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feels like the Tigers have gone into sleep walk mode - just waiting to lose this game.

how was Torkelson almost to that ball and Perez was still not close?

Torkelson overswinging at everything again. Back it down a notch man.

these guys play a little D

3 hits in the inning, no runs.

best throw Riley has made as a pro by far.

would be nice if this team could hit a little.

Olson getting some S&M

olson has to trust his stuff with 2 strikes and quit throwing non-competitive pitches when he's ahead.

That welcome triple not-withstanding, i'll still be surprised if he goes north with the team after next ST.

Dingler begged to differ.

good that we have these RH batters in the line-up so the LH batters can carry the offense......

exactly. On the one wide run where orji was short Denard is around the corner easily. But if the D keeps giving them the ball back they can break enough running plays like they just did.

"Stripe out" looks pretty ragged so far.

Ah... ok - I suppose if BR is using a 100 game running avg then i don't see much point in looking at their result before 100 games when all the data is from the current season. Game 100 was the 3rd week of July this season so i would think it would be fair to compare on Aug 1 and then maybe Sept 1. Seems to be less point to the exercise later than that. And of course neither system predicted anything for the Tigers this year on Sept 1 - which still has a good chance of being correct.🤷‍♀️

and you know it must be true because he wrote in ALL CAPS!

i suppose they could remain 50/50 right to the last game couldn't they? Or maybe we aren't talking about the same thing? I don't know what is under the covers in FG's system in terms of how often it updates projections but I assume it must at least look at who the remaining games are against so the model has be updating for that if nothing else. The BR model, being a running average run differential method, updates with every game played. But when I said "more accurate over time" i didn't mean to refer to the convergence toward an end-point but which system tended to give better predictions over multiple seasons. say at some arbitrary date of interest within a season like the ASB or Sept 1 - or even opening day, though that is probably pretty worthless in any system!

Mck was already in the game at 2B, the added player probably would have been Jung to give you: Keith->bench, Carp->DH, Vierling->RF, Jung->3b. You'd be subbing one LH bat for another.

Taking a lesson for Arky State!

amazon's status reminds me of the Bell System before the breakup. The complaints about them are coming more from people who want a piece of their business than from the customers they are serving and when they are gone (if it happens) people will complain that life was simpler before they were broken up. That's not to say their size may not be unhealthy for the economy for a lot of other reasons, but IMO it's not because the value proposition that Amazon provides it's customers is a bad one.

18?

i agree there is certainly a connotative understanding in that direction. Then again there are cases that bleed out over the edges of definitions that attempt precision. Take Hamas or Hezbollah for a near at hand example. They practice non-state terror across their borders and tyrannical murderous management against their own population to maintain quasi state status at 'home'.

If anything it affected urban areas more than rural so any negative effect should have hit the Dems harder.

2020 was the highest turnout in US history and it elected Biden by 7M. Before that 2008 was the previous large spike in turnout and the Dems won that. I like the odds on more turnout favoring the D side.

Boston bus officially has lost its wheels. 2 in, bases loaded, still no out.