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Biden is trapped by his quaint belief that reality matters in US politics today.

The luster is wearing off Hinch pretty rapidly for me - as much for not dumping Coolbaugh as anything. You can't just keep on keepin' on when you have half a dozen of your bats swirling down the toilet. I don't even care if he doesn't fire him but bring in another voice and set of eyes to work with this offense. It's been total management malfeasance to have just coasted along with this this offensive train wreck close onto 80 games.

right. In fact if the 2008 Obama voters had shown up in each successive election the Dems hold the whole gov. The Dems have numbers but the swing Dem voter understands nothing about how the US gov actually works. They think all they have to do is show up to vote for President and then daddy makes it all better, and when he can't they go pout. The R'Pubs want to strangle the Constitutional Republic, but they've made a fair study of exactly how it works.

Anyway- it’s uncommon enough to generate a lot of head scratching

What an AB by Greene. Clarke threw him great pitches on 3 corners of the zone and he stayed alive to put one in play.

just because a lot of odd things seem to be happening to him subsequent to COVID. There doesn't seem to be any limit to the odd ball things it has done to some folks.

Luck I would count. The two Lions weren't quite the same as both had good careers in the books already and they were at the point of deciding how far to push it - and you could certainly add Robert Smith in the list. But a football player late in a career faces a lot more permanent injury risk to keep going than a baseball player normally does. (And anyway you can't count any situation as normal with the Lions!) Does anyone know if ERod had a history of being a guy who pitches with a lot of pain? That can certainly take the edge off your enthusiasm. I think it was Mike Mussina wrote an story after he retired about what he went through to keep pitching - didn't sound like much fun.

How much longer does Candelario get to prove his good season wasn't the fluke? BTW- I've lost track of what is going on with Kreidler - I see he hasn't played for Toledo in a couple of weeks but there is no transaction listed for him on the Mudhen site since his reinstatement.

BTW - any chance we get Al to revise that 'Tiger Way' handbook to drop the thing where Tiger relievers have to walk the first man they face?

It's just so out of left field because the number of people with the drive and competitiveness who will work hard enough for years to become a professional athlete and then just walk away for any reason, is just about zero - in fact in my experience this is close to number one if that is what is happening. I guess Greinke came pretty close to walking away didn't he? But he was still quite young then when emotions run higher.....

He's starting to sound like a possible long COVID case.....

I bet there are a few more valid ones there than our erstwhile 2022 GOP candidates turned in for their nominations.

Still don't understand how Scott Coolbaugh can still be employed by the Tigers. This year is making Lendary Lloyd look like Charlie Lau in retrospect.

that may even be a little more complex than it seems. After all, no pro team wants to set a precedent of letting a guy out of his contract just because he is unhappy with the team's performance and walks away claiming 'personal issues'. ---- well at least no team not in the NBA. So maybe they just leave him on the restricted list and retain his rights until he either performs his end or they find a trade to salvage whatever value they can.

If I read the MiLB logs correctly, Carpenter has 5K in his last 41 against AAA pitching. If Ks were what was holding him back, what's holding in him now?

people are drawn to research triangle. But of course academics are sort of transient. They come in but they they also leave pretty regularly.

Just passing through

Having lived in MI with a similar flat tax (4.25%) and Minnesota with a higher graduated one, I’d rather pay MNs taxes and have their Ed and services than save a couple % in April. You get what you pay for. Americans have been conned about taxes by the rich. The trick is not low taxes, it’s properly spent taxes. The right won’t even try to help do government better because it violates their theory that gov can’t work. But that is just a 1%er /corporate con.

Yup

That depends on for whom

The arg was the court made up the right. The feds can still pretty much legislate about whatever they want. Of course, I suppose Thomas and Alito wouldn’t mind tossing the ICC clause and just ended the Federal gov altogether. At least that would be one way of getting rid of them as well.

If Cabrera stays healthy and finishes the season with a good BA but lousy OPS, he will come to Spring training ready to play. If the Tigs don’t think they are going to win anything that will be fine because he’ll be good marketing passing people on the all time lists. If they do think the DH bat could make or break a playoff run, they would have to decide to cut him and then pay him to play for someone else. Possible, but seems unlikely

Nope. No scenario where Trump loses is the worst, no matter what the other factors.

Michigan is paralyzed until they have new leadership installed. Blame the regents for a search that has taken waaay too long. First rule of personnel, don’t dump the guy you got till you got a guy/gal you can get.