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Verlander when the curve ball is on is no sin to have trouble against, but that's no excuse for all the other poor offensive days.

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Verlander didn't give in and walked Greene. Lets see if that is a better decision.

I think we are at the point today where pitchers at too reluctant to walk guys when they should be willing to. Flaherty had pretty much llost that AB at 2-0, completely at 3-0, tip your hat and the give the batter 1st base and live to fight the next bat

LOL - "Verlander's not 1.1 to home" 10 seconds later Colt is out by 5 ft.

Kate is still waiting for the perfecto.

IDK if Keith is getting as fast a Schoop was on the pivot, but he's not doing to badly.

everything working for JV today. Just like old times, except for the uniform.

LOL - definitely a bad decision there - he was out by at least 6 ft.

LOL - this should be bookmarked as a future 'most likely outcome'. What I really love is the juxtaposition within a single season of suspending the National Championship program's coach for getting advanced scouting from one guy buying single tickets for friends with iPhones because advanced scouting is so expensive that we have to outlaw it or we can't maintain a level playing field, and --Oh, by the way - remember you need to raise an 8 figure sum to pay your players next year or we will probably re-organize our conference without you.

Inflammation of the ERA

We need to keep running down Tork. He's on his 1st 5 game hitting streak of the season.

NIL is a ridiculous system, the donors who are funding it are being had, and the Universities that are losing development funds to all their other priorities in the redirection of those donor dollars to Ephemeroptera like player salaries are ultimately acting against their own institutional interests..... and the Sun also rises in the East.

2019 was a quite the 1st round. 5 of the top 20 have already made an all-star team plus Riley, who has a good shot to.

I'm just going to file that he came out of this ST throwing harder than he ever had before.

good call - pretty clear here:

you don't have to tell me the options are bad, but there is still *always* a downside limit to what any team will carry bat futility wise. Just based on what will get a manager laughed at the golf outing - I think Javy is about there. Now maybe the org will persuade itself he's having better AB and they give him more rope - for a while, but I still think they do *something* even if Kreidler isn't ready if Javy's trajectory doesn't change in the next....say 50 AB - even if it's a waiver claim, or Valade or whatever. So - we'll see how it plays out....You may be more right - but I sort of hope not. I'd rather see them deal with it.

It's a measure of desperate times that Rob Deer would look pretty good right now.

This. It won't be hard to find a jury to acquit - all they have to do in FLA is find a white one which should be easy in an area that is >90% white.

IDK if it's reasonable to wait for Kreidler if Javy is stuck at a 450 OPS very much longer. They have some options in McKinstry and Urshella - they may be painful but not as excruciating as Baez.

Could be. Also he was the continuation of a regime that has been successful at one point - plus you had Mike's death which was certainly a reason to give management some slack because ownership attention on the franchise was assumed to be distracted by other succession issues in Ilitch holdings. Plus Al said the right things. He talked about pretty much the same things Harris does - he just didn't execute well enough or fast enough - and that took time to transpire.

what do you think they train it on? 🤷‍♂️

you're overthinking it.... The other thing about oil is that you'd think it would be relatively easy for producers to cut back production and the market would be very elastic - but it turns out not so much. Oil coming from secondary and tertiary recovery methods is not so easy to stop and start, and the places were the oil is still easy (Middle East) most of the them need the money too much to cut back. Saudi is the only place that can really soften or firm the market - The question is what do they think about the war In Ukraine? Pre- MBS they were pretty anti-Russia. With MBS, who knows?

who really knows? If it's a 'good' jury, in the sense of understanding what is presented, then yes should be damaging because the prosecution succeeded in the only objective for calling Daniels, which was to show that Trump had adequate reason to pay her to shut up. that her story in public would reasonably be considered a threat to his election chances. I don't think any of the particulars of her testimony or even it's truth mattered much per se; as long as she presented as a person that could damage his election chances. I don't see that anything the defense did undercut building that premise. But the fact that that's how it looks on the outside is just a guess as to how it plays in the jury room. I am old enough to be a little surprised that this jury isn't being sequestered, but I suppose in the era of the smart-phone that's pretty pointless.

Bigbie got off to such a slow start, made it look like his hot finish last season was just a mirage - but he's started to turn it around a bit. 900 OPS so far in May.