gehringer_2

Maddux would be the guy I probably must have seen but have no real recollection of as a player because I just never cared about the Braves other than to pay attention to Aaron.

Just now, monkeytargets39 said:

“Shoulder tightness”

Zimmermann V2.0

What are they doing to with Flaherty? I can see one more start, but if it goes like this again....

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

nice of WXYT to suddenly go to commercial in the middle of an inning.

Yeah, that was kinda cute. Tigers didn't do anything though.

The BP has given up one run in 6 IP. If they don't walk this off the BP is going to get the loss but it's not really theirs. 

3 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

We all know by now that Hinch is really stubborn. Use the back end of the bullpen? Why?

Vest apparently not available tonight.

he's faced three batters, you can go get him any time.

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

Burch Smith?

Needs to keep Texas barking up the wrong tree.

Not off to a great start

Burch Smith?

Needs to keep Texas barking up the wrong tree.

Lee picks 107mph.

With the game now close I wish someone else were pitching

Bah - was hoping for a tougher AB from Gleyber there.

1 minute ago, Motor City Sonics said:

What the hell happened to Flaherty?      Is he tipping his pitches?  

Dirks and Dickerson talking a lot about his mindset. I think it may be simpler, the FB is down enough ticks that he rightfully has no confidence in it.

1st of May and 2/5 of the opening day rotation is a loss. Who'd have thunk in Feb that the season would pivot on whether Melton can get back and be a top half rotation starter.

Tork failed to barrel up a middle middle FB but salvaged a walk.

2nd was a better inning from Jack but his FB velo sucks.

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

We briefly looked at a plug-in hybrid the last go round. The combination of difference in price plus the cost to set up our garage to accommodate the electric side. Also the battery size took a significant bite out of the storage area of the SUV (Tuscon).

That said, we're happy with getting about 45-50 mpg... 

I'm finding the EV is close to perfect as an around the town vehicle, but when we replace the other car it will likely be with a hybrid SUV that gives me a 48" wide floor that can carry larger cargo

17 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I’m a woke ****lib who drives an EV so have fun with your gas prices. 

definitely a good time the have an EV. I just hope Tesla sales aren't recovering as a result...

2 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

I saw a AAA price map of Wisconsin yesterday, it was amusing how you could see the dividing line in terms of which counties get their gas from Chicagoland and which ones get their gas from Pine Bend (outside of St. Paul)

I've been inside the Pine Bend refinery. Marathon also has a refinery north and across the river from Pine bend but it's maybe 1/2 the size or less.

15 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I’m a woke ****lib who drives an EV so have fun with your gas prices. 

actually Whiting is also apparently in the middle of union lock-out. Management is trying to keep the plant running and that's usually a disaster waiting to happen. 

The bad part is that at this point this is hitting mostly areas that are mostly already trending blue. Some Whiting supply must also go to Ohio but I have no idea how much.

5 hours ago, oblong said:

Not that it changes his point, but that gas station is near the airport is notorious for being $1 more than nearby stations.

 

The BP Whiting Refinery (near Chicago in Indiana) suffered an unexpected outage Sunday night . It is the biggest refinery in the Midwest and it when goes down, it adds about $1 to prices throughout the region. Press reports say expect 2 weeks, but guaranteed nobody at the refinery would be telling the press the truth about anything at this point so that's just worthless speculation - timeframe could be anything.

Insult to injury for the American driver.

37 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Democrats ran a middle aged, centrist, milquetoast white woman in Sara Gideon against Susan Collins in 2020. Not only did she lose, she lost by nearly 8% points. She lost at a time when Biden won the state and she underperformed Biden. She lost when everyone was predicting she would win. She lost when polling predicted she would win. Graham Platner is problematic in a lot of ways. The Nazi tattoo and the reddit comments about rape are indeed a problem. They will be used as attacks by the Republicans on him. But it isn't like running a middle aged, milquetoast, centrist, white woman worked last time. Sara Gideon lost. She's not the Senator. So I don't know that running a 70+ year old centrist, milquetoast white woman would work either. The polling certainly seems to indicate it won't.

One angle is just that, that the party rank and file are out of patience with the national party for setting them up with losers. And that is Platner's potential weakness - do the folks excited about Platner (and a lot clearly are) represent a winning voting coalition in the state or just themselves as the activist/progressive wing?

15 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

She wasn’t getting the outside funding like Platner. She actually got more donations from Mainers. It does cost a fortune in Maine actually because republicans are going to drop $50-60 million into the race. It’s probably going to be one of the more expensive races in the countries because Collins is the most vulnerable republican. 

Once you get to a certain point, all more money gets you is more TV, but TV has a too many competitors today to be the whole game, so in this era the money effect goes flatline at a certain point. Musk has found that out in a few races he dropped big $$$ into.

2 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Maine is an old population that elects old people. Not sure what to tell you. There’s no evidence they prefer younger candidates judging by their federal delegation and governor. 

so... then if they love old candidates what was wrong with Mills that no-one was stepping up to support her financially? It doesn't take a fortune to run in Maine. A candidate that was attracting support and had a functional internet fund-raising link should not have had to drop out for lack of funds. Candidates in the last few cycles have proved over and over again that you don't the party to raise money if you are attracting supporters - and Mills supposedly had Schumer's support - so why was she broke?

That's actually the part in this that to me doesn't add up. If Mills was the establishment/party candidate, how is she broke? Did the party and establishment donors cut her off? If so, why? Did they already sense she was a lost cause?  Is she not really broke but using that as an excuse to get out of a campaign she decided she didn't want to be in? Pretty odd all the way around.

3 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Maine just elected 80 year old Angus King

that may be for a lot of reasons, but I would argue that the idea that older adults like old candidates because they are old, which seems to have been what you were arguing, is false or at least pretty weakly true. If anything older adults have the same skepticism about an old candidate as anyone else would, and look for the same kinds of evidence pro or con about a candidate's capacity as anyone else, and may actually have a sharper eye for recognition of signs of deficits.