gehringer_2

Bad team is bad.

LOL - just last night Dan was saying we might have to pump the brakes because he was slowing down - he had other ideas.

yup - so all the more reason you shouldn't be relying on the umps to win the game you - you need to be in protect mode

I'm ususally on the other side of this complaint, but too may pitches taken today.

And Baddoo takes what was pretty close to a hanger for his called K. There is such a thing as looking so hard for walks you stop swinging at hittable pitches. Are the Tigers there?

again - the problem with that AB was the pitch he *didn't* swing at - 2-0 FB middle-middle.

Tigers give O's an extra out, leads to a run. Have to catch the damn ball. Turnbull buring through is pitch allotment fast.

Blame to go around here. Hinch was pushing his luck trying to get Boyd through the end of 6. This is a staff where you should just go ahead and steel yourself against any regrets for pulling a starter too early.

Those last two runs by Boyd looking like a mangerial second guessing fest.

Well, you aren't going to sweep many DHs, but it would have been nice to be competitive...

That ought to do it.....

and when your offense is challenged anyway it multiplies the effect when the umps do you wrong.

Ibanez fails to convert threat into rally.

Better AB from Vierling. Made him work.

Boyd got back on track in this one but it's not looking much like the O is going to get him off the hook.

Sometimes it's what you don't swing at. Riley lost that AB by taking a cookie on 3-1 instead of going after it.

jeesh - that was futile half inning.

At this point in his career It's also the limitation of what Boyd is. When you don't throw any harder than Matt, a hitter is going to salvage more soft contact hits that would be complete misses against a guy with harder stuff. So it's bad luck because they were able to bunch a few together, but it's also 'bad luck' that is a little more likely for Boyd a guy with better stuff.

ridiculous inning.

Something...mumble.....freedom....(?)

LOL - I was just reading scouting reports on this that claimed his arm strength is less than elite! I think the media types are all just riffing. The teams have the hard metrics and they don't share them.

I would look at this from the standpoint of Russian internal processes. The "West is all against Russia" is central to Putins entire narrative structure. It was becoming clear that the pipeline had little chance to produce $$ for Russia because stopping gas flow was becoming an imperative for both sides. Given that, that last political value he could salvage on the home front would be to sabotage it, blame the West or Ukraine and take it as another example of Western biligerance againt Russia. And I can imagine that when Putin was weighing options he asked the question "but if we blow it up now can we fix it later" his minions certainly assured him - based on Russia's underwater capabilities - that it could be done - without having given proper consideration (if any) to the damage salt water intrustion would have done by the time rolled around for a repair to be attempted.

Serretti?

I think a big question mark for these nutty State GOP legislature with be to what degree they meddle/micro-manage their state universities in such manner that they become unattractive to the best and brightest applicants. For any state, having the best students leave home to go to colllege somewhere else is one of the worst 'brain-drains' since most of them won't come back.