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It's always advantage pitcher to face guys that haven't seen you before, and vice versa. I believe that is one of the reasons that it's harder to be a good OBP hitter today than in the pre-expansion days when you seldom faced a pitcher you didn't have 50AB against.

IIRC a lefty from TB (McClanahan?) was doing the same thing on the 3b side. It gets your release point closer to the mid line of the field so the theory would be it cuts down the advantage to the opposite side batter.

Dog is also a lefty, so you may have it.

Ironically enough given the outcome the other night, another guy that dives into the ball from an open stance a lot like Javy is..............Isaac Paredes.

Molnupiravir is generally only a 2nd choice when Paxlovid can't be used. The gov bought a lot of inventory which probably helped Merck recoup some cost but either way it's not going to have a big market for Covid, no matter what people think about Ivermectin.

LOL, I'm sure Merck is extremely serious in their efforts to 'protect' Pfizer.

See, this is why I'm a Dog person. I'd like to see a Cat do that. Maybe that's the Tigers problem. Our team is the wrong species!

Sam didn't care too much for Wilmer. Would never have called him up.

Kristol isn't nearly as clever either.

Bergner wasn't bad in the other game either 5.2IP 2H 1BB 7K. Or maybe the 'Cats are a terrible hitting team....🤔

this. pay attention to what the people making the decisions did/do.

they said dizzy.

I can't think of anyone who would be more embarrassed by Tucker Carlson's existence than W.F. Buckley.

Looks like he hit a left hander there.

Willi should go cold soon enough.

Sure - there is level at which 'truth' is not really an operative concept for a sociopath. Doesn't excuse it, but from his perspective he is just saying what is right, because what makes a thing right is that it is in his interest. There is no standard outside of that one.

Well, it's like you said: You didn't think a Republican could actually make something up out of whole cloth all by themselves did you? If it's not pure projection they had to have seen it somewhere.

but they only care about that if it can be translated to $$ or something like academic ranking that they can in turn monetize. Obviously to the degree they can remain in control of the process the schools are going to do what they can to protect the benefit of football to revenue, but things are so wide open there are no guarantees they might not blow it for some short term high with bad long term outcomes. There will also probably have to be separate orgs now for football, basketball and then all the rest as the economic systems in each are going to be different.

Scherzer took himself out last night - looked like left groin or oblique grabbed on a pitch.

That is an important point. If players or sponsors start competing for donor funds directly to NIL pools, then the University's interest in the endeavor becomes questionable. Right now it certainly seems like the least likely outcome, but you can at least envision an evolution of more or less minor league effectively at arm's reach from the U that plays in the University stadium Saturday while the university has a non-scholarship student team playing other schools there on Friday nights..... In the current system, a school like UM clears enough after expenses to use revenue sports income for non-revenue sports and student recreation facilities, plus whatever cachet the football program adds to general donations, which they probably have some idea about. If whatever new system evolves does't result in at least that much revenue to the institution, it will be a problem.

I normally wouldn't look at the staff in terms of initial injuries because to a large degree a lot of guys do their own programs anyway, but Reyes, Mize and now Manning going backward on rehabs doesn't seen right. Are they shutting people down TOO completely and losing tone in other muscle groups? A guy just shouldn't strain his right quad immediately after rehabbing his left. I guess we have to wait and see what Manning's newest problem is to be more depressed.

I..G.I.V.E..U.P!

The fact that NIL could end up keeping top players in college is a really good observation. It will improve the quality of play in the college game, and the NFL did fine in the days before kids left school early, so the delay in accessing players is not a problem, but it will be interesting how it plays out when college players with big NIL deals end up drafted at slots paying way less than their deals. Will their sponsors be willing to keep them on the doll as pros? I imagine in some cases maybe. I'm still curious to where the institutions see themselves fitting in all this. You will have big corps/boosters paying the NIL tab for players that are going to come and make up maybe 20% of a team made up of semi 'regular' students? It's gonna be pretty strange. The players being paid are pros so why not drop the pretense, drop enrollment requirements and just become hiring coordinators between players, their sponsors and their coaching staff? "we have the venue but everything else is up to you.(whoever 'you' ends up being)"

Gave blood last week and the antibody test was positive. Getting boosted at the end of May for a cruise in July.