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Had this set to record. just got to where I could turn it on. Not gonna bother. With Skubal and Faedo having lost their starts we are looking at 3 more losses before another decent shot at a win, which would make it a 7 game losing streak.

that is my view. You basically draft guys in proportion to their numbers on the roster. So that's about 50% pitchers.

the only success Robbie is having is against LHP. You can use him in a platoon with Meadows and/or Baddoo. Victor will probably cool cool off. 200 AB is a lot of time to pull out of a slump in the absence of injury. Cameron was really coming on before he COVID'd. They have to make room to give him some extended run.

Iin college sports? Not likely again in our lifetimes. College sports is on a firm track along the road to perdition.

You'd be assuming good faith on the part of Southern teams for that to pass. Why would they give up their geographical/weather advantage to help northern teams? No reason at all.

but mortgage rates have already discounted the increases also. Mortgages are hitting 6%, the 10 yr Treasury is still only at 3.5%. Typical spread is only 1-1.5%. So the mortgage lenders are already assuming more inflation than bond investors. The paradox is that if the Fed moves aggressively, the yield curve flattens because it reduces future inflation expectation and supports the price (lowers the yield) of longer term bonds. That in turn should keep mortgage rates contained.

the quicker they squelch it, the shallower the recession will be.

The last time the US was suffering serious inflation, the idea of the central bank raising interest rates in response was still considered a controversial new approach. Today it's what everyone expects and has already discounted. I don't see much reason for the Fed to slow walk it. They need to do 100pts.

I think you will. He's played in 6 games since getting back into the lineup at Toledo and has 4 hits and 5 walks for a 346 OBP which I'd take as a decent sign he's seeing the ball better. Hasn't found his power yet though.

yeah - he's not likely to maintain a 36% LD rate, but that's OK as he is hitting 350. If his BABIP regresses to his career average (~330) he is still hitting 290. I'll take that with this lineup.

Howard will be next - prolly when Jace's eligibility runs out.

2:35 is good.

More curse. Sounds like Colt Keith is out for a while. As per Beck, Garko said no surgery, but give his return as 'sometime this season'. Great.

Mikolas loses the no-hitter against the Pirates with two outs and two strikes on the batter in the 9th on a pitch low and on the outside black.

At some point, and we are nearly 200 AB in, you have to reckon with the possibility that it is the org and the Tigers are trying to institute a hitting philosophy which, at minimum, is ill-suited to their personal.

report is that Clemson is giving him $1M/yr, a 2.5X raise. I have trouble seeing UM playing in that $ league for a non-revenue sport.

well, if you want to go radical and break some china? Fire Coolbaugh, cut Grossman and give the OF to Reyes, Cameron (he should be over COVID soon), Greene, Meadows. If Kreidler's hand is holding up you let him challenge Schoop Javy and Candelario for playing time. At catcher they are stuck, there's nothing available. Push Carpenter to AAA and Perez to AA.

only a dozen strikeouts.

Good to know the State of Colorado is going the extra mile to insure there is no unlicensed "Private erotic dancing" going on.

about 4 blocks away a builder bought a very small rundown house and is trying to sell a new >2000 sq ft house built to custom spec on the 0.2 acre lot for $400/sq ft. Needless to say, it hasn't moved yet.

1 & 2 hitters on base 6 times. 1 run. You can't make it up.

Carpenter with his 21st HR. Has his K rate in June down to 9 in 50PA. OPS still > 1000 W. Perez 2/4 2B. OPS 891

Somebody told Grassley Pence wouldn't be there, but Grassley isn't going to say who or why, assuming he still has enough wit about him to remember, which seems to be questionable.

well certainly Al Avila has been. E Rod, Barnhart, Pineda, Baez, Meadows and the Schoop extension and he is 0/6 on getting a return from any of them.

Dan and Jim have actually spent more time discussing the White Sox than the Tigers. What else can you do?