on Norris' FB way into the top percentiles. But the constant tweaking to try and fix the unsustainable unreproducible delivery and the various assorted injuries along the way soon enough resulted in that FB being long gone. The last time we saw him I didn't recognize anything interesting in his pitch dynamics. It's too bad, he seemed like a good guy at heart, but for all his supposed athleticism, his body just betrayed him as a pitcher. It made/makes no sense that a guy that athletic could never coordinate himself into any semblance of a normal controlled delivery.

Because you read Elmore Leonard?

Weather Underground future radar projection has the rain starting at 6:30 in Cleveland at moving out by 9:45. Not too promising. On the other hand it looks like some of that could be light - almost drizzle. I agree though - if they try to start it, maybe start Brieske or Holton and hold Skubal for the inevitable resumption.

you are what your record says you are.

Copa might have him over-swinging - it does that so some guys. But other peripherals like K rate, walks and doubles argue the other way. So it could also just be half a dozen warning track shots that didn't clear the fence at COPA. It has not been a hot Summer in Det. COPAs HR park factor this season is 91 so far. Carpenter has a big Home/Away HR split as well. Then again, and conversely, Jake has hit most of his at home. No-one else on the team with enough to mean much.

There is a kernel of truth in saying that people expect the government to control the game more than it should or can. The government's job is to control the rules of the game. At best the game runs largely by itself. It's up to the gov to keep watch and push it back when it starts crossing the wrong lines.

Simple is good. I like simple.