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why is your 2nd best hitter bunting?

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man in king.

at Worcester, Greene with a tough night 0/4 2K, Baddoo with a hit, Kreidler with a triple, Hill 2/4. All for naught, Hens being shut out.

well one mystery resolved, I see Petzold has reported McClendon's absence is just COVID.

well, whether it ends up helping or not, I think you need a new voice talking to these hitters, whether its actual technical help or just a guy that can change the mental outlook/approach, management has to do something just to show they are paying some kind of attention. The last couple of games are the harbinger, the BP has been playing over its head and as it comes down to earth things are going to get really ugly.

Schoop emerged from his funk for a bit in May with a less putrid 681 OPS, but is back under 425 for his June ABs.

"Koch family member" Does that make it a twofer?

Dan and Jim carrying on about Tiger's inability to hit hittable pitches. I will argue they are getting behind too much. It's both missing strikes and taking strikes.

so I just checked the gameday audio on the web vs my phone and they are pretty close. My computer is about 5 sec ahead of my phone. But the 10 sec increment tool on the phone is not on the web interface anymore. The audio on the computer is 1:11 behind the gameday cartoon display and the cartoon display is actually a few seconds ahead of the over the air radio broadcast. So assuming the radio is on 7 sec delay, the gameday cartoon must be near real time now. Bottom line I guess I have to go back to real over the air radio to get a near sync to my TV, but the still leaves my video stream about 10-15 sec behind the radio, and as was just asked the other day, no simple way to delay an ordinary over the air radio.

good point. Hard to believe Kody's arm isn't better than Harold's noodle. OTOH, Kody has more reach and with Baez that's important!

TBF, for Buxton it's more like 4 seasons really....🤔

I guess it comes to a choice of putting putting Willi's better arm in RF over Victor's or leaving him in CF where he may be less likely to get fooled by a ball that tails. Pick your poison.

so just thinking about other possible professionalization fallout. How long before some school tries to get paid football players exempted from Title IX compliance calculations so they can cut a bunch of non-revenue women's varsity sports?

at 32? Riiiight.

what's the story on where he was last year? Injury or nobody picked him up?

Willi has only played one game in RF at Copa so far, only 2 total in RF this season. Though given that the whole move to the OF is one big experiment not sure how much difference that should make.....

Tigers were an old team and the A's had way too much pitching in 72. Rookie Vida Blue just starting to hit stride. Campaneris was a jerk and didn't deserve to win anything, but aside from that it was hard not to admit the better team won.

the reality that the population continues to get older hasn't changed, the normal condition of this economy is going to be slow per capita growth, and if immigration is suppressed, the lack of domestic population growth will keep gross GDP growth small. That's not a horrible thing - 2% real per capita growth and everyone doubles their wealth every 30 yrs. The risks are not addressing income inequality and getting into a boom and bust cycle chasing the 4% growth that is really only possible with a continually expanding population. The population boom appears to be over in the developed world, but the political economists don't all seem to have gotten the message.

LOL - I hated Benoit. I'd rather lose the game than have to wait through Benoit's pitch by pitch deliberations. The guy was horrible...

If you want to go way back to our parents gen, my recollection was that mortgages were mostly in the 4-6% range in the long post WWII period, roughly up until about where the chart starts. I guess the average on the charts represents a range, but at least in this area it wasn't hard too hard to beat. My parents took a mortgage in 72 at 5.5% I took a new one in 79 at 7.5%, and in 87 at 8.5% (memory more hazy about the last one).

I haven't checked on the phone, but on the web via browser there used to be a 10 second increment/decrement dialog on gameday audio, and it's gone this year - along with the extended buffering being added. Things have shifted a lot this season. The gameday cartoon on the web is now generally ahead of my TV stream by a pitch or two, which it never used to be, gameday audio is as you note - a full minute behind. This is almost exactly the reverse of what it had been in the past yrs with gameday audio having been the closest to real time. Of course no way to know how much of this is local to my ISP (ATT) but that is how things line up for me at home now.

the increase or the trouble for investors? Payment on a 100K for 30yr at 3.5% = $449. At 6.0% = $600. 150 = 33% of 450 Of course a mortgage payment may include taxes and insurance so the net increase in a prospective total payment may be a lower % of that larger total, but that is the calc for the mortgage piece.

well, lets see: Crypto gets wiped out, housing gets wiped out, Tesla gets wiped out. P&G probably looking pretty good! Need lots of soap to clean up the mess....🙄

an increase from 3.5% to 6% increases a 30yr mortgage payment by a third. I think a lot of investment buyers of housing for resale are going to get hosed.

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.