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One should always game out every contingency, right?

I do think Tork has to learn how to play every day in a long season. I think he is a guy that carries himself with so much confidence that his coaches don't realize he is probably still getting run down. And I hope he does not get too greedy. At some I think he can be a better OBP hitter if he'd be more willing to take fastballs to right field. He has the talent, you see it on occasion but he doesn't commit to it with any regularity because he's having too much fun pulling the ball ---- for now.

I think that is pretty generous. Unless it was because his knee was still not 100%, his near total inability to contribute once he came back last season is red flag that's hard to ignore.

Lack of effective communication between players who have not played next to each other much is inevitable and largely self-correcting with more time together (one of the constraints on constantly mixing and matching), but it's a different issue from the player's ability to execute plays at the position.

I think if you look back at history, the assumption that you had to be psychologically fully formed (what ever that means and if it ever really happens) to be married is a recent one. In the past, the age at which people married was more closely related to the age at which they assumed financial responsibility for themselves. When a high percentage of people in the US didn't finish high school, you were talking about people who would be going out into the work force to live independently at roughly 16 and thus people at that time saw no reason that that was not a appropriate time to 'settle down', which => marriage. Today the young people at minimum are expected to finish high school and the accepted social ideal is to obtain some additional kind of training or ed after that and the assumption of 'proper' marriageable age has followed that up into 20's. I think we tell ourselves socially that is a decision based on developmental or ethical concerns but I would guess it is as much a subliminal society wide justification system for doing what economics/education has come to dictate. Just looking at the huge turn around from 1950 to 1980 and then back again, you can't seriously argue that social mores are not quite fluid compared to structural economic imperatives.

So he's still going to lose a bunch more practice time. Kid's got his own little rain cloud following him around.

I think Georgia would issue a fugitive warrant for him. As per this article it appears states - esp since a 1987 SCOTUS ruling, have extremely limited grounds to refuse extradition. So Trump could attempt to refuse and a Federal court would eventually order FLA to deliver him, but it could be another delay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_States#:~:text=If requested by the charging,crime in the custodial state.

Torkelson hit two breaking balls for HRs, then hit a 95 mph fastball to the wall in the 9th. Yeah - he's adjustable. 😉

And made a really good throw to the cut off man. Didn't matter but still a task well done.

I guess good Foley and good Lange is too much to ask for one day....

RIght! I wasn't thinking that if they keep him in Toledo his clock is frozen. IDK - I'm sure it would really tick him off if they played that kind of hard ball with him, and I suppose there is a risk getting that much on the bad side of S. Boras. OTOH, if he's not getting anybody out, it's not fair to the fans in Det either.....🤷‍♀️

I guess throwing him a FB isn't such a great idea either.

Baddoo will have these high impact games, then he'll disappear for a bunch of games. Lots of talent there but no consistency.

IDK - that for sure used to be a constant suspicion back in the post WWII world. Questions like whether FDR engineered Pearl Harbor to get us into the war or later in the 60's around the Kennedy assassination and various issues around Nixon like whether he sold out the country to the N Vietnamese. So the idea that there are TPTB that have the underground power tod do something like that has traditionally had some currency. But I do wonder today whether there are "Powers that Be" have that kind of control in this politic. Everyone is so willing play anything for an advantage over the other side.

How can they have spent the whole season not knowing Vierling is their best 3b and it's not even close? And TBH, his bat is pretty marginal for the OF unless he is in center, and that isn't going to happen with Riley here and Parker Meadows likely on the way. So he's more valuable at 3B anyway.

His walk rate is not his strength.

Lange working his way back into shape.

I don't think it's a good idea to keep throwing breaking balls to Torkelson.

Riley Greene - good at baseball.

Well, you can take either view: A) try to be predictable in your system so guys know who's in line and when they can look forward to getting their shot. The "keep everyone happy because everyone knows where they stand" approach. OR B) You keep everyone on edge, not knowing if anything they have done is good enough and that some one else might be brought in at any point in front of their place in the line. The "keep everyone on edge, looking over their shoulder, running as fast as they can" approach. On system performance grounds a lot of folks might argue that B is just as likely to net you maximum performance....🤔

It's basically a choice of which pitcher gets more value out of which assignment out of Feado, Olsen, Wentz, Turnbull. Turnbull needs mostly to pitch innings, don't know if matters so much against who - it's himself he as to battle at this point. He knows how to get people out once he is right, that's not so much a question. So that would be the rationale for keeping the younger pitchers up who still have to learn how to get ML hitters out. OTOH, you might decide Olsen or Wentz or Faedo are just over their heads in the majors and their fate is to be 4A backups kept at AAA so you you don't need to see them in Det anymore. I think it could go either way - and that's just on pitching grounds, there may be other contractual or FO issues that color things.

Nah - the 500 or so brave enough to do anything in physical space for Trump have gone to jail for 1/6. The rest, like Trump himself, are mostly physical cowards - or old (🤣). Social media can reach whatever pitch it wants - the fact is there has been almost no-one on the street at these various indictment/verdicts when you might have expected it if unrest in physical space was going to happen again for Trump. MAGA is a clear and present danger - but much more at the ballot box than the street.

He's not in control of the proceeding in front of the camera.

I think it's a different question though. What's important is not whether the watchers believe the evidence, it's *seeing* Trump being forced into the role of defendant - it's pierces the myth of the Trumpian Colossus more than anything so far could. They love him because they think he can stand astride and apart from the mundane world. It's one thing for a House Impeachment Hearing to rip at him while he he can safely return fire from the White House or Maralago on Social media above the fray.Being forced to see him reduced to ordinary man in the dock forced to sit and his keep his mouth shut could be a useful pinprick to help puncture a cult of personality.

wouldn't matter. The MAGA couldn't help watching him if he's on, even if it were MSNBC.