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To me the logic is faulty. If Fulmer had been all that, he would have been the first piece of the rebuild, still in his prime when they should have been ready to content again - which would have been about now, so why on earth would you trade him? OTOH, if he already established that he was fragile and had a flat fastball, you weren't going to get the moon for him.

Makes you wonder if MSU was hoping to negotiate some kind of settlement to make this go away. If so probably a pointless exercise but the kind of decision I can imagine would not have been unlikely.

If nothing else he needs to learn to eat the ball when there is no play. Risking putting a man a second with an attempted hero throw that has no chance to being with is not good baseball.

Lithium is not rare, but some of what is out there is harder to utilize. This will be a case where the least expensive to recover deposits will end up driving the others out of business, and even if you think you've found a low cost to recover source, it's hard to be sure you won't be undercut later because we are so early on the learning curve. No-one has spent a lot of time looking for lithium yet so I would expect more reports like this one are yet to come. WyandotteChem/BASF had a good business for decades making Soda Ash downriver in Wyandotte, by what was then the standard process, then someone stumbles across a natural deposit in Wyoming that needs almost no processing. Bye-Bye to a large chemical works. In the natural resource business, sh*t happens.

Of course you can never have to much pitching, but my guess is that they won't budget much for a 2nd starter signing (though I won't complain if they do!) because they expect Mize to be effective and no team wants to put 9 figures into a 6th starter. Turnbull's ambiguous status also adds to the uncertainty in the mix - if they part company with him in the off season you would think that would increase the chances they'd be willing spend for two starters.

in the early part of the season the Tigers were near the bottom in both runs scored and runs allowed. Runs allowed has improved quite a bit with ERod, Skubal, Manning, Olson pitching well and generally decent defensive play other than 3b, but run scoring has remained mired near worst in baseball. They should try to retain or replace ERod with at least comparable talent, but even if Keith and Malloy are both the real deal as MLB hitters they could yet add another hitter or two and still struggle to get to get to 750 runs

In the one game we saw him play at Toledo, he didn't do anything notable with his glove one way or the other.

This is the ironic part isn't it? That State was already on the road to buyer's remorse with Tucker anyway.

Maybe - but it was still funny.

Even given Edwards poor game, the rest run game was not all that impressive. There also seemed to be some plays that ended with Michigan lineman well up field but the runner tackled at 1-3 yrs. Something out of sync there. JJ is looking more and more the real deal though.

also - if the US commits to ATACM, that will help unlock German supply of the Taurus. Those two will help force the Russians to re-deploy more air defense resources away from the front.

the Brits are perfectly positioned for this kind of activity. It's as effective as the US doing it but with less collateral fallout.

colorized film and the computer guessed wrong.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-send-long-range-atacms-missiles-ukraine-time/story?id=103031722

Tigers left it all in NY. This team seems to be consistently worse that usual in series openers.

I'm still pretty optimistic about Torkelson. Last night he hit 3 balls for a total of 1200 feet, walked, and then took three strikes looking for a perfect pitch to cap his night with another long ball but didn't get one. The bat to ball skill is pretty singular. To me the biggest question is his attitude as a hitter. If all he wants to do is hit the long ball, he might limit himself to being a 40hr/800 OPS hitter - sort of along the lines of Stanton. If he's willing to become a more tactical hitter like Miguel, I think there might be a better hitter in there.

He's got the walk rate looking good, but he might be too greedy to become a high average hitter. That last AB last night - he K'd on 3 called strikes. To me that was him looking hard for a third dinger instead of hitting what was pitched. Not what I would have called a very 'Cabrera-esque' approach. For Tork the hitting part is coming along nicely - where his head ends up as a hitter is another question!

I don't know what a good answer around this issue could have been. The uncapped benefit had become politically unsustainable and was going to change, I think regardless of which party was in control. Would a veto have produced a better bill eventually? Fair enough question. OTOH, don't pretend the Gov, whoever it was, would not have taken a political hit for vetoing a concept the public was on board with big time - i.e. insurance cost reduction. (and of course, given the public's capacity [i.e lack thereof] to process policy nuance.)

Torkelson has hit 21 HR in his last 81 games. Still needs to pull his OBP up but a 40hr/season bat at 1B ain't bad.

LOL, wouldn't be surprised!

"English Sh*t"

this is an interesting point, because it highlights the difference in the two aspects of intelligence analysis. One one hand, they were probably accurate in their quantitative measurements of the Afghan army's resources and capabilities, but the strategic analysis of the human factors failed, just like it did in Vietnam. Just because an army can fight, doesn't mean they will. In both 'Nam and Afghanistan, the situation was that the army we left behind realized that without us, they could not win in the end, so there was no point in prolonging the conflict. And that is the perfectly rational analysis of the situation. The US top level strategic analysis simply assumed those armies would fight because if would be convenient for *us* and our domestic politics if they did, and that was the major failure of intelligence vision.

I would guess that varies from player to player. What does or doesn't put a hitter off his feed is probably as individual as each player.

That an easy one. Same reason Afghanistan was Joe Bidden's fault.

It seems like more than one baseball management around the league has stumbled - getting stuck in 'rebuild' mode - unable to make the transition out of planning to be better to actually being better.