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Something slipped in Faedo's management. It looked like they wanted to back off on his work, which they also did with Mize and it looks like they are doing with Jobe, but in Faedo's case he ended up losing his FB. That cost him months, then the TJ. I also have a theory that the Tigers in the past were too slow with young hitters. I think if you don't move a guy to where he is seeing MLB pitching by certain age the window is going to start to close on his ability to adjust to it, so it can be counter productive to bring guys along slowly. I worry a lot less about a guys confidence being dashed than about missing his young brain's window to able to learn to recognize MLB breaking balls in real time. Or another way to put it would be if a guy can't keep his head above water against good pitching at 21-24, he probably isn't going to be MLB material anyway. So you may as well/need to push college guys esp hard.

So who is their DH against RH pitching if/when Cabrera can't go? You don't really want Haase or Reyes taking more AB against righties. Willi Castro doesn't hit RHP. H. Castro has no power. I wonder if the answer would end up being Cadelario and Kreidler sharing 3b/DH - or give Josh Lester a shot.....

Interesting that Blashill had props for DeKeyser. Obvious Danny can't sustain playing regularly anymore, but when he comes back from rest, like he did at the end of last season, he's still one of their better D men. His play at the end of last season had me hoping he would be better this season, but clearly his physical condition is such that he runs down until he is a liability and needs time off and rehab to get back. Not a sustainable situation for a player but another case where the Wings are losing/have effectively lost a player that had a talent level they are not able (or willing for now) to replace.

Hill hits another speed bump - sore hammy. Hinch saying they won't know if he's going to miss time until they check tomorrow - as per Freep.

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection. -- W. Shakespeare

well, c'mon now, can you think of a bigger threat to the nation than all those diabetics running around ...healthy!?

this also reads as economic nonsense. A state tax cut would only be inflationary if the state were deficit spending, which most are not allowed to do and which would contradict the premise of the story anyway that the cuts were out of surpluses. Since states pretty much spend 100% of their revenue received, giving the money back to consumers, who will only spend it to a level equal to 100% - the consumer savings rate, will be deflationary if anything, though pretty close to zero. Stupid, poorly researched commentary. The commentator is confused in that Federal tax cuts into deficits are inflationary because the Federal government can(does) print dollars to fund them (all things being equal, printing more dollars = inflation). States have no such ability. State taxation does not drive national money supply. The writer doesn't know Econ 101. The level of general literacy in what gets published in US media is beyond abysmal.

nah, all wrong for Bert ... no sunglasses.

so what just happened? Radio guy was confused. He called it a foul off the catcher picked up in fair territory? Isn't that a dead ball? Or really not foul tipped and the catcher just picked it up and threw him out?

Keidler on base twice - helping his cause.

Blue Jay radio PBP guy (Wagner?) OK technically, just boring.

I don't see Haase catching more than just enough to stay sharp - Hinch seems to like Garneau as a receiver. I suppose like anyone - if Garneau doesn't hit at all he'll still be gone. But other than that Haase's opportunities depend mostly on how much Hinch ends up protecting Baddoo and Greene from LHP. Grossman and Reyes are better against lefties as it is.

Funny. Good question though. I guess OTIS popularized the term 'elevator' in the US because that's what they called what they built - though I can't find that they ever tried to trademark it. Interestingly, OTIS did try to trademark the term 'Escalator' but lost their case because they had never established any other generic name for the apparatus.

Kreidler with a leg double.

yup - It's a limit on Hill's potential DRS. He doesn't have the arm to match his catching ability. Otherwise Reyes, Hill, Green, Grossman all pretty meh aren't they? Still have some hope that Baddoo's arm could be better this year with the extra year after TJ. His was erratic last season so that has potential to improve but at this point he hasn't shown anything there yet.

Haase with a solo shot. Tigers on the board.

Tigers waste a Tork single and Greene double in the 5th. Come up empty.

Tigers getting a little sloppy. Manning gives up one long ball going 3 complete and responsible for 2 runners in the 4th. Not great, not bad. Had to be rescued by Greene in the 1st though. Vest comes in throws gasoline on the fire. 3-0 and still no out in the 4th.

the letter detailing Reagan's Alzhiemer's was released in '94. Text of the letter from Mayo said they detected changes 'over the last 12 months' so there was never a formal admission that he was suffering from Alzhiemer's while in office, though I don't know that there is ever any kind of bright line to say "this is the day when you began to decline." Not to mention that almost every case of Alzheimer's is unique in its progression anyway. https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/physicians-explanation-ronald-reagans-alzheimers-diagnosis https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/reagans-letter-announcing-his-alzheimers-diagnosis

It was pretty boorish. More sophisticated revenge should be preferred. (not to mention Rock was just doing what he was being paid to do at the time, which was at least in part to make fun of the crowd, even if it the Smiths/Pinketts thought that joke was in poor taste.) Then again, if Obama had just bitsch slapped Trump that night instead of making more sophisticated but merciless fun of him at the Correspondent's dinner, maybe Obama just gets a law suit and we never get stuck with Trump as President....🤔

Lot's of potential ironies. Rock's wife of 18 yrs (now divorced) ran a non-profit hair salon. Also back in the day, when many black women made it a statement to stop straightening their hair, black women wearing their hair natural and even very short was actually a thing. somewhere there is probably a joke for a bald male comic about women vs men - one not appreciating the pain of childbearing and the other the 'pain' of balding, but Rock still has too much hair to make it.......

I do think Greene is about as sure a bet as we have seen in a long time to be a well above replacement hitter. I'm not sure what kind of average Torkelson will hit for but the plate discipline and power are real, so I expect a good OPB and some HR so that should keep his OPS afloat. Of course in a 1B that is a minimum expectation.

and of course at his age, like Reagan, the fact that he is mentally acute now is no guarantee he will be in 'x' more years. But for now there is little way of knowing what 'x' may be short of dissecting his brain today.....

good point. Nobody should have to play hockey back to back.

I know this gets fed by his sometimes tortured elocution, but anyone who has actually dealt with the mentally acute old and those with dementia would understand that that kind of thing is just natural physical aging, just like you can't run as fast, you maybe can't talk as fast - it's has nothing to do with quality of the underlying higher level thinking. And especially in Biden's case -as he had to overcome an underlying speech impediment in the first place. As a matter of fact I have known any number of people with serious dementias across the spectrum who happened to elocute extremely well right past the time when what they said represented connected thought. It's just not a relevant marker of anything either way. It does make for poor quality political theater, and that is a problem for Biden in world that no longer has the patience or analytical ability to see past image.