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BP walks two in the inning. Yeesh....

Petry, ya know, really terrible with, ya know the verbal tic tonight, ya know? Hard to believe a guy who takes his work seriously, which supposedly Dan does, can't quash that.

Too late to move Anderson, he's batting 111 for July 🤯 (Akron walked him 5 times in 15 PA in a three games series so the 111 BA goes with a 400 OBP 🤣)

The years of control is where the value is. Performance wise he does K a ton but he's also started to walk a lot of guys, which is always a warning sign about a guy's long term predictability. You'd almost rather take a high K high BB guy on shorter term at less cost/risk than Miller would be.

speaking of 'finally', have they released any statement about Cobb? He had a couple of short outings and then nada. He threw for WM on June 6 which means his rehab assignment is about expired but his Tiger MLB page says nothing about going back to the IL. Also Lange in 5 MiLB outings has 8K 1BB 1R, FB has been 95~96. Has not worked two days back to back yet.

the problem is human nature. The government has been pumping extra dollars into rural and western America on a pretty continual basis since the depression, the problem is the people there don't want help, they want their old lives back, and that's something Uncle Sam can't give them. You may make America 'great again' but you will still never make it the America it once was, because there is no going back. The wold changes and it can't be unchanged. That doesn't mean you can make it better, but it will be different, and there are too many folks to whom that is still the problem.

So the brain trust really wanted to start Enns again as opposed to Montero?

FIFY

Don't forget Khrushchev's due at Idlewild!

yeah - you guys are out there, but the polling tends to show there are fewer people like you than the conventional wisdom believes. And I don't think being disengaged makes you any less likely to keep voting for the same party out of habit. The GOP would never stay in power if even half of its voters actually paid attention to their budgetary irresponsibility instead of just falling back on the decades old meme habit of GOP=deficit hawks/DEMs=spenders. Plus, I guess maybe it depends on whether you consider watching Faux as being 'engaged'. I would argue that is more an addiction to a mental narcotic that blocks anything like actual intellectual 'engagement' and the work of thinking. Though to be absolutely fair, that's somewhat true of all cable news, Faux is just the apotheosis of it.

While this is technically true in terms of claimed party membership, in the US in recent years very few independents really are - they call themselves 'independent' because they don't want the social 'stigma' of being 'responsible' for the crap in either party, but something like 90% of them always vote the same party all the time.

It reminds me of children at the stage where they cover their eyes and think no-one can see them. "I don't love the candidate so I'm not going to vote and it's no longer my problem." Pretty much the same level of logic.

So this is all interesting, but it also seems to mean Olson's BP did not go well. 😢 I guess we hope for Good Holton today.

I guess we are in a place were meeting expectations is more important than real ability. Trump will babble nonsense but he does it with energy and absolute confidence, and that seems to be enough.

the dems have had the bad luck of having to old war-horses without the self-awareness to get out in time. RBG need to go while the Dems still had the Senate, Biden needed to see his own weakness - even if that weakness was mostly inside his own party. The old over estimating themselves is all too common and probably has no left/right bias, but it would be nice if it would happen on the other side the next few times.

Oh boy - that sounds like the recipe for Pitching Chaos today.

Old friend Matt Boyd was the winning pitcher in that game. He's having himself a career year at 34.

Comes down to whether Mancini offers enough likely upgrade over Malloy, who is already on the 40 with a 900 OPS in AAA. At Toledo it's the LH side OF depth which is pretty thin. Baddoo is it and he is off the 40 and he's not doing all that much at AAA anyway - though he's got a nice walk rate going. Then again, even with Carpenter down we still have 4 LH bats in Det that can play OF.

or the flip side also - If MAGA is actually the end of the Republic, historians will spend lifetimes arguing whether the Dems would have won the election if Biden had just decided not to run and the primary process had played out. We will never know.

well, that's one way for Trump to get his interest rate cut.

well, to practice a bit of tea leaf reading, it's seems unlikely they would have started Montero yesterday knowing the Tigers would probably have to play two today unless Olson was ready to go. Unless they go with Enns and give Olson one more off day. All about the optionality!

because the ones that get elected aren't the fail, it's the ones who aren't getting elected! Other than Manchin, the Dems problem has not been lack of unity among the elected, it's lack of unity to get more people elected.

That's not what I'm getting at though. The problem with just being against Trump is that it still allows too many segments of the party to remain against each other. Sure Hogg will tell you everything Trump does is terrible -- and then go campaign against another Dem. Sure we've heard all the stuff about how messy the Dem coalition is etc., etc., but there until there is a set of places that Dems can agree they are all going to, or stated the other way - that if you are going that way you are a Dem, the party will remain a mess, the mess that was unable to articulate a coherent enough narrative to have defeated Trump in '24 when the Dems did run as "we're not Trump" and everyone already knew all the reasons to be against him and he won anyway. Of course if Trump messes up even more it should get easier, but in a sane world the Dems shouldn't have needed any more help than he'd already given them by 2020 to bury MAGA.

what so sad is that it isn't even going to work. They are absolutely trying to be so cruel that they think it will stop people from trying to come - but it won't. The only thing that will stop that is going after employers and they absolutely won't do that. So it's is going be like illicit drugs. You can do all the interdiction you want and make sentences as draconian as you want, and as long as there is demand, the drugs will keep coming. This is exactly the same. As long as you can sneak across the border and someone will hire you, all the cruelty on the side isn't going to change a thing. It's just encouragement of moral rot in the nation's soul.

Part of the reason Beasley had a career year was playing with Cade - both because Cade is a great facilitator and also because he was playing against a D that was constantly overcommitting on Cade. I would expect Robinson to have a better than average year (for him) if he steps into the same situation.