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Humid air is less dense.

Andy says Boston has one more BP arm.

Just thinking - don't let down after getting the two tough bats - and bang.

If the Tigers and get through another inning, Wiessert is the end of the Sox BP. They'd have to warm up a starter to relieve him.

good AB but no result

Riley's been hot when he's hot, but he's been cold too much.

Well - at least it's not Chapman again.

Not tonight apparently.

Chapman has such a classic delivery. Coils up like a snake, then WHAM.

Chapman off to a great start this season - hard to believe he's not due for some regression at 37.

it's cube of office space that GM is going to move into, plus the adjoining tower which is what you see over the OF wall. The tower is supposed to be apartment/hotel or some such residential typ space. It's being put up by Gilbert/Bedrock. They've completed the structure now, but last night I was at the ballpark and you could see that the interior of the tower still had construction lights hanging inside - just open space yet. The kicker is that when GM moves there the RenCen ends up with a bunch of vacant space and they've floated a plan to tear down the two towers closest the the river to open up some green space there. Not exactly Orthanc and MinasTirith, but the complex would still look pretty weird with the three still standing in such an odd asymmetry.

He came pretty close to one down the RF line last night but the wind was sort of in

who then gets cut down on one of the best OF throws of the season so far.

"Shoulder." I suppose that could be better or worse than TJ depending on whatever details follow.

Who knows, maybe the Tigers make him a decent offer and he decides playing for a good team in a mid market is more fun than NYC/LA. OK - not likely, but you never know. Could also depend on what Keith looks like in another couple of months.

It's the old line about managing the US economy is like steering an oil tanker while only looking in the rear view mirror. One thing for sure though, if an administration actually gets a hold on an ability to manipulate the numbers, I can't think of a clearer signal we are done as a functioning democracy.

IDK, if they give him a few 12 day breaks like the last one, or maybe an even longer one at the ASB, maybe he can go further than we expect without harm.

True, the counterpoint would be that for April, the number the FED appears to watch - the PCEI was up 2.8 core 2.7 overall

More illusion of large numbers, TBH, a billion a month is pretty much war on the cheap today. At 12 billion a year it would take a century to spend what we did in Iraq, and it represents only 1 1/2% of the regular DOD budget, so I don't really think that level of expenditure was a serious driver. Of course with Trump, it's hard to say what he's going to latch on to as important.

That's one score on which it's unfortunate that the movie and video markets are so balkanized. A movie like Mr. Smith goes to Washington or "12 Angry Men" or a TV series like "The Defenders" could actually reach a significant % of the population the writers wanted to reach. In this media environment the best you are likely to do is reach a small percentage of people who probably already think like the writers.

So many ironies. On the one hand, "The Truth will set you free" is one of most salient lines in all of Christian teaching (with a big thank-you to the Greeks). Only commitment to Truth can break tribal and clan loyalties and create the bond that can tie together people that would other wise have no reason to be allied. That outlook is what provided the permission for the intellectual revolutions of the Renaissance and Enlightenment to happen in Europe - to create the modern world. While here in the US we have this huge base of self described Christians, simultaneously lamenting the loss the Christian dominance in the US, while having become the single largest deniers of truth, whether moral, scientific, or political, in the society. Go figure

of course they say winnng is the best team chemistry, so by that axiom, this underlying character if this year's team hasn't been tested very hard. Apropos of that, I did notice that Devers didn't play any 1B last night...

I'd be curious to know the age profile of RSA emigres to the US. It's usually young people that pick up and leave home. But in the RSA case young people would have been born post Apartheid - so that would be one narrative. If it's older people (>40), that gives a different narrative.

That's actually a better sign when looked at with the retail sales figures. Retails sales are up - the theory is that people are trying to beat tariff price increases, but that should have given retailers some pricing leverage - but if it did they didn't use it.

Maybe he did when he came up, but I don't think Torres has the arm to play the left side any more, so maybe no loss that he's staying put. If Javy's bat doesn't fall off a cliff, I'll predict he's likely to get the largest slice of the shared reps at 3B after Parker is back.