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Not only that, but if you play each position enough, your brain can map out the difference between needing a certain-sized glove at one position versus a different-size glove at another, even if the difference is a fraction of an inch, basically because of the thousands and thousands of balls you have fielded at each.

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This is one of the things I couldn’t wait to stop having to race with the rats. The idea that they would even try to manipulate employees in this way, smiling at them while stabling them in the backs, is simply an evil one. It’s so slimy.

This is one step removed from his forcing Catholics to show up anyway and actively participate in an evangelical Protestant service, as a way of proving how much power he has over them.

This among other reasons is why the Trumpublicans are not going to just sit around and allow anything as stupid as a free and fair election to boot them out of power.

No way Trump will try to get the guy back. Trump will probably be all like, “Do your worst to him, Ayatollah Assahollah, you can’t make him talk …”

Ask and ye shall receive! At least this time.

Dillon Dingler is for real!

All the projections suggest that the rest of the NL Central won’t have much to worry about from the Cardinals.

That’s fair, although Baez should have been sliding like there was going to be a tag play.

I have been repeatedly assured that empty seats behind the plate means nothing in terms of optics.

Of course, give credit to the right fielder on the throw, and credit to the catcher on the catch and tag. Also, debit to Baez for not sliding head first and slapping the plate with his hand, which, had he done, he would totally have been safe. Because remember, this is the guy who basically invented the swim move. There’s no excuse that can exonerate him here.

Why did he use his pitching hand to try to catch that toss from Tork? Not only did he endanger the fingers, which we see right now, but it’s objectively harder to catch a ball while moving with two hands than with one glove, even having to cross over with the glove hand to catch it. It was an asinine decision in the moment.

I promise you those people will get a total pass going forward. One of the things Trump loves to do is give special dispensation in exchange for obvious consideration. It’s one of the reasons he wants tariffs so bad.

For as good a slider as Baez is, that was one of the worst slide decisions I think I have made him see as a Tiger.

I can tell you with certainty they do not, because at some point last year after one of our softball games, I name-checked Bozo for its comic value during some repartee with my much younger teammates, and their vacant stares and/or rolling eyes told me that they had no idea. Then I asked them, do you even know who Bozo the Clown is? And one guy, I’ll never forget this, he replied, uhhhhh, nooooo—is “Bozo the Clown” in the room with us now, Grandpa? You know, like I was hallucinating. And I had to laugh at that, because it was really pretty funny in the moment.

I don’t think it’s any secret how much I prefer hearing the audio overlay over the video, not necessarily because I don’t like Benetti, but because Dan Dicerkson is so much better. Plus, I am not a fan of having guests show up in the booth for an inning or more, no matter who it is. There have been synching issues between radio audio and TV video mismatches in the past seasons, but this season seems as though it’s the worst it’s ever been. The pitches on the radio overlay were running three to five seconds ahead of the video in both San Diego and Phoenix, and I figured it would get fixed in Detroit. Nope—same issue. How many years has this been going on? Five, maybe? Seems like it’s been at least that many seasons we’ve been talking about this. And they still don’t have it fixed? It makes no sense that the technical crew at the Tigers would be so incompetent that they can’t fix the synching between the audio and the video after five freaking years. So now we have to ask the question, are they actually doing this on purpose? Yeah, I know how dumb that sounds. But what else would explain their inability to fix the syncing issues between radio overlay and TV video after five or more years? It can;t be sheer incompetence or ignorance of the issue, can it? Perhaps there’s some business reason it’s advantageous to mismatch the radio overlay with the TV video. I can’t think of what that advantage might be, but I also can’t conceive of any other reason they would allow this to happen, because they certainly can’t be so incompetent and clueless that they’re not even aware of the issue. They know it’s happening. We have the technology to fix it. So why are they refusing to fix it?

Fire Hinch. Bring back Leyland.

Maybe the Department of War Crimes will conduct a black flag dirty bomb drone attack on downtown Chicago during the next No Kings march and kill a few thousand paid libtard agitators and the mongrel-blooded children they dragged along, which will allow the regime to declare a national emergency so they can cancel elections everywhere else. Two birds.

Yes, you definitely need a shorter glove at short and second to ease the ball transfer during plays, especially double plays. Sure, you need to do something similar at third but not as often because SS and 2B gets way more chances to transfer than 3B, and the extra inch is more important for a more stationary position like 3B. In the middle of the dirt guys rely on their range more than their reach or their reflexes.

This, by the way, highlights the banal evil genius behind the very visible, very public acting out by Trump and his various minions with things they say and antics they engage in: while they are distracting us with that kind of pointless theatrical nonsense, the really terrible destruction of American preeminence, like this, takes place without anyone noticing.

I've seen them posted here at times. All I'm saying is, if this is not true, it's a troll job, and people should stop giving them oxygen.

If this is not true—and since it’s not on Passan’s own feed, it’s almost certainly not—then you need to take whatever “The Detroit Times” is out of your rotation.