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Carpenter started 0/8, has gone 5/9 since. EDIT: Make that 6/10

Well, let’s nip any irrational exuberance right in the bud. Myself, I don’t see either Schoop or Candelario’s bats coming back. I don’t see either Castro being any better. Catcher is still not going to generate offense. Baez I’m 50/50 on whether I think he’s likely to rebound. Even in a best case scenario where Greene, Baddoo and Torkelson all contribute next season, they still need a ton of new players. More than one offseason is likely to yield.

It would seem that Al decided he wanted to be good at all the things DD was not. Unfortunately while he has shored up the things that they didn’t do well under Dombrowski, he has failed to also do well at any of the things Dave did. Result: team with weaknesses different from a Dombrowski team, but still weak, or in fact weaker.

And they've reached the point where they are trapped in a mutual death spiral. It's hard enough to hit in the majors, but when there is never a guy on base when you are up to put the pitcher in the stretch, let alone maybe be a threat to steal, and nobody gets to hit when the man in the on-deck circle is a threat to go yard, it just gives the opposing pitchers even more advantage.

don't look now, Baddoo is 9 for last 29. All singles though....

just keep repeating to yourself: "loud outs...loud outs.....lout outs....."

he started out pretty bad, but has only one in his last three games. We'll see if he can turn that into a trend.

Wasted cash at that as Mariot is gone. In fact, Mariot is the other half of the Jacob Robson trivia question: What two players remained on the Mudhen's 2022 published roster one month after they both left the team.

You have to give China credit for their embarrassment free ability to pivot. China: PELOSI CAN'T GO TO TAIPEI. WE ARE GOING TO HOLD OUR BREATH TILL WE TURN BLUE AND THE WORLD ENDS. ... the world goes on, till somewhat later: China: Another Congressional visit? Oh well.

Tork has gotten through 2 games without a K!

yes - you are correct on the Amazon buy. But why would he shut up because Obama was elected? Looking at the history - Mackey got into a bunch of hot water in 2008 blogging about the Whole Foods/WIld Oats merger and at one point was under investigation by the SEC. Maybe that's when his board told him to shut up in public. When you think about it, if he had been ticking off Bezos, more likely he would have just fired him.

"So they're nervously waiting to be told what they’re supposed to think and believe." If I had a nickel for every one of those folks I meet....

If you don't know anything about how a utility Co integrates their power system, and you know the Sun doesn't shine at night, there you are. A person in her position should have a responsibility to know more, but I'm sure a lot of people who know nothing about electricity beyond how to put a plug in the wall would make the same assumption that solar power will leave them in the dark at night, and so whether it's ignorance or demagoguery on her part it's going to play to that audience. TBF, the question of where base load power is going to come from in areas with a high % of solar power generation is not a trivial engineering question, but it's not a any kind of show stopper either. There are plenty of candidate solutions, obviously including battery storage. In many areas wind power is more available during the night than during the day depending on local conditions. The market hasn't even begun to shake out what combination of solutions will be practical and they will vary in different areas of the country depending on things like whether there is local nuke, hydro, or clever storage facilities like the Luddington pumped hydro station.

yes - they are part of Amazon. The 'since 2009' he's referencing with when Amazon bought it.

No pixie dust for Riley tonight

on base twice tonight.

so many useless hitters.

Turn out the lights, this party's over.

yup - for a guy that's supposed to have good game sense not being ready for a guy sliding past the bag qualifies as a brain freeze.

and there you go.

great play but they won't over turn it.

sign of life from Baddoo.

FWIW, Beck reported that Skubal's MRI didn't show anything 'alarming'. Of course they said that about Mize initially.

Agree, Sox had put some good pitches in play. Matt is close - a little more inside/outside command and he can be a staple in the rotation. So where is the rotation going to finish the season? Manning, Rodriguez, Alexander, Hutchinson and ???

Yeah - velo still good at 85 pitches. Now the question is, do you set down a guy coming off all kinds of shoulder issues or do you push your luck for another inning?