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big challenge next season will be to sort out all the arms. At this point, given that they are still stuck with Maeda, I don't want to see them bring in another reclamation product or 'innings eater.' if they sign a pitcher it should be serious multi-year signing of a #2/3 guy.

I'm going to take Torkelson's single to right to keep the game going as a sign he's trying to become a smarter hitter. It doesn't seem like it but he's hitting 270, 780 OPS since his return. Hope not dead yet.

scored just enough to be irritating.

The jinx is Dickerson. It never fails he’s talking up a pitcher when he gets hammered, as he was with Kenya just now. 😵

MLB hitters crack me up. They want to swing the bay so badly they are dead meat for a guy like Burnes that just won’t throw a strike if you don’t force him to.

Slip sliding away….

Burnes has Tork completely befuddled. Hot Tip: Just take everything if you get another AB against him.

So why use an opener if you aren’t changing sides? Maybe Guenther later.

Tork did it again. Took the 1st pitch cutter middle middle, swung at the second way off the plate, then can’t fight out of the hole. Stop it already.

are there any young fans? <j.k.>

I'm just thinking along the line that they banned the shift when they could have left the rules alone and eventually they would have has a generation of hitters that learned to go the other way. The fewer rules/constraints, the more likely the game can fix itself if left alone, people don't have patience for that.

Considering we have no visual and intonational clues I'm surprised message boards can work at all.

I have to wonder if the players association isn't or won't become another source of subtle pressure about it. Increasing use of openers is going to reduce the value of a lot of lower skill but high HR production players. If a guy with a high ISO but also a high platoon split can't be guaranteed his 2 or 3 AB against the correct sided pitcher, teams may move away from that kind of player.

Chas - I think this 1st sentence of your original post is what sent Lee and I in the wrong direction in our responses. I can read your post as either asking this question - which can be read to apply directly to Trump OR more specifically to the latter sentences and the second paragraph where you drive more directly to PB as the subject. In my case my bias toward reading the question as about Trump is because I find that the more interesting question. Pete is an auxiliary messenger in the campaign, I don't take that much significance in analyzing his particular take because I would think the campaign sends people out there to cover as many ways to make the case as they can. For instance Walz is already out there making the "Trump is crazy" case in all his appearances.

The Tigers have had enough success with it that I look for the league to do something to outlaw 'openers' in the off-season.

the only part I remembered myself is that there were a lot no-hitters that season and people were starting to talk about it being 1968 all over again and when were they going to make a rule change.

Yup - There were a lot of no-hitters in 21. 4 in May alone and Kluber threw another one the very next day, and for the ever media hogging Yankees no less. (turns out ESPN has a no-hitter history page - first search hit - so not so much not fun....😉 https://www.espn.com/mlb/history/nohitters )

So why would *Pete* rather talks about talk about Trump's record than his psychosis? IDK. I can offer a couple of speculations: Pete is a policy wonk, that's his wheelhouse so to speak. It's clear the public and especially the media and double especially Trump's supporters have normalized his psychology pathology. What hope of getting more traction on that question after 9 yrs? SO, if people won't disqualify him for being literally evil/crazy, won't disqualify him for just continually making up alternate reality as he goes along every time his lips move, *maybe* you try to get people to see what he's doing (as opposed to what he is) hurts their interests. IOW, accept that Trump supporters do know and do actually like exactly who and what he *is* -- so take a different direction? Hail Mary there too of course since the whole GOP program since at least Gingrich has been to persuade the lower economic quartiles of the public to vote on culture instead of economic self interest and it's worked quite successfully.

as a rough generalization you can stream most services directly to any TV that runs some version of WebOS and has an ethernet port or WiFi. But even if your TV doesn't, all you need is an HDMI cable with something on the other end that will talk to your laptop (HDMI. miniHDMI, DP, USB C) and you just stream to the laptop's browser and run the big screen as a second display.

I was more concerned about his fielding immediately out of the gate given the combination of the early errors and odd throwing motion. But it appears it was just a little nerves and that's just the way he throws.

another reason is that it wasn't only not a good season for the Tigers, it wasn't even a good season for Turnbull. 3 starts, 15 IP and 2 team losses after the no-hitter and his season was over. Doesn't create real positive memories!

Maybe I've over read it but it seems I've heard at least a few people dismiss Workman since he started putting up better numbers this season. And TBF, maybe for good reason. Doing well in the minors doesn't always mean you don't still have weaknesses that would be fatal in the show and since I don't see MiLB games I'm in no position to argue.

Red score 2 in the 7th, up 3-1

Isn't that kind of the running joke this season about Workman - that no matter what he does there nothing he can do to change the minds made up about him?

Yes - IIRC it became the standard 'the Tigers can't hit in the cold' trope for some time. But I wasn't commenting on your comment but directly on the tweet. The Dems have been charging Trump with having no plans, but it's clear why his people don't let him have plans because Haitians to Venezuela is the level of what you get if do let let Trump try to plan something.