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old Javy reappears.

tigers need to tie this game before the rain can travel another 30 miles....

Thunder being heard in A^2

Vest cannot throw a breaking ball for a strike and he's a breaking ball pitcher. Not a good combination.

funny thing is that it sounds just like old time AM radio interference like an airplane flying past the transmitter, but the internet stream should be hard wired all the way so it must be some kind of funny sounding packet loss effect.

LOL. Harold took a cookie for strike one, but then got another one anyway, and popped it up.

Tork has to make peace with the fact that he is going to see nothing but balls on the outside corner until he decides to try and do some damage on them instead of trying to work walks against guys who can throw the pitch out there for a strike.

I haven't made any effort to look into why, but something seems to have evolved in surgical technique on Achilles repairs pretty recently. Look at Kevin Durant for instance - - and he isn't the only recent high level recovery, so I guess we need to wait and see.

I believe the mid-east country with the highest gun ownership is Yemen, but they've had various civil wars going for maybe 30 of the last 60 yrs. Again, not a model anyone should want to emulate.

I wasn't referring to the hearings, I meant the way the MAGA crowd consumes the lies.

Yeah - I'm sure there is a theory behind the step wise increases, but OTOH, if you know you really have to get to 'X' percent (say 4.00) what is the downside of just going there? I suppose it roils too many transactions in progress, but it would do the job a lot faster.

hitters drive me crazy. Torkelson should have know there was about a 95% probability the 4th pitch was going to be on the outside edge, so instead of going with it and getting an RBI, he takes strike two and end up in a hole. This team is always hitting at strike two - they need to be more aggressive earlier. Batting averages are about 100 with 2 strikes, which is just where the Tigers are......

and he couldn't talk to Trotz until yesterday.....

very nice.

correct. More about the dopamine hit for the lie than the necessity to deal with discomforting truth.

Kewl. Was that sort of park to park to park through that area?

So if Casey's UCL is fully intact but stretched out, does that mean they can just shorten it at one end instead of doing a transplant? (like when they tighten shoulder or ankle ligaments) Might be a quicker rehab that way.....

I'm plenty bereaved at what this team has done, where do I get my check?

I think it's that in 1974 Republicans still had things they believed in that could make the country better if they won. So they had a program and the program was more important than Nixon or a single cycle in the WH. But the GOP finally got their program under Reagan and by 2001 and certainly 2008 it had failed miserably. Today GOP ideology is bankrupt, they run to do nothing but win. They are a party of nihilism. This enforces that's only about the tribe and the win.

Sort of a repeat of Friday.

have you ever or do you know anyone who has 'strained' a quad? I have no idea what that injury even is. I've 'burned' my quads running too far too soon after a winter layoff, but they just hurt, it was never debilitating like straining a hamstring.

true

IDK - do you think Benghazi made any difference to anyone? My take is more that Hillary suffered from her own baggage from the Clinton admin (e.g. sweetheart investment deals with Tyson etc) and her own personality issues than any fallout from the Benghazi hearings in particular. Those struck me as more a matter of preaching to the converted I would think. And she put off the progressive wing for a lot of reasons. But that's just my personal take. Maybe those hearings did get some traction with independents.....

Indicting him and losing the case in a public prosectution might not be the worst thing. After all, who besides the 12 nuts on that jury still believed OJ was innocent after that trial?

A lot of this counter argument is based on Switzerland, but for a lot reasons it isn't really comparable. For starters in Switzerland a lot of these weapons are military issue long guns that ex-military are allowed to keep as part of the citizen ready reserve after they leave active service, IOW, guns locked in the closet and not thought about as part of everyday life. Other types of gun ownership in Switzerland is probably falling. Training requirements and background checking are also much more rigorous. https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-gun-laws-rates-of-gun-deaths-2018-2#in-addition-to-the-militias-arms-the-country-has-about-2-million-privately-owned-guns-a-figure-that-has-been-plummeting-over-the-past-decade-6