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I can believe that, but a good FO shouldn't squander even marginal roster value. That's a failing that has ailed the Tigers since DD. But who knows, you have to assume they think they see something in one of these guys they can work with/on that will make them look good in a year or two...

I remember Joe Sparma - another guy with a big fastball that never knew where it was going. I believe Frank Howard was the 1st and for many years only RH hitter to clear the LF roof at Tiger Stadium.

Benboom is 34, Scott is 27 - how serious can they be about either of them?

and that is exactly what put us where we are. Millions of people saw a carefully scripted version of a character they thought was DJT and said to themselves - this guy's not so bad. But reality television is anything and everything but.

this could lead to some fun though. I can believe the Trump org could be incompetent enough not to know this, at least until after they had put things in motion and then would have to walk them back.

Hitting is pretty mysterious. I don't know if anyone has a recipe for improving pitch recognition, but you can teach a guy to be quicker to ball so he has more time to decide, and that's easier with big athletic guys with the strength to shorten up and still do damage.

I'd guess that since there wasn't a name both ways it's not a major leaguer, but that's just a spitball.

sometimes things are so obvious they are easy. Now we just have to hope Dingler isn't on a once in a lifetime hot streak a la Brennan Boesch.

Walz is definitely wonderful on the stump, but the VP part of a US campaign is hardly covered so it's hard to see how the talent actually produces many votes. Governor of PA seems too obvious a choice from a strategic standpoint.

yup. Hillary was about my last choice on the Dem side (not the least because I thought even then she was the only Dem Trump could beat) but by 2016 the GOP was already clearly off the rails - and Trump had already spent spent 40 yrs proving what a creep he was. So you pull the lever for the party - because in the end it's a party system, something most Americans seem to have lost understanding of. You might want to preserve your purity as an independent, but that doesn't change the fact that parties drive government agendas.

He was dead 2 days after that term would have ended. You can only wonder if being in office would have kept him alive -- or more likely have been worse for his health and he never would have finished the term.

So for those complaining about how Harris is getting the nod, I would note that going all the way back to WWII, no sitting VP who ran for their party's nomination for President in the next election has ever not gotten it. Maybe the closest to missing was Humphrey, but miss he did not. History tells us that even if Biden had withdrawn before primary season, Harris would have been the favorite. Clearly her detractors will argue that, but the real history is what it is. The cake was baked for her candidacy when Biden picked her.

you hear people talk about quick bats, but Keith is absolutely lightning on inside pitches. 250 PA is still a pretty short run, but man there is a lot of promise being shown.

well, if you're not going to score any runs, like as not you are going to lose.

You can't be an AG or prosecutor without leaving a history of some cases that you got wrong - so stories about single cases I take with a grain of salt. The biggest knock I've heard about Harris that I would take seriously is that she burns out staff people - that's not a good trait. I read some defenses that she's gotten better, but I would look for people fired or exiting the campaign for confirmation this is or isn't still true. Of course in the final analysis, I don't care if she rolls her whole cabinet over every other year, SHE'S NOT TRUMP!.

he's been showing signs - OBP has been rising on the stength of a lot of walks, but then he was 0/5 yesterday.....🤷‍♀️

he played last night 1/3 2BB https://www.milb.com/gameday/bats-vs-mud-hens/2024/07/27/752219/final/box

yeah - we don't have the data. We know that Keith was a 3B before he injured his shoulder sliding into a base and when he came back they decided to move him to 2nd. From all I could gather moving Jung to 2B was expressly done to make room for both he and Keith on the same roster. So the question of why Jung did not go back to 2nd once Keith came to Detroit is a good one - but could be related to them not having any other interesting 2B candidate at Toledo this season anyway, so the Harris plan of teaching guy multiple positions is in play bey default. They appear to still be keeping his hand in at 2b with about 1/4 of his games there this season. As for Keith, I do remember reading that the shoulder injury was something that might resolve completely in over a year or not, but just by observation, he appears to be throwing very well right now at up to ~110 feet, but of course we can't judge if there'd be a problem at 150' or a risk or greater risk of re-aggravating the old injury. Not to mention right now he is pretty much carrying this team and you sure don't want to take *any* kind of risk with him. Save it for the off-season or try a move back in winter ball.

Fair point.

Easy there, it's just conversation

good catch - this looks a pick up off an old story that isn't quite what is claimed..... https://dfrac.org/en/2024/02/28/fact-check-did-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-give-autonomy-to-women-in-regard-to-fashion/

He hasn't been sentenced so I would assume he is still on bail?

I'm curious what his throw catch error split is. His FP% was .992 as a 2B - which is hard to argue with in the same way - so either the 1st step isn't fast enough at 3B (but you don't necessarily get errors on balls you don't get to......) or is he throwing the ball away to 1st a bunch? If it's true that they moved Colt to 2nd to save his arm maybe that is the obvious thing to revisit because Colt's arm looks in fine shape on his DP turns recently.

and yet the director of USSS was hounded out of office for not given those very details on such a real time basis. Not that I can defend the quality of her public performance but exactly as you note, she shouldn't have been answering most of the questions she was getting at the Congressional hearing even if she could have.

That doesn't really hold. The religious story has been the same since the nation's founding along but the persecution complex on the part of the political right wing of US Christianity at the outside might be dated to losing Roe v Wade but really didn't start getting traction until the Bush years. So it doesn't follow from first principles - it derives from the GOP's invention of the culture war and the realization on the part of the conservative movement that selling persecution is their most effective fund raising strategy (for both the pulpit and the political side) to people who would be otherwise uninterested in politics. Or, long story short, it's the product of concerted political marketing. The other aspect historically, is that while Rome persecuted the early Christians, it was the Christians that ultimately emerged in control of the empire, so there is an equally strong streak of triumphalism to balance any sense of persecution.