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I think Bally is serving us up the worst TV booth of my lifetime, which stretches back to when Ernie and Kell were working together. They tell me that before that Van Patrick was just as good, which I believe even though I never heard him do baseball as Van the best I ever heard doing football - which I did hear him do for the Lions for a long time.

Carpenter has a double, also has two plays (now three) in RF that another fielder might have made....

Ump giving Alexander everything even remotely close. Unintended consequence of robo-umps might be routs that get a lot worse.

I'm really disappointed in Monroe. I thought when they gave him his shot he might be decent - but it's like he's locked into a platitude phrase book - constant repetition of mostly poorly applied stock banalities. I can't listen to him. Scales on the other hand may have a ways to go but he's pretty natural and occasionally says something clever. There's potential for improvement.

Well, this one isn't going to end in 2:15

19 deg and out of the park. That's a hard hit baseball.

Touchdown and a FG!

At the rate things are going the most ironic early move forced by a player's performance might be Cabrera moving up in the order......Depressing.

pretty good AB for the old guy. Hung in, hung in, flaired one just enough.

this is really weird. They appear to cheating time on the audio - compared to the video they are coming back about 15-20 seconds late from the break and then slowly picking up the time over the course of the inning.

The difference in hitters that actually know how to hit. Franco looked for a slider, took his time and just served it up the middle instead of swinging out of his shoes and missing the break

Haase not having a great day either.

plus Spencer has thrown so many pitchers right on the bottom line of the zone that the Rays adjusted.

Before 2021 Turnbull's 'problem' had been that he didn't know where his pitches are going to go. Seems to be back at that point again.

on a two strike count again.

Tigers are just cursed. Two shots - two outs

that's part of the cost of playing everyone and their brother at 10 different positions in ST added to the WBC. How many innings have Greene and Baez played on the same field this spring? Baez at WBC and Greene spent half the spring out of CF.

Keith and Parker Meadows making the team this season are the kinds of things we've taught ourselves not to hope for too much.....

looks like the K let him get his mojo back

well, if you are TB you can't be happy with that result either.

Spencer gonna meltdown here?

0-2 pitch out of the zone and it still goes for double....

this is starting out well...

yeah - expectation for McKinstry should not be high. Don't be terrible at the plate and leverage his speed to be useful otherwise. If there is going to be season 'success' at 2b it more likely will be Kriiedler playing himself into full time PA there.

I think this has more to do with wanting to see McKinstry or whatever other LHH IF they cycle through. If you look at his numbers, Schoop has almost zero career OPS platoon split. Cut it a little finer it is still a muddled picture. He had a big platoon split in 21 - you might expect it to get bigger for your average player as they pass by their prime, but the ironic thing is that last year he collapsed against LHP even worse than RHP, putting up a reverse platoon split of 80 points. So no immediate reason to think he's going to be all that much better against LHP. But you would expect the LHH like McKinstry to have the bigger split to protect as most LHH do. As noted above, the Harris regime does not seem disposed to give Schoop any legacy priority - he's going to have to play his way back into a regular job if he can.