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Keith could have done that.

a lot to optimistic about in the pitching tonight. A lot to be depressed about with the hitting. ( I needed to write this before the BP had another chance to lose the game.)

I wonder if that was also about the on-deck circle stuff. this is a truly, truly offensively challenged team right now.

8 more guys like Kevin and that's a winning team.

MsKinstry and Short scheduled up in the 9th. Oh boy.

It was a strike, but he's got to protect there.

that AB was lost on 3-0 Tork's continuing weakness as a hitter is his refusal to protect the plate when he needs to

He can't take 3-0 with the guys behind him.

if you challenge when you don't have one it should be a penalt ball or strike.

another gift from the Mets.

Valdez is clearly tired. Time to take him out.

There are no make up calls in baseball, of course there aren't.

Terrible umpiring there - he never got his hand above his face. Meanwhile - Framber with the QS.

Unreal. Baseball gods give the Tigers two freebies in one inning and it's the Tigers be like: "We don't need no steenking luck!"

after getting a pitch clock violation gift, Tork flails at ball 4

Keith with 104 EV on the DP ball - that's enough to get out of a ball park, unfortunately the launch angle was 1 deg.

Not much funny anywhere. Did Cooper have any OEM business? Selling tires in the after market only has to be tough business.

From today's NYT

Some of the political coverage coming out of CA is predictably silly. Porter pilloried because she yelled at a staffer, Steve Hilton's biggest coverage seems to be about the definition of a 'street Taco'.

not really a choice - gotta fight fire with fire.

Beck confirms that Mize will probably make a start next week - no trip to rehab. https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/jack-flaherty-struggles-to-give-tigers-long-start-in-loss-to-mets

Reese is why Avila took so many 6' 4" pitchers. My biggest worry when they took Jobe what that with a guy who spun his breaking ball that hard you might as well block out the lost year for the TJ surgery in advance. If he comes back from TJ spinning the ball just as hard, I'd guess he can be effective but the arm will always be a time bomb.

People who have visited Israel recently also. For good reasons or not, not one of my rather normie non-evangelical liberal friends who has been to Israel over the last decade or more didn't come back deeply disturbed by how Israel forces West Bankers to live. The trip tends to puncture their long held default idea of Israel as a liberal democracy. I'm sure the Evangelical side probably run through different tour programs, but it is what it is.

We come If you come in from the West, I like to take 94 to Livernois, South down to Mich Ave, East to Cass turn north, cross Grand River and all the lots on the West side of Woodward are right there. Also an easy exit going back the same way as you stay out of the ramp traffic near the stadium. Haven't been down this year yet but I think those also were $20-30 as of last season.

LOL - China would be odd-bedfellows. The Russians may value Iran too much to go there.