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apparently Foley has been rejuvenated as well.

and Wenceel keeps hitting.

yeah - that was good to see. Maybe just a little 'dead arm' syndrome he worked through.

you never know, but one difference is that despite the way Edwards treated his wife, he was a more appealing personality than Trump. I think the other aspect is that in the Edwards case the prosecution spent too much time on the affair - trying make Edwards seem like jerk I guess - instead of providing the evidence that he actually broke the law.. This prosecution has a lot of good black and white evidence - does not appear to be making that mistake.

this is the functional shift in approach that Biden is attempting. They recognize that the political difficulty of raising taxes for new transfer payments is pretty close to impossible. It's going to be a big enough lift just to increase the FICA cap to put Social Security back on a better footing in the near future. So instead do everything you can to push wages for the lower half of the economy. It's easier to build winning political coalitions for those things. Even if it is somewhat inflationary, increasing economic equity is simply more important to holding togeher the fraying social cohesion in the US than another 0.5% on the inflation rate.

Maeda, now Miller. Seems Foley is likely to be next. Were we talking about trading pitching for bats in another thread? Silly us.

'burned' is a the correct term here, not 'wasted', that is unless you are a Minny fan...

remember how quaint it was when they made the effort and paid professional writers like William Safire to compose sophisticated dog whistle rhetoric? Good Times......

The two RBI walks he worked were impressive - he doesn't easily lose his nerve.

FWIW - there was one story that said the thing he did to his shoulder sliding into the base was going to take 2 yrs to heal "completely", so possibly a continuing deficit there - at least coming into this season.

Hinch probably will, but I would not - I still want to see him use the more of the field and be more aggressive on FBs middle to outer third. Even Gibson complained today that Tork takes too many strikes.

Interesting. Have assumed so far that it was mostly about Keith's move to 2b blocking him there.

any kind of background noise at all about trying Jung at SS? It seems like a if a guy can play 3B he's got some arm, and if he can play 2B he's got a little glove, and your system's need for a SS is close to dire, it might be worth at least an audition.

383 is reasonable HR if you pull at least to the power alley - if you are to the center field side of the power alley you have no real complaint until you've hit it more like 400' a home run in exactly 1/2 (15) the parks says nothing more than that you play on an average field If there is one thing Hinch needs this team to do it's stop making excuses for themselves and start hitting the ball. he needs to stomp any player self-pity about the ballpark dead. Hate to hear that kind of crap.

Henning is such a tool. 383 is not a HR in any CF anywhere and he certainly should know that. What's so ridiculous is that he's been in every major league park countless times, its absurd he makes statement that people will rely on assuming he's giving them reliable reporting when he's not.

been a depressing week for this team. Today I can take. It's one thing to get stoned by Verlander when he has it all working, or even losing ugly and knowing there is stuff you can fix, but continuing to fall just short of the mark in close games and have no answer is more the downer.

all we need now is for Torkelson and Greene to hit in the same ballgames. In the last 7, Tork is at 320, Greene has gone ice cold to 138.

they won the 9th inning.

walking a guy down by 8 is just about as bad as walking a guy up by 8.

well, Lange can't throw strikes today, Wentz got hammered, Foley has a problem, Maeda to the DL. The pitching is going to be gone before the hitting ever comes around.

Interesting contrast - Verlander did give in to Torkelson with the middle-middle FB but Took couldn't get on top of it. EDIT: could get high enough on the line drive either......

LOL - Verlander gives Carpenter three breaking balls and has him losing his bat. actually not sure why you bring JV out for the 7th, but whatever.

Lose by 1, lose by 10 - If you don't score it doesn't matter much.

Verlander when the curve ball is on is no sin to have trouble against, but that's no excuse for all the other poor offensive days.