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Oh Lord - we have the interminable Johnny Kane family interview coming up. Time to go make a snack.

K zone keeps getting bigger. Might not be any more runs scored by either team.

Pity the modern ball player though. Back in the day the saw was "they all look like line drives in the box score", but not today, not with statcast having logged the exact trajectory of every ball. Not going to get away with any lies around the campfire 25 yrs later!

nice quick inning for Skubal. Looking more in rhythm now.

I don't believe this for a minute. There is no way the hair doesn't need to be re-done before the 5pm move.

TBF, maybe the MLive people are expressly looking for angles that will give them something different in their coverage than just duplicating exactly what is already being reported in the DetNews and Freep. IDK if ex-tigers is a particularly effective implementation of that kind of strategy but I can see it might be a deliberate effort to get outside what's already available elsewhere.

Maybe the bookies skim less than the legal sites?

yeah, it was put out the U community with a survey for comments. I wrote back that I think the prohibition as written is actually over broad.

If Cade wanted to stay in Det, you'd think he'd have already put a line in the sand to Gores that the current coach and FO go or he's out at this first opportunity. if he hasn't done that, then it's hard to conclude other than that it's because he's decided Gores isn't worth bothering with and he's bailing as soon as he can, like accepting a QO to guarantee his exit.

So much worse. Pistons had a winning record in 4 of 6 of Hill's seasons. Cade has yet see his team sniff .300 let alone 500

Forgot about SGL! Was at the Hens game the night he tossed that huge number of K's. Fun game. Flores' recovered velo has no doubt made the org do a 180 on him - understandably!

could it just be that if they leave him starting, he throws more innings and his command will develop faster than if they immediately move him to a reliever's work load? I guess it's a chicken and egg argument, but so many successful relievers did a lot of starting in the minors or even in the majors before converting.

It was the Steelers that drafted Antwaan Randle El to be a receiver as well.

Morans! If it hadn't hit the bridge at the point to collapse it, it wouldn't have hit it at all. The only parts of the bridge in the water where the ship is are the points that hold it up. D'OH!

Manning, Flores, Montero, Hurter, Sammons? Have no idea what they think Sammons' value is but I'd guess one of those guys will be out of that rotation soon enough that Madden can be promoted.

Who hits more at Toledo: Malloy or Bigbie?

Yeah - I got that, but I was thinking about the tweet's original premise. Should have replied on the earlier post to make that clear but I was lazy....😉

I don't know why it not believable that the rallies are costing too much or alternatively, are no longer profitable; from what I've read he's not drawing crowds like he used to and if those still coming out are the hard core, they've already bought all the promotional schlock before they got to the rally.

pretty bad though the edit on cost is probably incorrect. The issue of total money (i.e. cost to the government) and cost borne by individuals are two separate questions so if that is where Trump was going, which I would find credible, the syntax is not redundant, only badly executed.

I have a recollection that somewhere I've read that was was actually a construction mistake. That the towers for the scoreboard were not located correctly but that it was too late to fix by the time it was recognized -- but I can't find a reference - so maybe just urban myth.

yes but the more optimistic Dems, based at least in part on GOP special election weakness, had entertained hope of holding the House, and as you note, I suppose they might have if they had been a little more conscientious. I know the GOP talked about Red Wave based on conventional mid-term result histories, but I'm not sure anyone outside the GOP echo chamber thought that was a serious possibility coming off Trump - did they?

He seems to be OK athletically but it's like he just doesn't see/think the game very well. You are spot on - Petry doesn't have the speed to recover when he takes does take a chance so can get badly out of position. So most of the time he plays soft, which is a problem in itself across the Wings D. They do not pressure the puck nearly hard enough as a team. So he plays back, and is sound, in the sense of doing the right conservative thing, but then he doesn't win enough battles at the boards or net. I'm not sure how much good it does to be in the right place if you don't change the outcome.

it's weird to see LA and SD with two games played before opening day. And Yamamoto got hammered in one. 😱

Wont argue any of this. I was just struck that the context of the tweet implied that the IVF decision was driving high voter engagement, but how true can that be when you had a pretty apathetic turnout in total? So drove enough to affect an election where there was general apathy. Is that enough to make the difference in a general election? Hope so. No question though that pretty much nothing in any of the special elections since 2020 has carried good news for the GOP. OTOH, 2022 wasn't the win for the Dems some had thought possible either. That base of people who just show up in generals and reflexively vote GOP remains a tough nut to crack.

Gaza isn't even a really a left right issue. You have Putinistas on the right who are anti Israel, you have Evangelicals that are fervently pro Israel. The left is similarly split between SJW folks who see Israel through the lens of being an occupying power, and democracy liberals who see Israel as an outpost of western liberal political organization (at least generally) in a mostly autocratic ME. Yeah - so nobody speak for anyone but themselves on this one.