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OK - I deserved that.

Has the BP had an inherited runner NOT score yet?

Jose felt bad for them, gave them the baserunner back.

yeah, I though he was clearly safe. But the fact remains another sub-MLB play by Maton at 3rd. I'm ready for that experiment to end.

I love kevlar bead tires since you can fold them up and carry them easiy on a long unsupported ride or tour, but when they are new they can be so damn tight and require such a fight that it's not ususal for me to ruin a couple of tubes trying to get a new kevlar bead tire mounted the 1st time. A trick a learned from an old hand when mounting a HP bike tire to try and cut down on bead lifts is to inflate, then deflate almost all the way (to where you can squeeze the tire in by hand, and reset the bead all the way around - then reinflate.

Greene and Tork both wasted to CF. I guess we got the dead balls tonight.

Don't see a rubber band on his beard either - he's on his way to a GQ feature.

Boyd flashing all kinds of leather on the mound. Where the hell was he during the 2006 WS?

it was the largest capacity when it opened, but they were filling it regularly for a while and obvious speaking football generically, even 80k would be small for any major college FB team. Most of the newer NFL arenas seat less and that is in part to make sure they are full and also because more space is given over to high income but low occupancy suites.

he's got a trend going on that

I was surprised Sunday that they played him two days in a row,

The lions' losing did dampen the appetite for buying tickets enought they had to go to a smaller stadium (65K) to maintain the ability to sell it out. The fans often had to rely on angel buyers to swoop up the left over tickets at the Silverdome (cap 80K) in bulk to get the blackouts lifted.

That was a gov/SEC complaint - there are more rules when you talk about a company you control. The Dogecoin deal is an investor civil suit and Musk doesn't have any control of Dogecoin..... AFAIK.

It would be nice if he got nailed for something and removed from our concsiousness but sadly enough it's probably questionable that any judge or jury can be convinced that Elon Musk tweets could be taken seriously as actionable investment data.

I doin't know how much it will translate into any wins, but SY is making progress in building a team that is going to be no fun to play against.

While almost everything Elon has done recently just adds to giving capitalism a bad name, not sure what the case would be here. All advertising is attempted market manipulation -- most of it is not illegal. I don't think there is any law against hyping your own investments per se. You're only in trouble if you can be shown to be operating sub rosa at cross purpose to your public positions - e.g. pump and dump etc.

When Nevin comes up the Hens will have 6 IFs with Wenceel on the DL being 7. Once Perez comes off the DL Kreidler would be 8 unless someone gets sent to Erie.

yeah - you can critique his automotive judgment from the get-go for racing in a jeep.

Right - If you DFA a player, the waiver is irrevocable, but they could put a player on revocable waivers at any time to guage interest before deciding to chance a DFA that get's a guy to AAA. Of course teams can sand-bag each other on waiver claims as well, but those are the options. Whether a play has to accept an assignment can depend on service time rules/options etc.

yeah - I get that as a general proposition, but after the bad starts the last couple of years the team's mentality, let alone its marketing, is in a pretty weak position to survive giving up games early in the season trying to find out what they've got. Maybe if you have a guy with options and you want to teach him a new position you send him to AAA for month?

again, not to read too much into bad data sets, but if we just compare ST 22 to ST 23 there is some implication to believe this offense should perform better than last year's - which looked bad even in ST. So there is that. OK so McClanahan and Springs were on their game and Turnbull self-destructed. Write the series off. Still, longer term concerns already in view: I'm not liking Maton at 3rd, Carpenter has been much worse than I was hoping for in the OF. Veirling may be fast but he doesn't seem to be a good OF so far yet either.

Yeah - you've hit on what is sort of the odd part. I think an alternate explanation might be that he suppliment binged, overdid it and ballooned up some. And the issue at the workout was cramping - which could also fit that scenario.

I got lost on the sequence. He left the scene, called a friend, told them to go to the scene, the friend immediately rolls over on him and tells the cops who sent him. So how does AC get back there again? Did the cops call him, bring him back? He just showed up? He's in walking distance? And he has no shoes? Whatever....

I like Hinch is some aspects - I think he has been great with the bullpen. I think he has squeezed a lot of performance out of a lot of marginal pitchers out there. OTOH, I simply can't escape the feeling that there is something in his approach to managing that negatively affects this team's offense. Yeah - it's all shadows and innuendo but it too many things keep pointing in the same direction - for instance - the team offense was pretty good in ST, sure it's ST but a lot guys were looking relaxed and ready to go at the plate - and the season starts and it's like switch flipped. But what was something I remember Hinch saying?: It was more or less "We don't do a lot of preparation for ST games, but when the seasons starts we'll be much more in depth" I hope they wake up and look good once they are away from the TB pitching staff and I can persuade myself I am wrong.