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Indeed it is! I saw an article in which Ernie Harrell was asked how he as a broadcaster can stay engaged while calling games when not only a team’s chances to win the division was loooooong gone, but they were mired firmly in last place, and he replied that you simply have to look at each game as a discrete event, one that’s the most important thing in the world right now, and you treat it as that in the moment. That makes so much sense to me, and remembering that helps keep me engaged with the team when things are going rough overall.

I don’t think bunts could ever get back to what it was in 1978. That was a hangover year in the AL from both the pitchers’ era (low scoring) and from pitchers have recently batted (terrible hitters), so managers were still conditioned to sacrifice outs for a single run.

We will learn pretty quickly whether it's a lie ...

The news so nice they had to say it twice!

I would if he is freer to spout this kind of nonsense on Fox Business than he would Fox News?

And to add to the week from hell that included a Skubal injury, a Valdez suspension, a sweep at the hands of a last-place team, and an unceremonious dumping of the AAA manager for inappropirate texts to women, this: Kevin graduated, and Max held his ground, but Rainer cratered to #71, Briceno fell off because of surgery, and Liranzo is simply gone gone.

Bleahhh

There’s no there there for Greene to be so publicly anti-Trump at this moment, so I am wondering whether her calculation is that Trump will inevitably crash and burn and she will be left standing to step in as leader of the movement once everyone recognizes the purity of her bona fides. This is not a prediction.

The Saudis are nowhere near the point where they just fall in line when Trump takes a **** from his mouth.

Or maybe they were looking for an excuse to part ways with him anyway? Probably not too likely, but if it were true, this is the kind of thing they might come down harder on with certain people than with certain others.

I won’t go so far as to say the Tigers are a bad team, because they are more hurt than bad, but they are sure playing dead on their feet. And the longer it goes on, the more that’s on A.J. There’s this weird mix of chaos and ennui surrounding the team right now, and he’s got to fix it, pronto. That’s why he makes the big money.

I don't see why they wouldn't!

It means whatever you meant it to mean.

I started reading the book and was disappointed to learn that it contemplated digital products like Amazon and Apple and Facebook exclusively. I had hoped the book would have a broader scope encompassing traditional products, services, and even government, because I do believe that the entire American food commerce ecosystem has be in en****tification mode for decades.

I don't know whether the Epstein issue is out of gas, but the fact that you're even asking the question suggests that it might out of gas with you. And if that's true, then yes, there's a chance that the issue is out of gas with the general public at least at this particular moment. But that doesn't mean it can't be resurrected once the MAGA fever breaks, and given that the nature of the charges likely transcends statute of limitations laws, it's going to be a long time before all the people who are in range of the long arm of the law die and escape true accountability for good.

I think it might be just a you're-the-one-responsible-for-your-pitcher-type thing.

He may miss the next start, and it's anyone's guess how he feels about that, but if he could get his suspension reduced from six days to three, it would save him about half a million dollars, so it's worth the effort just for that.

And herrrre coooomes the lawfare.

Hopefully.

I think the Epstein thing is far worse for Trump than people believe, and that's even after people have already baked in the idea that he is a serial sexual abuser of minors.

You’d’ve thought we’d learned our lesson with Bobby Higginson, but nooooooooo …

So has Hurter; Vest has been mostly decent despite a few high profile bad outings; and De Jesus is getting crushed by BABIP and LOB bad luck. His stuff is not getting hard and his cutter is bleeding value. Once the luck turns to normal and he gets his cutter back on board, I think we’ll probably be happy with him.

That’s going to be one of the things about the salary cap: if a team’s at the cap and a guy gets hurt, as Skubal just did, they would have no room to maneuver. Same goes for the trade deadline. Capped teams would be stuck, unless they develop some formula to assign cap space value to minor leaguers, maybe based on Pipeline ranks or something. Seems like that kind of thing would have to be baked into a CBA if they wanted to allow a majors-for-minors deadline trade under a cap regime.

Throwing Framber out of the game for hitting one guy is ****ing horse****.

I don’t think we’re getting our $115 million worth out of Framber today.