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Come on, Stew

Why’s Dannis letting Schröder and Tyson get in his head?

Also they’ve obviously come up with a counter to the hard hedge. It’s not something you can do all game because there are hard counters. You have to spring it on them and then switch it up.

Well, Sunday night the Tigers do indeed play the Royals at 7:20 EDT and, get this, you can only watch it on Peacock or NBCSN. And it’ll be a bullpen game. Wheee!

Oh no, Cleveland remember Allen is still on the roster

Allen taking it to Duren right now.

Harden has been looking for that Harris switch. Tobias struggles against guards.

He has been growing it all year to be ready for the playoffs.

Glad to see Harris post Mitchell on the switch. But don't shoot a 14 fade away over a guy 6 inches shorter than you.

Outside of some sloppiness in the offensive end, good start so far.

It's free points for the player being guarded by Harden.

4 turnovers in 3 minutes for Cleveland and Mitchell has 2 fouls

Wow that whistle was late lol

Every time he’s on screen my wife goes “shave that dirt-stache”

Ha ha ha. Thats against every rule Hinch has. 6 inning...71 pitches? Time for the bullpen!!!

You have to shoot over 50% from three when you have an Epstein file mustache like Robinson has.

https://prashanthiyer.substack.com/p/emmitt-finnie-poised-for-a-breakout?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2171106&post_id=197013634&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nkg8z&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email Some good stuff in here on Finnie (and an interesting aside on posts hit by him, Larkin and DBC)

Huerter is out and Merrill is available.

absolutely this is exactly the downside risk, and I think there is precedent in the way Dem voters failed to energize around Clinton or Harris or the 2022 Senate races.. Thankfully the ongoing poll results do seem to be moving the other way - for instance Dem enthusiasm appears to be running ahead of GOP enthusiasm in OHIO. The problem there is that primary and by-election results are not all that much to hang your hat on, even if they do point in a positive direction. It's too easy to see Trump somehow extricating himself from Iran, gas prices falling, some stupid Dem misstep, and all of a sudden all is forgiven.

I miss when games were primarily on Saturday afternoons instead of Saturday evenings. I'd rather be watching it right now while doing other things around the house, then go out tonight without feeling compelled to check my phone for scores. Also, even less of a fan of Sunday night games.

And that's fine as far as it goes. If Heyman is tweeting this because he's Boras's boyfriend, then OK, have at it. But the implication on page 12 was that Heyman was working on behalf of Boras to presumably provide him some sort of bargaining advantage, and I just don't see how that would apply here.

Maybe it's because baseball players are not cars, in that they can't be manufactured to all throw 100 miles per hour with pinpoint accuracy, and all you have to optimize and then maintain them. Most players—most people— are inherently flawed which, when fans hear a player is "flawed", they take to mean the player is just OK or kind of good at everything, when it's probably more like they are really really good at something important (e.g., hitting or defense) while being relatively very bad at something less important (e.g., throwing a bad hard and accurately, or hitting for power). So, instead of being a perennial All-Star who's a 60 hitter and 60 defender who tops out at 7 or 8 wins, they may end up with a one- or two-time All-Star who's a 60 hitter and a 40 defender who might have a 5-win season once with a bunch of seasons between 1.5 and 4.0 the rest of the time. That's probably going to be Colt (who, remember, is only 24 so still not a finished product). And for what it's worth, that's probably Tork and Riley, too. Although I do think if Tork were to ever clock a 5 WAR, I will fall out of my chair.

If guys get back, we should be okay. It just may make it tough to upgrade at the deadline.