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Trump was not the one using the word "mistakes".

He didn't want to let normal backchannels solve this problem because he wanted to make sure his name would be the only one on the solution.

Since Kerry Carpenter isn't creating any stress in the 19th at-bat, I think it's about time to retire the his-leading-off strategy for the time being.

They're gonna be sorry if they end up deciding it's better to walk Kevin than challenge the zone, because he'll turn a lot of those walk-singles into walk-doubles.

Yeah, that's usually a late May/early June thing. Sooner if it's a warm spring. When the Tigers show up there for Game 3 of the World Series, the ivy will be turning all kinds of colors.

That Keith hit is the longest double there could possibly be.

I am convinced the reason Javy waves at stuff that ends up a foot outside is he simply cannot process input as quickly as just about any other big league hitter. I think he has to make his swing decision earlier than most, so he has to defend against anything that looks like a strike while it’s still 45 feet away, and make his decision then. So if you can execute a half-decent slider, you got him basically dead to rights. But make a mistake, and he’ll kill you.

Now THAT was a Parker Meadows double.

Loud out by Kevin.

It’s one thing to get hit hard on a couple of hits, but when you walk the guy after that, it generally does not augur well for the outing.

It remains to be determined whether they are actually "mistakes", the use of which presumes an honest effort to do the right thing.

That's because none of these policies helps the capitalist class, which is what the Republicans represent.

But are Trump and his regime themselves pocketing more money? I’m pretty sure that’s his only benchmark for success.

This is exactly where I’m at. I recognize Bruce’s exalted status in the American popular musical canon. It’s his sound, that sax-heavy south Jersey sound—it’s just not my bag.

Of course he existed—he’s right there in the picture! 😜

This is a cute picture from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, which made me go "awww" until I realized that the kid the dad is carrying would be either pushing 80 or pushing up daisies today.

Does the CBA they agreed to allow it?

I assume they had input, only because I believe we'd be hearing loud complaints from them had they not.

Willie Horton. Any such set is woefully incomplete without him.

I believe that could happen only if Baseball can get Players, which include pitchers, on board for it.

True though this might be in theory—even if it's based on reality—in practice, anyone, including you and me, would be far less likely to press for a challenge on a call we're not 100% sure of in the first inning in the interest of keeping our powder dry for challenges late in the game when we need them in game situations with higher leverage—which, a tie game lead in the eighth or ninth innings is situationally higher leverage than the same tie score in the first or second innings.

Agree with all this. A lot of people believe Kevin should have challenged the strike three call to start the second inning, but I can see the logic of his not asking for a challenge right then, given how low leverage a situation it was and, thus, how high the marginal cost of being wrong would have been.

Pitch framing will be a thing as long as there is any discretion allowed for umpires calling pitches. Only once there is a total robot ump regime will pitch framing cease.

Flip side, do higher prices incentivize the country that extracts the most oil from the ground to go all in even harder on draining the earth of every last drop of fossil fuel possible?