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I saw the news about Malloy (out) and Kreidler (in) in the Freep, didn't see about Chafin. Thought he had a chance based on this last two outings. Petzold's panties will be in a bunch - he wanted Malloy over Torkelson. I hate to have to tell him that Torkelson is a better 1B than Malloy is an OF. If Malloy goes to Toledo and learns to do something useful with the shoe leather on his left hand he can still be a good piece.

ABSOLUTELY, the annual adds of young players have gone, are going well. They’ve all done well except maybe Bergrenn, who is pretty ‘meh’. The margin of failure is exactly the poor performance with the NHL moves.

dropping margins are nice, but the Dems need wins.

i'm still thinking they take 14 position players for the 1st couple of series - or maybe until Baez proves he is or isn't hitting any better.

Kreidler in no hurry to go to Toledo - but alas, Dingler can't bring him home.

This exhibition season has passed its sell-by date.

So they take Javy out before he gets the chance to make a throw to the plate. Hard to say if Kreidler's throw was bad or not as it looked like it hit the mount/rubber - which is just bad luck.

violating the first formality of an interview with a translator - don't talk to the translator.

as in 'comeback to Toledo'?

A RUN!

Casey shrugs off the double. I like this new found composure.

yup - now we need to see him on one he has to run for. Mize replaces Jobe to get a little work. I think the question with Jobe remains command/concentration. The stuff is great but like any pitcher he can't get behind with non-competitive pitches.

he did, and made a good, pitch, but then lost him on the next

Javy just got the dreaded line drive almost right at him but survived.

but this is getting to be a pattern, a couple of world beater inning, then bang -- walk and a bomb. He's still goes into 'here it is, hit it mode' and he's not quite JV or Tarik Skubal yet.

Didn't Billy Corgan keep firing drummers at Smashing Pumpkins? I was never a fan but my kids were so I got the second hand rumors.....

Interesting that you are having these issues. My experience has been of an increase in lost packages in the last couple of weeks. An associate of mine had a package criss-cross the country twice and then finally arrive too late for a project we were working on, and I just had an order of my own get lost. And again - strange complexity to get it replaced. There were three items in the order, the associate could only re-order one, I had to accept a refund and place another order for the other two items - what sense does that make? Then the weirdest thing was that the associate went through a long struggle with the fact that the order had been sent to my local pick-up box, he finally said he could not route the one item he could replace there, it had to be to my home. OK fine. Next day the replaced item showed up - at the pickup box! I kid you not. So yeah - I wouldn't disagree the ship seems to be taking on some water.

I was disappointed to read today that they expect Perez (one month minimum) to be back before Vierling. I thought the report the other day was that Vierling was closer than that. I guess not.

there is a definite tension over this kind of issue on a larger scale which I think drives a lot of middle/lower class frustration that has led to Trump. Society has both an obligation to the individual's rights, but also to social order, and I think there is strong undercurrent of feeling that we too easily sacrifice the social order rights of the many for the sake of the liberty of the few, who too often don't benefit anyway. That we have lost the 'ordered' part of the 'ordered liberty' concept of the founders. I don't necessarily want to litigate the truth of falsity of that sensibility, but just to recognize that it's something with a pervasive presence out there. It's the lower classes that have to deal with the social dysfunction while the upper classes can go live in their gated communities and send their kids to private or gilded suburban schools, ergo unpopularlity/resentment about politics considered liberal/progressive 'preaching.'

I wasn't all that impressed with Margot last night either. Maybe he was trying to do too much to impress the first time out, but he made a pretty meh throw to third that wasn't close to getting a runner, and flubbed a chance in the corner he probably should have just played on the carom. Pretty clear he has 'grown' out of being a CF, and by 'grown' I mean horizontally.

that's an interesting question. I would probably take the argument that there isn't anything intrinsically different about balls hit to center vs left in terms of a certain percentage dropping tantalizingly close in front of you, but I would accept the argument that that under most game conditions the CF is going dive less often because the dive with 412 behind you may be a lot riskier than with 370 behind you. The overall difference in chances is real, but it works out to about one additional chance per two games. As I've thought about it, I think it has mostly to do with the backup running. It's the running they want him avoid. I'm not totally sold that isn't a fools errand in the end for a baseball player, but they clearly have their reasons.

LOL - you got the "your input has been circular filed" form letter!

"suspensions aren't working" LOL - back in the bad old days, suspended once, expelled permanently the 2nd time. I know that doesn't solve the kid's problem, but it does solve the school's and the rest of the students'. 🤷‍♂️

would be a nice fairy tale ending if they let him start and he stole a game or two to get them to the playoffs, but we know he'll likely be sitting in reserve.

The critique is at a higher level though - the idea is that you actually want your adversary to understand you better because it's lack of understanding that leads to the most catastrophes so the effort to make *everything* as opaque as possible can be counterproductive. You can even extend this to capabilities to some extent, and in fact the military does occasionally believe demonstrations of 'secret' capabilities is a useful thing. The problem is that while I understand the principle, when you get into the actual weeds of protecting tactics and assets, it's just so much easier to try to close all the doors so there is a practical side to it too.