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Cabrera and Schoop in the lineup has put the Tigers in violation of the "3 black hole rule"

need to score some more Runz.

Boyd's choice I guess. Or maybe the Card's system broke - isn't the deal that if one side want to use theirs but it won't work the other side can't either?

Bah! Spencer got himself into a hitter's count and squibed it.

LOL - I lived in MN for a number of years and don't think I ever saw a single Impala. I'd guess Hertz made a huge rental car purchase during the survey period of something......

It too long to except meaningfully and it's behind the NYT paywall, though I think NYT gives you a couple of feebies a month, but Thomas Edsall has a long piece about the evolution and de-evolution of the Alpha male in primate anthropology and Trump stands as exhibit A of what the species has evolved beyond - at least in theory. 🤔 It's a serious discussion and also pretty funny at the same time. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/opinion/trump-evolutionary-psychology.html?searchResultPosition=1

does any of this noise from Prigozhin get seen by many Russians?

Careful, you're being woke.

Well. That take is nothing if not ....imaginative.

Hoover: CHECK!! Ike: check Nixon: happened under Ford so apply 'full-term' exclusion Reagan: check Bush I: check Bush II: CHECK!! Orange Menace: check -- OK I'm out.

this always makes me laugh - we were lucky to win a single game in a season when I was there.....

the value of the face to face interview is the most overrated piece of social theory invention of the modern era. It's a relevant predictor for maybe 10% of the places it's used. But it plays so well the the ego massage needs of managers it will never go away. Especially in sport. I mean WTF - do you suppose Ted Williams was ever a good interview?

yeah - I don't think there is any long term possibility of intersection between the Venn Diagrams of "successful unitary nation" and "a place where War-Lords are running around." Putin may have signed the death warrant of the current Russian state when he took the path of least resistance of encouraging the growth of a massive private army in order to fight his pet war at reduced domestic poltical cost. All that needs to happen is Prigozhin to wake up one morning and decide the easiest way to resupply his troops is start taking supplies from MOD troops by force. About 2 days after that Russia is Sudan.

at some point just not making an out is a victory.

weird hot and cold team. But good to be on the hot side.

I was never under any illusions that Roberts was a conservative, but I did think that he did have some concern for the legitimacy and integrity of the court as an institution, but as this all emerges it sadly evident that he has been MIA as an honest adminstrator of this court and at this point has retreated to full scale CYA. I suppose that constitutionally he may not have any explicit power over other justices, but if had been at all interested he could have done a lot to institutionalize a higher ethics standard - esp in the early years when the court was more balanced. Disappointing.

Veralander has always given up hard contact - comes with being a 4 seam fastball guy. I'm just amazed the guy still has 95 and even a bit more at 40. That pretty much puts him a the company of Nolan Ryan.....and maybe no-one else?

Torkelson banging the ball all over the park, nothing to show.

That's why Max wanted out. In retrospect it can't be denied it was a managerial fail for Leyland. Maybe there was no way the two could ever keep pitching together, but Leyland's approach to Max was basically "Shut up and be second fiddle." which was a sure fire way to help make sure Max didn't want to stay.

The admin has no direct control over what the Fed does other than sparing with them rhetorically in public, which ususally has marginal effect at best. Deficit spending has some effect on inflation - not as much as what the fed does - but the big fiscal (non FED) driver for this inflation was the money the Congress doled out for Covid and that is now all over. The infrastructure spending is inflationary, it's also pretty vital as the country is falling apart. Thus the answer to that conundrum is that the deficit needs to be closed on the revenue side today far more than on the spending side. There is no such thing a modern society on the cheap. The GOP always knows that when they are in power, but they have the public bamboozled enough to keep using the arg when they are out.

Torkelson has been beyond stellar at 1B. Of course you can't play a 1B for his D but it;s just another reason they have to make his bat work because he is an absolute difference maker saving throws. I remember at one point last season Hinch said there were too many voices in his head. I think the best thing that could happen is if Hinch included himself in that total and they just left him alone completely. He is still too indecisive about what he should swing at. I would tell him to forget all the game planning/scouting/data and go with his natural instincts which seem pretty good when he trusts them. He's basically been taking too many pitches he could/should be hammering.

Though he never talked about, it turns out my father kept a log of things he knew he couldn't put in letters home. One of the things he noted is that they most definitely did not pick up any ditched Japanese Zero pilots.

LBs are RBs are running game players so I guess it depends on how much the running game figures in the league in a given era. It's at a pretty low point now but the pendulum may swing back - good coaches are alwasy looking to change things up. I'm almost little surprised hybrid runner/receivers like Gibbs aren't more the norm in today's game.

It's a long way back but the guy that comes to mind for me would be Jim Plunkett. ROY then pretty much nothing much at all statistically or win wise for a number of years. Now I suppose the original question is a little misput because you can't be 'horrible' and stay in the league but for a number of years no-one thought a team led by Plunkett was likely to win anything - then two SB wins after age 32.

Hard to fathom. My father was older than most GIs when he went because he had had a defense deferment as a machine tool operator in war production. He's a lesson in why you send the youngest men you can to war. His eyes were too open to what the war was and he came home pretty down on the concept for the rest of his life. The only thing I ever remember him saying about the war was that the young men on neither side deserved it.