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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.

RIght. Against a RH 'opener' you expect to see LH bats somewhere in the top of the order so you if you can get your RHP though the order up to the 2nd PA of the 1st good LH bat, that is when you make your change. I can see the league disallowing it at some point just because that is the kind of short sighted 'fix' that top admins like. Of course the real response to 'openers' is developing LH bats to hit LHP. Something the Tigers are notably working on - maybe because they see openers as an inevitable future if they are not banned? I think this will also tie into ABS in a big way. My prediction is that unless they formally widen the K zone, ABS will be calling it narrower. That is going to hurt slider pitchers more than change of speed pitchers and thus it will probably reduce platoon splits for both pitchers and batters as change of speed and fastball movement become the more important aspects of pitching compared to horizontal break. Not that they will disappear, but if splits get smaller strategies like openers become less significant. Again, the risk to the game is that league management won't give the game time to re-equilibrate to needed changes and instead will either back off or make other counter-productive rule changes instead of just giving players time to develop the skills to match the rules.

I think so with JV Just checking - 2006 wasn't so much an issue but I was just looking at his splits and '07, '07, '09 his 1st inning ERA was definitely elevated.

I'd say the opposite (talking the 1st take here). He wants to do something to win that might be frowned on so he obfuscates that something is just sort of happening accidentally when he is doing what he is doing with studied intention. "we're just piecing it together as we go....."

I've seen the management at Marinette claim they can't find enough welders to keep on schedule. DOD is the biggest most successful training organization in the world. Go teach some people how to do the job and offer a salary to pull people in. It's one thing to fail because you don't know how to do what you set out to do (the Zumwalt gun), it's another when you don't do what you know perfectly well how to do.