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I haven't checked it out recently, but when Fox first starting using their box, it was consistently narrower than the Pitch F/X box on gameday. But it's be a few years since I paid that level of attention. I like the ball parks where they can give you the overhead of the ball crossing the plate - that's pretty much the last word. I imagine the Umps don't.

If the clip is any indication, Drew has changed his delivery since his Tiger days. He use to come way over the top, his delivery here was more 3/4.

And does it seem to you that Torkelson seems like a magnet for bad called strikes from all the umps? Something about his stance? Does he mutter about the umps under his breath, need different deordorant? I mean, WTF?

agreed. I'm not real sold on Foley either. Gives up more contact than is comfortable for a short reliever - certainly not going to be top pick to come in with runners on base. I don't know if Hinch crossed himself up last night or just didn't like the way the Baltimore order lined-up but you'd have though the logical thing was Holton to come in first for two or more. But then again Dickerson did say during the Broadcast that Hinch thought he had guys that needed work so that was probably also in play. Holton looks interesting - you wonder if he can keep it up. Not much on his stuff - the guys in radio booth concluded he must hide the ball really well as despite the low velo guys seemed to be constantly behind against him. Three guys in the pen (Holton, Englert, Alexander) who can go two or three could be the beginning of a paradigm shift for Hinch.

Not going to score big in many games with Schoop and Cabrera both in the line-up. Add Maton having fallen off and the lineup is regressing to 2022 levels.

Cisnero 1, Tigers 0

Ump 2, Tork 0

Tigers hitters not battling very much.

hard to get comfortable watching Carpenter go after a fly ball, but he got that one!

Why does Dan insist on calling a DP where a throw and catch is made as 'unassisted'? The only flaw I know of in his game.

Snake eyes

So I'm listening on gameday to Dan and Scales and watching the Bally video. What they are doing with the audio is bizarre. The audio is about 45sec-1min behind but I can buffer the video to match. So I get it all lined up but it keeps moving around. Every couple of innings they slip an extra commerical in on the audio and get further behind, then they pick the time back up - apparently by micro chopping the audio buffer, until the audio catches back up to match the delay on the video that had orginally been in sync with the audio.

Any time a Tiger hitter decides to join the game play tonight.....

Ump looks like he graduated HS this spring.

the only thing you can hope for until one or both of them die is that they continue to get so wacko that even the other 4 conservatives start to feel good about disagreeing with them.

There were still 6 outs left when it happened so the perfecto was far from a sure thing

Lord Please, Gibson, Maybin someone? Anyone? Couldn't they have left Monroe at home?

that's interesting to hear. I knew that managements didn't like it because it's not very repaintable, but hadn't heard much as about its wear properties. I wonder if all that prill is recyclable?

This aspect seems to be less widely reported on. Analysts talk a lot in terms of how a team evaluates the depth and distrubution of players in the draft when it come to decisions about trying to move up or down, but that decision is probably driven more by an evaluation of the a team's current roster and their estimates the probability of draft choices beating out an existing player to make the team. Shallow or weak teams need quantity of picks to build depth and because they have a lot guys they don't want to keep, the better/deeper a team, the more you should be willing to give up picks to move up for quality.

And he appears to have reached his level of imcompetence as well. Musk has been involved with a number of businesses but they were all arms length from their customers in an important way. You sell a Tesla, the customer basically drives off - they don't continue to interact with the company in the use of the product. You made a paypal purchase it was nothing more than a computer widget to the user - use it and put it down till next time. SpaceX doesn't even have 'public' customers in any meaninful sense. Twitter appears to be the first time he's been involved in business that is customer rather than product driven, and he seems to have no clue how to manage a customer base on a ongoing basis.

Seems striking in Stroud's case, but not sure you can ever make too definitive a conclusion based on any single point measurement of a sample human. Carter showed up out of shape and fat once - it was a bad decision but a lot of folks argue that shouldn't matter. Stroud may have blown off the test for some stupid poor judgment reason. If you look at his game film and you don't see a guy who can make real time decisions, then I guess I'd tend to put more stock in the result, but I wouldn't put it above a good coach's evaluation of his game film.

this.

It doesn't seem so now, but I think it's too early to make that call. There are still a enough Avila players coming through the system that could become useful pieces to swing the balance between his level of futility and Randy Smith's.

Alec Baldwin off the hook for now - charges dropped. Interestingly, some evidence apparently emerged that offered some support to Baldwin's contention that he never pulled the trigger. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/arts/alec-baldwin-charges-dropped-rust.html

I'll check it out.