gehringer_2

what is it with DD teams whose pitchers can't field in the playoffs? 🙄

it's a little bit chicken/egg though. If you can significant deepen the bullpen, you are under less pressure to even let a starter begin the 3rd pass through the line-up. But I don't know if that's even enough in Flaherty's case since he seems to give up crooked numbers so suddenly.

Mike Hargrove

there really wasn't any doubt was there?

I think they had to do pitchcom though because it's just gotten to where there were too many camera's looking at the catcher and so much real-time communication available that teams felt they had to go to such complex signing that it was breaking down too much.

Yeah - he is this team's version of Scherzer. Not to the degree of not giving a guy opening day after he won the Cy Young, but the way Hinch keeps him on such a short leash when the rest of the staff is not exactly stellar has got to be getting to Casey at least a little at this point. And if it isn't, his compete must be so low you don't want him.

IIRC, Jobe had the lower impact style TJ that Gipson-Long had. Guys can be back in 12mo from that but don't quote me because I"m not sure one way or the other.

2K might be a better number!

yup - and they need to be better than the force that had been on the Golan.

The downside possibility is that everyone is talking nice to placate Trump short term, but that neither Netanyahu nor Hamas is going to do more than supply a lot of lip service up front while not actually making any peace. Hamas especially may be playing a game where they hope that the appearance of momentum drives Israel to make irrevocable withdrawal moves before they (Hamas) give up any weapons. Certainly hope this is is not the case, but how many times have we been here and the two sides find a way to keep fighting?

I like it. Now talk 5/3 into it!

IDK. I wouldn't use bluetooth for something like that. Aside from the latency, with 40K phones in the stands all with their BT's on, getting anything to pair reliably could be an issue. There are other self-pairing 2.4gHz protocols that do ID based binding. As for hacking, that's a lot harder to do if you can't be there listening when the pairing takes place, so if the units come pre-paired they could be pretty secure - but I have no idea how hardened they actually are.

Skubal pitched very well in his last start against the M's. The M's haven't done anything to 'solve' Skubal. The Tigers just need to score, which they would need to do in any game. The Skubal vs the Ms narrative is a nothing burger. EDIT: ditto to LordS

Yup. There are no signs to steal any one describing it that way is being ignorant. At best Naylor trying to pick up Dingler's positioning, but the catcher can easily be feinting on that and the batter knows it, so I bet most batters aren't going to treat the information as actionable anyway. Naylor was almost certainly hoping to get in someone's head though, and if the Tiger's fell for it, that's their fault. Not to mention that If he really was stealing anything, he certainly would have a more subtle system of tipping his hitter than waving has arms like a windmill. It was a good show and the booth fell for it.

it always was to my old man too.

So far so good, but this has been the easy part. Let's check back in when Hamas turns in its first weapon.

Pretty bad when it's the business entity telling the local gov that not enough public communication was done. But the other possibility is that Cloverleaf is just being euphemistic about a realization that more of these things went to the drawing board than will actually need to get built.

Intel announces volume production of 'PantherLake' (18A) to begin before year end. INTC sitting at about $37 right now. I'm guessing some shorts got burned.

After they deal with that they can fix that *a* run-batted-in is *an* RBI.

If Det is going to be 5/3 they need to rename Toledo 4/5, Erie 3/5, WM 2/5, Lakeland 1/5.

After the win over the Ravens, beat KC and they can look at the game at Philly as playing with house money.

interesting stuff. On the transmission congestion topic, I guess it stands to reason in any transition from one set of generating sources (steam/coal plants) to anything and everything else, all those transmission lines built to service those big coal plants that are being shut down are now in the wrong place - and building new transmission capacity in a more litigious/NIMBY society is a lot harder than it ever was. I'd love to put in solar, but not enough to cut down the trees around my house. The biggest one that shades most of the roof is not much longer for this world though. When it has to come down we'll do a little 'sun on the roof' audit.

of course not - In my OP on this suject up the page a bit the topic is about team construction, not day to to day operations. For better (hopefully) or worse, the current Tigers are what they are. But I will stand by the argument that loading your team with lefties is a dubious strategy if your lefties are all going to fall off against LHP the way Riley has or more generally, have much worse splits than the typical RHB. Riley's case is esp disappointing because when we drafted Riley, there was a lot of ink spilled on how hard he had worked since grade school to make sure he could hit LHP, and which he was doing reasonably well up until this season. Of course he hit a HR against a lefty today just to make a liar of me . I can live with it.

Athletic depts at the big schools are silo'd. What goes on there goes on in its own world. Academic ties between between b10 schools are very strong, and tenured research faculty are a lot closer to their peers at other institutions than they are to anyone in their own Athletic Depts.

I remember one of my kids read Foundation, I forgot which. I think the only thing I ever read by him myself was 'Fantastic Voyage'. That would have been about JHS for me and that's about the lit level it felt like. Of course, in retrospect I have to believe that was a screenplay pitch/commission that was fleshed into a full novel semi after the fact but in those days we didn't know such things were done. Not that there is anything wrong with that. At any rate, while it was fun (and Raquel made the movie fun as well) it didn't motivate me to find anything else of his. I also remember he had something to do with a very weird early puzzle style sci-fi video game called RAMA, which both my teen kids and I got too bored with to ever bother successfully figuring out at all. LSS - not a fan either.