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It would be nice if he would show a little something before ST ends. Today he lifted one ball decently to the OF but too high. K'd twice. Didn't chase out of the zone but didn't hit what he swung at in the zone either.

Zadina's continued presence is a pure victory of hope over skepticism.

and Serretti comes back with the big play on a short fly to get the Tigers out of it.

who says you can't party a little after a game?

YaYa walks in a run. NoNo!

Serretti not ready for prime time at short.

Jake hits it to the wall, Parker hits it out of the park. 4-0 Tigers.

If you want to increase the % of successful onside kicks just make the receiving team line-up further back on the field so the kicking team has a better chance of getting to the 10 yrd point just as quickly.

yup - looking more like it by the day.

I'm liking the improvement in multiple phases of Baddoo's game, but they have to take Carpenter north. He's yet to falter since he hooked up with Schenck - threatening to turn into JD V2.0. That would be a nice story.

Tracewski and Freehan on the outside. 2 should be Al but the shadow leaves it uncertain. Can't see 3's face well either but the body looks like Gates.

bottom three get the same number of ping pong balls, right? If they can't 'catch' Charlotte they could actually go out and play a game.

what you often don't see on a C-SPan feed is that a hearing room or chamber may be virtually empty when something like this is happening. Members often don't stick around to listen to what happens when they are not on camera - so that limits the opportunity somewhat. Look for whether the camera is taking any wide shots. If not, I'd make the odds the room is empty as pretty high.

Or else they have someone one their board at 6 or higher that other people don't.

Well, that's the thing isn't it? There is a lot of noise that he won't be able to play tackle in the NFL. A little unusul for there not to be a consensus top end OT in this draft but what can you do?

Cabrera 2 for 3, hit a ball off the wall - for a single.

Parker Brothers hit doubles. (sounds like a report from the Monopoly game in the den.....)

LOL - they got their 1/1 and got the guy who can't get on the court.

He's slowly spiralling out of control. His inhibition level just keeps dropping. The only question is whether he gets to 'crash and burn' before he runs out of rope with the legal system or creates some other catastrophe first.

you should not be able to tear your ACL doing what did.

He's looked better charging one-hoppers in the OF - no doubt

Games ends tied at 8 apiece. HR by Maton and Baddoo. Hit and a walk for Greene. Hit for Tork, 2B for Haase. Lots of runs given up by the MiLB arms

Miggy gets paid almost no matter what. In fact I'm going to guess the ONLY way he doesn't get paid is to announce he is retired, which would be a renouncement of this contract. The two practical routes to get him out of the lineup are a DL or for for them to DFA him. Now the last could be messed up because I suppose the really weird thing would be that Miguel agrees it's time to hang them up but then when they waive him some team picks him up off the waiver wire. I guess he would have to go play. Of course given the condition of the knee they can easily attest that he can no longer play for medical reasons and he just retires off the 60dl. Of course he'd have to agree to the latter, he doesn't have to agree with a decision to waive him.

OTOH, your more competitive players could well come to resent him taking that spot and underperforming if the team were to start playing any competitive ball. I'd guess you get a generation gap among the players with regard to how shabby it feels to cut a non-performing player who has been stubborn about sticking around past his sell date.

Wentz was having a good outing (1R 4IP 1BB 5K) until he hit a wall staring the 5th.