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Lack of posit noted. I would bet the current plan is for Rainer to play short and McGonigle second, with the hopes that Colt Keith can stick at third so they can put Briceño at first. To your point, in baseball, plans really work out as planned. But you do have to plan to a best case scenario, and develop adjustments in case it doesn’t happen that way.

Riley with the ribbie single! For as bad as Riley has been—.204 BA, .573 OPS, 73 wRC+ coming into the game—he had gotten on base all 14 games, and now all 15.

Ah, so we do hate her now. Got it. Just want to make sure I knew which way the wind was blowing. Hard to keep up sometimes.

Literally no one is deciding Kevin McGonigle’s future today. The front office has a plan for the future, and nothing that happens this year short of a career-ending incident involving one of the principles will change it, even if McGonigle gets Gold Glove votes at short.

Ugh, I cannot watch the commercial spot for Tigers tickets even one more time on DSN. They must not be selling enough commercial time to actual advertisers because they run the tickets spot literally every break, there are only two executions in rotation, and I think they’re 60 seconds long. As soon as I hear the horn intro for the spot, off the audio goes. I feel I‘m watching a streaming service instead of a cable/satellite service.

I think Jake as the backup is more the Sunday/getaway day catcher.

It’s a real post, so Filipowski is not lying or spewing disinformation here. Beyond that, it doesn’t matter whether Trump types out the words himself, whether he dictates it to somebody, or whether somebody posts it on his behalf without his even knowing it. As long as it comes out under his name, they are his words and his ideas. He is responsible for the post. He owns it, lock stock. I will say this, though: if anyone can get away with the idea that someone who works for him did a rogue post and the named person on the account didn’t know about it and shouldn’t be held responsible for it, it’s Trump.

To be clear, are you saying the Filipowski is lying and spewing disinformation, or are you saying that someone else is writing this in Trump’s name and he’s not really pledging this?

As for Swalwell himself, it wouldn’t be surprising that a guy in his position of power would use the imbalance to impose himself sexually on people of lesser power against their will. It’s a tale as old as time. That said, there is a complicating factor with this one: any number of current Republicans have guns that smoke so much from their past, coupled with the credible allegations against people at the top of that party, that it’s very easy to connect dots to indict them; whereas here, the dot-connection feels more tenuous, and people may want to believe these allegations simply because Swalwell is powerful, or a threat to Republicans, and they want us to believe he’s guilty full stop. Also, given how Republicans confess their own tactics by accusing their enemies of those same things on a regular basis, the allegations that Democrats routinely pay people to cosplay as accusers, protesters, etc., seems to make it more likely that these accusers might themselves be paid to lie or be disingenuous than would normally be the case. IOW, it’s probably more likely Republicans engineered this entire situation, and furthermore, the engineering of this might also include implicating Porter in setting up Swalwell so they can take her down, too. Sure, it’s fantastical to some degree, but certainly within the plausible scope of the dirty trickery we associate with Republicans. All this said, I have zero idea whether Swalwell is guilty, and I have no opinion or hope tied to it either way. Just analyzing the possibilities here.

Isn’t this the opposite of what fundamentalists believe? Isn’t it everyone is guilty because of Original Sin? 😉 I kid, I kid …

I would still vote for Swalwell—or Katie Porter, or Gavin Newsome, for that matter—than any candidate the republicans would put up there. BTW, what’s the problem with Katie Porter? Do we hate her now, too? I haven’t heard a thing about anything with her.

Throwing it for strikes so batters must swing and either miss it or fail to square it up properly is one way. Throwing it for called strikes while the batter spits on it because he thinks it’s going to be called a ball is another way. Throwing it for a ball and making the batter swing and miss because he thinks it’s a strike is yet another. Other ways secondary stuff can be good: pitches use same arm speed and angle as fastballs so batters can’t tell the pitch just from those cues; ball breaks so differently from secondary stuff other pitchers have, both when it breaks and in what direction it goes, batters can’t process it properly; speed differential from fastballs is uncommonly high or low so it screws up timing; throwing it out of common sequence so the batter guesses wrong; using seam-shifted wake so the ball breaks differently from how the batter perceives how its spin should make it break; using spin mirroring so it resembles a fastball’s spin to the hitter but breaks differently (probably related to seam-shifted wake). There may be some others but these are all I can think of at the moment.

I definitely did not say, or even imply, “question his career choices”.

Five outfield assists already! Wow! Either Max is super fantastic, or runners so super underestimating him.

No doubt. He must have his doubts by now about whether his career is going to pan out.

So galling that this kind of thing kills one party when it happen to them, but strengthens the other party when it happens to them.

There’s no way Orban would willingly just leave office and Trump just stands by and watches it happen, is there? Something is going to happen, and the US is going to be involved.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, Happy Friday, everyone! We are entering that weekly dangerous 12-or-so-hour period during which Trump times his very worst stuff to shield the markets from the immediate effect. So what fresh hell will we be seeing by tomorrow morning?

Ha ha ha! This confused me at first but now I see the issue—“part as friends” was the wrong way for me to put it! I meant to say just agree to disagree and stay friends. “Part as friends” means we’re never talking again. Definitely not what I meant! Sorry about that! I never disputed there were people on the left engaging in it. If there were only two people in the entire social mediasphere engaging in it, “people on the left are engaging in it” would still be technically true, so i could never argue that literally nobody is engaging in it. Scale and equivalence was all I was debating. The thing I believe we are agree to disagree on is whether it’s a real, major problem. I say the scale is so small, and their influence on the Democratic Party so absent, it’s only a minor problem at best, and then only on the fringes.

Stephen Moore has always been an intellectually bankrupt mouthpiece for the capitalist class.

Maybe the doctor would want to pitch in to “solve” the “problem” of fewer teen mothers? That would track with the ideology.

As has the Tigers’ snakebite career with the Meadows.

Not for nothing, the reason Pudge signed with the Tigers in the first place was that we were the only team that met his very public demand of a 4/40 minimum contract. It’s not as though he chose Detroit, which had just lost 119 games, over any number of teams competing for his services.

So what was the guy referring to when he said (snarked?) that "I bet they are eating it all up"? Was he commenting on stupid consumers who believe everything they see and read? That's kind of how it looks to me ...