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He was 'only' 1/5 today but had three 95+ EVs

Yeah - quite the change from last season to be able to say we had the guy we wanted at the plate to win the game and it be Torkelson. But Sweeney playing really well also. Sitting at 800 OPS.

IDK - In 2006 JV had one rough start in April but finished May with a 2.55 ERA. Jobe has some work to do to duplicate that, but here's hoping. (If you are comparing to JV two poor starts in 2005, then that comparison means Jobe should be in Toledo.) But the other side of the question is there anyone at Toledo that is likely to be any better. Neither Manning or Montero off to particularly impressive starts.

rule 2 is pretty much ignored - it's quite hard to get an error on an untouched ball other than maybe the specific between the legs case, and probably exactly because that case is mentioned. I think the issue is from where you come to the discussion about scoring; from the pitcher's view about earned runs, or a more general hitter's view, and thus whether you think scoring only exists to validate earns runs, or whether it has intrinsic value of its own outside of earned run calculation. If you approach it from a pitcher centric view, the rules should absolutely recognize more or FTM all mental errors on outs that are there to be made. From a hitters perspective, I am out often enough when I hit a ball well, I deserve a hit if I hit a ball that fools an OF as much as if I hit it over his head. I'm in the pitching camp. If the pitcher threw a pitch that should have resulted in an out and it wasn't made, I would always rules to call that an error.

the theory of 'competitive advantage' has largely been shown to be a fallacy however. It may be true of a few things where global resource distribution make a difference, and it has some truth for labor intensive industries, but even with labor, with modern tech application of capital can largely negate labor cost differentials. Most nations with active economic policy create (or don't create) favorable environments for the industries they want to drive and these policy actions by governments over time do far more to create (or not) whatever advantage is seen in reality as compared to any 'naturally' exiting conditions. Plus, it is simply true that for a large segment of the the most valuable products - particularly high tech manufacturing, the existing order of production around the world is virtually 100% created/synthetic. There is no place in the world where such work is advantaged by nature. OTOH, the relative environmental irresponsibility allowed in in the developing world is an issue. I think there is absolutely a place for a trade regime that demands that environmental or safety externalities avoided oversees be charged back to the price of goods, but I've yet to see an implementation of it.

Meanwhile, today in the Peoples Republic of Ann Arbor, the best we could do was the annual deadbeat be-in known as the Hash Bash. 🙄

If they were to reduce the taxes on SS, I think it should be done in such a way as your marginal tax rate on what you earn on top your SS is still taxed at a rate based on your total income including SS. So if you had 60k SS income and 40K outside income, I would tax the 40K at the rate for 100K income. This would not be the same as just dropping SS from your AGI, which would leave you at a much lower tax rate on your other income which would just be another freebie for upper income people.

Clark with a hit and 3 more walks tonight.

right - and in this play the fact that no-one advanced an *extra* base on the missed throw is, I think, the difference. If you try an extraordinary play and everyone is just safe where they are, that's one thing, but if the missed throw had been bad enough that the runners advanced beyond the out not made, I think they would have assessed the errror.

white Sox forget to cover 1st?

this - and every economist worth their salt makes this point: NO ONE is going to make investment decisions based on the policies of guy as mercurial as Trump, especially when he's driving the economy into a ditch - making a political reversal likely even if he didn't change his mind. If you want to persuade investors you are serious about US manufacturing, you need to start putting law and tax policy on the books that makes a commitment to its well being. But of course that requires serious people who have some idea how to formulate serious policy and how to get it into law. Good luck with that in this Admin.

4 even strength goals. Where has that been?

But that's the funny thing SB, everybody hears the DOW number every night on the news and they *do* think it's the economy. Don't ask me why.

LOL - Right from the get go you have to let go of what should be vs what is when it comes to MLB scoring. Seriously, if I had to guess, you get to the no error ruling based on an assumption by the scorer that if Javy had taken the time to stand up and set for a throw (i.e. ordinary effort play), the runner would have been safe. So by attempting the DP he went beyond ordinary effort and it's just a failed FC (and no-one got an extra base on the throw so no error was charged) even though he might have been able to take more time and go to 1st for one. Funny thing is that if had gone to 1st and made a bad throw, for certain the error would have been charged. But that's just another measure of how goofed up scoring is. And of course, the error in judgement to attempt a DP that isn't there isn't an error either. 🤷‍♂️

2/4 so far tonight. Sitting at 1.323 OPS WM wins its opener 7-0. McG 2/4 2 doubles. Clark 1/2 3BB.

It's funny how you can pretty much throw away everything they say about hitting before the season started. The big push for Riley was supposedly to lay off outside pitches. Well of course they are trying to pitch him away and he's doing just fine swinging away and taking them the other way. The whole discussion in the interviews with Hinch was probably 80% a mind game played for the oppositions' analysts.

Money, it's a crime Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie Money, so it's said It's the root of all evil today But if you ask for a rise It's no surprise that they're giving none away

LOL, not quite. Reality? It's money that is real, countries are social constructs.

well the worst actual fielding 'error' was Kreidler breaking in on a ball over his head that he probably catches if he takes the right route. On the IF play, I suppose if the scorer reasons that the runner would have been safe at 2b anyway given 'ordinary' effort, then Javy's decision to try for the DP it and having it fail is just a failed FC. No argument that a ball thrown to a base at the ankles is an error, but Javy didn't get much on it fro his knees so it really shouldn't have been that tough for Keith the have come up with it. Colt hasn't looked all that good in the field at 1st or 2nd. Maybe it's gotten in his head a little now.

first K was definitely on a ball - by almost a full ball width. But the ump gave the pitcher extra on the outside against all the RH batters pretty much all game long.

Not fired, not retired, no announcement of an upward move to a new team?

That's the question the Fed has to struggle with. We had 'stagflation' before monetarism took over at the Fed. From Volker on forward any Fed we've had would first stomp inflation and we'd just have the recession - employment be damned. We don't know what this one will do. Powell talks a lot about 'dual obligation' to inflation and employment. I think that's a canard - the fed needs to control inflation, they don't any tools to push employment beyond where it wants to be without creating inflation so it's something that it was economically foolish for Congress to task the Fed with, but that the ignorance of US politics.

right. In the 8 team league they were playing each team 22 times = 154. When the leagues expanded to 10 in 1962 it went to playing 9 teams 18 times = 162. 9 times 17 would have been 153 but then home/away wouldn't have been balanced.

don't know the breakdown on shot percentage in the corner vs the rest of the arc, but the real key is to get the eFG for the all threes -for at least the big majority of players, to a number closer to the eFG of the midrange jumper. Then the D is no longer biased to any point on the floor. If you can do that by eliminating just the corner, fine, if not the line needs to be moved back all the way around.

This reminds me of Ford taking an interest in Mazda when they were building their US presence. Companies that are primarily competitors still find reasons to work together. One piece you have to count is the international situation for TMSC with China. Increasing their stake in US manufacturing capacity as much as they can widens the escape hatch for them to relocate the company if the Chinese try to take over Taiwan.