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They did the thing!

The way the Tigers started this game, they were lucky it wasn't one of those games where Harold Castro would be lobbing ephus pitches at the end. Trying to decide whether that would have been preferable... at least then I would have turned it off instead of having false hope. Lol

He is Devo.

I think the reason it appeared in poor taste was that he appeared to be blaming Manning, and all Manning did was not lie to his manager and trainer - which would be a stupid policy for any young player. If Jack is just bemoaning the general state of the game, fine, but he didn't make that explicit. To me the weird thing is that despite athletes in the modern era getting faster, stronger, better in almost every way, we still have this weird idea that somehow off all the athletes in the world, baseball pitchers have made the choice to go soft. I think that is not a very credible view. I'm sure pitchers today train more and harder than their average predecessors ever did. It apparently doesn't help given what is being demanded of them. In fact maybe over training is the problem. If the dominant injury is UCL *wearout* maybe guys need to be throwing far less and saving it for games only - though I think that had been tried as well without it making any difference. Whatever - it's clear the people in the sport do not understand the source of the problem, or just won't or can't do anything about it (too many breaking balls being thrown?). The only thing I'm pretty sure of is that it's not because today's pitchers are 'soft' as athletes.

Jack broadcasts to the score.

And Devo was the much better answer.

The modern day hitter. Gallo has only one opposing IF actually on the IF. Can't figure out a way to dribble one towards 3B for a safety. No reason to ban the shift when hitters do this to themselves.

Gerrit Cole is a whiny bitch. I really dislike him. And his prima Donna attitude. In truth, this Yankees team has been very hard to watch (&root for) for more than a couple of years now. Just stopped in to say hello to you guys (& gals), will probably just continue with my binge watching of Homeland tonight. (I’m nothing if not dreadfully behind the times. lol)

MLB Network is gonna go apeshit over the collapse of Gerrit Cole for the next five days.

I never heard of this person before but this speech should go national and should be the basis for democrats in the future

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI TV: Ballysports Detroit Radio: WXYT Forecast LHP Eduardo Rodriguez vs RHP Luis Severino Happy 420!!!

Way to run yourselves out of a potentially big inning, guys. We could have bases loaded and no outs with one run in right now.

Wow, a painless 1st inning!

Modern warfare is a real mix. You can't train troops on the complex systems overnight. Giving a gun or an APC to a newbie is one thing. Teaching a small unit how to update its crypto every day, teaching the young officers how to call-for-fire or air support is harder. The Russians don't do those things apparently because they don't trust young officers to do those things. This is one of those organizational DNA things. The British and American armies have strong resilient NCO cadres which have saved their asses in fights all over the globe. We shared that with the Ukrainians and they have benefited a lot from that. The Russians do not have this NCO class and its made them rigid and inflexible.

I think it's very much a individual thing. Take Max Scherzer. When he first came up, everyone was predicting a major injury from him because of his delivery and he's been relatively healthy his whole career. Now take Justin Verlander, who most people would consider has the perfect delivery, missed time in 2015 due to injury and later had TJ surgery. Scherzer, while being a regular starting pitcher for the prior 4 years, didn't hit 200 innings until his age 28 season. Verlander, on the other hand, had 5 years of 200+ innings through his age 28 season (including 2 years at 240+). Maybe Verlander was overworked early in his career and that was the cause of TJ surgery?

lets bring this thread full circle and trade decker for deebo.

figure the math. Russia's population is 3.5X Ukraine. The Russians require 1 yr of military service. Ukraine is basically on a full mobilization basis so you are getting participation from the whole age range of maybe 17-40. Russia's one year conscript numbers plus the numbers of their 'professional' troops actually can't match that without the kind of draft/mobilization that Girkin is talking about. If the West supplies sufficient technology to counter Russian air and missile advantage, it's realistic to predict we get more of what we have gotten to far -- the Russians can kill a lot of civilians but will struggle to achieve strategic objectives. And of course ironically, as the fighting moves east more of those civilian casualties will be Russian speakers.

Funny how Trump doesn't want to debate the guy who apparently has no idea where he's at.

Monroe's suits are wasted on the radio.

Every time I see Trump out on the balcony of the White House I can't help but think of him starring up at the eclipse like a total maroon.

He did an episode of Ride with Norman Reedus. They were riding across New Zealand, interesting guy.

I'm going to hold off on a reaction until I hear Jackass' thoughts.

I keep thinking back to Breaking Bad when Walt and Jesse take Saul out in the desert. Saul says something like it wasn't me it was Ignacio. I think we know now what that means. I believe he also asked if Walt and Jesse were the Salamancas. Jesse was working with Crazy 8 who Saul represented and helped turn into an informant. I'm not sure Jesse necessarily needed to be in contact with Saul prior to when they were first out in the desert. Saul didn't recognize Jesse but did recognize Walt as Mr. Mayhew.

The main concern I have about Willis is that he was only a 3 star recruit who didn't get a ton of offers from major schools, the one he did in Auburn he transferred from cause he wasn't good enough, then instead of transferring to a higher profile school he had to settle for Liberty cause nobody else wanted him. Guys with that type of background rarely succeed in the NFL.

Of course political comedy existed in the past, but it feels different now in that people's identities are tied up in their politics and people turn to politics for entertainment. And I cannot say that is a good thing or something we need more of... the fact that more and more people seem to have turned away from other forms of entertainment in their lives toward being rage farmed by cable news and political punditry hasn't left us any better off, just more divided. This is spot on. I would just add that the decreased lack of physical engagement that has kinda left people siloed off from the rest of the world, and as we have discussed here before, it is so much easier to dehumanize when discussing politics (especially the culture war stuff) whenever you are doing it over the internet versus dealing with someone in person. On a personal and micro level, I've made some changes to my social media diet and media intake diet to change, but I don't know how you can fix that on a macro level... the culture, particularly online, seems addicted to rage

I just checked. There's data for ever game yesterday except the tigers/Yankees. Someone is doing Moscoso a favor by keeping that game off his record

Theories on where Walt and Jesse enter the fray. Kim's public defending leads her to Jesse for some small fry case, which somehow gets him connected to the Salamanca clan (maybe). Walt stops by Omaha on his drive back from New Hampshire to Albuquerque and hits up Cinnabun.

I can’t stop hearing this in my head every time I see this thread title.

they can't count that high because DeSantis is banning all the math

Remember 2nd half of last season when this team was "at least fun to watch", after the first half of last season when this team was "oh my f*cking gawd this is the hardest baseball team to have ever been done to be watched!!"? Hope this first half doesnt stay as bad as last first half...

At what point does AJ have to do something about Candy and Schoop in succession?

Yeah - It's gonna irritate me when they change the rules to protect guys that only want to hit that way.

These home plate umps, man. two pitches in the same spot, back to back, two different calls............This is so bad.

It would suck for Garneau to lose his job when the roster cuts come if Barnhart is still this bad at the plate. That's all I gotta say

It's always best practice to wear a mask in Cleveland regardless of pandemic.

Schoop, Barnhart, Candy are just black holes right now. You'll never score enough runs with only 6 hitters.

career game for Cole... shortest start and most walks

Dating back to when he signed his contract extension I don't think I personally have seen Schoop do anything good with the bat.

Hard to tell when you can't hear anything but I also would put that on Barnhart. But then Alexander also needs to get the F out of the area so Barnhart does not get thrown off by it. Ideally, the first or third baseman calls both of them off.

im flying to cleveland on thursday. i'll bring my masks so i can use them after i land...

All you guys bag on Patterson but he's the best QB the Panthers have had in decades. Put him on a different team with good parts around him and I bet he wins a championship. In all seriousness, @davidsb623 is right, he wasn't the biggest problem. He looked really bad in the first qtr, in part because his OL was non-existent. But he performed decently in the 2nd half. I'm not saying he's NFL caliber, but he good enough for the USFL I thought.

Fortunately for Jack, the Veterans Committee didn’t share those high standards.

I think it's Hutch or Walker myself.

I also saw a reference where Jack said Miggy was "building" case for the HOF... implying he wouldn't be one yet if he retired right now. Jack has high standards for the HOF.

I don't like Maher because shows like his are part of what has trivialized politics in the US as entertainment first, civic responsibility maybe later. I don't mind political comedy, I like political comedy, but once you go that route don't expect me to then take anything you do seriously because you have suddenly 'shifted gears' for the moment. The fact that he is there as an entertainer *first* playing for laughs inevitably undercuts any message that I, or anyone would ever need actually act on any information he imparts, for instance any more than I would take some other comic's riff about some faulty kitchen appliance of his as a serious product review.