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Probably - though McKinstry has exceeded my expectations with his play there - of course that could mean he is ripe for regression! I was disappointed in a lack of a play by Gleyber for the 1st time in a while today. I didn't think he made much of an effort on the ball Nimmo hit in the 8th. IDK, maybe he figures Nimmo is too fast to throw out if he dives for the ball, but the effort looked lackluster.

😡 I cannot ID this Tiger. Carson Kelly maybe?

At minimum it allows Javy - who is 32, and is always playing a high stress defensive position, to get more games off against RHP.

He's getting stronger mentally - the ump screwed him a few times but it didn't knock him off stride. Of course he was throwing the ball well today, so that probably helped his mentality.

Mize showing the FB that can make him a solid #2. Can he keep that in his back pocket the rest of the way?

If Aspiration are scammers, isn't Ballmer is the guy that got in bed with them? I'm not sure a guy like Ballmer claiming naivete is all that persuasive. But if he did get legitimately taken, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

welcome to the Hotel California....

Too many of those guys stay in those positions because running those companies the way they do makes money for the people that keep them there. You see it all the time (like Boeing after all the MD people took over the corporate suites), good managements driven out by bad because the bad can turn better short term profits. Then yes - it becomes the overall management culture everywhere.

Yup - a lot factors play into a successful offense. For instance, how often does the called play actually comprise a set of options that a QB is choosing from once he sees the defense? If the offensive system gives the QB options, the QB can make the OC look a lot better or worse by how well he chooses from among those options.

You get what you reward. I've said it here a million times, US corporate and tax law needs reform to take the profit away from the value extractors and give it back to the value generators. But it's another problem that doesn't lend itself to 30 second sound bites so gets no traction in US politics. All people understand is that they know things suck but they don't know why.

I don't get why they would try to keep anything a secret - the GOP has been paying for their media influence for a couple of generations and it's worked for them. That's the game, the Dems better play it.

this bullpen is in total meltdown. Good thing the rest of the team is not too bad.

mental error by Holton - he needs to know where his IFs are.

so we'll get Parker for the stretch run, but will he hit? Urquidy might give them some innings but it probably can't be many. Lange was hit his last time out in Toledo - he apparently still has a way to be before he can contribute, Melton is already here. They need a functional Hurter back.

LOL - Some of this stuff cracks me up. How can a fix for a bad brake line take more time to develop? They only been doing hydraulic brakes for what? 100+yrs? Smacks of a too shallow engineering capability. I don't know which are worse, the ones that are poor quality control or the ones that are weak engineering. I haven't owned/driven a Ford since I had a company car in 2004. That was a solid vehicle if somewhat obsolete (a Crown Vic). Have been thinking about a Mach-E but recent news isn't inspiring.

it's always been true the most likely victim of a gun in any household is one of the people that lives there.

I can't read this story but I think the headline may be wrong. USA today has NHTSA issuing 1.2 million recalls total, some at Ford, some at other places but Ford is the biggest chunk. The worst Ford recall is a possible faulty rear brake lines on 400K cars. The other big one is a wonky instrument panel and a third is a lighting failure in module that is getting wet because of sloppy welding around it. Not good stuff. To me the worst one at Ford was the stop sell/recall on the Mach E over doors that won't open. That was a screw up on the part of multiple design/engin and testing groups.

They can hire some laid off NCAA NIL investigators who know all about how to not see this stuff.

Goff especially. Goff's rep going right back to Cal is that he is a thinking QB and at this stage in his maturity and confidence, I have a hard time seeing him let his OC put the O in a bad place, let alone Campbell. We've all seen the clips where it's Goff who goes to Campbell on the sideline and says, "we're going to do this" and Campbell goes along with HIM.

exactly. It's called 'initiative' and the perp always has it, which is why no matter how may weapons are around, an armed perp is seldom stopped until after a lot of damage is done. To get on my 'old man yells at cloud' soapbox, Hollywood is responsible for so much public misunderstanding of what gun play is really about. In video bystanders don't get hit by stray bullets, the good guys don't panic and shoot the wrong person, the cops are always brave and self-sacrificing. People just aren't immune to all the images they digest over a lifetime. They may have some intellectual awareness that 'that's not real life' but there is no escaping that the nature of violence as we see it depicted literally thousands of times creates a perceptual bias about reality.

For some guys going out to pitch would be the best way to cope with grief. Everybody is different. It's hard to know whether his mental state affected his outcome or not since he's not that good to being with and a result like yesterday would not be unexpected for him under normal circumstances. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This. In the history of the NFL the good coaches usually continue to put good teams on the field even as their assistants come and go.

They'll keep fighting the rear guarde actions, in the end I don't think it's going to change the long term trend because the tech is moving the total cost of ownership for EVs to a lower price point, and in the end that will be determinative. Just as they have had little success moving utilities off the move to renewables, because generating costs for renewables are just lower now. Buyers won't care about Green vs Maga politics when it becomes a pocketbook issue and when buyers move the government will follow because people want to get elected.

Figures it would be Ballmer. He was a slime ball when he ran MS.

the difference was that he got lots of swing and miss from those hitters on splits out of the zone. When he first got to the majors on call up big league hitters didn't swing at those pitches and his walk rate suddenly was over 4. He came back the next season with a 50% reduction in his splitter use and a new slider. I think maybe his strike throwing in college was easy to overestimate because of how much swing and miss he got on those pitches out of the zone. Over time Casey has reworked the split to command it better, keep it in the zone when he wants to, and his splitter usage has increased again while maintaining a reasonable walk rate. But Casey's other problem when he came up was that while the velo was good, his fast ball was too hittable. Not enough movement by major league standards and he has had to rework that also. He's worked on improving his 4 seam FB and it's usage had been trending up. He's also picked up a little more velo on the sinkers he does throw (result of the surgeries maybe). I wonder how much pitch F/X data was available on Mize when he was drafted. The out of zone strikes and modest life in his FB would have been there to see in the data if there had been data. So he's already done a lot of re-invention in his career, and I give him credit for that.