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I've seen various speculations that Lukashenko may have an idea that he can use Wagner to increase his own military credibility - either as added leverage to keep Putin at a distance or alternately to defend his own regime if Putin's regime does collapse and he find himself facing a revolt at home with a domestic army he can't trust and no Russian support. So there are scenarios one can spin where Lukashenko has an interest in defending Wagner and Prigozhin. But then you have to get to the practicalities of who's going to pay the bill? The Achilles heel for any private Army is need to pay the bills. Can Luka afford Wagner even if he has some idea of how he might use to his advantage?

I heard that. Monroe was trying to be a little diplomatic instead of just saying Marisnik (or maybe Shep) was FOS with that particular language. Of course no-one can see actual spin on the ball from 300' away. But credit where due, Craig did get to the correct answer that you are trying to read the flight of the ball (effect of the spin, not the spin itself) off the bat. And in CF you can more easily read the hitters swing - whether the hitter is inside-outing or pulling the ball before it ever leaves the bat. The one thing I remember about seeing ball spin the OF is when a liner starts getting closer to where you can see it well and you realize you *can* see stitches - because the ball's not spinning - because it's a damn knuckle ball coming at you and you don't where the hell it might go. 😱

Certainly with Cabrera, the consistent power to the opposite field most guys just are not going to have, and without that you probably don't gain trying to emulate that style.

Of course, on the other hand it was also easy to for Ted Williams to say about that perfect pitch "Don't take it, don't miss it, don't foul it off" because he had the bat command to hit that ball hard every time he got it, most guys *will* foul it off half the time and not get another one. So no question, no matter what your approach it helps a lot be a better hitter!!!

I thought they would just activate Brieske - go figure.

That should jussssssst about do it.

Rookie mistake - as Monroe rightly noted, ball to left from LHB is going to tail toward the line more.

Carpenter hacked that one.

He still would probably benefit from an occasional day off. I really hadn't thought about the fact that the only game he has had off so far this season was the 2nd game of a DH, so he hasn't actually had a 'day' off from the schedule at all.

I might like to see the Tigers shift some of the emphasis in their team hitting philosophy. The "Get a good pitch to hit" mantra sounds nice, but it can put you in the hole against every pitcher with decent command. It was interesting to hear Pudge last night talk about never worrying about looking for inside/outside/up/down, he said he just saw a strike coming he tried to put his bat on it no matter where it was going. Now Pudge was a great hitter, and he said as much as all hitters can;t hit the same way, but Pudge's approach is one that might give you a better shot in games against good pitching. Too much waiting for perfect pitches doesn't seem to be working for the Tigers even if it makes their peripherals look better than last season.

they didn't need a seeing eye GB.

I get that, but it was in the other order for Skubal. He had his UCL in college and then Flexor this time.

Should have been happy with 5 in his first outing. and Hinch pulls him before he can lose.

I don't know what has him thinking he should be on top of the plate the way he is. They are getting him out inside and he can't get out of his own way on the inside pitch.

I'm curious whether Yzerman counts Ras as part of the nucleus he sees being built or just sees him as a transitional (and thus tradable) piece. I would guess yes but I could see it either way. Is he good enough now? Or does he just seem decent by comparison to a lot of substandard players around him? He was certainly improved last season but how much more upside does he have? OTOH, I pretty much doubt Zadina or Veleno count in that list.

Or in the the case of Skubal, a postcursor(?!)?

I suppose he can go straight to the 60 so they get the 40 man roster spot back immediately. EDIT: Direct to 60day confirmed by Stavenhagen.

What is a 'lower leg strain' ?(Vest), pulled calf muscle? What a waste of two years for Boyd. If they'd done UCL when they did the flexor surgery he'd be back now. So you wonder - did they see degradation of his UCL two two years ago and think is wasn't that bad, or miss it or did Matt just manage to damage a UCL that hadn't been that bad two yrs ago?

Petzold tweeted that there is a locker set up in the clubhouse for Misiewicz

yeah - orgs have tried working on this premise - Nolan Ryan when he was running Tx I remember in particular. Nothing they tried made any difference.

I think that's a good guess.

surprised nothing is posted yet. Maybe they are waiting to see if the guy they want is going to make his connection to get there on time before they make anything official.

I waded through the whole hour of Yzerman's presser and I only got a few things that may apply. One, he said several times he's basically not looking for players older than Larkin, so DeBrincat checks that box. Two, Goal scorers are hard to find - so check that box. Three, "young nucleus" is the paradigm. Four, he think it's a deep draft for fowards, Andm Five - (so) he values top picks. So I'd agree it sounds like any player that he doesn't see as part of "Larkin plus the young nucleus" is on the table with any combination of non-1st round picks. If he can swing the deal on those terms I rate him being in. If it comes to a 1st then it's anyone's guess.

This case was another case of the minority attaching themselves to a detail of text but missing the whole import of the Constitutional structure itself. The plaintiff's fundamental argument was that when it comes to elections, a state Constitution cannot constrain the power of its own legislature. But that flies in the face of the fact that the US Constitution (and Federal Courts) do exactly limit the power for the Federal legislature in exactly those ways. Despite the use a the word ' legislature' at that sentence in the US Consitution in reference to state governments, it flies in the face of the overall logic of the US constitutional system to argue that the Framers intended in that sentence to neuter the liberty protections of checks and balances of Constitutional Democracy at the state level.

If this had gone the other way it would pretty much opened the door to majority mob rule as opposed to a system of protected rights and ordered liberty. The fact that Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch were on the other side just proves again they are a clear and present danger to the Republic, and have no business being alowed with a country mile of where they're sitting. FWIW, which isn't much, Thomas would have punted the case but he still rejected the majority opinion.