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There is a certain view - not even necessarily more leftward - but just secrecy scepticism - that thinks 95% of security secrecy is BS anyway. Sort of the John LeCarre style jaded view that in the end all the secrets are just a form of futility that don't really protect anything - they are just cover for each side believing what they want to about the other. (Read his "RussiaHouse" to get the full idea). It not a progressive tenet per say - but I think it an idea that can find a fit in a progressive mind set. I have a certain sympathy to the view - certainty not at the tactical level where you have to protect people and capabilities, but at the strategic level I am fairly sceptical that keeping everything you are thinking secret is all that useful.

LOL - that's were Torkelson has thrown a monkey wrench into their plans. NOBOBY thought he would come to ST and out OPS both Keith and Malloy by 300 pts. The did the right thing in planning for his failure so it should be the kind of dilemma you want to have, it's just not very convenient right now. There are four off days before Arp24, I suppose they could go with 12 pitchers and carry the extra position player - they'd like to have both Malloy and Tork against the Dodgers.

well sure - he still can't hit, but they are getting to where that's a luxury they may have to do without.

It's hard to tell from watching televised games because you almost never see a first step in real time and that is such a big piece. Just casual observation I think Kreidler has looked at least as good or better than Perez in CF which is what matters I guess, though I don't think that is a very high bar. I think Perez is one of those guys who makes some catches look a lot harder than they need to look. I'm not sure I get the fixation about Riley in LF being all that much healthier for him than CF. There are more plays at the wall in LF, and LF only averages one half less play per game than center. I suppose in terms of just the running, the CF has to back up to both sides, but the LF also should be backing up 3rd if the ball goes to the RF corner. It just doesn't seem a big enough difference for any trained athlete, less then running once hard around the bases, and we still expect him to be doing a lot of that!

later in the story he quotes J. Powell downplaying the connection between sentiment and the real economy. Could be something to that - but even if so it's still an indication that there is a lot of negative news for Trump's economy out there getting through to the public.

No, but Harris says he is (even if he doesn't use plural verbs right), which is what matters: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/03/25/detroit-tigers-parker-meadows-matt-vierling-wenceel-perez-injured/82644366007/

Elmer has 10 pts in 23 games playing 13min/gm. That's a 50 point season pace for a guy playing 18min/gm.

So Petzold reports that Margot was picked up as a spare corner guy *before* they knew Perez was going down. Which says to me that if they had know about Perez they probably don't send Kreidler down and don't bother with Margot. Now, if they want to carry Kreidler for CF, who is probably the only good CF they have other than Riley, Margot gives them one too many OFs again.

it seems everyone makes their own choices on audio bit rates - and it infects back the other way - over the air FM broadcasts, which have limited fidelity compared to digital, are often degraded even from what they could be because source MP3's they are playing are far worse than even FM broadcast quality. On the baseball games it's also the production quality that is bad - mixes, levels, basic stuff where either no-one is paying attention or cares.

True - Vance isn't doesn't even get close to Clarence Thomas territory on this one.

Probably the same thing we are seeing with the degraded audio quality we've talked about on the baseball thread - plenty of tech but probably not enough people manning it, or low cost people not trained enough to man it well, or only manning it remotely or it's completely on autopilot.

I meant he didn't have an assured roster spot. The Booth crew was talking about Chafin not having to worry about his performance during ST - implying he didn't have to perform to win a job. Hardly the case.

I'm not sure Bernie isn't still in the 60's. I still don't feel like the Dems have figured out how to talk about economics. I think Biden had a clearer and better vision of what needed to change but he was abysmal at communicating it - partly because I think he recognized that his ideas were not particularly popular with progressives and since in the Dem party the progressives tend to suck up the media oxygen, he decided not to talk about it much - just do it and hope people saw results. But A) he simply ran out of gas, B) 4 years is too short to change much structurally, C) you had the covid money supply inflation but D) mainly in the US you don't get credit for doing anything if the media doesn't 'recognize' you for doing it and the media in the US is close to totally ignorant about real world economics. It may be the only thing they know less about than science.

Plus my bad - I actually meant to type against "LHB". They are playing assuming some lefties are not going to pull much. We got to a couple of ST games last week and they were doing it then - of course at Lakeland I think it also has to do with the wind. The get a lot of very windy days in Lakeland.

Tigers playing their RF a lonnnng way toward center againt LHB a lot this spring. High risk/reward when the guy pulls one.

I've had family in CA for 40 yrs so have been out there a lot. I remember my BIL carrying on about In-and-Out once when we were travelling with them to the Sierra's so we had to make a stop. It was good - but I'm basically not a burger guy so whatever. I do remember the Raven in the parking lot though. He saw some value there, and they are smart birds.

The Giants guys did zero homework for this game - from not knowing Malloy's name to not knowing Chafin doesn't have a contract. No idea what they are watching on the Detroit side.

Back-2-Back!

Riley polluting the bay with some old string.

TORK! Flashes the leather.

Tiger bats AWOL again.

That was my sometime AAT that was mic'd up. I'm still frosted about that trade. Actually I wouldn't call sending out either Ray or Adames among the Tigers' finer moves. I really didn't like David Price.

Bert, we must be watching the same game! How weird is that?

Giants announcers start out the game calling 'Malloy' "Mallory"

I'm telling you, in two week Javy is your regular CF. 🤣