gehringer_2

this is probably still a good idea. Blind squirrel trope applies.

FAFO

should have been "odds"

odd apparently against it

Vest gets out of it but probably guarantees he's not pitching tomorrow.

make that 8

Playing Cle = bullpen envy.

BP walks two in the inning. Yeesh....

Petry, ya know, really terrible with, ya know the verbal tic tonight, ya know? Hard to believe a guy who takes his work seriously, which supposedly Dan does, can't quash that.

Too late to move Anderson, he's batting 111 for July 🤯 (Akron walked him 5 times in 15 PA in a three games series so the 111 BA goes with a 400 OBP 🤣)

The years of control is where the value is. Performance wise he does K a ton but he's also started to walk a lot of guys, which is always a warning sign about a guy's long term predictability. You'd almost rather take a high K high BB guy on shorter term at less cost/risk than Miller would be.

speaking of 'finally', have they released any statement about Cobb? He had a couple of short outings and then nada. He threw for WM on June 6 which means his rehab assignment is about expired but his Tiger MLB page says nothing about going back to the IL. Also Lange in 5 MiLB outings has 8K 1BB 1R, FB has been 95~96. Has not worked two days back to back yet.

the problem is human nature. The government has been pumping extra dollars into rural and western America on a pretty continual basis since the depression, the problem is the people there don't want help, they want their old lives back, and that's something Uncle Sam can't give them. You may make America 'great again' but you will still never make it the America it once was, because there is no going back. The wold changes and it can't be unchanged. That doesn't mean you can make it better, but it will be different, and there are too many folks to whom that is still the problem.

So the brain trust really wanted to start Enns again as opposed to Montero?

FIFY

Don't forget Khrushchev's due at Idlewild!

yeah - you guys are out there, but the polling tends to show there are fewer people like you than the conventional wisdom believes. And I don't think being disengaged makes you any less likely to keep voting for the same party out of habit. The GOP would never stay in power if even half of its voters actually paid attention to their budgetary irresponsibility instead of just falling back on the decades old meme habit of GOP=deficit hawks/DEMs=spenders. Plus, I guess maybe it depends on whether you consider watching Faux as being 'engaged'. I would argue that is more an addiction to a mental narcotic that blocks anything like actual intellectual 'engagement' and the work of thinking. Though to be absolutely fair, that's somewhat true of all cable news, Faux is just the apotheosis of it.

While this is technically true in terms of claimed party membership, in the US in recent years very few independents really are - they call themselves 'independent' because they don't want the social 'stigma' of being 'responsible' for the crap in either party, but something like 90% of them always vote the same party all the time.

It reminds me of children at the stage where they cover their eyes and think no-one can see them. "I don't love the candidate so I'm not going to vote and it's no longer my problem." Pretty much the same level of logic.

So this is all interesting, but it also seems to mean Olson's BP did not go well. 😢 I guess we hope for Good Holton today.

I guess we are in a place were meeting expectations is more important than real ability. Trump will babble nonsense but he does it with energy and absolute confidence, and that seems to be enough.

the dems have had the bad luck of having to old war-horses without the self-awareness to get out in time. RBG need to go while the Dems still had the Senate, Biden needed to see his own weakness - even if that weakness was mostly inside his own party. The old over estimating themselves is all too common and probably has no left/right bias, but it would be nice if it would happen on the other side the next few times.

Oh boy - that sounds like the recipe for Pitching Chaos today.

Old friend Matt Boyd was the winning pitcher in that game. He's having himself a career year at 34.

Comes down to whether Mancini offers enough likely upgrade over Malloy, who is already on the 40 with a 900 OPS in AAA. At Toledo it's the LH side OF depth which is pretty thin. Baddoo is it and he is off the 40 and he's not doing all that much at AAA anyway - though he's got a nice walk rate going. Then again, even with Carpenter down we still have 4 LH bats in Det that can play OF.