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That's one good possibility. There are some others as well. One would be that they were targeting a particular group or commander now in Sudan who was responsible for something previously in Ukraine. Another would be that they were attacking a Russian income source. And it was probably low risk/low cost, the Russian in Sudan probably weren't expecting to have to take on any well trained adversaries.

And to think John Boehner's only ambition on leaving was good wine, good leaf, and improving his tan. What a loser.

or "rupture." But let's not go there.....😟

Yeah - if you enter a topic from the outside with a google search I think you probably get more unbiased results.

Basically true, but there are guys who are good over an extended time - again, Chapman, who was good over about 12 yrs, comes to mind. But there you are talking about the one true weapon - a really great fastball. So I think the pitch profile matters. I think historically it's just harder to maintain command of a better than average breaking ball from year to year than to keep throwing a great fastball if you have the arm to do it. To me, on this staff that means I like the odds better that Foley - basically a high nineties fastball pitcher, will be more consistent over time at the level you expect from him, than Lange - even if Lange, when he is 'on' may be more dominant in stretches. In general I'm just not a big fan of guys who pitch backwards from their breaking ball even though you seem to see more of it now.

Well exactly. But that doesn't mean I have to like it, or believe that a pretty non-standard pitch profile like Lange's has a high probability of being a consistent answer. He's an outlier to the usual successful reliever, so when he falters, I think skepticism is maybe more warranted than with a guy like - say, Aroldis Chapman (who even earlier in his career was a little up and down....) whose tools are those that are traditionally successful in the role. If the Tigers want to give him all the rope in the world, go for it, but I'm reserving the right to say "I told you so" if it doesn't work out.

the fun thing with Mariano was to look at his strike zone heat maps. Always a big white hole in the middle-middle. He just didn't miss over the middle of the plate very often.

It's more than narrative when twitter's search engine won't find return a hit on a well respected poster like Thomas Thiener even when you include his middle initial.

I hadn't remembered that they actually got to an owners vote on contraction. I remembered all the talk about it but not that they actually voted to boot the Expos and Twins. And the Twins won the division a year later!

Yes.

Right, your average reliever doesn't have a third pitch, which usually either results in a bad platoon split or just inability to show a batter anything 2nd or 3rd time through. Problem for Lange is that he is down to ONE pitch. Now if the one pitch is a fastball or cutter and you can command so well that you never miss hitting only the corners, (looking at you Mariano) then you can get away with one pitch, otherwise, not so much!

well, I don't really care what he says about it, I'd prefer he act to reduce Lange's leverage because he has better choices. I know they don't really care if they win games right now, but as a fan I don't have to accept that.

Only thing I have used it for is to follow the tactical reports out of Ukraine and Musk has been messing with the visibility of posters he regards as too anti-Russian, so screw him. Have no intention of giving him a first nickel if/when he asks for it.

Oh - he could have said a lot of things. He might have said something like "We know Lange has been fighting it and we'll try to reduce his leverage until he rights the ship" which is not unlike things he has said about other relievers who have had struggles in the past. For me it's mostly that I think they are oversold on Lange's repertoire. I go back to what I have always believed. It doesn't matter how much your breaking ball breaks (i.e. how well you spin) if you let any MLB hitter see enough of it and know when to expect it, they can hit it or learn to take it. You have to be able to throw your fast ball (or something else) too, and Lange can't right now. I think the org tends to be oversold on spin for the sake of spin on a particular pitch instead of spin as a tool to create variation between pitches.

I was glad to hear the other day from Hinch that he has complete faith in Lange, even if it is completely unjustified.

Hinch pulls Foley for Lange, who promptly gives up a double, walk, Make that a BS.

yeah - something wrong on that bunt. If it was a suicide Baddoo broke way too late, and if it was a safety squeeze he should have stayed put.

Appears the Russians no longer have the resources to keep defending the Karabakh Armenian separatists. Azerbajani's reportedly have destroyed a Russians base and the Russian have chosen to withdraw. Have also seen reports Russian is pulling artillery pieces out of Syria for deployment to Ukraine. And Russian state TV extolling the virtues of living like North Koreans to the population. And here we thought the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

Tearing your UCL on a fall would have to be a one in a million chance - but that would figure for the Tigers.

Seems a lot of variation in how people react to Shringrix, both in terms of how much discomfort you have at the injection site and in how much general reaction you have. I don't remember reacting to the 1st dose at all. The 2nd one I felt pretty lousy the 2nd day. Various friends have had reactions all over the map. But I don't know anyone who's had shingles who didn't describe it as totally horrible.

I'm looking at it pretty much as having passed into the same category as the flu. It's always going to be around, it will keep morphing marginally as time goes by, I'm not particularly worried about getting it (have had mild cases at least once, possibly twice ) so at this point have both natural and vax based immune response. But if a 10 sec shot saves me even two days of sniffles and a cough, I'm not passing up that trade.

And why would you? Your best hedge is to wait until at least the end of ST to see what work he may have done on the off-season and how well he does. I think Javy knows full well he has to get shorter to the ball, but that kind of adjustment is not easy for anyone to do on the fly. Assuming he's not opting out, the Tigers have nothing to lose by not burning any bridges that would preclude him making some level of comeback, regardless of what the probability of that looks like now. There is certainly a chance you could persuade him to opt out, but it could as easily blow up in your face as a high profile and (likely successful) MLBPA grievance. Not to mention it sounds very un-Ilitch-like.

Why does Elon assume the people that run propaganda bots aren't willing to invest $ in their activity? Will small fees stop state sponsored Russian disinformation efforts? I doubt it, they are already investing big money in the hardware and manpower behind these programs, why would a few more bucks stop them?

yeah - I don't see any downside to just riding it out in this case.

Iggy lost a season to stress fractures. Addressed it in his training and it never recurred. Lower leg stress fractures can happen in younger players who over train and don't have sense enough to stop when they start to feel the first warning signs, so I'm not so alarmed by that as long as the training staff stays on top of him in the future. Definitely agree Riley has to stop playing such a reckless style. No one can keep playing like that and stay healthy. Just moderate things. You don't have to stop diving, but keep it to low dives more along the ground. If you are going to have to leap up and across like on the play where he hurt the arm, just play it off the wall. Hopefully playing next to Meadows (if he can stick) will help as an example as it's pretty clear Parker plays a more under control style - maybe it will rub off a little on Riley.