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Yup - a lot factors play into a successful offense. For instance, how often does the called play actually comprise a set of options that a QB is choosing from once he sees the defense? If the offensive system gives the QB options, the QB can make the OC look a lot better or worse by how well he chooses from among those options.

You get what you reward. I've said it here a million times, US corporate and tax law needs reform to take the profit away from the value extractors and give it back to the value generators. But it's another problem that doesn't lend itself to 30 second sound bites so gets no traction in US politics. All people understand is that they know things suck but they don't know why.

I don't get why they would try to keep anything a secret - the GOP has been paying for their media influence for a couple of generations and it's worked for them. That's the game, the Dems better play it.

this bullpen is in total meltdown. Good thing the rest of the team is not too bad.

mental error by Holton - he needs to know where his IFs are.

so we'll get Parker for the stretch run, but will he hit? Urquidy might give them some innings but it probably can't be many. Lange was hit his last time out in Toledo - he apparently still has a way to be before he can contribute, Melton is already here. They need a functional Hurter back.

LOL - Some of this stuff cracks me up. How can a fix for a bad brake line take more time to develop? They only been doing hydraulic brakes for what? 100+yrs? Smacks of a too shallow engineering capability. I don't know which are worse, the ones that are poor quality control or the ones that are weak engineering. I haven't owned/driven a Ford since I had a company car in 2004. That was a solid vehicle if somewhat obsolete (a Crown Vic). Have been thinking about a Mach-E but recent news isn't inspiring.

it's always been true the most likely victim of a gun in any household is one of the people that lives there.

I can't read this story but I think the headline may be wrong. USA today has NHTSA issuing 1.2 million recalls total, some at Ford, some at other places but Ford is the biggest chunk. The worst Ford recall is a possible faulty rear brake lines on 400K cars. The other big one is a wonky instrument panel and a third is a lighting failure in module that is getting wet because of sloppy welding around it. Not good stuff. To me the worst one at Ford was the stop sell/recall on the Mach E over doors that won't open. That was a screw up on the part of multiple design/engin and testing groups.

They can hire some laid off NCAA NIL investigators who know all about how to not see this stuff.

Goff especially. Goff's rep going right back to Cal is that he is a thinking QB and at this stage in his maturity and confidence, I have a hard time seeing him let his OC put the O in a bad place, let alone Campbell. We've all seen the clips where it's Goff who goes to Campbell on the sideline and says, "we're going to do this" and Campbell goes along with HIM.

exactly. It's called 'initiative' and the perp always has it, which is why no matter how may weapons are around, an armed perp is seldom stopped until after a lot of damage is done. To get on my 'old man yells at cloud' soapbox, Hollywood is responsible for so much public misunderstanding of what gun play is really about. In video bystanders don't get hit by stray bullets, the good guys don't panic and shoot the wrong person, the cops are always brave and self-sacrificing. People just aren't immune to all the images they digest over a lifetime. They may have some intellectual awareness that 'that's not real life' but there is no escaping that the nature of violence as we see it depicted literally thousands of times creates a perceptual bias about reality.

For some guys going out to pitch would be the best way to cope with grief. Everybody is different. It's hard to know whether his mental state affected his outcome or not since he's not that good to being with and a result like yesterday would not be unexpected for him under normal circumstances. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This. In the history of the NFL the good coaches usually continue to put good teams on the field even as their assistants come and go.

They'll keep fighting the rear guarde actions, in the end I don't think it's going to change the long term trend because the tech is moving the total cost of ownership for EVs to a lower price point, and in the end that will be determinative. Just as they have had little success moving utilities off the move to renewables, because generating costs for renewables are just lower now. Buyers won't care about Green vs Maga politics when it becomes a pocketbook issue and when buyers move the government will follow because people want to get elected.

Figures it would be Ballmer. He was a slime ball when he ran MS.

the difference was that he got lots of swing and miss from those hitters on splits out of the zone. When he first got to the majors on call up big league hitters didn't swing at those pitches and his walk rate suddenly was over 4. He came back the next season with a 50% reduction in his splitter use and a new slider. I think maybe his strike throwing in college was easy to overestimate because of how much swing and miss he got on those pitches out of the zone. Over time Casey has reworked the split to command it better, keep it in the zone when he wants to, and his splitter usage has increased again while maintaining a reasonable walk rate. But Casey's other problem when he came up was that while the velo was good, his fast ball was too hittable. Not enough movement by major league standards and he has had to rework that also. He's worked on improving his 4 seam FB and it's usage had been trending up. He's also picked up a little more velo on the sinkers he does throw (result of the surgeries maybe). I wonder how much pitch F/X data was available on Mize when he was drafted. The out of zone strikes and modest life in his FB would have been there to see in the data if there had been data. So he's already done a lot of re-invention in his career, and I give him credit for that.

The missing man made an appearance tonight. Alex Cobb pitched one inning for the Mudhens. Amazingly he gave up no runs, despite surrendering a hit and 3 walks.

Max Clark's August: 14 Runs, 15 Hits, 15 Walks, 15 Ks.

gotta keep generating those clicks for MWG!

Not necessarily. There are things that can increase total HR probability and thus result in cross correlation between individual players hitting one. Wind, ump with a tight K zone to name a couple. That said, I take no position on FDs shadiness. 🙈🙉🙊

Maybe it will change if Danielson and MBN get on the ice, but one thing that I think has been out of sync about Yzerman's rosters is that yes - he's building for size and strength on D, but to me the bigger deficiency is the inability of the forwards to fore check or force turnovers. All the size and grit in the world at the blue line isn't helping that. Or at least put more a rotational system in place where Edvinsson and Seider would be free to play more of a 200ft game and take their skill and physicality up the ice further. At least do more to leverage what you have in a couple of your best players. I really hate seeing Seider spend time as the guy parked in front of his own net playing whack-a-shin with a forward - seems like a total waste of skill.

The Mets won two innings, the Tigers have won two innings. Shouldn't that make it a draw?

the lead is down to single digits!

I think with Morton and whoever is the 5th fill in de jure you just go back to openers for one or two, then short stints (<=4 IP) for everyone but Flaherty, Skubal and Mize. Don't let anyone else go even twice through a line-up if you can help it. If the quality of the pitching is bad, you use variety to try to keep hitters from dialing in. It's a strategy that teams have been too proud to use on any consistent basis for 120 years but it's a real strategy and it can help and it's about the best card the Tigers have left because Hinch has the skill to manage it.