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This one probably didn't matter in the overall sweep of things, but Wenceel really needs to stop making bonehead plays on the bases. That's about his 3rd in a week.

how do you get picked off with a man on base in front of you and the tying run not even on deck yet?

well, no time like the present. Team has 6 Ks and 4 of them belong to Riley.

LOL - that should make for interesting jury selection. You can guess there are a lot of people for whom an uncharged employer testifying against an employee would torpedo a case from the get go - so the prosecutors will have to try hard to pick them out.

NBA is down but I don't know if the officiating is any worse than it ever was, most folks think it's the style of play.

really. That will be on big sigh of relief.

this guy's 4 seamer is 92 mph and the Tigers bats are futile. 3,4,5,6 - 0 fer 8

I wonder what direction the true ratio between the size of the population that is the effective pool for players vs the number of players in the majors is going. The league has gone from 14 to 30, the population of the US has grown, and the access to Latin American players has gone up, but the % of US boys playing baseball of any kind is probably way down.

and he's missing a lot of pitches in the zone completely - not even fouling them off. He's pretty much in feast or famine mode right now and I don't think that's his best self.

No arg on the bolded, My comment was aimed more that what seems to be conventional wisdom that you can achieve that with guys that are just going end up fighting and taking penalties, or like Austin Watson. A good forecheck that generates takeaways requires *skill*, and the other side of the coin is guys who either skate well enough or are at least strong enough on the puck to maintain possession in the face of the opponents forecheck. All deficiencies that this team has not addressed for years running.

Depends a lot on the context and what level of control he actually had. If you are sent cross country to pick up a construction crew, where does the responsibility lie regarding their status? (Don't say he should have known their status - easily half the guys working construction in the US today legally are Hispanic). I would think it would either be with the people that brought them into the country illegally or with the employer hiring them illegally. Where does the the guy driving a car fit into that scenario? Going to make him the fall guy in the middle for the people on each end running the process?

I don't know what the process would be. The Federal gov doesn't tax the state, it taxes the individuals and corporations in it. Those payments don't go through any state office that I've ever heard. They can withhold payroll taxes for state employees I suppose, but how big can that be to the overall amount?

Interesting - yesterday gameday had Montero listed as the started starter and today that has been changed to Holton. Maybe Hinch was waiting to see how much Holton was going to get used before today.

the first step in straightening out this society will be to start sending people, maybe a lot of people, and especially official people, to jail for perjury. So far we are still going in the wrong direction. More and more official lying, less and less accountability.

True. Kubek never made any particular impression on me as an announcer. He was just there, which is OK I guess. Garagiola was the best. He just made any game he worked enjoyable - much like Ernie in that regard.

LOL - I remember when Shep first started lack of completed sentences was also definitely a thing.

You don't see a guy hang around on the same team for 8 yrs with less than 1000 AB like Lynn Jones did much any more. He was probably also the tiniest Jones in the list. Officially 5'9" but I'm thinking that was generous.

I wouldn't say I ever rooted for Dallas, but in the dark years Dallas and SF were the two teams I followed so I would at least be familiar with a team I could watch play good football. 🤷‍♂️

was Shanahan the last ex-Wing the Leafs hired? How'd that work out? >he just didn't have the juice to be a head coach for that Wings tenure it seemed like. Yup- they did get a big lift when he started, but then they eventually started looking just like the team he took over from Blashill.

hopefully this is at least the end of the NIL charade. Note the NCAA still wants Congress to write all this plus more to an eventual statute.

Good baseball teams tend to be those that can get above average value out the typically below average value positions - esp catcher. Dingler is playing at about a 6 WAR season pace.

Brown has been kind of up and down this season - thrown some good game and some clunkers. He was good tonight and we beat him anyway.

I was thinking the same thing when I watched the replay - he underestimated the fade toward the line. But on other hand, it may have been a little easier to get the elevation off a run than if he was there and had to jump more flat footed, so it all worked in the end!

arg - lead off double. He's close to throwing too many strikes.

Tork pulled a good fastball. Good sign for later.