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a slight swing in Hinch's luck - one of his PH actually reaches.

ironic that a management that talks so much about run prevention has collected such a menagerie of misfit toy infielders.

Tork has no excuse, the other guys are all wandering fielders, so I've come to expect it.

LOL -two balls off a glove in one inning. you can't make it up.

the options may all be bad, but I still really wish Hinch would pull guys after the 2nd runner. Just hate to see a guy come in with the bases loaded.

it's going to be another too big to fail fiasco. The exposure is going to be so widespread that these jerks are going to get bailed out -- as usual.

platner is politics as entertainment - as long as it's not your state to worry about.

just because he's another guy who has never managed to stay on the field long enough to prove his bat and until a guy does that, the odds remain that he isn't going to hit.

there isn't a single bat at Toledo I'm even interested in seeing. Earlier this year it would have been Anderson, but he's tailed off, Maglieri is just an old AAA player on a decent AAA run. Julks ran out of gas in ST as soon as the pitching got serious. Clarkisn't doing anything much. They need to get Skubal on the mound pitching well and then move him for at least one major league ready can't miss position prospect - something along the line of an Austin Jackson (but that could stay healthy!) Then you hope you can cobble together next years pitching staff from Valdez, Melton, Maddon, Jobe, a fixed Flaherty and/or a Mize you're able to resign cheap because of his injury history.

And it only adds insult to injury that given Mize's inability to stay on the field no-one is going to want to give up a bag of balls for him.

Platner's wife is standing by her man. As was the case with Hillary and Bill, this aspect won't have much traction as long as she's still on board. So it will be on to the next thing - whatever it is.

Reality bites, but it always gets the last word.

It would be nice if he'd stay on track for a while - 920 OPS in his last dozen games.

the economic threat of open source SW and increasing local computational power are huge risks to the current industry model maga data center model that are being pretty much ignored. That's easy when the vendors are mostly giving away the product to try to build market, but once the price starts going up, those open source tools with 90% of the same capacity at an order of magnitude less cost become easy purchasing decisions.

Anthropic has filed for an IPO

The ol' rope-a-dope. Turtle up and let your opponent exhaust himself, then come pick up the pieces!

LOL - DOA. Unserious legislator - as he has ever been.

Give me the best bat on ball skill player of his generation and I can appreciated if he stands alone with respect to that skill, yet still understand that that much skill aimed at batting average becomes art for art's sake, which is fine, but it isn't necessarily the best way to win baseball games.

I wonder how much large funds buy index instruments - what would be the point for them? Laziness I suppose? I know I've gotten notices from Fidelity that the current market has put their S&P index fund bylaws into self contradiction as the bylaws have limits on how large a % of the index any stock can be. I don't remember if they said they were waiving the limit or just leaving some stocks capped and thus diverging from the index - that was the point I started getting out so I didn't care which.

Bibi doesn't want this to end and Trump can't seem to do anything about it.

Index funds have been a good idea for a lot of people for a long time now, made sense that eventually the bastards would find a way to ruin it for everyone else. I'm now out of indexed investments.

If the market tanks before Nov there are going to be a lot of high profile failures, and while high tech failures might not even have that much impact on joe sixpack, the end of world media reporting will be enough the make the election look like 2008. And certainly there could be enough wider effect to freeze credit markets and cause real distress. So your's is the relevant question. There is a collision coming between the need for AI guys to raise more capital (because they are burning through it like dry tinder) and the fact that the possibility of a failed AI IPO is exactly what could bring the house down.

the point only being that just because you are good at analytics, all the other stuff doesn't necessarily follow, so being a great analytics org is no guarantee of being a winning org. And one can go further to say the analytics expertise doesn't even have any particular correlation to capability in those other organizational requirements. While it's certainly a requirement to compete with the orgs that have it, it is not sufficient by itself. Plus you can put all the right data in front of a decision maker and they can still make the wrong decision. The decision is still subject to human variables. You're right, we can't see all a lot of this, and the Det sports press is useless at getting inside stories from players or coaches, all we see are the results. This just another aspect of the ongoing discussion about evaluating FOs. It's not enough to do one thing -say analytics driven drafting and development - well, there are still trades to make and contracts decisions to manage and competent personnel to put in place. You can't fail badly at any aspect and succeed overall no matter how good you may be in one niche.

IF we didn't have a platoon manic manager and Parker had failed to hit Vierling would have gotten more AB against RHP, or other scenarios are possible. If Wenceel had been left at Toledo and torn it up there they might have made the swap - which likely would have failed but Wenceel might still have gotten a look. It doesn't need repeating the you can't really game out the negative of a scenario - but there are always possibilities. In fact when Parker went down, wasn't Clark still on a tear? So toss that out into the possibility pool. Of course right now 641 would look pretty good! I suppose it tends to get lost in all the negatives of last September's collapse, but Parker was actually not part of the problem - 723 OPS for Sept 2025.

McGonigle made the wrong play on the bunt, he charged when he was supposed to stay at 3b and hold the runner. Kevin McGonigle played 1100 innings in the minors as a SS, 0 as a 3B. This year for the 1st time in his career he has played 207 inning at 3b to go with 291 inninigs at SS, but it's *his* fault he didn't get a situational play right at 3rd? Sorry, I don't really think so. Team needs to own up to putting guys in positions to fail.