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I'm an old fogy and I'm all in on Benetti. I also like Dirks and to a lesser degree Scales, partly just because they were hitters. In recent years so many MLB analysts have been pitchers and I guess I've watched enough baseball that you can't really tell me anything I haven't already heard about what a pitcher is doing/trying to do. Getting the the perspective of hitters/fielders who have played the game relatively recently is just refreshingly informative to me. Plus TBH, Dirks explains a pitching grip as well as Petry does.

It's a symptom of a larger culture that no longer understands the value of anything beyond money. It's funny (or maybe not) that in all kinds of international cultural survey work, the US always ranks as the most religious 1st world country, yet as a nation we are completely bereft of any sense of transcendent values. Draw what conclusions you may from that contradiction.

And you probably don't want to be this old: My first student season pass to Michigan football was $21. Seven games. And as seniors we were sitting at the 45yd line because that was when the university still thought that college students should get the best seats at a college football game.

True, and Benitti recognizes that, but his response is if you keep reaching to be better - to avoid being boring and in a rut, the price is that not everything is going to work all the time. You could say Ernie Harwell is the counter to that arg, but OTOH, times/culture change, and television isn't radio.

wouldn't just killing people on the open sea be piracy by any international legal definition? Just because you do it with billion dollar ordinance instead of zodiacs like the Houthi's, is it any different?

why should we believe him, he lies about everything else?

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? they seem intent on trying to turn college football into another USFL. I know enough to always discount my own taste when it comes what is likely to be successful in the market but I can't help thinking how little I care about Michigan Football today, and in terms of ties to the University, I bleed about as blue as anyone has a right to.

This is why Dirks has been a ratings success. He dropped the one liner but then he did follow that up with a solid commentary. Of all the analysts Benetti works with, Dirks is the only one that will try to return the favor of trying to knock Jason off his stride and that creates a little more of a fun dynamic. Not to everyone's taste but it seems to be selling well. When Gibson was good, that is one of the things he would do as well - i.e. be a little more challenging to his partner, though in different ways than Dirks.

Tigers are 22 games over 500 in games started by Mize and Skubal. The rest of the staff is underwater.

Probably - though McKinstry has exceeded my expectations with his play there - of course that could mean he is ripe for regression! I was disappointed in a lack of a play by Gleyber for the 1st time in a while today. I didn't think he made much of an effort on the ball Nimmo hit in the 8th. IDK, maybe he figures Nimmo is too fast to throw out if he dives for the ball, but the effort looked lackluster.

😡 I cannot ID this Tiger. Carson Kelly maybe?

At minimum it allows Javy - who is 32, and is always playing a high stress defensive position, to get more games off against RHP.

He's getting stronger mentally - the ump screwed him a few times but it didn't knock him off stride. Of course he was throwing the ball well today, so that probably helped his mentality.

Mize showing the FB that can make him a solid #2. Can he keep that in his back pocket the rest of the way?

If Aspiration are scammers, isn't Ballmer is the guy that got in bed with them? I'm not sure a guy like Ballmer claiming naivete is all that persuasive. But if he did get legitimately taken, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

welcome to the Hotel California....

Too many of those guys stay in those positions because running those companies the way they do makes money for the people that keep them there. You see it all the time (like Boeing after all the MD people took over the corporate suites), good managements driven out by bad because the bad can turn better short term profits. Then yes - it becomes the overall management culture everywhere.

Yup - a lot factors play into a successful offense. For instance, how often does the called play actually comprise a set of options that a QB is choosing from once he sees the defense? If the offensive system gives the QB options, the QB can make the OC look a lot better or worse by how well he chooses from among those options.

You get what you reward. I've said it here a million times, US corporate and tax law needs reform to take the profit away from the value extractors and give it back to the value generators. But it's another problem that doesn't lend itself to 30 second sound bites so gets no traction in US politics. All people understand is that they know things suck but they don't know why.

I don't get why they would try to keep anything a secret - the GOP has been paying for their media influence for a couple of generations and it's worked for them. That's the game, the Dems better play it.

this bullpen is in total meltdown. Good thing the rest of the team is not too bad.

mental error by Holton - he needs to know where his IFs are.

so we'll get Parker for the stretch run, but will he hit? Urquidy might give them some innings but it probably can't be many. Lange was hit his last time out in Toledo - he apparently still has a way to be before he can contribute, Melton is already here. They need a functional Hurter back.

LOL - Some of this stuff cracks me up. How can a fix for a bad brake line take more time to develop? They only been doing hydraulic brakes for what? 100+yrs? Smacks of a too shallow engineering capability. I don't know which are worse, the ones that are poor quality control or the ones that are weak engineering. I haven't owned/driven a Ford since I had a company car in 2004. That was a solid vehicle if somewhat obsolete (a Crown Vic). Have been thinking about a Mach-E but recent news isn't inspiring.

it's always been true the most likely victim of a gun in any household is one of the people that lives there.