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fabulous AB but you can't win them all.

The American education system is a failed state /...sigh.../

the Dodger deal has a sunset doesn't it? I think they could live with finessing the Dodger situation with a grandfather clause for 10 yrs if what the rest of the league was getting is a real improvement.

if they called up Julks who is off the roster? EDIT: Riley to the 10day. Should have read further up. They just can't catch a break on injuries.

without doing a lot of research, off the top of my head the thought on this would be that maybe Hinch had been deploying his better bullpen pieces with the lower end of the rotation on the theory his top two should need them less, esp with Skubal. Like I said, I'm spitballing here, but there seem to be a number of painful memories of the BP blowing good Skubal starts despite my psyche's attempt to block them. If that means now the unreliable bullpen pieces are deployed more after Melton and Jobe......you see the potential problem. Anyway - just a possible take for the counter intuitive results.

you never know.

IMV, how payouts are eventually structured all depends on what the owners agree to on pay-ins: what will the new revenue sharing regime be? A big driver for how and in what directions player contracts change will be the degree to which revenue inequality changes.

I think Mize first parted company with the Tiger's FO after his TJ when it took so long for him to get back. Maybe that wan't anyone's fault but he wasn't happy about it. Then his relationship with Hinch has always seemed frosty, headlined with his exclusion from the playoff roster. To everyone's credit (I guess), no-one talked out of turn about anything but the outcome makes it all seem pretty clear - no love lost. My knock with Mize wes that he didn't seem mentally tough enough early in his career. The last two years I think he was a much better competitor but the injuries got ridiculous.

would have been nice to hold onto Mize if they were moving Skubal, but I think they were even more sure Mize would be gone in 27 than Skubal. Because they apparently wanted him gone. They had at least talked to Skubal, reports from Mize's camp have been the Tiger never opened any negotiations on an extension with Mize.

McCosky (on BSky) reports Riley is out for tonight, still hoping it's day to day. Not too big a deal for now with a LHP starting

so here is the Wisconsin breakdown. Milwaukee and Madison are self-explanatory, but what's the DSA strength in Green Bay about?

whatever works!

This miss on El-Sayed's polling was also pretty severe but since it was still on the correct side of the outcome it hasn't gotten as much attention as this will. Polling in the US is collapsing. I thought it would have happened before now, but it's finally getting there. Telephony in the US has changed so fundamentally and completely that there is no putting that toothpaste back in the tube. You cannot get a good poll without a good sample, and people will not allow themselves to be sampled via phone anymore because the old 'answer the phone!' imperative is totally gone today. That was the thing that made polling work in the pre-cell/pre-sms era - that all people would answer their phone. When people no longer feel that panic about letting a ringing phone go unanswered, the paradigm shifts from a random sample to a self-selected one - and you are hosed as a pollster. There is no current technology or method that will get you a non-self-selected sample in the US anymore. So what we are left with is pollsters making adjustment to polls that drive their reported result more than the data actually in the poll. So if a pollster is a good prognosticator, he gets the adjustments right and has a good poll. But who can predict from cycle to cycle what the right adjustments are? That's a rear view mirror process and by nature is bound the miss the very thing you want to know in a political poll, which is "what is changing".

It's going to be tight rope to keep winning without another arm or two getting back soon..

fairly loose definition apparently. In MI you can't buy or serve between 2am and 7am, but that just means you have to buy a little ahead..... Individual local jurisdictions are also free to extend the sales restriction on Sunday till noon.