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the Halos have fans, questionable if they still have any happy ones after the last 6 months.

Tork won't be a great hitter until he stops having ABs like that. Put himself in the hole taking a FB for a strike when the Tigers needed a base runner more than a HR.

Chipping away

Manning not hitting the corners with the FB at all, everything is middle middle.

Not necessarily a bad thing, so does Mike Trout.

The TJ was in college, the more recent one was not TJ per se, it was a procedure on a different tendon but I'm not sure (don't think) it was as involved as a transplant - but don't know for sure... When we signed Anibal Sanchez I kept waiting for him to self-destruct having have two TJs, but he ended up pitching a long time - so you never know - though IIRC didn't pitch deep into games much.

Javy has stopped worrying about whether he's swinging at strikes. At least of two his hits have been on balls tonight.

If Tork had hit that in Detroit you'd be hearing the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the ballpark about now....

If I told you on opening day that the Tigers would have one 900 OPS hitter on May 18, how many votes would have been Wenceel Perez?

And no rhythm. I was hollering at the screen for him to jsut slow down on that last pitch...

Moreno needs to buy the ump dinner for that single.

they've had some tough plays, but still, so far in this series the DB OFs need clown music.

they are going to turn Perez around. Hopefully a mistake - for them.

Kelly gets jammed and fights it off. Tie game.

What possible thought process could have led to Keith thinking he was going to get a FB on 0-1? They are going to have to resign themselves to hitting a pitchers pitch early because he's not making many mistakes.

Their proposal to change that dumb rule has been stuck in the league office all season.

both guys pitching well, but still, you have an ump giving away 6" outside again and it makes it almost impossible for the hitters if the pitchers are even close to good.

It's just not that hard to let people be. It's a bit odd historically - the original of the three 'Abrahamic' religions doesn't proselytize at all - Jews have never been interested in forcing other people to convert to Judisam, though they will welcome you if you do. Christianity and Islam both missed the boat on that part of the inheritance.

I will come back again to the campaign money issue. You've always had venal, self-flating, ambitious people run for office, but when they had to do it by actually working for their their district, it keep them pinned tighter to doing useful public service. But with the way money and politics and corporate PAC support works now, you get the same venal, self-inflating, ambitious people, and all they have to do is appeal to Rupert Murdoch or Charles Koch or whoever is willing to write a 7 figure check. (you used to be able to put unions in the list on the other side, but they just don't have near the clout they used to). That sort of removes the brakes on the taxi of state.

I guess I don't even care if a person want to say in public that Vatican II was a heresy (I see you Ross Douthat!), you cross the line as soon as you project that you are judging or invalidating someone else's choice for themselves, whether you do it for religious grounds or atheistic philosophy grounds. You can tie this right to what is so wrong about Alito on the SCOTUS (and Scalia before him, whose son was an RC priest IIRC). He seems to think his view of proper RC/Christian history and culture should have some currency to decide what other people do with their lives. If he wants to live that life, fine, but leave it at the courtroom door or find a new line of work for the sake of the rest of us.

We've had a few sane repubs convert and few of the more out there repubs leave - so you get what's left...🤷‍♀️

that is almost certainly true - weight is the #1 indicator for knee damage. It's funny how he persuaded himself he had to stay heavy to hit for power when his power was fine when he was a younger thinner player. I don't remember what year it was he did lose some weight - then he didn't hit real well coming out of ST and said he had to put it back on for leverage!

right, that's what I meant - it's all the same in BR. I guess what was different was to compare Cabrera to Kaline. Al talked about everything running down to where he just couldn't push himself through another spring training - so it was kind a natural - 'now you are too old' which every player will face. But Cabrera had one particular part fail when all the other stuff could have still been working, and yes that does happen to a lot of guys, but it's still a much sadder/tragic (to me) case than a guy who is 35+ and can't see the fastball any more anyway. So just the perception of it.

fair point - one of the news transcripts attributed it to AOC but that's certainly questionable.

Actually didn't AOC call MTG "baby girl", that's a pretty good slam, though maybe not in MTGs exurban neck of the woods.