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Fly to right good enough.

K him and lets call it a night

Did I call that or not? (Well, Ok, the guy who walked wasn't one of the outs.....)

set up the dp (we hope)

Ump gave the rockies a ball called as a strike on every batter in the top of the 10th. Starts the bottom taking a strike from Vest. He's been all over the place all night.

I guess it takes extra-ordinary effort to catch the ball *and* kick your shortstop.

Roberts is another one of those guys who didn't appreciate that you can't keep giving stuff away and then just have it stop because you want it to. All these conservative who thought they could ride the Tiger who are now getting eaten - go screw yourselves.

You have to feel bad personally for anyone out of a gig - but I have to admit that seeing Thompson always made me reach for the mute button. Shannon Hogan is my "don't know what you've got till it's gone" for people in the Host/reporter role. I never thought much one way or the other about her being a particular talent, but it amazes me that in a generation as video savvy as the one moving into these gigs that it could be so hard to come anywhere close to someone as good.

They should have moved this one up but the Rockies probably didn't want to lose most of another gate. The future radar shows one little front yet to come through but it's so wispy it might not drop anything at Coors - or it might.

google AI overview is definitely useless. Yesterday my SO's mac kept going into overdrive and she mostly has a bunch of chrome tabs open, so I asked it how to stop background processing in Chrome on MacOS. It came up with a nice step by step. Total fantasy - no such menus, no such settings. It's their own damn browser!

This. Even when we had Verlander and Scherzer the back of the rotation was never as solid as this staff, and we know if there was one thing Dombrowski didn't commit to, it was relief pitching. DD's plan was always to find one soon to be broken down closer and hope he had a good year left and add him to the closet of misfit toys that was the rest of the pen. 2013s starting staff was maybe the best, but if you consider it was a bad year for Verlander and Porcello was not that great either it still didn't turn out to be strong 1-5

To be accurate - they should say 'combined experience', but that syntax is so common today that people understand the semantics. Total 'man-yrs' when talking about labor input is a standard construct. But I'll take Devil's advocate here to in defense of the guy that wrote the story. Two guys each with 25 years is a deeper experience base than one guy with 25 because there isn't going to be 100% overlap in what they were doing. In fact it may amount to more than one guy with 50 in certain ways, so if the idea is to impart how much depth of context the team can bring, I think that syntax is OK. Because there are multiple ways experience can be relevant. If I have a baseball guy with 50 years he saw Kaline etc in person, but maybe that guy never covered basketball - so two guys with 25 you maybe have 25 yrs of baseball and 25 yrs of basketball. Does that add up to more or less 'sports experience' ? Depends - they each a different value. One 'depth' isn't really better than the other - just different, but it's fair to count both to express the overall experience depth of the group if that's what you want to highlight.

During a spell when I was a fish out of water engineer working in what was basically a sales organization, I saw that weird dynamic: people who could charm their own mark but were also susceptible to being charmed themselves. Counter-intuitive (at least to me) but the phenomenon appears real.

even if it was equipment failure, on a carrier that is still probably someone's fault. The carrier groups are all stretched too thin, spend too much time on station. We are trying to be a 7 ocean navy with a 5 ocean fleet.

Bad weather, bad deck crew, bad flyer? Called it an 'arrestment failure'. I suppose that could mean that something broke - if he just missed he should have been able to get airborne again but if he caught and then something broke, maybe he'd lost too much velo.

I think the Tiger philosophy is you don't put a guy on any field rehab or otherwise, until he is ready to go 100%. So 'rehab' is really just for hitter's timing. So if Vierling is ready, they activate him, option Jung then re-add Jace as the 27th. If they don't want to add Vierling yet you bring Kreidler out for a game. I actually wouldn't be surprised if they have both a pitcher and a position player ready to fly, or even send both and then see how many pitchers they use Wed to decide which they make 27. Since last season this team has played something like 70 games of 600 ball, you need to start taking every little extra step to win every game because you just might be playing for a 1st round bye.

Vierling's injury was his arm, so I'd think he'd be good to go to play CF where the throws are mostly short. Javy is the guy that I would have doing double duty - CF in one and SS in the other, but he's played less than other starters. If you have the DH in each game play a position in the other, Javy would be the only guy that has to play two in the field.

If I were Hinch, and Jobe (or whoever...) goes reasonably long tomorrow, I might go a little out of the box and bring up a position player 27th man for the DH - a right or left hand bat depending on how the Rockies starters line-up. Minimize how many guys actually have to play more than 9 innings.

Tomorrow is looking better for Denver, rain should have moved out by game time - game time temp in the 50's dropping to upper 40's

I don't know how much progress India has made on the state of its military un-preparedness, but they haven't done very well in recent skirmishes. They generally risk biting off more than they can chew.

Human nature. I'm on a committee currently where a few folks want to change a policy that will have an obvious, inevitable, bad result, and they refuse to see it (they are trying to send a virtue signal instead of actually achieving virtue). It's not a end-of-the-world issue but one where the aims they hope to accomplish will actually be set back. Magic thinking? Lack of thinking? And of course you are the bad guy who must be the evil side of the issue.

MLB page says make-up on the 8th. Are they going to play at 11:00 am?

It's getting complicated for all these guys. Ilitch is hiring hiring the Tiger people directly so that when/if FDSD disappears they have their own broadcast staff, but that complicated life for a guy like Kane who doesn't want to leave the pistons and give up the chance to take over Piston's PBP.

and/or Boras isn't interested in those players as clients!

I don't even think the salary cap is the issue as much as it is revenue nationalization and I don't see how you get there. What good will it do to have a cap if half the teams can't afford to get to it? There are some concepts out there that I think do work - capping single salaries at a % of a team total or a cap figure it good for any team sport, and simply fixing a total revenue % to go the salaries league wide is a core concept in winning long term labor peace. Right now the players will not give any ground on max salaries because they see big max numbers as what eventually pull everyone else up. I sort of doubt that is actually true but the if fixed the % of total revenue going into the salary pool it would break the tie between max and total salaries. It's not for lack of workable concepts - the problem is the haves have gotten themselves into such an advantageoud position it's going to be impossible to get them to come back to the pack.