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Parker Meadows says "You just leave those barrels right here in this glove...."

well, that could have been worse.

basecket/crickball?

IDK, new rain still forming behind the original front. What’s the drop dead to start? 9:00? Might not make that.

Blue sky peeking through light rain in West A^2

Your assignment is clear. You need to throw a big all-day party for all these 'friends' on 11/5 which is so good they forget to go vote.

Having been a Detroiter during the white flight years it was an interesting pattern that the East/West division of the city was largely maintained as people moved to the suburbs. East Siders went to Warren/Macomb Co., West Siders to West Wayne and Oakland Co. The East Side of Det had more transplanted Southerners prior to the exodus than the west side, and the racial animus carried through, even if muted, to the suburbs. So you still find today that Oakland county is bluer and Macomb Co redder.

I've been dealing with some very similar issues and definitely would not want to be attempting to play SS or swing a bat! For a civilian you can probably just let the ligatures slowly recovery with proper physical therapy support, but an athlete may understandably look to a more aggressive treatment.

Just back out to the forum index page and its on the right margin. And what was going on 8 hrs ago that the site hit its attendance peak?

Should be passed Copa with only a short delay.

Can't say there is rain falling here because it's moving horizontally!

If Cannon is over ruled or removed from the case I think if anything that boosts the argument that Trump and his appointments are outside the law.

Regressive tax policy is key to understanding one of the major drivers for the oligarchy's support of the Christian right. Regressive tax policy is morally justified under prosperity gospel because wealth is ratified by God. You poor schmucks are only paying the higher tax rates you deserve because you are too sinful to have gotten rich yourself so you have no grounds to dispute the tax blessedness of your betters.

One thing that is or at least the Dems need to put in play in Ohio besides women is Trump's tariff take. OH (and MN) = huge soybean farming state and in a tariff war with China soybeans are likely to be the 1st casualty. The farmers in OH may think culture is running amok, but they also know which side their soy sauce is spread on.

The more I think about it, the more I think "We won't go back" is exactly the slogan to drive turnout for this election. Ever since the 60's when the civil rights legislation was codified, you could live in America and not bother to vote and make a pretty good assumption that other than maybe some tweaking around your marginal tax rate, your life wasn't going to change because of who was elected. Let the experts argue out policy, you didn't really care. (You would have been wrong because long term economic mismanagement by the GOP has effected everyone, but in ways that were too subtle and gradual to notice contemporaneously.) But Dobbs was a wake call for everyone, but especially the young, that in the US politics are not immune from going backward and that you do have a liberty interest that you need to get out and vote to protect. And thank heaven for JD Vance who is playing into that narrative better than any Dem could ever have hoped.

I especially liked Ohio. Can the women flip the Buckeye state?

this is where the rubber meets the road.

True - and I would usually take the argument that human variability is greater than assumed in most situations, but if you have a staff of 5 starters, in the absence of contradicting evidence, your best course is still to drive toward what's best for the average. That always leave the possibility that for a particular staff, a manager somehow learns that he has mostly outliers and so runs an unconventional pitching schedule. But to go back to the question of whether and why it would become common, the existence of a team or two with an unusual staff shouldn't necessarily influence the way most teams with pitchers who they assume will do best on 5 days are going to schedule. Or as in one of your examples you split the staff into a group on a standard schedule and group on an alternate one. But of course we also know that a team or two wins a WS doing something different, within a couple of years everyone will try it! 🤷‍♀️

good point. certainly this also. But doing anything that drives more injuries isn't going to be the answer because they still have to pay all those guys doing TJ rehab - also money down the drain.

I suppose the 'problem' is too many pitchers filling up rosters. If you can 'make' guys pitch more innings you in theory need fewer pitchers on the roster.

Seriously? He can't keep straight when he was President? What's even crazier is that he supposedly always has some Hope Hicks replacement babe (like Margo Martin) working his posts and they are apparently as dense as he is.

they can't be so stupid to require a guy stay in the game when he's being shelled can they? At best they would have to pair it to some maximum pitch per inning number which would be too high to actually keep guys from getting hurt but still too low to actually keep guys in consistently. If they really want to use fewer pitchers, and won't deaden the ball or otherwise make the game easier for pitchers, then allow any pitcher to re-enter the game once.

ah. I think you answered that question when you said "traditional rotation." Some of our more exercise science oriented posters tell us the 5 day rotation system is settled science - at least for now.

That's the more interesting question - why hasn't it? I wonder it comes down to identifying what pitcher is suitable to use as an opener. I think most teams want to keep at least two top relievers for end games, so now you are down to your 3rd/4th best reliever and the question is whether you actually get a split advantage with your 3/4 reliever vs the starter/bulk guy you are holding back. Given that it's the best pitchers that tend to be put into starter roles, there might not be that many situations when that 3rd/4th reliever is actually a better choice even with the split advantages. It's true now for the Tigers as we are so deep into the end of our starter depth but would it be with Mize and Olson in the rotation? Also the Tigers have had a lot of success moving Holton around, but the question is how many guys can be as effective as Holton while being moved around as much - and obviously some people just lobby that Holton is starter material anyway.