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He probably needs a chemist more than a pitching coach. I tend to think Keuchel is one guy that really misses the spider-tac.

probably a reason they haven't won much! In the 70's Freitas and Flanagan were all-pros, those lines blocked for Mel Farr and were decent. They were on their way to having a good OL in the 90's with Lomas Brown, Kevin Glover (all pros) with Andolsek and Utley young and improving and then we lost them both. Since then it's been pretty barren - and they hung with Riaola and Backus waaaay too long.

Brieske thinks he's been tipping his pitches. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2022/05/28/detroit-tigers-rookie-beau-brieske-believes-hes-been-tipping-pitches/9979330002/ That's a relatively easy fix if it's true.

Someone had previously reported the plan was two in Fla and then he’d be moving, but things are always subject to change I suppose.

Maybe he thought he hit like her

One run out of 11 base runners? Futility

but of course the tie-in is that I doubt you can establish a legal control regime over assault weapons that doesn't also increase the legislative prerogatives on other guns - so even if there is no explicit intention to widen control of handguns in a program to control assault weapons, it's going to be seen as 'the camel's nose' and opposed by the whole gun crowd.

two hard hit balls in 6 IP ain't actually too bad. Nobody's anointing him Cy Young we just need guys to keep us in games and he did.

His pitches seem to be hard to barrel up - even when he left fastballs in hittable zones he was getting a lot of pop-ups. Hard not to like that.

How bad does a entire team slumping at the plate have to get before the heat comes down on the manager? I'm not saying I have any idea if there is anything Hinch could or should be doing but at some point the pressure on Avila to do something is going get to where someone's head has to roll, probably Coolbaugh's first I suppose.

I guess it would be silly to push Faedo when he has so few IP since his TJ, but if that weren't the case he looked good to go for the 7th.

Tigers on their way another QS loss. Someone kick these batters in the arse.

They should have listened to Dan and gone inside

I’d be glad to take that half a loaf if we can get it.

He more comfortable every day with not seeing the ball

This. Exactly this. Why should we spend our lives in an armed camp - that's an insane idea of how to live - when it's so much more logical, reasonable, effective, to just remove the instrumentality that creates all this danger in the first place - and serves no other purpose? The guns.

Look at this thread for instance. I think any person willing to look at the facts and evidence objectively should easily come to the conclusion that you are far less safe with a gun in your house (unless it is locked away safely in a gun case) than with one, and thus that idea you are going to save the day in a home invasion is pretty far fetched. Can it happen? Sure. Does it happen? Hundreds of times less than someone in the house is harmed by the gun. So what leads to the inability of Americans to process the objective facts of the situation? I guess it beats me. I suppose they don't do a very good job of assessing the facts of a dozen other social/political/economic conditions, so why do I bother asking the question?

right. It seems it's pointless to keep repeating the truth that in any tactical situation, initiative is everything. The perp has it, you don't and never will unless you are going to spend your life standing guard in a pillbox at your front door (in which case the perp will use the back....)

there are two problems - mass death weapons and too many handgun. The former need to go away, the qualifications for possessing the later need to be much tighter. handguns are not even all that useful for protecting a home either because in any home with children they need to be locked up and your average home invader is not going to politely stand aside while you wake yourself up and arm yourself. And in any home where they are not locked up the probabilities appear high they are more likely to kill a member of the household than an invader.

He's only 34, which isn't that old for a pitcher, and he's only lost 2 mph off his average fastball, but I would guess that the problem is that his velo was never great to begin with and with even a 2 mph loss plus the reduction in stickum, his FB is pushing the minimum to get MLB hitters out. His FB runs above average was as high as 17 in Houston throwing 90, it's now -5 throwing 88. Now matter how good your off-speed if you don't have enough FB to set it up, you're going to struggle.

But what were the Buffalo Bill shows? Not having ever seen one I have no idea but were they a lot of marksmanship and skill performances and not necessarily people shooting guns at each other? Not so mention - what % of the population ever saw a live show of any kind compared to the kind of reach that modern media has. There are probably more than 350 million TV in the US and there are probably eyeballs in front of 80 % every single night.

but when you say culture, I assume you are talking about what produces these guys, what Chasfh (I think) and I are getting at is why enough of the larger public, who aren't all necessarily gun nuts, fall for the "good guy with a gun/I want a gun in my house to protect me", or even, "I'm OK if my neighbor wants a gun his house to protect him", politics instead of realizing that they are chasing unicorns. True, this wouldn't even matter if guns were not so available here, it's a knock on effect but it influences the politics of why change doesn't happen, that's it harder to get a consensus even on the part of people who don't own guns to take away the guns of others.

This was written by John LeCarre 40yrs ago in 1980. It's stuck in my head ever since. It's a scene placed at night at the site the assassinated body of an old retired agent. The police inspector is walking LeCarre's spymaster - George Smiley, through the crime scene. "Most people expect to be shot in the chest really, don't they, sir?" the Superintendent remarked brightly. He had learned that small talk sometimes eased the atmosphere on such occasions. "Your neat round bullet that drills a tasteful hole. That's what most people expect. Victim falls gently to his knees to the the tune of celestial choirs. It's the Telly that does it, I suppose. Whereas you real bullet these days can take off an arm or leg, so my friend in brown tell me." The effect has been growing in the population pretty much ever since the the Hollywood Western and Gangster movies where every gun death depicted had to be in service the Hayes morality code. We are conditioned from the time we first turn on a television to associate the firing of guns with good outcomes - the good guys never die, the bad guys can never shoot straight, the right guns always win the day. The reality is that the firing of a gun in anger virtually never has good outcome for anybody.

Saw a side by side pic the other day showing where one of the top end electronics packages had been removed from the M777s that were sent. obviously the long term ambition is to move the east/ideological border east to include Ukraine, the hope being that this ‘experience’ with the Russians will pull them permanently into “Europe” as their world view. Could fail, but a chance the West probably needs to take. of course as I write this I can’t help but think the same args were made about Iraq. The counter arg would be Ukraine is already much closer to the West than Iraq was/is which improves the odds.