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I am going to guess he gets ~ 100 regular season AB no matter what happens. Maybe the exception being if they lose 7 or 8 of the their first ten where they don't score enough I could imagine the pressure building sooner. It would be nice if he would at least hit LHP but for as much focus as there has been on his trouble with the slider away, he only OPS'd 659 against LHP last season. So the slider away is just the most easy to see example of a problem that extends to difficulty pitch tracking in general.

LOL Dollar General has probably built at least one new store for every one Family Dollar is going to close. Well, they say in economics that all 'Dollars' are fungible......

From Tom Friedman's column today:

The entire design process leading up the Max should become the case study for every engineering school about how to do things wrong and how mistakes at the front only drive more mistakes at the back end. But in the final analysis, what it really came down to was another American company that was too busy taking profits instead of doing adequate re-investment in itself. Boeing was caught short without a competitive design to compete with Airbus because they hadn't bothered to design a new small air frame in 20-30 yrs. Did they think Airbus was just going to sit on their rear all that time? Did they not even have enough industrial intelligence work going to know they were getting behind? And so the MAX remains a substandard air frame which only flies safely with proper computer assistance instead of being intrinsically stable like any other commercial airplane.

I guess "Malice at the Palace" has receded out of view in the league's rear view mirror.

The putsch at the RNC and this reality that Trump always and everywhere diverts all resources to himself is going to hurt GOP fundraising with a lot of traditional non-MAGA contributors. But who knows how big the effect will be? Lets hope for 'huge'

They brought Harbaugh back under a 'process improvement plan' with a positive (if short term) outcome, I can see there being support in some quarters to do the same with Howard, though he doesn't have the coaching track record Harbaugh had to support offering the option. Could also depend a lot on on the budgetary condition of the basketball program (about which I haven't a clue)

Carvey's 'Church Lady'? The Carvey/Meyers cast was probably about the most recently we watched SNL.....

Then agains, $30M is getting to be chump change in today's NFL!

Jugger-not?

Or Lalonde had them playing over their talent level to begin with and they have come back to reality. I question some of his line decisions, but that's a lot like questioning Jim Leyland's bullpen management. Hard to be critical when he never had one to manage. This team is woefully short of players that can drive possession on both ends. For a while it looked like Ras might turn into one, but his level of play isn't high enough over all. Veleno is also a bust in that regard. Maybe the best thing the team could have done would have been to get Seider a stud stay at home defender to play with and turn him loose to play a full 200 ft game - but they went in exactly the opposite direction this year -making him the stay at home guy. His skating and puck handling skill may be being wasted with that strategy.

is there a rebuttal in there that I missed? ...didn't think so.

I believe that was the fear two weeks ago. It's come home to roost.

We are seeing that the pitching could be very good and they can catch the ball well enough but with all the young hitters the run scoring could be anything from terrible to average. If they get average, they can be a good team, but so far this spring it's hard to have a lot of confidence that are going to get close to average. Several regulars that haven't shown much so far have 2 more weeks to get their act together.

I just watched the Tigers game. Am not going to lose the buzz from Jackson Jobe's debut to flip over to the rest of this one. 2nd year in a row the team has collapsed at about this time of year. Very different circumstances but same result.

You can't deny the quality of a lot of Bacon's work, but that kind of post is waste of time.

It does work. The knock has been that for some folks, it not only reduces the enjoyment of eating, it reduces the enjoyment of everything else as well.

Bergman didn't play against LHP, but Evans actually had 111 PA against them in '84. TBH, Evans didn't do all that much in '84, '85-'87 were his better years for the Tigs. But in '84 his OPS was 10 pts higher against LHP than RHP. Only one HR off a lefty though....

well, command for one inning is not proof of starting level command, but OTOH, if he's not walking people after half a dozen starts in Toledo there would be no point to keeping him there other than that a trade to move a starter hadn't been completed.

Ditto. When the original LOTTO game came out, I would buy a $1 ticket if the pot got over a certain value - $7M or something, because the stats said the odds had actually moved the game into the player's favor. But that didn't go on too long before they increased the complexity of the game enough to remove that possibility.

LOL - Hit'em where it hurts!

I'm generally not a fan of the libertarian concept that we don't need regulation, we only need liability because with most types of products the damage is long since done before anyone gets to court and monetary damages don't help the victim much. But ironically, I think media is a place where simply increasing liability and letting juries make decisions about when claims are reasonably supported is at least a step in the right direction. A court that was moving left overreacted in the Civil Rights era out of fear that MSM media would be afraid to expose racism, but in this era the unintended consequence of protecting scurrilous/irresponsible media I believe is the more pressing problem.

The recent layout design for the Web version if WaPo seems to be set up to force you to scroll by blocking a lot of primary coverages well down the page. I'm guessing these layouts are more marketing dept driven than editorial choices. The concept of 'front page' may be getting somewhat obsolete for a web publication

Note that Greg Sargent just left WaPo. Maybe dissatisfaction with their stance or their dissatisfaction with his views being part of the reason?