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Rain looking less likely in the forecast for Wed. Might get in all three. Ironically it should be very nice in Minneapolis for the next series, sunny and 60's.

I suppose it can get to a point where the player is messing up and getting so tight about getting sent down that the best thing you can do is send him down, then he can stop worrying about the worst thing happening and get back to playing.

WTF is wrong with Colt?

Beau can't seem to get any BaBIP luck here.

but still leaves them with a roster problem. Going back to the suggestion that lunched this sub-topic, if they let Margot go it could only be because they were willing to have Torkelson or Torres play some outfield. I'm not seeing that, but who knows what Hinch might throw out there?

No, I think if anything it's more about young players. They have been willing to move vets, but I think they think they can develop more out of any young player than their current trade value so they just don't like to move young players, and in this case all four players in the mix are young players still probably on the upside.

13 or less.

When Torkelson started hitting in ST this became a dilemma they were going to have to face. Gleyber's trip to the DL just put it off a bit. But Malloy, Torkelson, Keith and Torres are one too many guys for the same positions. A trade would be the natural solution, but trades don't seem to be this FO's favorite pastime - and who to where?

there are days you don't even care if Baez can hit.

Yeah - Margot's ticket gets punched when Vierling comes back.

that is a stupid explanation - or an explanation of a stupid rule.

Javy and Nate Thomlinson out there agreeing that NY is nuts.

IDK, before the last few days I would have thought Ibanez was on the thinnest ice but he's looking better with bat and has been solid at 3B. You can't send out Kreidler unless Vierling is so close that Riley wouldn't have to play many more games in CF.

Malloy comes through. Was definitely doubting him today.

I just meant that educational attainment cross-correlates with income so the two effects are not trivial to separate in social survey work so if you want to prove it's anti-intellectualism vs income you have your work cut out.

Tigers 3, Dreckman 1

Casey Mize's career: better late than never - way better in fact.

If there is reasonable correlation between educational attainment and obesity that would go toward your case. The confounding factor would be that in the US, cheap food tends to be unhealty food and you get a cross correlation with income.

Did not have Ibanez high on my card after his slow start.

Umpire not making either side happy.

the infamous 6 miss walk

Have I mentioned how thoroughly unimpressed I am with Margot? I understand beggars can't be choosers when injuries leave you desperate, but I hope is is gone soon. Jake certainly saved his rear there.

Moreno's Angels are a lot like WCF's Lions. Give the fans a really big star or two and everything else should take of itself.

True - but there is another way of looking at it, which is that if I'm good at what I do and bust my ass always being the best I can be, why do I want to keep serving the profits of an incompetent FO/ownership that can't or won't perform at the level I hold myself to? That may be just a little Ayn Rand-ish, but even as an everyday working stiff I've been in jobs where I resented the incompetence of the people I was working for. I can only imagine how much worse it could have been if I was as dedicated to my performance level as a pro athlete has to be.

I could be wrong, but I'd estimate the two things killing Americans at XS rates in recent years have the opioid epidemic, and the fact that Americans are epidemically obese. Not sure why it's so much worse here than in other developed countries, but we are a stunningly overweight nation, and right down to the elementary schools now.