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still too many bad hitters. Almost more frustrating now - Baez, Greene and Cabrera can get on base but three hitters is too short a line up to drive anyone in.

Grossman 1 for 10 since the 2 HRs.

unfreaking real. 1st & 3rd no out - 2K Torkelson; 2 line drives, two outs.

wut? How does the league approve a trade of an asset that had already been conveyed?

I don't know if he just couldn't find it at all or the way the Ump squeezed him in the 3rd just killed his confidence for the night.

well folks, the one bright spot left to this season is now flaming out. When do the Red Wings open camp?

no doubt about it, but I think it goes to what I see as a growing phenomenon of complaint levels increasing out of proportion to actual pain levels. Maybe it's social media conditioning everyone to bitch in superlatives. But you see things like survey data stating consumer confidence is lower than it has been forever. Sounds like BS to me. Not that the survey isn't the same survey, but today everyone is a drama queen.....🙄

How does it compare with what we gave up to get him?

a little more from Woj's feed.

Not sure how many times Trump ever pulled a majority vote in a 2016 primary. As long as there are enough candidates to divide up the non-crazy vote, Trump can triumph by winning all the crazies. OTOH, a two candidate mano-a-mano between Trump and DeSantis might be entertaining if nothing else. No-one in the 2016 field was nearly the bully bastard that DeSantis is to go against the bully bastard Trump. It would no doubt set new lows in US political discourse. The MAGA will love it.

I think/hope that is probably where he belongs but I think I still would have waited until he had 50 AB.

Prolly 50/50 he suffers an injury before the end of this season that puts him out of next season, but if not, I agree he will certainly show up to ST and see if he can hit.

If it encourages people to drive more it will just add support to refinery margins. Buying everyone one free night of Netflix might do more to cut demand...

pretty easy to kill yourself with Fentanyl but there is always just plain old cocaine cardiac arrest.

so they don't want Ivey..... Then again, what if he gets picked 3rd....🤔

everybody has stuff they believe at what you might call the limbic level, completely pre-rational stuff that we bend all our other modes of thought around to accommodate. Hopefully the stuff you believe at that level doesn't make you a dangerous neighbor or citizen, but sometimes it does. OTOH, though, Bowers wasn't born yesterday, he's an experienced pol despite the kind of babe in the woods image he projected at the hearing. Just because he says that doesn't mean it's true. He has his own political agenda in his state to manage. And he may believe praising Caesar while wielding the dagger only makes the blow more effective.

you notice that his fidelity to his oath was pretty much born of his religious convictions. So it still comes down to the Dems are godless heathens. I won't violate the law for you but I will still vote for you as long as you aren't 'them.'

June K rate has crept up a bit this week but still at a reasonable 23%. Walk rate still abysmal though.

You power guy is supposed to be breaking in at 1b. 🤷‍♂️

Ukranian drone hit on a unit inside a refinery in Rostov. Can't tell from the supplied video much about what kind of unit it was other than that it appeared to go up in flames rapidly, but not explode, so it was likely a process unit that did not operate under pressure. For instance, more likely a crude still than a ''cat" cracker. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1539523104443092992

do we know if the wife and kids in the US or are they in Venezuela? If ERod left the country it's easy to imagine the situation extending.

Maybe all teams do, I don't know/have any sense of any other team's management of its prospects, but the Tigers seem to to be overly sensitive to FOMO, that they are going to prematurely cut bait on a prospect that will make it somewhere else. Maybe it's not the worst failing in the world but there is an opportunity cost to keeping guys like Mike Laga and Christin Stewart and Niko and Willi around so much longer than what appears to be their obvious sell date to anyone on the outside. And then again, maybe this stems from an org not really having any clear ideas what characterizes a player that is going to make it vs one that isn't. Again maybe nobody really does, but when it's your own team, there is a certain 'familiarity breeds contempt' effect.

from the NYT: More than half of all attacks are over before police arrive. who stops the guy with the gun?

yeah really. 160 pts is a big drop in OPS to just happen out of the blue. So here's what I don't get with Tucker. Last season he only hit LH, and he had a zero platoon split. This season he is switch hitting but his LH numbers have gone down despite not facing LHP as a LHH, and he is hitting LHP as RHH worse than than he did last year as a LHH. Not to mention, that when he SH in 2019 he was also terrible as a RHB. So why haven't the Tigers talked him into dropping trying to hit RH? If you are scuffling it's a lot easier to work on your problems from just one side. This is the same question I had with Goodrum. Is the Tiger FO so enamored of SH in theory that they ignore when it's not working in practice? Or can't Coolbaugh persuade any of his hitters to do the obvious to help themselves?