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I've had that thought that myself. Especially if Greene had come up and hit for average with little power initially, which I think would have been and is likely. It would have taken pressure off Torkelson to try to bomb the ball, which the team power slump only makes worse. Hit first. Worry about power later.

this is actually a good illustration of how a trait exists on a spectrum across the human population. There are people who are so strongly 'handed' they do nothing with their off hand. There there people who are nearly completely ambidextrous, and there are those of use that exist somewhere in between. For instance I am moderately strongly right handed but left footed. Once a person brings that kind of recognition to a trait like sexual drive, homosexuality as some kind of moral "issue" dissolves. The rest is all social construct.

right. But we are always left with the question of what the margin is between the MAGA and the total GOP vote, and I suspect there still is one. As long is there is daylight between those two numbers, you have to pursue things for that margin as well as for history.

Of course, it's complicated. There is belief, there is religion, there is organized religion, there are specific sects of specific religions, and there are specific outcomes that certain sects have been responsible for. Certainly anyone without vitriol for some of those outcomes (ISIS, child abuse, profiteering) would have to be lacking a pulse. Things get progressively grayer as you move left to right across that list. 🤔

How much longer were they going to wait to move?

the interesting part is that surgically reconstruction is prefered to repair. From a purely mechanical perspective you might think the process would be aided by only having to do one end, but apparently not. I've haven't seen exactly how they do a UCL but I have seen schematics of ligament replacement techniques (ACL) where they do a looping attachment, in which case the remains of the existing ligament aren't any help - not long enough.

yes - but I'd take those 185 miles in more like 18 days!

One problem is the Fed has too many customers whose interests are at cross purposes. A big jolt to interest rates would be the fastest way to stop inflation, which helps the most people, though possibly throw some out of work as well -for once that is not so much an issue because the job market it tight. But it would crater stocks and the Fed is made up of bankers and bankers don't like it when their friends in the capital class get hammered. A shock level rise in interest rates would also be a windfall for todays short sellers of stock, and wall street hates short sellars, and the Fed is wall street people.....

I see what you did there.

well, that qualifies for a pumpkin.

When did curved numbers become 'crooked'? The only truly crooked number is "7"

Prince is 38 and Cecil has a kid entering college?

444 dead center, would have been at the flag pole of old Tiger Stadium before the renovation.

Somebody found Jose one of last year's baseballs.

day late, dollar short.

no doubt, but Eddings had been giving the outside all game, so the Tigers should have known.

Fulmer doing well with that shorter slider. He doesn't seem to yank it as often as the big breaker.

decent AB for Tork there, but not quite barreled. But Sousa didn't try to work him outside....(or tried and failed)

Javy swung at a strike. Baby steps.

if it's something he has to travel to travel to Venezuela for then who knows if he could be back in less than 7 days. FWIW, he pitched really well in the rehab start, you would think that argues against it being a baseball issue.

Funny, he has never hit LHP better and nowadays with his preference to inside out the ball, he really does not like it when a LHP comes inside on him. He fouled off the two on the inside, but when Sousa left one on the outside he tagged it.

no, but OTOH, I don't expect them to continually take counterproductive approaches without adjusting. Last season we did see Baddoo make adjustments when pitchers shifted their approach on him - could be Torkelson is just stubborn, in which case a trip to the minors can be an appropriate tool.

Mr Tiger always said that when you step into the box you better have an idea what the pitcher is trying to do to you. Whatever kind of scouting/advice Tork is getting is not preparing him because they have been working him outside for weeks and he is still spending all his time looking for pitches to pull.

Torkelson takes two more outside pitches for called strikes to get in a hole and then Ks swinging at third worse than the 1st two. I'm seeing increasing reasons to think Coolbaugh must really be useless.

it would be much more merciful to just call it now.....