gehringer_2

Also Scherzer

The ‘vacuum tube’ idea was a really dumb concept. It’s one of those things that doesn’t scale.

yeah - that's a good observation. If the silly fool was still playing at the Judo master thing into his 50's he may well have fried his back beyond repair - you've got to know when to back off certain things, and we don't need much more evidence Putin doesn't.

Schoop has an 0/20 going. Ouch.

With Putin you can count on that being some kind of lie, the only question is from which direction.

I think it only changes as the roster changes. You have guys that don't have good compete awareness, as long you play them your team won't. Jimenez is 6yr vet - if he doesn't have the awareness to hold a runner in a close game today, he simply never will, so the team's compete level doesn't take a step up until a guy like that is gone. Sure, there are guys with so much talent you may have to live with the loose screws, but the Tigers in question don't have that kind of talent....

Goodbye Daz, we hardly knew ye.

that is certainly a change.

didn't he say that the night he hit 499 then change his mind by the next morning? But maybe that was a road game he held him out of, I don't remember...

LOL - big night for Barnhart actually - a hit,BB and CS.

Tigers can't seem to make the right choices tonight.

that is the thing with Schoop. It was the same last year - looks like he'll never hit the ball again in his life, then goes on a tear, then back to futility. It's who he is.

Ok, I said the other night that Jimenez keeps getting chances because he has a swing and miss fastball. I don't care. He's just bad news.

It's Tiger manager's gift. Not always easy to pick the guy who will be unprepared to make a play.

to run out of gas in a modern car dinging and flashing at you requires at minimum some level of distraction.

if there has ever been a team in the history of baseball that loses more games because their pitchers can't field, I'd like to know who it is....

bases should be loaded with no-one out

yeah - from 1961 to when West took over as coach the Lakers had only 2 losing seasons - with a 69 win championship in '71/2. I would take that team as in the conversation as greatest of all time. Real sorry franchise!

OTOH, didn't Mize throw a lot of innings in college, and a lot of splits, which is supposedly a tough pitch on the arm? Then again, at one time the big deal was controlling how much kids threw before they were 18 and how many breaking balls. I don't know if that is still a thing or not.

Win-Win!

figure the math. Russia's population is 3.5X Ukraine. The Russians require 1 yr of military service. Ukraine is basically on a full mobilization basis so you are getting participation from the whole age range of maybe 17-40. Russia's one year conscript numbers plus the numbers of their 'professional' troops actually can't match that without the kind of draft/mobilization that Girkin is talking about. If the West supplies sufficient technology to counter Russian air and missile advantage, it's realistic to predict we get more of what we have gotten to far -- the Russians can kill a lot of civilians but will struggle to achieve strategic objectives. And of course ironically, as the fighting moves east more of those civilian casualties will be Russian speakers.

basically he's arguing for a full mobilization in Russia.I would think that if Putin thought that his propaganda machine could have built the support for that he would already have done it.

I think the reason it appeared in poor taste was that he appeared to be blaming Manning, and all Manning did was not lie to his manager and trainer - which would be a stupid policy for any young player. If Jack is just bemoaning the general state of the game, fine, but he didn't make that explicit. To me the weird thing is that despite athletes in the modern era getting faster, stronger, better in almost every way, we still have this weird idea that somehow off all the athletes in the world, baseball pitchers have made the choice to go soft. I think that is not a very credible view. I'm sure pitchers today train more and harder than their average predecessors ever did. It apparently doesn't help given what is being demanded of them. In fact maybe over training is the problem. If the dominant injury is UCL *wearout* maybe guys need to be throwing far less and saving it for games only - though I think that had been tried as well without it making any difference. Whatever - it's clear the people in the sport do not understand the source of the problem, or just won't or can't do anything about it (too many breaking balls being thrown?). The only thing I'm pretty sure of is that it's not because today's pitchers are 'soft' as athletes.

oh - no doubt. The steals may well not be his fault, but even so his throws have not been impressive as throws. In the Yankee game he bounced one and another missed pretty badly to the right.

so much for not missing his next start.