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Considering we have no visual and intonational clues I'm surprised message boards can work at all.

I have to wonder if the players association isn't or won't become another source of subtle pressure about it. Increasing use of openers is going to reduce the value of a lot of lower skill but high HR production players. If a guy with a high ISO but also a high platoon split can't be guaranteed his 2 or 3 AB against the correct sided pitcher, teams may move away from that kind of player.

Chas - I think this 1st sentence of your original post is what sent Lee and I in the wrong direction in our responses. I can read your post as either asking this question - which can be read to apply directly to Trump OR more specifically to the latter sentences and the second paragraph where you drive more directly to PB as the subject. In my case my bias toward reading the question as about Trump is because I find that the more interesting question. Pete is an auxiliary messenger in the campaign, I don't take that much significance in analyzing his particular take because I would think the campaign sends people out there to cover as many ways to make the case as they can. For instance Walz is already out there making the "Trump is crazy" case in all his appearances.

The Tigers have had enough success with it that I look for the league to do something to outlaw 'openers' in the off-season.

the only part I remembered myself is that there were a lot no-hitters that season and people were starting to talk about it being 1968 all over again and when were they going to make a rule change.

Yup - There were a lot of no-hitters in 21. 4 in May alone and Kluber threw another one the very next day, and for the ever media hogging Yankees no less. (turns out ESPN has a no-hitter history page - first search hit - so not so much not fun....😉 https://www.espn.com/mlb/history/nohitters )

So why would *Pete* rather talks about talk about Trump's record than his psychosis? IDK. I can offer a couple of speculations: Pete is a policy wonk, that's his wheelhouse so to speak. It's clear the public and especially the media and double especially Trump's supporters have normalized his psychology pathology. What hope of getting more traction on that question after 9 yrs? SO, if people won't disqualify him for being literally evil/crazy, won't disqualify him for just continually making up alternate reality as he goes along every time his lips move, *maybe* you try to get people to see what he's doing (as opposed to what he is) hurts their interests. IOW, accept that Trump supporters do know and do actually like exactly who and what he *is* -- so take a different direction? Hail Mary there too of course since the whole GOP program since at least Gingrich has been to persuade the lower economic quartiles of the public to vote on culture instead of economic self interest and it's worked quite successfully.

as a rough generalization you can stream most services directly to any TV that runs some version of WebOS and has an ethernet port or WiFi. But even if your TV doesn't, all you need is an HDMI cable with something on the other end that will talk to your laptop (HDMI. miniHDMI, DP, USB C) and you just stream to the laptop's browser and run the big screen as a second display.

I was more concerned about his fielding immediately out of the gate given the combination of the early errors and odd throwing motion. But it appears it was just a little nerves and that's just the way he throws.

another reason is that it wasn't only not a good season for the Tigers, it wasn't even a good season for Turnbull. 3 starts, 15 IP and 2 team losses after the no-hitter and his season was over. Doesn't create real positive memories!

Maybe I've over read it but it seems I've heard at least a few people dismiss Workman since he started putting up better numbers this season. And TBF, maybe for good reason. Doing well in the minors doesn't always mean you don't still have weaknesses that would be fatal in the show and since I don't see MiLB games I'm in no position to argue.

Red score 2 in the 7th, up 3-1

Isn't that kind of the running joke this season about Workman - that no matter what he does there nothing he can do to change the minds made up about him?

Yes - IIRC it became the standard 'the Tigers can't hit in the cold' trope for some time. But I wasn't commenting on your comment but directly on the tweet. The Dems have been charging Trump with having no plans, but it's clear why his people don't let him have plans because Haitians to Venezuela is the level of what you get if do let let Trump try to plan something.

Pay no attention to that man behind the IF grass.

He had a hit low and away and other inside. When you can cover inside to outside you are hard to get out!

now they have to worry about winning the damn game

Haitians to Venezuela. That's why it's better for Trump not to make plans.....

Why wouldn't you keep hammering immigration if you know (or believe) that taking about immigration drives your base more effectively than talking about your record? Reminding people what you did - even if they liked it, or that they thought needed doing would only tend to make them more complacent wouldn't it? At any rate, Illegal aliens is pretty much 100% of what Trump decided he wanted to talk about. We can speculate about what the theory is, or maybe there even is no theory beyond that it's Trump's political intuition of how to run.

LOL. No staff could have been dumb enough not to use new signals against M last season could they? In fact to me the reason the whole thing was/is such stupid Kabuki theater is that accusations between multiple teams had been floating around a long time, and both M and M's opponents should have been dealing with it. It just became the vehicle for the expression of a lot of political tensions percolating inside the conference and the general situation that Harbaugh had made himself personna non-grata to the rest of the conference and the NCAA.

I guess I don't follow. It's not what it is to Pete it is? Pete's was asked the question how he interprets what the other side is doing and in it's simplest form Pete said they are trying to gin up their side's turnout. Heck, Harris may be running as the 'Joy' candidate, but what is their tag line? "We won't go back." That is also targeting fear to drive turnout. Each side wants to make sure their voters are kept mindful of what the other side does that their voters find most threatening.

One change you can lay to the coaching is that i didn't sense them trying nearly as hard to hide what they are doing on D as they used to. The M defense always tried to avoid coming set and waiting for the snap. Maybe that's just Martindale, or maybe the change to helmet radio has changed the risk calculations around that in ways that make their old approach obsolete?

two things: One - It's a lot harder to play twice as many plays at as high a level. An 'O' that stays on the field is the always the 'D's best conditioning strategy. Two - it's hard to get good practicing against an O practice team that can't execute. You never get adequate exposure of your weaknesses. You can't practice against bad QBs and get any appreciation of what you are going to face against a good one. Same in the 70's when those supposedly great D's from the 3 yds and a cloud of dust era B10 teams would get smoked when they played a Pac10 team that could pass the ball. They'd be like "WTF was that!?"

I think this is probably true, but I'm not sure Trump believes it. I think the default assumption by both sides in this election is that the other side is already fully committed. It may not be true on either side. And that is also exactly where polling is pretty useless. Those are the things the pollsters can only guess about until this election is in the can and they can adjust weightings from another real result.

IIRC, GOP still has some House seats in CA.