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I don't know how much input he gets, but from listening so far, McLellan doesn't talk like a coach interested in a non-D D-man. Then again, talk is one thing, having an asset in hand is another.

I’m sure they have some data driven framework for just exactly which style of pitcher should follow which.

correct - which is what I was getting at in noting the lack of 'authenticity' in today's US RW Christianity.

that's what works for me when I stick to it.

Not necessarily. The US civil rights movement took great strength from their belief that a "Christian' nation had to be challenged to do better, and took hope in their interpretation of the Gospel that better lives and societies were possible. In my view, authentic Christianity is at heart a subversive ethic that adds to people's motivation to challenge the status quo for the sake of the future. The problem is that there isn't much authentic in US fundamentalist evangelicalism. The great fault line of religious belief is exactly when it's able to be twisted into another mean of control - of which one aspect is exactly inculcation of that sense of fatalism that pacifies the proles.

I think that whole line of argument is probably put out more in service of FOs that use it as an excuse to keep payroll down than because it's a real concern of players.

IDK, athletes in other sports deal with this all the time. I baseball it's often underpaid guys who are pre-FA that are the leaders and drivers of teams. Cade Cunningham was the Pistons' undisputed leader while still on his rookie deal. Not sure why hockey players should have more fragile egos.

Last time a rich deficit hawk tried to start a party the result was to get the Democrat elected, so I guess I'm 'wait and see' on this.

The Erik Karlsson with 300 giveaways over the last 3 seasons?

Speaking of Cobb, he was supposed to throw a BP this week. Not sure how the Tigers are finesseing this or if the transactions page is just inacurate (not unlikely) but his rehab assignment started May 30, which means it has to be up by now unless he was put back on IL sometime after his June 11 appearance for the Hens.

I think we are going to see Lange soon - but not until he works a back-to-back, which he hasn't yet.

Waste of protoplasm. It just keeps going back to how people can be so ignorant as to vote for these complete morons. But as was posted up thread, they are so culturally indoctrinated to see other side as some kind of satanic influence that they won't even engage on the merits of who they are voting for. And more broadly, acceptance of religious based fatalism will surely doom the prospects for progress in any culture. The term I always heard from the old-worlders I grew up around was "Inshallah" - God's will. Well try not believing in a God that doesn't think you should use every brain cell he gave you to make things better instead of accepting fate in ignorance.

good way to break a long OhFer.

I was just going to post that Trey had looked pretty out of sync in his last AB.

OK - who had Sweeney on their Bingo card?

LOL - that's what he gets for taking Hedges out of the game! Meanwhile Parker took two middle-middle pitches in that AB, one hard, one soft. So WTF was he looking for?

Not sure why you wait to two outs to pinch run. OK - I guess that's why NVM!

take one for the team Spencer!

at 98 mph how 'cut' can a cutter really be?

you've got the guys you want coming up.

well they would have had to score at least one in the 9th anyway - so the situation hasn't changed all that much.

well, nice stat padding outing for Skubal anyway.....

so much for the Bailey Horn Experience.

Don't walk the guy hitting 167

Bailey Horn? Seriusly?