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If the Navy is sitting on any directed energy capabilities beyond what they have admitted to (HELIOS etc.), this would be when we might find out.

So when all is said and done, we lost one road series and still don't have a 4 game losing streak. It was good to see Holton have a decent outing even if it was short. TBF Hurter was the only pitcher to flub it today - his command has gone bye-bye. Don't think we will be seeing him at leverage again for a while so there is a hole to be filled there. Also somewhat lost in the two losses to TB, the Tigers scored 20 runs in each of these last two 3 game series.

Don't find that credible. Iranians will want any kind of portable or anti-ship missile the Russians are willing to supply, but the Russian don't generally give away nukes. I suppose with Putin you never know. Russia was even a signatory to the JCPOA. (aka Iranian nuclear deal)

how effectively will a physical escort protect against a wave skipping missile? Certainly there will be some level of protection - will it be enough to actually assure the people paying for the oil? Also, a LOT of tankers transit the gulf. The US Navy is already stretched to the limit - we probably don't have enough ships to effectively escort all the oil moving through the gulf. We have about 75 Arlieigh Burkes, The way the Navy rotates at least a third are not at sea and you've got 6 other oceans the USN is not going to be willing to leave completely vacant. This isn't your WWII USN, it's not even Reagan's USN. To do escorts you are going to need to drum up a lot of international support from allied navies (and TBF some are already there because of the Houthis) - but just what Trump and his crew are so good at - amirite?

Bullpen needs about a week off. Unfortunately they only get one day.

because once one is hit, it will get very tough to insure the next one. The impediment is much less Iran's capability to do serious mischief than the point that they will be cutting off their own nose to spite their face if they do since their oil won't go out either. I think they have some shipment capacity on the Caspian but they probably don't have enough infrastructure there to maintain their income. But that's the risk - if you push them to some level of desperation. Have there been any reports at all of casualties from the raid? They obviously knew it was coming and I assume got everyone or at least near everyone out of harms way. If they managed not to kill many folks that changes the calculus also.

Have you been paying any attention to what's already going on in the gulf? A rag tag of non-state actor has already been able to get close to closing the gulf using basic shoot and scoot methods despite the presence the world's most powerful military. The US military is not sci-fi. They can't magically make constraints of space and time disappear. A truck mounted Exocet does not conveniently broadcast a beacon on its way to its launch position. Once launched, the launcher search radius can grow to roughly 314 sq miles in the first 10 min. It's a LOT of work to successfully fight that kind of guerrilla missile war and putting up a lot of close air surveillance leaves US forces vulnerable to MANPADs which I'm sure Trumps buddy Putin or even Xi would be happy to supply just to see the US get a bloody nose. The fact that you can prevail is a totally separate question from 'at what cost'

obliterate what? You have to find it to hit it. We've been down this road before. The whole US Navy hasn't even been able to effectively shut down the Houthi's.

oddly enough, if you have an online subscription to the NY there doesn't appear to be any way to pull up ad from the print edition.

Good old American overconfidence. I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility they may be able to do enough hit and run damage firing anti-ship missiles from mobile shore launchers that the US Navy gets tied up in a whack-a-mole exercise while insurers say 'forget it'.

if true, now the shooting starts. The bombing runs were the easy part.

The Iranian regime and Trump lie at almost the same velocity, to the claims and counter-claims will likely be flying for a few days and in the end we'll be left to guess what was or wasn't accomplished.

I think it sometimes works that way. When I worked for a sales based multi-national, it was often the guys who could really sell that also usually got sold to. Successful sales is just another form of manipulation.

he is a bit of a throwback though - he averages 6 innings per start. He's on a pace for well over 200 IP this season, and who does that anymore? But agreed, throwback or no in Skenes particular case, the trend toward 3 pitchers working every game in something like a 5/2/2 or even 4/3/2 pattern seems inevitable to me, in which case IP will continue to drop for starters along with the max value of any single pitcher.....

I wouldn't want 1 and 2 to both be LH.

the angle we will hear is that once Israel attacked the sites but couldn't completely destroy Iran's capacity, that insured Iran would come right back and 'race to the finish line' for a weapon. So both on a personal emotional level and at the strategic level, Trump was manipulated by Netanyahu to get what he wanted.

Lange with his second appearance for WM. Pitched the 1st inning: 2H 1ER 2K 15/20 strikes.

I guess it will be Biden's fault if the Iranians muck up the Persian Gulf and oil goes back over $100/bbl. I suppose the Saudis are both very happy and worried ****less. And it turned out Bibi, was right. He did have ways to hit Fordow without bigger planes in *his* AF. And of course the $64 question is now that they've tried to hit Fordow, did they succeed?

It will be interesting to see if he is half intelligible at 10 when he goes on the air.

They got 6 1/3 out of SGL, That was a victory of sorts in itself.

I suppose it's not that odd to consider a passed ball an error for scoring purposes. A PB is just a catcher's error, it's just given a class of its own. I guess the question is why is it its own classification?

SGL gave up 3 HR, all on 2 strike counts, two on FB. The pitch Jansen hit was pretty decent, change-up almost out of the zone down. Pitch to Caminero was a center cut mistake. It's always a question with these guys with good secondary stuff - is the FB good enough that when they throw it's not automatically hard contact.

yes - I suppose it was as that would have been three outs before any runs scored.

Keith got a center cut fastball to hit on the third pitch and fouled it off. /..sigh.../

Good zone defense by Parker that AB