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I totally agree with your implication that Hinch’s match-up/mix-up/optimize the lineup stuff was not simply so he could look like a diabolical genius.

I’m with you on all this, but really, does it even matter? All he has to do is just say he wasn’t given a chance, and that’s good enough not only for the hundred million or so bamboozled red hats, but, distressingly, also for tens of millions of others who know him only as an ex-President—just like Obama is—and who don’t follow any of this even the littlest bit. It’s not as though any of them are going to fact-check this online and be horrified into setting or changing their minds. And the latter category—those who don’t really know or follow—that’s the real prize, because they could decide to vote for him at the last moment knowing nothing more about him than the thing he said the day before the election.

Oh my god, watching this was so … much … FUN!

I trust that Harris won’t make a trade just to make a trade. That was Avila’s jam.

So, basically, what’s being derided as Hinch playing “chess” was moving players in and out of lineups and situations was apparently to figure out who could do what where, as he did the first several weeks of the season to a chorus of complaints, and when he’s found someone who could do a job consistently, he has stuck with them, such as Ibanez starting at third base three of the last four games. Innnnnteresting …

I can’t give out any more reactions today, but trust me when I tell you, I’m reacting. 😁

Well, you know the old saying: “If it ain’t Baroque …”

OK.

That's just pop music in general, the kind seemingly synthesized in a lab in a bid to appeal to everyone. They were complaining about the very same thing during the swing era.

I'd be a lot more open to keeping or even extending Rodriguez if he'd been more consistent through his career to this point. I would say the same thing about Baez.

The Tigers do indeed have one of the worst offenses by wRC+ in baseball this year. The Tigers also have a top ten offense by wRC+ during the last two weeks.

Sure, everybody is a little different, but maybe the goal is similar: generate confidence leading to increased performance. It may not be 100% about winning this game today. We are not at that point quite yet. He's probably managing to set up for the future as well.

Have you ever been more anxious for summer to hurry the **** up and end already?

You must live in an extremely dark, disturbing, depressing world. How sad.

So Chris Licht flat out states that CNN's job is to make a LOT of news. Oh dear.

Seriously, this may be the best representation of the true size of each land mass in Mercator terms I have seen.

Only 1,450 miles from top to bottom on Greenland? How can that be?! It’s way bigger than the whole America on the map!

Maybe the same kind of strategy as batting Baez cleanup the day immediately after bending him mid-game.

Also, those drunken, derelict, deplorable, unassimilable Germans. Good thing we don’t have those Krauts to deal with here in our one true America.

Good thing we slammed the door shut on the Irish way back when and we don’t have to put up with this damn, dirty, disgusting Micks anymore.

Possibly in large part because these cities are populated by a high percentage of immigrants, many of them undocumented who are working hard and and keeping their heads down.

Yeah, I wasn’t buying that ABC Trump +7 any more than I am buying AnonymousPolls Biden +9 in PA. Especially the latter: given that they self-identify as “conservative”, it’s at least as likely they’re gaming the questions and results to spur red voters to action as they are to objectively reflect the views of the people.

Maybe even with a very good season, Baez doesn’t opt out after all. Maybe he sees what’s going on here, the direction we’re gong in, the plan being put in place, the fruits of the plan and the efforts, and decides he wants to stick around and be a part of it. I don’t know whether I want that or not. It’s all up to him. But I guess, all of a sudden, that’s a possibility.

Hinch haters here will hate this.

I’m very pleased that we won yet another series, and from Cleveland in Cleveland, but we probably should have swept it.