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Digging a hole...

Mize can't buy a 1-2-3

KC getting back into defensive conversation as well.

they said Schoop - at least when he was younger, turned a DP about as fast as anyone. I don't know where Keith ranks now but he's faster than anyone we have had there since Schoop.

Mize has to learn to get control of his frustrations. Everything tends to snowball with Casey. He's just been lucky so far tonight to have superman in CF.

they also don't work - at least not without turning an economy into 1950's Russia. The real problem here is the incredible ignorance of the American voter. No-one should be able to get out of 8th grade without being able to see through the stupidity of most of the economic claims in an average US election. We used to understand that you couldn't operate a democracy in an uneducated nation (NorthWest Ordinance Article 3 - 1787!), but we've managed to drop the ball big time. And it's not because we don't educate per se, it's because we've made a conscious decision expressly not to educate about all the things that matter politically. There are PhDs all over the town I live in who couldn't argue their way out of a paper bag on any real-world question of political economy.

there is an odd dynamic going on today. Supposedly (I haven't personally checked this....) the party in power has been re-elected every time the market is up from August to October of the election year. It absolutely will this year as well, but but the information_sphere in the US is so corrupted today that half the population believes we are in a recession. And we have been so conditioned into being a nation full of whiney bitches that we persuade ourselves we are suffering like Subharan refugees while driving every vacation travel metric to new records and parking $90K SuperCrews in the driveway. Absolutely the middle class has gotten squeezed, but by any measure they are less squeezed than 4 yrs ago, and they should know the #1 route for middle class wages rising across the board is empowered unions negotiating contracts that push up the bar for everyone else. And do they think the GOP is going to keep that trend going?

Even Torkelson. Last year he was -11 Rrds. This yr -1, which even accounting for the smaller number of games is a huge improvement. On statcast he raised his OAA from -7 last yr to -2 so far this year.

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File under - Not likely to be reported on Fox: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-retail-sales-unexpectedly-rise-123759878.html

with a very few exceptions like Joaquin Benoit, the problem was never the pitchers, it was the batters. They could give the pitchers all the time they want and the game time wouldn't change much as long as they make the batter get in the box in 8 (?) seconds. They call the system a 'pitch clock' but the timing that made all the difference was on the batter. So a little semantic misdirection at work.

I think this. It's easy, it creates a bit of a niche where he's not competing against anyone, and some people certainly do find it interesting, though the comment about Grossman enjoying success at the hand of his old team seemed almost to be gleeful at the thought of the Tigers losing, which is sort of ass for a your local reporter. semi-related: I also saw Carlos Monarrez with another Tiger column (to say he thinks they will catch Minny) and he reported that he has been spending more time with the team. I wonder if one of the current Freep guys is about to move off the Tigers or if the Freep is just expanding the level of resourcing on the team.

Now why would the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager? OK, I admit, dumb question.

Casey would be a good candidate to use an opener so he could come against the bottom of the order and settle down.

un-freaking-believable.

was listening to a pod cast with a dem pollster the other day (sorry I can't find the link!) and she broke things down in fine detail. The core support for Trump is two places - we know about the racists and misogynists, they aren't ever voting for Harris. But one group the Campaign has identified that is still recoverable to the dems that they have to target hard is Hispanic men. The pollsters work says all they care about is the economy, and they are sold on the idea that Trump, as a supposed successful businessman *must* be better on economic issues. If the Dems can break through to that group with a dose of economic reality, they would easily be over the top and the election would be over - but it's going to be hard because the Dems are not strong in the information universe that cohort lives in and their job is to find a way to be there. The other overarching issue for the campaign is presenting Harris as stronger than Trump. According to her data (and no surprise) a woman running against a man loses the presumption on being a strong enough personality for the job. Curiously though, Harris benefits because there is a general perception of black women being stronger than white women (I thought that was interesting but it does ring true - all the way back to Margaret Mitchell's Mammy and Hattie McDaniel's great performance in that role)

bingo

The thing that I think is so amusing with the ads from some of the sites is that they depict the target customers as lonely and stupid. The "parley time" ads especially. You normally want make your customer associate your product with being a successful/smart/socially adept etc. (note the contrast with the glitzy high-life MGM ads).

watched the film and no doubt he never gave Tork a stop signal. Interesting how quick the guys in the radio booth were to throw Tork under the bus - they have replay, should have seen what was pretty obvious.

Only the Phillies and the Dodgers still have a mathematical chance to get to 100 wins. It would require taking 10 of 12 for the Phils, 11 of 12 for the Dodgers. Given the hot starts by a number of teams this season I'm surprised no one is going to end up having that kind of year.

So Keith in the middle of another huge DP in the 8th. Stat nerds having trouble deciding about Colt. BR Rrds still hates him - has him at -10. At Statcast he's up to +3 OAA. He made some errors early but is currently on a 27 game errorless streak. I think he's going to be fine there. Of course, I'm only slightly biased.

I don't much like the matchup for Mize. Casey needs his best FB - breaking balls don't fool KC much, hardest team to K in the AL.

Baltimore could be a problem. If 1st place is out of reach for the Birds by that last series they might just rest their pitching. Last 6 at home should be good for Det but they haven't actually been any better at home this season.

Step by step. Picking up 3 games in 9 is a lot better than having to pick 4 in ten. ESPN playoff odds reach double figures.....😳

I'm on the radio now and Scales and Dickerson claim Cora made the right signal and Tork didn't pick it up. He waves the trailing runner with one arm the other (according to Dan) was pointing at 3rd which means stop but they admitted he waits very late make the stop sign.