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you'd have to believe they can play 600 the rest of the way. Just hard to see. If you could add hitters without losing Lorenzen and ERod - maybe, but how could you do that without giving away the future? Can't do it.

Lange? EDIT: Nope

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This pitching staff is so brittle, I'd just as soon they made Lorenzen an offer to stay, but in his comments in the Freep the other day there was no indication at all they were talking.

So Grienke calls his own game with Pitchcom. I think we are slowly going to see that be the future. If you think about it, the reason the signal system had to be catcher-> pitcher originally was only because that was the only way to do it without the batter seeing the signal. With that constraint removed, there is isn't any reason for pitchers not to call their own games and it's bound to evolve back that way. Right now catcher->pitcher is deep tradition, but is now a tradition without any underlying support.

not listening right now but my usualy experience is that the on air radio is at least 30 seconds ahead of the internet audio stream. I also think they are time manipulating the radio audio to lengthen the commercial break to more than 2 min, then slicing silence to catch up to real time each inning so the radio comes back late each inning compared my video but ends the inning almost in sync. Quite weird.

Harrison Kass? Post better

LOLGOP. Eliot's been flogging this line ever since Trump lost re-election. No more 'compelling' than the 1st two times he wrote it and not likely to get any more traction this time either.🤦‍♀️ And of course ironically to the article, the Ford/Nixon precendent pretty much guarantees that no President is going to pardon his predecessor of the other party again and risk losing re-election over it.

they are talking about it being used for payroll processing which is generally considered 1st party. IDK, I'm not sure it's necessarily the transfer method per se that always determines 1st vs 3rd party but it's a fair question and I freely stipulate it's not something I know much about.

and Ukraine drops the other shoe. Bold - if they can back it up:

If you like Rogers as your primary you aren't going to do a full blown L/R platoon at catcher because that gives 75% of the PA to the LH guy. You really just want a backup for Jake, and that doesn't have to be a LH bat as long as you can find a RHB whose OPS platoon split isn't completely terrible (say even 625-650) since you're going to prefer to give Jake most of his days off against RHP (his OPS is 960 against LHP!) Which BTW, is the big opportunity cost of Hinch's even handedness doling out PA against LHP between Jake and Haase. He's trying to get Haase going but he's giving up the damage that Jake could be doing.

Yeah - I'm on board with this. Don't do a lot of Venmo - have had issue with the app, but we do keep an account at a separate bank from our regular accounts for paypal so we always have an absolute limit on our liability there. It may be overkill but seemed like a good idea at the time....

The penalty stuff is bad, poor discipline and looks like in a lot of those he either never got the snap count or couldn't remember it. I think the catching on the body critique was a little overplayed, some of those were poor lead throws where he didn't have a lot of choice. Definitely a project for the staff though. To me the most worrisome thing about a change for the worse in having his head in the game would be that it immediately makes you question whether there is a substance issue. You hope they did their homework on that already

Also Ironic that the PPI rule is now acting as much to keep Colt Keith at AAA as is it to help him get promoted now. Not that I'd call him up now anyway. I just don't want to see them give up on Harris' supposed commitment to give guys their shot this season. They aren't going to catch Minny/Cleveland with this offense anyway and if they sell pitching for offense they won't have the pitching for a serious run Their best month this season was about 550 and if they play 550 the rest of the way that's still only 80 even, and that's not likely to do it. So if I'm sitting in Harris' chair I want to use the rest of season to see Meadows and maybe Malloy and maybe even Perez, Kreidler if he's medically cleared, and if you happen to catch lightening in a bottle and both Cleveland and Minny collapse, that's gravy, but waiting for that wouldn't be my plan A.

The big difference was that Jones would walk guys because he was being careful and consciously deciding to risk working a little too fine. Lange is just completely losing his command.

I think it may have already reached the point where AAA would be doing more good for Baddoo than Meadows, and Meadows would be doing more good for the Tigers, which is why I would make the move. You can always option him back and maybe even rotate Malloy in for a stretch if need, despite the handedness swap. At 23 1/2 it's not like you need to preserve Meadows' options anymore. The other aspect is I would want to see at least a little of what I have in Meadows against MLB pitching this season because it's going to help you plan for next season. I would think they'd want a better idea of whether he is a viable MLB player before the off-season. He might not be able to prove he is with much certainty, but he could well prove he isn't.

Unusual anyway. I guess Dontrelle was sort of similar in terms of being a pitcher that had an unfixable delivery, but IIRC in Dontrelle's case it also ended up being compounded by injuries.

I can understand being able to pick someone's pocket with Norris. He was one of those 'hope springs eternal' guys because you knew there was good arm in there if you could just find the formula for him to deliver the ball like thousands of ordinary pitchers do everyday - how hard could it be? Too hard apparently.

Since it's not my team, my money nor my roster to manage, I have no qualms about saying after 6 or 7 yrs I'm ready for them to stop giving such long leashes to players that would be pretty flawed even under their best upside....

Green, Meadows Vierling, Carpenter, Cabrera are sharing 3 OF + DH and Cabrera only plays 50% and they want to rest Riley more the rest of the way so the other three can all have >80% of maximum AB. Works for me. I like Baddoo, but he's done pretty close to zero since June other than the one game this week. It's not enough.

Greene interview by Kane exhibit B on how bad the Bally broadcast is. Try thinking up a question or two before you start an interview JK.

Tigers owe Isbel a Bally Short One. Completely bailed out a Lange that couldn't have thrown him a called strike. But we'll take it.

CMo is terrible. Two things bother me about Shepherd. 1st, he's just not that good an announcer - mangles sentences, starts phrases without knowing where he is going etc. But I could live with that if he would just finally claim his competence as a baseball guy instead of constantly, repeatedly, endlessless refusing to express a baseball take of his own without asking his color guy a question like wet behind the ears schoolboy. It makes for a constantly stilted broadcast. By now he should know enough baseball to be able to express an opinion and just have a normal conversation with his colorman. He doesn't need to constantly act like he's a total baseball moron.

Parker 2/3 HR. K rate for July <25%. It's time.

Javy trying to bank an out for the 9th.