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A playoff run isn't the time for this though. Hinch was willing to crush Casey Mize's mental state by leaving him completely out of a playoff, he can tell Melton to walk a guy.

well exactly - which is why maybe you don't ask him to pitch to Ramirez? I'm not going to get all weak in the knees because Hinch did one stupid thing, but I'm willing to call it what it was - stupid. Of course the Tigers didn't score any more runs, so the question was ultimately moot.

You really would not have predicted this if you knew you were going to get a string of decent starts from Morton, Mize and Flaherty.

Team seems to have exactly three guys that give you a good AB under pressure. Tork, Carp and Dingler. Well McKinstry sometimes. Greene's absence from that list is an issue.

Pitching to Rameriz at leverage is objectively pretty dumb and in fact Hinch has walked him in the past. Could also be Melton is just too inexperienced to understand/execute an instruction to not give a guy anything to hit - though then again that's something Hinch needs to understand.

you have to even wonder about that. Farmland is out - there will be no-one to work it; residential is out - it so expensive to build housing no-one can afford it; lakefront is out - climate change is doing to change the water level; commerical is out, no-one wants to go back to the office; retail is out, everyone shops online.....

because we shop the waiver wire to find them?

yup. Pretty well meets the old definition of insanity. It's not like the Guardian line-up is so great top to bottom.

he's been messing up the Albania/Armenia thing up for quite a while now.

the problem is that CEOs are spineless by design because they will *always* sublimate what they know they should do with the excuse that they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders not to. Don't bother looking to that quarter for anything but leaked stories of self-justifying angst.

Of course, it won't take that many BLS directors fired until the admin gets a number it likes.

It's pretty universal that hitters hate to take a called third more than they hate going down swinging, and to be fair, there is a certain level of logic to that, but I don't believe you can be a good hitter if you will *never* risk taking a called third.

oddly enough, the starting pitching has not been the problem the last couple of games.

Tigers have a lot of young hitters who smash bad pitching and struggle against good pitching - most players do of course but the Tigers seem extra susceptible recently. It could be as simple as teams making more of an effort to pitch against their normal tendencies just because they all know at this point that the Tigers are really big on tracking pitcher tendencies. When you are dealing with human performance, the past is only a reliable indicator of the future until the people responsible for creating the history decide it isn't.

that dot plot is going to drive inflation expectations up. I'm going to guess any mortgage rate relief from this cut will be short lived as the yield curve starts to steepen. Consumers already expect over 4 percent next year - the finance guys will figure it out eventually too. 🙄

IDK, in the end, I don't think anything can save a democracy from stupid voters.

The twist this time is that in the past - or at least since the 1980's - it would be unusual to have an Administration that cared (apparently) so little about inflation and pushed the Fed so hard only on the low interest rate side because politically, inflation hits everyone but unemployment only hits who it hits. Maybe because Trump being a real estate guy is just predisposed to cheap money? Whatever. If they lose control of inflation and are eventually forced to pivot, it will have to be a much harder pivot, and will mean a harder landing. Hopefully it doesn't get to where it did in 1980. Then add in the inflationary effect of removing undocumented workers from the labor pool, which drives up labor costs and just adds more to inflation and it's an even more internally contradictory set of policies.

Is there any reason to believe the ATC actually knew what was distracting the pilot? Seems unlikely unless the pilot had told him and that's not the kind of chatter that should happen over ATC.

the change allows for self-service in addition to full service, but requires full service still be offered.

Generally in America, money talks louder than ideology and insurers know that vaccinated people are going to cost them less.

"Look before you leap" comes to mind.

I guess Hinch would like Vest to be more than he is. Wouldn't we all.

wish I had some remnant of confidence in Holton.

Don't pitch to Ramirez if anyone is on base, even if they are loaded.

exactly - the game is still hitting a round ball with round bat so the statistical noise in a 3 game series can easily end up louder than the quality of play signal, but we want to see the quality of play and a team (and management) that isn't panicking.