gehringer_2

LOL - there are always those things that you know work for some people where you can't personally imagine how. For me it's Disney/theme parks in general.

The marines, fund an insurgency, black ops assassination. Not real good are they? But that's the way the world really is. Most of the time there are no good options, but that's still a poor reason to resort to counter-productive action just to make yourself feel good. (And just to correct myself, Ven is of course SA and not CA but the distinction is immaterial here.)

Yeah- I remember how they finished in '17

As long as they have the energy to fill out a ballot!

It came down to being as simple as that. Whether it was fair, or even real doesn't matter, she didn't project well via electronic media and in this political world that's fatal. It's the reason that the old saw about democracy being the worst form of government except all the others is true. You give people their choice and you have to live with all the dumb reasons they make them.

If the US wants to slow the flow of immigration from Central America, crushing the economy of CA nations is extremely counterproductive. Sanctions have become pretty much the international equivalent of virtue signaling. In as many cases as not they do more harm than good.

well, that didn't take long: -https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/28/venezuela-election-maduro-gonzalez/nyt

It took Keith a month to get his feet on the ground and I don't think anyone thinks Dingler is likely his equal with a bat. Plus as noted as catcher he won't get the opportunity to play every day. I'd love to see him get >50% of the catching starts also but AJ is gonna AJ - it will be 50%

yup. Keith is looking about as good as you could hope this far along, but even that is no sure thing yet. Wenceel has had a bad week and needs to show he can stop a slump before it gets serious. Torkelson raising his OPS with walks but still not doing much to prove his contact skill are also improving. No lack of possible clouds on the horizon.

Or another way to put it is that what we talk about here may be important, but that we are talking about it probably isn't.

ironically, Dingler's run only reduced the Tigers leverage in moving Kelly because every trade partner knew that Dingler was ready for a shot and the Tigers would have to move a catcher. I guess as a general principal, I'd rather see a single player that represents the full value of the trade come back rather than two half value pieces. I'm always more interested in ceilings than numbers of players or filling system gaps. The object of a farm system is not to win MiLB games, it's to produce just a couple of bona fide major leaguers each year. I want quality over quantity every day in every way.

knew I forgot someone!

If the Tigers finish this season with Keith, Perez, Dingler and Meadows all solidly in the lineup it would have to be the Tigers best position player development year since I don't remember when. if Torkelson makes it back, that would be icing on the cake.

yeah - really want see if Maduro will go and what the US will do if he doesn't given a clear election result. a nice little kidnapping by special forces would make for a good movie.🥷

Stephen Scott is on the Toledo roster listed as a catcher but he's only caught two games - he's been in LF recently. But it's hard to believe they are very serious about him at C since they've been mostly been putting the 34 yr old Benboom at C when Dingler sat.

I can believe that, but a good FO shouldn't squander even marginal roster value. That's a failing that has ailed the Tigers since DD. But who knows, you have to assume they think they see something in one of these guys they can work with/on that will make them look good in a year or two...

I remember Joe Sparma - another guy with a big fastball that never knew where it was going. I believe Frank Howard was the 1st and for many years only RH hitter to clear the LF roof at Tiger Stadium.

Benboom is 34, Scott is 27 - how serious can they be about either of them?

and that is exactly what put us where we are. Millions of people saw a carefully scripted version of a character they thought was DJT and said to themselves - this guy's not so bad. But reality television is anything and everything but.

this could lead to some fun though. I can believe the Trump org could be incompetent enough not to know this, at least until after they had put things in motion and then would have to walk them back.

Hitting is pretty mysterious. I don't know if anyone has a recipe for improving pitch recognition, but you can teach a guy to be quicker to ball so he has more time to decide, and that's easier with big athletic guys with the strength to shorten up and still do damage.

I'd guess that since there wasn't a name both ways it's not a major leaguer, but that's just a spitball.

sometimes things are so obvious they are easy. Now we just have to hope Dingler isn't on a once in a lifetime hot streak a la Brennan Boesch.

Walz is definitely wonderful on the stump, but the VP part of a US campaign is hardly covered so it's hard to see how the talent actually produces many votes. Governor of PA seems too obvious a choice from a strategic standpoint.

yup. Hillary was about my last choice on the Dem side (not the least because I thought even then she was the only Dem Trump could beat) but by 2016 the GOP was already clearly off the rails - and Trump had already spent spent 40 yrs proving what a creep he was. So you pull the lever for the party - because in the end it's a party system, something most Americans seem to have lost understanding of. You might want to preserve your purity as an independent, but that doesn't change the fact that parties drive government agendas.