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It turns out it's been his bad arm along and a finally completely healed Carson Kelley ends up a plus bat for the Tigs.

This is the Casey Mize they thought they drafted. Now, can he stay healthy? After today Olson can start looking for a place to live in Toledo. Also it was fun to hear Morneau be worried that the Tiger's have more pitching than the Twins.

There is always tensions around how to deploy resources on 'acute' vs 'diffuse' crimes. Obvious physical danger to life and limb and violence and robbery against individuals has terrible direct impact on those individuals that is absent in 'white collar' crime. But there is also a case to be made that just because effects are diffuse doesn't mean they are not real. Business corruption will rot an economy - until in the end you are Putin's Russia, and then there is no question everyone has suffered big time. I think it's a reasonable case to make that Trump's abuses are much more important to pursue exactly because he did reach the pinnacle of political power. The normalization of his business abuse become exponentially more important to push back against when his office is/was the embodiment of federal business corruption law enforcement and his person is (for better or worse) a national role model so to speak.

Or it might set him up as the perfect replacement for Jamie Foxx at MGM...

just gonna bookmark this....

Tangentially related: Yesterday during the game Benetti did his little game with Gibson where he asks him if he remembers the details of some event in his playing career. The incident Jason had on tap was Gibson barreling over Pat Borders at the plate. After the normal joking around, Gibson actually got a little pensive and to paraphrase said something along the lines of not being particularly proud of that person he was - "I was taught to play a violent game and it took me a long time after I left it to learn to leave that behind"

merde a frappé le ventilateur?

TBF though, a judge will normally come down as hard as possible on *any* perp that continually refuses to recognize the validity of his prosecution. And I don't mean this in the sense of claiming innocence. What drove Engoron to hammer Trump is the same thing that would get any perp hammered, and that is to admit you did what the law clearly says is a crime and still deny you did anything wrong. IOW it's Trump's defiance of the fundamental rule of law that got him hammered, and I would argue that would be the result for pretty much any defendant taking the same approach.

How long was OJ in the Bronco?

He'd be even more valuable playing with a center closer to his level. Compher gives it his best, but he's more like a 3rd line guy.

I think they would be happy with Olson and Faedo as starters #6 and #7 stashed with the Hens. G-Long is out of contention to make the team for now because of the injury.

Yeah, that seems something worth trying.

Don't see much hope for Baddoo, they've only given him 25 AB and he hasn't hit in those so that doesn't appear like much of an effort to have him ready to go with the regulars. They'll send Kreidler down just because they want him staying sharp at SS and to get full time ABs. If Javy can't get it together they need him ready as he can be. The service time/super 2 issue is probably enough to cost Olson the nod, unless Casey or Manning comes up with an issue in the remaining days.

The team is at a development plateau right now. Even given the most optimistic read - which would be that Edvinsson sticks and raises the level on D, they are just about as desperate for another center as they have been for the DMan and Kasper is still too far away. Veleno is still terrible, Ras does some good things but if they had the center depth I'd still rather have him at a wing.

Lelonde was throwing cold water on a Thursday return. But then again Ras was supposed to be out sick tonight and showed up.

In a league where the Cy Young has been won by Rick Porcello and Robbie Ray, it's certainly possible.

It's not hopeless quite yet - he has barreled up a few recently with little to show. The 1st AB tonight was terrible though - totally non-competitive.

Third CBJ goal was on Reimer. Raymond is playing like a star. Fabbri had a good game. Kane is immensely talented, but he doesn't create possession. DeBrincat is in a funk. OTOH, Edvinsson gets pucks back. And attempts to forecheck against him were futile. I don't care if he makes an occasional mistake if he drives/maintains puck possession like that. At least against CBJ's level of play. Can he do it against better competition? Tonight was a good start, but we'll see.

where is Jerry Lewis?

yup - goalie tossed the net hoping for a lucky call out of the confusion

We're seeing the emergence of Raymond as a the second lead on this team. Edvinsson was fine. Got to a lot of pucks, cut off a lot of rushes, controlled the puck well.

It would be good if Torkelson's bat could wake up sometime soon.

Flaherty dusts Stevenson with a 97 mph high fastball to end the top of the 5th. 4H 7K 0R.

Well, we won't have to compete with OSU for a new hire. They went with the assistant in-hand - Jake Dielber bumped up to head coach.

Sounds like they are going pair Simon with Petry. That could work. Petry is steady but his skating is sort of gone - he doesn't show enough speed to pressure the puck effectively in the defensive zone - if Edvinsson brings some reach and energy and more attack to the their pairing maybe it will work out.