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He played ~40 games in the OF in the minors before this season. Still not much.

Not sure why he didn't go to second on the throw home, which looked like it was thrown too high for there to have been any chance for it to be cut off.

Parker was going in to play CF anyway.

and a very fine AB in the 8th. Got a base hit on a pitch that fooled him - not enough others on this team can manage that.

Detroit has had fewer hotel room than most competing cities for a long time. It's a working town - not exactly a big tourist draw.

yeah - one way to look at the current overall party positioning is the Dem have the most to win with the 'but they're all the same' voter, and to do that maybe you give up a few short term chances to score social media points to try and change your narrative. IDK if it works, time will tell, but Jeffries seems like that type of straight ahead kind of guy so I can believe it's what he wants to have work.

Tork gets rung up on another outside FB. He takes one the other way and persuades himself he can immediately go back to looking inside. Nope.

good for him. His 1st AB was a study in what he's been doing wrong. Took a cookie FB for strike one, didn't look outside for the called strike that came for 0-2 and then a weak pop-out.

Today we have a battle of 5.9 ERA starters. No doubt another 1-0 game in store.

well, don't over read it. It's the overall context. Johnson doesn't need to be any kind of saint to be a far more trustworthy opponent than McCarthy - who was a total scumbag, lying to and crossing friend and foe alike with the wind direction, or even worse a diaboli like Gym Jordan whose name would be sure to come up again as potential successor.

agree. Most AB is not the right criteria - it's most potential to generate runs in however many AB. If he misses one AB a week batting 2 or 3 instead of 1st but has three or 4 more ABs with men on base.... On many teams it wouldn't make as much difference as with the Tigers where the the bottom of the order has really low OBP right now.

this is close to the way I would put it - I wouldn't necessarily say he's trying too hard to cover *everything* as being unwilling to decide to look outside before he has 2 strikes. His last two hits were up the middle rather than pulled so I liked that. I don't know if the org has over encouraged it because they need the long ball, but I think it's been very counter productive for Tork to be as pull centric as he has started this season. The pitches to hit deep are more likely to come when he proves to pitchers they can't get him out so easily away. What is frustrating is that he showed clearly enough at times last season he can go the other way, and even do it with power, but it hasn't been in his game plan this season.

Blood, Sweat and Tears. Amazing arrangements, D C Thomas' voice is still a one in a million. Sort of like hearing the Beatles now, it's hard to orient to how ground breaking the sound was in '67

Jeffries is still prudent not to assume nothing important will arise. As has been noted, the rich part is that the public expression of support will just drive MTG and her wingnut caucus even more crazy, deepening the internal rifts in the GOP. It's pure bonus for the Dems when doing the right thing ends up being the politically winning thing, which it too rarely is.

Yeah - there are soo many layers to this onion. Aside from all the points above, I think it is also true that while the Dems see Johnson as someone whose politics they oppose just as deeply as anyone else's, they believe he at least has the personal integrity that McCarthy lacked - so they can negotiate with him and have some confidence in his word. Given that the Freedom caucus will not support a true moderate and they haven't found any GOP House members to flip to actually take the House, there is little chance of getting anyone better.

Charles Koch, who in the past claimed to want to defeat Trump, is throwing his money into a anti-Biden campaign - anything to keep that black gold flowing in his refineries. Koch Group Attacks Biden on the Economy - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/us/politics/libre-koch-biden-economy.html

LOL - yeah - this one is so bizarre. The bulletin board software apparently has some kind of susceptibility to magic byte strings - and it has persisted through multiple upgrades of the site SW.

Random thought: If your military adversary hides among the civilian population, maybe the best long term solution for the safety of all future civilian populations is to prove to them it's not going to help them. Of course that depends on your adversary caring at least somewhat about it's own civilians - a premise not necessarily in evidence.

I haven't watched the video from game 2 but in game one Wendelstedt was calling a LOT of strikes for both pitchers - which helped make their already good performances even better, so lack of scoring on both sides was not surprising.

Laptop/Safari/Sonoma. I'm usually on a Linux machine. I do get a very occasional momentary drop at home - I don't know if it's ATT's DNS wigging out for a second or just a botched wireless access point hand-off - but when that happens linux will send an offline message to the desktop. What I'd never seen before was the message back from the site saying I was trying to post repeatedly too rapidly. Maybe Sonoma doesn't handle a drop as gracefully and was machine gunning its send buffer into a fault? One of those odd little things that will likely remain a mystery.

No easy task. A team trying to build for consistent quality will always be at a disadvantage to teams willing to mortgage their futures for a short run. The CBAs and salary cap systems try to force any budding dynasties to be short. He's going to have to be a lot smarter than the average GM - and maybe he is.

How long before the other shoe drops on(off?) directTV?

Mike Trout, off to a great start, tears a meniscus and will need knee surgery. Timetable unknown. Not expected to be season ending. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40059347/angels-superstar-mike-trout-needs-knee-surgery-sources-say

I'm a little skeptical Malloy's profile is going to play in the majors. His value depends too much on his walk rate and MLB pitchers just are not going to walk him at those rates, regardless of how good his eye is. If he develops the power to get some of those walks back because pitchers are afraid of him, that can work.

But they don't need to save him now for Ukraine and they could have put this statement out before the vote but didn't, so I'd guess they negotiated something else they wanted out of him to make their support 'official'. Maybe something obscure or procedural in which case the odds are good we may never know what, if anything, it was.