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Tigers 2, Astros 1 in the game of inches

With this small K zone - could be a high scoring game before it's over.

well the nice thing about being a catcher is the guy in front of you is still going to leave you about 60 games no matter how good he is.

well it wasn't because of the match-up. Last year Keith 0/3 against Blanco, Zach 0/4.

LOL - That was a Sparky rule: "Always rest a guy when he's hot" Used to drive us all crazy but Sparky's idea apparently was that the best time to rest a guy was when he was hot because (Sparky believed) he was less likely to lose his edge with the rest.

ESPN story that Altuve doesn't want to lead off - ostensibly because he he's not ready to hit after running in from the OF in the 1st ...whatever you say Jose....🙄. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44907699/now-left-field-altuve-asks-astros-leadoff-spot

the can make what excuses they want, but their sponsorship clearly ran out of juice.

The terminology refers to the minimum. You remove a guy or not any time after the minimum has run, but not before. The idea to enforce a minimum is so teams don't play roster games trying to stash someone who isn't really injured or other abuses. The relatively long minimum means you aren't going to put the guy on the list unless you are pretty sure you really can't use him for a couple of weeks. The only shorter period allowed is the relatively recent rule for concussions. You get a 7 day minimum there but entering and leaving concussion protocol has its own separate set of rules.

Malloy is a unicorn - can't hit a lick but walks his way to 390 OBP. You'd think that would eventually come to an end with pitchers refusing to walk him - but it hasn't happened yet. As it stands, as long as they keep walking him, he's pretty valuable. Keith is getting to be the questionable one at this point. He's at 66 AB compared to Riley's 107 - IOW he's down to playing half time - and actually less than that more recently. It's one thing if they were committed to letting him play through his problems, but you can't have him sitting - he's got to play. If not here then in the other place.

so - just for the sake of hypothetical argument lets assume Trump can't/doesn't salvage his voters from their buyer's remorse and isn't able to completely collapse the republic. What happens to his voters politically? Do they sour on the political system and stop voting? Will they be up for a new hero? What I don't think will happen is they start voting D. The best I think we can hope for is the 1st: Any Dem hope of recovering to a majority will be in MAGA burnout and a smaller electorate.

I would guess they originally thought that Maeda and Jobe might split some starts, but with Kenta pretty hopeless maybe that does become Cobb for a while - until they see how effective he is or he can win a starting spot for himself.

apparently

the tendency Skubal has to fight is getting too predictable. The FB and Change are so good he tends to lock in, but you want guys who think about sitting on a change-up to know the next off-speed they get might still be something else.

Silly me, a few years ago we had new panel put in but since everything in a house was getting more efficient at that point, I saw no reason to upgrade the incoming service. I have 100A and I could run a class II 7.5kW charger as long as I didn't kick the oven into 'fast preheat' while the AC was running......🙄. I'm hoping I can get a service upgrade and have the charger breakered separately and run direct to the garage - then the existing panel could stay.

except in '84 they were going undefeated on the road.

Best overall start since 2015, when they also got to 17-10

yup - they only got to 12-4 in '84.

America 2025: N.o..C.l.a.s.s It's a thing that can be overdone - but some is *always* better than none.

Baez now elevated to late inning defensive specialist - in CF.

Dirk's description of Keith not getting his bottom half out in front of his upper body was a good bit - it put me in mind of Victor Reyes, who had the same issue but an order of magnitude worse - that 6'5" 200lb frame couldn't generate any consistent power because he never learned to get his hips out in front of his swing.

Riley gets BaBIP'd

he needs to keep confidence that he can reach the seats to right because he is seeing a lot of outside pitching and just going to right gives him better odds than trying to turn around an outside pitch.

trump has someone new writing for him. You can tell because: a) this is too long to be a normal Trump post b) the vocabulary is several steps above the normal Trump post c) it's too logical to be a normal Trump post. d) and the slam dunk: there is actual concern expressed for people other than Trump.

This. Sat is Montero's scheduled day to pitch and since it's now a DH it's a free call-up.

the only thing surprising to me is that they didn't segregate the revenue sports - the main direction seems like the inevitable future.