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WTF is "load management" for a player on a team that isn't within a moon shot of reaching the playoffs?

Hanifee got rocked. Two rough outings.

I think sometimes when scouts call a player 'advanced' (as Madden was) it's the kiss of death - like it really means they are as far as they are going to get. Dylan Crews was generally also slotted above Langford on the basis of being more "advanced". Wyatt says "Hi" from Texas.

All the above said, I still think it's odd optics at the least for the admin to be publicly castigating Netanyahu while simultaneously proposing additional arms sales to his government. And it's not like Israel needs F15s in Gaza, or would even get them in time for this conflict. The only way the timing of this make sense is if the Admim is setting up to get the GOP right wing committed to this and then turn around and tie it to Ukraine support. Other than that is does seem like a tone deaf FP move for Biden, and his FP chops are generally better than that.

it would seem to me that MiLB pitcher placement is going to have two factors pushing in opposite directions depending on what the development objective is for that pitcher. If you have a guy on whom you are doing major mechanical or approach modifications, new pitches etc., I think you want to put him where he can remain competitive while he works on those things, otherwise he simply won't be able to stay in games long enough to do so or will be forced back to old approaches. OTOH, if you have a pitcher who needs to hone sequencing, general command, his "compete level" as they call it in hockey, you want to promote him to the highest level of competition he can handle - where he can't skate by on stuff, and force those "art of pitching" issues to the fore. Where do we think Madden is on that continuum today? I have to think that an org that claims development as its highest priority is being driven primarily by the balance of those considerations rather than the needs of a guy it appears they brought on to be career AAA fill. But that's not to say they don't give some consideration to keeping a competitive team on the field in Toledo, it's just not very much.

This MI result is exactly the kind of thing that makes me question the polling. The GOP was stuffed in MI in the last election, the party is a mess, the Democratic state admin has been pretty flawless, unemployment is down. Political shifts don't happen in a vacuum, there is almost nothing you can point to in the last 24-48 months to argue that the plus side of Trump's ledger has picked up any new credits in this state.

"Showers, a few thundershowers and gusty winds this evening will give way to steady rain overnight." 😡

Malloy after 4 games: 5H, 5BB, 5K.

unless it rains....

It's 10pm, do you know where your clearing is?

Mize on the field warming up Petry doesn't think it's for this game. ...and we have a postponement announcement. ..this game goes to Thurs 1p.

I have a bunch of close friends who are have gone completely nutso over this. They've been plotting how/where to get to the totality zone for months. I'm afraid they have sucked in the SO now, so I fear I'm going to the eclipse and contributing to the chaos - somewhere....

If they play a DH I wonder if the timing comes up right for Manning to take the start?

twenty to nine - edge of rain is almost downtown. How much longer will they wait.

if they get in 5 and somebody has managed to score (as opposed to yesterday) it could be official.

The early maneuver parts were fine, it was once they got to Baghdad the real trouble started - not a perfect parallel with the IDF but in the ball park.

The radar looks funny. The cloud motion makes it look like the front should be moving east, but the line of rain just keeps re-forming in place.

yup - maybe a delay in the middle as another piece of the front clears, but it looks there could be a couple of openings to get it in. What would help in a situation like this would be permission to move up the start time. If they went as soon as it clears that's a better bet than waiting till 7 something.

and fat parabolic snow skis!

No, there isn't much energy in the schism anymore, but no other church will ever agree to the primacy of the Pope and it's hard to see Rome ever giving it up, so more peaceful co-existence is as far as any idea of re-unification will ever get.

The Orthodox Church claims its legacy back to the '7 churches' in the Greek Mediterranean referred to in Revelation: Pergamon, Ephesus, Smyrna (now Izmir in Turkey), etc. which is going back about as far as you can go back. The split with the Bishop of Rome was mostly about political power. In the east, a Christian 'Roman' Emperor still existed, in the West the empire had collapsed into competing Christian and pagan nation states and the Roman Church wanted to have a unified, unquestionable ecclesiastical power to counterweight the loss of a unitary Christian political power, but Eastern bishops saw nothing special about their Roman brethren. By 1000 yrs into the history of the church there were doctrinal differences emerging between east and west, but those probably could have been papered over if not for the European church's political imperatives. Theological corruption in the service of political power in the Roman church in turn largely precipitated the Protestant reformation. The American evangelical movement has now set itself up for that same type of outcome. What goes around, comes around.

Fun to watch. It's sort of like an olympic gymnastics performance. Years of preparation concentrated down to a matter of seconds to succeed or fail. He has to have already internalized the consequences of thousands of permutations to be able to move like that - assuming that he actually did know what he was doing!

I thought it would be hard for any Western nation to conduct a war more stupidly than the US did in Iraq under Bush. Bibi says "Hold my beer"

also with the NHL comes maybe comes some francophone influence? "celebrer" -> celé -> celly

lol my bad