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of course the worse your bad hitters are, the more the differential by denying them ABs grows!

If I had a nickel for every too close to take pitch the Tigers have already taken today.... Team needs to stop trying to walk its way to victory and try doing some hitting.

The question for Quebec City is always how much of their potential fan base the Habs already own.

Missed this one a couple of weeks ago. Grandparents this time. https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2024/04/boy-was-shot-killed-with-gun-found-in-grandparents-home-state-police-say.html That's about 8 lives ruined by one bullet and an idiot that had to have a gun in the house.

So Israel contented itself to blow up an Iranian Russian s-300 air defense unit to show Iran they could leave it defenseless against the F15s that might have been following behind.

Midwestern boy toils to flee Florida.

FIFY

SY said that in his presser.

Yeah - he's gets a -1 WAR today. But another game there for the taking that they didn't.

Tork is hacking it today.

I'm not sure Monroe knows what he's talking about. Backups are by assignment - Colt probably went where he was supposed to. You don't make it up on the fly and there is no way Colt can know where a missed throw is going before it's missed.

yeah - that was an absolutely terrible AB. It was like he decided he really wanted to hit one that was a foot outside - just to prove it?. They weren't even pitches with big break. Ober started them outside and they finished outside.

Ukraine bill passes House overwhelmingly. MTG folds like a cheap suit on threat to oust Johnson.

this one going downhill inning by inning EDIT: Javy plays Prometheus on the DP

hit the ball well in the 1st inning, got no BaBIP luck and since then can't do anything

Olson doesn't hold the runner, costs him a run.

++++ I used to work at a small research arm of a medium small manufacturer. The owner kept his offices at apart from the factory where our lab facility was and we reported directly to him. I was sitting in his office one day talking to him and he placed a call back the plant for something and got the hold with music, which the plant manager had had installed without telling the boss. The boss was not amused. It was turned off that day. Small victory in a losing battle.

Another Michigan parent probably going to jail... https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=torkesp01&t=b&year=2024

Even with players moving around, they will eventually get to 'know' each other, but it will take longer. Wenceel did get into 16 ST games, but it looks like mostly in center, so possibly he had never played next to or had a called ball situation with Parker.

This works. Iacocca's autobio was released in '84, Art of the Deal in '87. Ivana's divorce 1990. The wedding to Ivana in '77 had also been big deal in NYC.

Greene, Tork and Carpenter coming around, Colt needs to be next!

I would guess the CF experience worked against him in this case. Of what little OF he has played, he's played more center, so yielding is probably not a habit. But no matter - I don't care how experienced two OFs are, until they play next to each other for a while and learn each other's tendencies speed, call style, this kind of thing will *always* happen. There is a trust level that develops. In this case, Parker did pull off but Wenceel probably isn't sure and is still spooked. I'm just saying it's not really the players' fault when you put them in situations they've never worked through. And putting them out there may still have been what the team needed to do, that's not the point either. My point is just not to hammer the player for a confluence of circumstances that put them in a position where that kind of breakdown can be expected.

Wenceel has played a sum total of 21 games in his career as a corner outfielder and certainly none of them were ever next to a CF with Parker's range. What do you expect to happen when you throw guys into fielding situations for which they have zero experience? Management is supposed to put players into a position to succeed. Putting a fielder into a game at world's highest level of play who probably hasn't had 50 lifetime chances at the position and expecting clean play is just ignorance. The team may have to put him there, and he may succeed there, but put the blame for the level of performance while he learns the position on the fly where it belongs.

Volkswagen employees vote in UAW in Tennessee. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/19/vw-uaw-tennessee-vote/

Ha! Maybe he missed getting the eyeball genes and the frontal lobe genes from the same set.