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That was two outs we avoided right there: Hao-Yu Lee was picked off at first if the catcher just made a halfway decent throw to the first baseman; and Riley was out at the plate if the strong-armed right fielder had thrown a strike to the catcher.

See Angels, Los Angeles.

I thought that was actually well-known about that organization. Maybe not as well-known as I thought it was.

Also a major fail for Cornyn, who tried the ball-slurping move of naming an Interstate Highway in Texas for Trump.

Out of reactions, but Like.

Batting 8th is a lot better than 9th, psycholoogically.

My point is not that Carpenter could not make a difference in his eight games in May, it's that one of the reasons the Tigers' offense is down overall is that Carpenter is not delivering the same kind of everyday performance in May as he did in April, and that goes for a lot of other guys. If Carpenter were healthy and delivering in May what he delivered in April, the Tigers' May wRC+ would be better than 74.

I'm guessing there is some hitch that shows up in his swing, it somehow gets corrected for a few games, then he slips back into that or another hitch, and who knows whether he is accepting coaching on any of it? I would think if there's anyone who believes he can work out his hitches on his own and that all he has to do is trust his talent and bet on himself, it would be an erstwhile overall first pick.

I was referring to process rather than results.

Correct. We are dealing with no fewer than 11 injuries to players on our 40-man roster. The Phillies had only one.

I don't know much about Malgeri but I would bet that if we brought him up and handed him the job, we'd be agitating to run him out of town on a rail within the space of a couple weeks. Speaking of running guys out of town, if the organization were to start a campaign to put Tork on the clock for the purposes of running him out of town in a trade by batting him ninth and then optioning him out, we'd be reducing his trade value to that of throw-in at best.

I'm out of reactions, but Thanks. The main thing I will push back on is the implication that Harris had (has) an open canvas to bring in any players he wants that remakes this organization in a 180 fashion immediately. There are no All-Stars or top prospects or even players well-rounded in every aspect of the game that he can just go out and acquire at low cost. The costs will be high, whether it's trading Max-plus for a top arm or bat, or spending big money on a free agent, and even then, free agents have agency, which means they can say no to however much money Harris/Ilitch at throw at them if they prefer a better (win-now) situation in a market more to their liking. And for anyone who believes that other teams will definitely compete to empty out the top of their farm systems for two months of Skubal, try it in reverse: in a still-winnable division, we could use an elite pitcher ourselves. The Diamondbacks are scuffling and might be willing to sell Corbin Burnes, the other elite pitcher who can opt for free agency this winter. Who in our system will you give up to get Burnes on board for the last two months and, hopefully, the playoffs?

Lashing out.

Will they be vetted for competency in militia participation? I'm guessing yes. Next will be Russians.

Another objective truth is that we already had Iran in a box, severely limited in the ability to enrich the uranium for use in a nuclear weapon and subject to regular inspections to ensure compliance, and this Putin acolyte completely let them off the hook for all of it, or at the very least, helped collapse the deal’s restraints and transparency regime.

I legitimately wonder how much of this will go toward the establishment of a nationwide militia answerable only to him, for which they will have ready-to-go recruits who are at least somewhat battle-tested.

Today: “Trump’s latest scheme will go down as the most disgusting in American history.” Next month: “What was that thing again he did last month that we thought was the most disgusting thing ever? Remind me …”

So adorable you believe there will be decades to come … 😉

Maybe this is where Universal Basic Income comes in? I mean in Europe. Here they will just let unhoused rule the streets.

I don’t reject this kind of feedback out of hand, but I don’t accept it uncritically, either. I use this kind of feedback to dig a little deeper into it, but I do appreciate it flagging things I might miss. To your second comment, I would follow up and ask it for a link, which is a standing instruction I have for most AI assistants I use, anyway. I have asked both GPT and Perplexity to sift through Yelp reviews of a vendor for me and provide a deep analysis. Sometimes there are hundreds of them and I don’t always want to peruse them deeply. I will say I was impressed when it suggested that one vendor may have had bought Yelp reviews because of all the five-star ratings that had weak (non-specific) comments attached to them; and also, for another vendor, pointed out that all the really good four- and five-star comments were several years old but they’d had none recently, so beware. That’s something a lot of meatbags would miss.

I won’t live to see it—maybe you will—but at some point when we have sufficiently recovered from this, they are going to do an autopsy on this era of America politics, and future adults educated in civics will be horrified for generations that we let it get like this and worse.

Does this reflect the expected return from a trade of Jack Flaherty?

I don’t disagree. We’ve been trying for a few years now to get something anything out of guys who have limited upside and/or who don’t mesh with the current organizational direction while we are developing our system. It was always going to be a slow process and we still have to put a team in the field in the meantime, but at some point we will have to cut bait with a lot of them.

I do think it’s fair to question Hinch’s recent inability to keep the team from playing like the walking dead.

Carpenter and Gleyber had good Aprils, we are not getting similar performances from them in Mays, and that’s a factor in the team’s poor numbers this month. Not sure what you think I’m not seeing.