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I blame software. No... really. In the pre IT era, if you designed a product and it worked, you pretty much left the design alone and as people wore out their old one they would buy a new one and you had steady sales. No problem. But SW doesn't wear out. So SW writers have to keep churning versions or go broke even if they add nothing useful. Net result is the idea of constant product change just for sake of change is embedded more into American business practice that it should be.

I would have like to see Vierling get enough time at 3B to see if he improved there (he was pretty badly exposed on the lead off double yesterday!), but I don't think that is going to happen with the addition of Urshella.

I though in the video it's pretty clear Parker had stopped calling and had given way, Perez just didn't know it. To the larger question, it doesn't matter if a ball is closer to the side fielder, if the CF calls it the corner is still supposed to get out of the way.

It seems kind of absurd with all the special uni's they do in a year now that they don't have the ability to start slip streaming them in immediately, but of course it would be more obvious to fans that a change was being made to do it in season and that would be more embarrassing for the league, which is the best reason I can think of it's going to be a "wait for the off season" move.

looks like it should be a television network logo. "Diamond Youth Undervision Channel"

RE: Manu pick. The guy doesn't get that Holmes wants a winning team more than once. Manu is exactly the kind of investment that a strong existing roster allows the luxury of. If he is a good player in 2 or 3 yrs, Holmes will be a genius again.

The WhiteSox losses had held the division under 500 as a whole until the this week - Central is now 72-68. And the O's may just have lost Kimbrel. /. ..pffffffft!.../

It was classic unfamiliarity. Parker yielded, but Perez didn't know he had - at least not for sure. Whatever the signal was for "you take it" doesn't exist, wasn't established, known, heard, between them, and hearing footsteps he went gun shy at the last second. I could be quite wrong, but from watching games over the years, I've never noted much evidence that MLB players, ever, or often, counter call a ball - i.e. call to the other player to take a catch.

The White Sox have only played 3 games against teams below 500 and won all three. They have room to normalize up. OTOH, the Royals are 5-10 against winning teams. Unfortunately, Cle is 11-7

Damn - forgot about Kennedy.

It's a shame that when Ibanez comes off rehab they are probably going to send him back to Toledo. Parker is too big an asset in CF and has been hitting the ball better than his results this series, and I'm going to guess the commitment to Keith is strong enough he'll get more run. Or they could surprise me and decide to ride a hot hand....

A couple of the IF misplays were bad hops/bad luck. When you see an IF with his glove low and the ball hits him in the forearm as often as not he was positioned right and the ball came up - it happens. Colt and Javy each had one in Tampa. They have been sloppy but it looks even worse when they're getting bad bounces at the same time too.

He is two years out so his command should be a little better than a guy who came back faster, but everyone is different. If the command does improve, he'll be a force - if not, he can still keep them in a game.

Torkelson is going to scuffle until he decides to look outside for either the FB or slider and serve it into RF. He's looking for everything in and they are just pitching him away or off the plate inside and he's being totally mule-headed about it. The most obvious one was after he laced a ball down the LF line foul, you could have bet grandma's SS check the next pitch was going away - and it was 93, thigh high on the outer third screaming 'hit me' and Tork took it. You have to give an MLB pitcher some credit - he's not going to pitch you where you want it just because - you 1st have to make him pay for pitching it somewhere else.

And of course, truth is, he doesn’t need the NYT. 99% of NYT readers already support him and are more irritated at the Times in this affair than Biden. Biden has a pretty good sense of where he needs to put in effort he has the energy for and what’s just distraction.

TBF to LCA, a few of players in the arena survey noted that the only thing wrong with LCA is that it was empty -- no-one likes playing in an empty arena. The Pistons report 'paid' numbers that are fantasy wrt who is actually there.

I don't see anywhere that the two of them had a previous overlap, but they Hinch and Benetti give the impression of already having rapport based on history - or maybe that's just Benetti's gift.

QFT

What's funny to me is how flawed Sulzberger's premise is to begin with. If Trump and the current GOP should teach a journalist anything it's that what a politician has to say for himself should probably be the very least important aspect in forming the basis of your reporting. The readership and the democratic process requires hard fact, and you aren't going to get that from a poll even on the more honest side of the 50/50 split between minor liars and epic liars. Dig, research, report - what are they DOING, how are they doing it. I'm so completely burned out with this society's fixation with empty meaningless verbiage. That all the interviews and debates and ****-can them and try reporting on what's happening. Sulzberger wants that interview because it's prestigious, not because it's going to tell his readers anything important.

because no-one wants to be a wuss and order a soft-drink!

I just did an area measurement of Hart Plaza plus Woodward ave plus Campus Martius and it's about 89,000 m^2. If you have 3 people per square meter, which is probably on the high side for how close people actually are, that's what you would need for 250K. OTOH, there might be 25-40K inside the surrounding buildings.

Pure speculation but I'am going to guess Joe Kahn would as soon have made no statement about the Politico story at all, it's just inside baseball, but Sulzberger took it personally and couldn't leave it be so it came from corporate. J Rubin in WaPo has written a couple pieces eviscerating the Times coverage on journalistic grounds, but she never mentioned Sulzberger by name and NYT never said boo in response.

I usually worry more the other way - sometimes young men who mature fast streak out ahead of their peers only to plateau or get heavy and/or slow and end up left behind again. I sort of had a feeling the Tigers thought about Paredes that way - that he was going to 'grow' out of the quickness to remain an adequate IF and thus his positional value was low. That hasn't seemed to have happened. I admit that I thought that was a threat to Mike Trout's career early because he was so broad and muscled so young, but that certainly wasn't true either. Trout has run into injury purgatory but getting fat and slow hasn't been an issue! In any case, Clark seems to be having fun with things which I think is OK - until he starts talking about himself in the 3rd person.......Then we've got trouble.

Third paragragh feels dropped in or what left of something longer edited out. "However" doesn't really parse there. And 'instead' of what?

Bigger for sure.