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Will all due respect to Hinch's R/L matchup calculations, Lange could have have walked two guys in the 7th as well as Sommers.

the Tigers scoring has increased geometrically each inning they've scored. They'll be due to score 8 next.

Torkelson walks on stirke 2.

Zach is taking down the Royal solo.

I guess don't see why government activity in the market would bother Bernie. If this had been any President other than Trump why would Bernie's support of this kind of move surprise anyone?

way to drain the heart out the them boys...

The umpire is terrible, but you already know the umpire is terrible so you have to understand where you need to throw the ball.

Keith BaBIP'd

Clark with 2BB and a HR.

for all his stuggles Mize is leaving one out away from a QS.

what does this do for either Intel or the US gov? Nothing really. Basically a photo-op for the CNBC crowd.

not a lot of advantage going to 3rd with two outs, esp against a guy who isn't at all wild, but they all look good when they work.

umpire with a small zone should be benefiting both sides but Tiger may need to be a little more patient - like Torres not getting anything out of a 3-0.

There are a few pitchers who can pitch behind, guys that we sometimes call 'creatively wild', Casey isn't one of them. Really since he first came up, it always about his command. It still comes and goes frustratingly often.

There are a few pitchers who can pitch behind, guys that we sometimes call 'creatively wild', Casey isn't one of them. Really since he first came up, it always about his command. It still comes and goes frustratingly often.

because Sommer is a lefty and Lange is the righty at the end of the depth chart right now. Next series against a more RHH team they'll swap again. Plus Lange needs to keep working and since he wasn't all that sharp in this 1st outing Hinch probably isn't willing to use him in a whole lot of situations.

To me the fixation of the US viewing public on superhero movies is another bad reflection on the way this society views itself - which is basically as impotent bystanders constantly waiting to be rescued by someone or something else. In a way I find them to be very 'un-American' narratives.

what's the word on Clark? He hasn't played two games since leaving the game on the 19th in his 1st AB but I don't see any DL notice on his transaction page - not that that isn't often not up to date...

Note those are not ex-players. To me that was Shep's hang-up/downfall. There were a few times when Shep worked a Tiger game with another media person and he was way better - acted like a real person with a real brain. But put him with an ex-player and he always went all lap-dog. It's just not a good broadcast to listen to someone doing that.

Maybe.... I wanted the Mets in 2006 because I though we didn't match up well against StL pitching, and we didn't. Of course we may have lost to the the Mets also.

yup. You are going to spend a lot of time with the announcers of your baseball team, they need to be real people with identities, ideas of their own, hold a conversation with their booth mates like an equal, project their own personality connecting to the audience. Shep didn't think any of that was his job. That's why he no longer has it. Benetti may go overboard a little, but at least he is there as himself and as a full partner.

As I recall learning many years ago from a little game theory, when you go up against unprincipled opposition, your best course is supposedly to absorb the first 'cheat'. But after that if they don't return to the rules you take the gloves off and beat them anyway you can because it's always a losing proposition to offer principled treatment to those who won't observe principle. (which in the end is why the way the Allies finished WWII was the correct course, but that's another story....). From larger standpoint of Christian ethics this is not a trivial dilemma to face. We are taught to give our cloak to the man that takes our coat. The traditional justification out of the passive political stance is that the responsibility of an individual is different than the responsibility of civil leadership, because justice is a requirement of moral civil leadership, and if course means must be employed to remove unjust leadership, so be it. That's the theory anyway.

Correct. The exact number of games should follow from making the most rational schedule - that is if any assumptions of rationality can be taken with Manfred's regime.

Our society has fallen to where money is the only value and victory is the only reason to play the game. So this is what we get. Now sure, there are plenty - millions - of people for whom that is not what real life is about, but those people no longer control the economy or the culture, or the office of the commissioner of baseball.