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I think you are confusing me with someone else, I don't think I've ever made any particular deal about Hinch's troubles in Houston. Beside, as per my last post, I'm speaking purely hypothetically, I don't don't actually think anyone is going anywhere. But *IF* I'm an owner whose trigger finger is getting itchy and a bunch of veteran guys are playing below their capabilities I don't see any connection to the GM that managed to bring them together, I would ( if I were going to) have to go after the management on the field. >and you think they're slumping because of something the manager did? Did the Red Wings start playing badly because of something Blashill suddenly changed in what he was doing? Field managers/coaches take the fall for players who don't play as well as they are expected to. That just is the way it is. But again, I don't expect anyone is taking a fall in the Tiger FO in any immediate future.

I don't think anyone is going anywhere anytime soon. They have no choice but to ride it out. I think the only question left is if they really get themselves in a hole (well, they already have) do you sort of pull the plug on any dream of competing and start looking at Clemens and Dingler and Wentz and Cameron (again!) and decide you are going to move veteran pitching depth (Pineda, ERod) or even one of the younger pitchers to restock the position cupboard for next year. All I know is that I've come to appreciate the game day animation. It's a lot less frustrating keeping tabs on team playing horrible baseball that way than having to actually watch......🤮

Fantastic! Always room for another pitcher on the roster to take losses in Quality Starts!

because the computer says LEFT!/RIGHT!. I'm as big as anyone on the importance of handedness in baseball. To this day I will never understand why DD didn't seem to care about it at all. But there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. One of the problems in working in complex systems is that you can easily start making mistakes based on measurement bias. We can measure platoon splits very accurately, Rdrs is kinda shaky, especially in less than a couple of seasons. So the temptation is strong to pay a lot of attention to what you measured and give shorter shrift to what you can't, even if on some level you realize it may be more important that you are giving it credit for. But you can answer your critiques by pointing at the numbers you have much easier than arguing your vague notions about the importance of what you have softer data about.

I'm fine with ranked choice in primaries, but what I'd like even better is to require run-offs in generals if no-one gets >50%. Especially in Presidentials. Too many guys get to the WhiteHouse on minority pluralities thanks to 3rd party mischief.

you still may not like the development system but Schoop, Baez, Meadows, Haase, Candelario aren't slumping because of it.

Willi hasn't played enough for his fielding stats to mean much, but has clearly and grossly misjudged two balls out of a small number of chances. I not sure I want to wait until the stats prove out what we can see already - He's not good at judging fly balls.

I guess I'm glad I just got back. If we have 5 starting pitchers (Rodriguez, Pineda, Faedo, Skubal, Brieske=5?) and the DH isn't until Tuesday why are we doing a BP day today?

Easily. All this is needed is for Biden to get sick and have to resign, Harris taking over - as incumbent being too difficult to defeat in the primaries, and then getting plastered in 2024 by another Trumper.

TBF, from personal experience they can be bad enough that you'd have hard time playing without taking something and once you did you might have a really hard time catching up to a 95mph fastball. For me even today with the newer options there is only one antihistamine which is strong enough to suppress my symptoms without making me at least a little drowsy. If Austin doesn't have anything that works that well for him I could understand it might be an issue. If they're hiding something I'm not sure what the point would be, just IL him - you don't have to say why.

I guess they can't find a drugstore that sells Zyrtec. (there's Tx medicine joke to be made there but wrong thread.....🤭)

If any one in the org is in the cross hairs today (and I don't believe anyone actually is) it would be Hinch. GM's don't get blamed when guys under perform their lifetime averages, managers and position coaches do.

LMAO. Keep pumping the fantasy. There is no "we'll see", there is only "HAVE SEEN."

In that long presser, Yzerman kept coming back to the difficulty hiring someone he didn’t know or hadn’t worked with before. If that’s his preference then having to eventually fire a friend may be his fate.

true enough.

Actually on 2nd thought this is doubly disgusting - Alito justifies his decision by expecting the poor to supply wombs for the barren upper classes? Handmaid's tale indeed. What an 'effin bastard. To even consider that as relevant completely denies the dignity of those women.

Gee, does that mean they are going to start overturning media mergers because I can't get cheap internet? ......didn't think so.

It was inevitable that while they were congratulating themselves on the low ERA of the BP that the walks they were getting away with eventually would burn them. To many arms in the pen have not been able to throw strikes.

I've always thought of all the sports, football is a game of weakest links. If you aren't balanced enough the other team is going to exploit your weaknesses and beat you. Maybe that comes from watching teams with stars lose.....

What to you expect 84? Elementary school level schoolyard taunting is the general GOP level of discourse today. They all aspire to reach the Orange One's facility with it.

Still, there is a world of difference between building rationales on widely accepted social mores and building them on specific theological holdings from the same corpus that may have very narrow acceptance. Not to mention that the Judeo Christian tradition gives itself too much credit - there is plenty of moral enlightenment available in other ancient traditions as well. But I've already spoken to my skepticism about too much focus on history in general. I think sometimes the value of looking at decision precedent get transferred to a reverence for history in general that is misplaced. In general history sucked. But to be honest, by contradicting his own previous logic enough to get to where he wanted to go, Scalia brought me to understand that the logic given in decisions is not particularly meaningful. They find a way to back fill the logic to get the result they want 90% of the time.

I think legislators speak for the GOP position on law as well as Judges.

not to be too be brutally crude but what is the match between numbers of white prospective parents willing to adopt children of color that would supposedly become available? I am perfectly aware many do, I'm even willing to believe it is higher than I think it is, but would curious to see real numbers. the other mismatch however is that per the study I linked to upthread, many(most?) women seeking abortions already have children. So would those women give those added children up or just end up in a deeper hole?

Are you speaking specifically here or the GOP in general? You have to have been under a rock for the last 40 yrs to believe that isn't true of today's GOP in it's direct appeal to America's Christian Taliban.

I don't have an appropriately large font for the "good luck with that"