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The other thing is his walk rate is starting to climb. If he begins to walk at the MLB level at near the rates he walked coming up, his OPS is going to be fine.

PITA. The 1st Apple TV games were outright freebies. That season you can watch it for free - IF you sign up, which means you then have to remember to cancel or you start getting billed. Screw that. I can listen to Dan today - plus gameday gives you close to the same pitch view as watching live.

Fair point.

Nope. Pound - yes. Great tune - not so much.

Hope so, though Kelly didn't start on better Tiger teams than this one so it's not quite the equivalent comparison.... yet.

The other factor is that positional value ratings are something that emerge from a league averaging exersize. I'm willing to wait and and see what an apparently above average IQ coach does to maximize the value of a couple of guys the org thinks have the potential to have more impact on the field than the *average* guy that plays their position.

Ah, youth, The singer (Wetton?) look like about 16 in that shot!

no doubt a lot of media people are just waiting for a vehicle to come along that will let them get out of Elon's playground, but the alternative isn't clear yet - though Elon seems intent on guaranteeing something will.. The base problem, and almost certainly the reason Twitter was both so successful and so broke in the first place, was that the model has too little income potential for it's operator. But of course that is exactly what made it attractive to its users - low cost. From an economic standpoint, it seems unlikely that another vendor will enter the market with a product that is so user cost friendly and that will be the hurdle for anything else gaining market share.

So far at least - McKinstry is looking like our 'Donnie Kelley V2.0'. Old school player with a high baseball IQ, a wide skillset, may not be great but never hurts you either. Like him a lot so far.

Twitter may be more important in the news business though because so many reporters that publish in other places use twitter to track events, and each other. They are all there practically in real time, more than on facebook.

I'd say he didn't catch it mostly because it was a hard catch. they are all hard running away from the diamond. A catch some guys would make, but no-one else the Tigers have played there any time recently. Well, Jeimer being a transplanted 3b was good in foul ground but he wasn't otherwise a good 1b. The footwork never got natural for him and he didn't scoop throws anything like Torkelson can.

This is spot on, you can't do much with your 2nd hand wearing gloves at today's size limit. Monroe actually had the fairer criticism, which is that when you are running to the ball, don't just try to meet the ball, 'overrun' it a little so you are there early and can make an adjustment. The thing is it's hard to do, your motor system wants you move so you exactly meet the ball, forcing yourself to go faster just so you can slow down is hard.

I enjoyed Hawk - as long as the Sox were losing badly. When they were out of the game he turned into a good color guy. But if a win was in sight he got progressively more obnoxious.

And I think it's all been Xi. The Chinese scientific community had been reasonably integrated into the rest of the world - at least until very recently with Xi trying to clamp everything down. You can lay directly on Xi the inability of China to pivot on policy when it started to become clear that rather than follow the initial model of the SARS viruses earlier in the 2000's that were able to be stamped out, COVID would be become endemic. I think in pre Xi China, Chinese science would have been able to stay in a more cooperative stance with the West and the it would have been possible for their knowledge to influence and change the stance of China's government toward the same pivot everyone else made. I'm sure Trump politicizing things just made it worse but in the end I don't think that would have mattered to Chinese policy if Xi weren't spending all his energy angling to make himself dictator for life.

Short just gave Lange the night off....we hope.

Son pitched as high as college level didn't he?

in his last 7 games Cabrera is hitting 100. That's 2 hits in 20 AB with 5Ks. But with 6BB. The walks actually got his OBP up to 300 over that stretch.

yeah - you can't turn down the pass but I wanted to see Torkelson get another 3 ball pitch.

Torkelson gets under Giolito's skin a little.

Sure - I didn't put that very accurately- yes the roster spot is wasted, it's the ABs that are available subject to the additional roster cost you note.

Well, except that it's more perception than reality that Cabrera is taking up any spot. He's only playing half time at most. We could be carrying a DH that can't throw, they've chosen not to, and maybe for other good reasons related to the fact that you want him to work back into shape as an OF. If any of it is about Cabrera, it shouldn't be.

yeah - though the truth is that this would be a non-story if we had even a marginally functional Congress. All Scotus really says here is that the Congress wrote a very poorly drafted, ambiguous piece of legislation (which it did) and that it wasn't up the court to allow EPA to advance the most expansive possible reading of that ambiguity, it was up to Congress the clarify what they meant to regulate. In a normal world this is exactly the decision reasonable people should agree upon. There is/should be a working tension between how much we want SCOTUS to 'just fix' what Congress does badly vs having Congress repair it properly. The former is convenient, at least for the people looking for a particular result, but it's also long term corrosive to keep bailing Congress out of its incompetence and in the end cedes too much power to the judiciary. I think that to a certain degree at least - 'believeing the courts will fix it' has been a historical factor in liberal voter apathy.

Short usually tails off as soon as he starts getting AB against ML pitching, but at this point I doubt he could do any worse than Schoop. That was probably the longest ball Short has ever hit as major leaguer.

14 yrs since her keel was laid. The US Navy really needs a win with this ship because other than the Virginia subs their procurements have been a disaster for over a generation. DDG1, Littoral Combat Ship, Seawolf sub, A12, F18A, all ****canned programs.. And major screw-ups on the F35-C. And still waiting for the Arliegh-Burke replacement 30 yrs later.

Not the use case here, but ironically, smoke may be useful in the future against laser based close-in ship defensive systems.