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If there might be a knock on Riley, it's that he doesn't seem to do much in his late ABs. I'd like to see his splits on 1st/2nd/3rd time up. My impression so far is Riley's would be heavily biased to the 1st.

the run is good, no doubt. But Robbie took a better pitch for strike one than the one he hit. Schoop also got a good pitch to hit and didn't do much with it.

Brieske got a little tentative there, but managed not to leave any cookies....

I'm serious, this sounds like total bull crap to me. No hitter can divide pitches into 7 zones before deciding to commit. No wonder they are all late all the time. That's a recipe for paralysis. See the ball. Hit the ball. That's hard enough for any major leaguer without extra layers of embellishment..

that it was.

So as per CMo, Coolbaugh has them trying to be aggressive only on pitches in two of seven specific regions of the zone? The futility at the plate seems suddenly perfectly understandable.

Meadows with a HR. W. Perez playing for Erie tonight. I guess he got promoted. Wenceel finishes 2/4 BB. Nice start to a new gig.

Maybe they have already pulled the plug and are playing for another high pick. Hard to understand the lack of action on any other rational grounds.

You say that as though you expect there is a necessary difference.

You have to understand the mindset. They are saved, they are absolved, they are the holy warriors for the 2nd coming and any deal they make with the Devil to get to last the Last Judgment quicker is pre-sanctified. After all, that's half the attraction of the theology in the first place. The US conservative version of "Liberation" theology! It's just Aleister Crowley's "do what thou wilt", but make sure to say "Praise Jesus" and add an "Amen" at the end.

I saw that too - good line.

this would be a lot more entertaining to speculate about if the real stakes weren't so high for so many people - especially poor women. None the less I think you are right that political considerations are at the top of the Justices' minds on both sides. Despite Buddha's protestations there seem to be ample smoke signals saying collegiality and dispassionate consideration of the inherent virtue of issues inside this court is a distant memory. I can see various possibilities - granting those you touched on, maybe adding that there might also be some feeling in the opposite direction of 'if not now, when' about going through with the repeal of Roe just because this may the conservative political power high water mark. It all depends on where the electorate turns in reaction to Trump - or more to the point where the conservative Justices think the electorate turns. I still have hope a major repudiation is brewing out there in the hinterlands - if that is what conservative justices see then it could lead to a 'get all you can now strategy', whereas if they see Biden as just a speed bump on the way to 'inevitable' conservative political dominance, then a strategy that avoids temporarily derailing that and that lets an even stronger conservative political position later give them more cover to move law toward their preferences without generating as much political cost as it might today.

did a little reading on this and from what I found the change apparently is not so much in surgical technique but in the adoption of more aggressive rehab approaches that prevent the atrophy that would normally occur with an injury that has a long rehab. Also some mention of improving the precision of the repair length.

Article in WaPo sort of sets up Luttig as the source/leader of a principled conservative judicial backlash against Trumpism. Don't know if there is anything to that or if it would have any prospect of making a difference, but Greg Sargent spins there is. If anything, most of the conservative judiciary has refused to do anything for Trump anyway. I don't think the MAGAs at the political grassroots are looking to Federal judges for their marching orders in any case. Not to mention that the two judges most likely to throw the republic under the bus, Alito and Thomas, are most certainly beyond the reach of any kind of counter movement.

If the economy turns down, will that cause owners to pull back? Certainly some sources of revenue with fall, but if more people stay home might the value of broadcast right go up?

My target price for Tsla would be closer to $200.

Reasonable K rate as well (22%).

I agree rehab has become a crutch for inaction. A 25 yr old doesn't lose his ability to bat in a week.

The problem for the Dems is that their majority is just two narrow. Sure we can say the left lost the Manchins, but had Biden done enough surgery for Manchin and he loses the AOC side caucus it's the same discussion just from the opposite other way. It's normal to lose votes on the edges with major legislation, the Dems just don't have the majorities sufficient for 'normal' to apply. It also goes back to the mess the Senate has become. You might have gotten pieces of BBB with full Dem caucus support in individual bills, but in the current version of the Senate, you can't pass legislation with simple majorities in our supposed democratic country. So you have to bundle everything together and try to put it through in omnibus style with the filibuster rules doesn't apply.

Sure. I was just commenting out of my sense (after having lived there for a time) that unlike Detroit where we tend to have an inferiority complex about acknowledging the limits our market will support, they almost treat it as part of their civic virtue.

I could be wrong but I think 1776 is also being a bit tongue in cheek about a typo in MB's post. It doesn't say "four separate fatherless homes" it says "four separate childless homes"

he got 4 yrs. He's gotten enough of our time.

who knows? - I was presenting that as more the after the fact inference of his negotiating bottom lines. He either wanted big guaranteed money or at least big short term money with a short term opt out. From my perspective the Tigers wouldn't have (shouldn't have?) had the confidence in him for the former and were just not much interested in the later. And even there we assume facts not in evidence that Correa was even ready to talk short term before the lock-out.

well, 'Hell", "Twins" and "10/350" might go together in a true sentence, but it would be more likely to be : Hell will freeze over before the Twins give 10/350 to anybody."

I find it interesting historically that up until WWII, the US in general had a culturally inferiority complex to Europe and we were always looking for European innovations to steal, upgrade and apply here. Then a little success at global warfare and suddenly no-one can tell us anything and US shit don't stink anymore.