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I'd go with sewers for the 19th century, anti-antibiotics for the 20th.

if there are 5 complete and a tie, it can go back to the last complete inning. If it was tied at the end of the last complete inning, the game has to be continued - though not necessarily tonight. Future radar projecting a fair amount of rain.

Tigers have to be the worst team for getting guys thrown out trying for 2nd without the runner on third coming home.

this is true. We probably have more healthy active 80 yr olds than ever before but it's a dumb bell distribution where on the other side the majority are overweight with T2 diabetes, atherosclerosis and high blood pressure.

so another note apropos of China: News that CATL (the worlds largest Lithium battery maker) has had the renewal of its permit to operate the worlds largest Lithium mine held up by the Chinese government. In a move that is maybe a signal of how China is starting to face 'grown up' issues in terms of international macro economics, the government is trying to reduce the occurrence of what they are calling 'involution', which is when they build out so much capacity in an attempt the capture a market that they drive prices down to where they can't make any money either. I'll guess the government will eventually relent once enough production is lost to shore up Lithium prices a little but still an interesting bit of news. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lithium-stocks-soar-after-worlds-largest-ev-battery-maker-shutters-mine-in-china-133521609.html

that is correct, but I don't have any idea one way or the other if the back played into the setback he had that prevented him from making a return before the end of '23, which had originally been hoped for.

Interestingly, it's been discussed here that the SS 'trust fund' is really just a political fiction constructed to remove the taint of 'socialism', which made the original efforts to pass a Federalized old age pensions controversial even in FDR's day. But as it turns out, it has continued to be a useful political fiction because as Romad points out - there are a hundred million voters out there who believe it's their money held in trust and any politician who doesn't want to 'give it back' is going to be in deep ****.

Yeah - Casey had the bad luck of being at the outer end of long recovery times. There is also a newer variation on TJ that reconstructs without the full transplant procedure that is less traumatic and generally has a somewhat shorter recovery time. Not sure but I think both SGL and Jobe both underwent the newer style procedure.

"fixing" SS is pretty easy - raise contribution limits - add another 6mo to the age for the max benefit, etc. Congress just has to be able feel the edge of the precipice before they are willing to act. You only have to bridge about 10-15 yrs until most of the Boomers are dead and the system will get a lot more solvent.

And yet, since nobody did offer Correa 300M, Al would have been pretty irresponsible to over offer the market. If anything , it was Carlos that made the mistake, not Al. I don’t blame the Tigers for Carlos not understanding his own market value.

I don't think two previous elbow surgeries is normally considered a marker for projected longevity. OTOH, nobody can predict anything. If they could the Tigers wouldn't be down half a dozen pitchers.

And his public loves him for it. I saw a children's book the other day - just an ordinary heavy cardboard cover, two sentence on a page, illustrated 1st grade kind of book about a kid being a pain at home. It was full of the 'F' word. Completely normalized as how children and their parents should talk to one another. We're doomed.

No!

Riley with 4 hits in his last 3 game. Progress.

but on this point he is almost certainly right. The only way a mid-market team avoids the 10yr trips to the wilderness on a boom/bust cycle is to keep the pipeline full. That's just the reality of the CBA.

This is what happens in a game where pitchers are so overtaxed that high percentages of them can't get through a season anymore. We've lost Jobe, Olson, Foley, Cobb has been a no show, haven't gotten anything from SGL, Manning never came back from the foot injuries - the only way you can win is if you can make it through the season with a lower than average pitching injury incidence, and this year it has pretty much gone south for the Tigers despite the appearance of pitching depth that existed before the season started.

Though, TBF, the 'whole world' will be fine if we manage to take ourselves out of it. It might even have better luck with the next big brained species it evolves. They could even be a species that never invents extra inning runners or hockey shoot outs. 🤔

Doesn't matter. I'd rather roll the dice on the chances a not very good reliever can get through an inning starting clean, than push a starter past when he's sharp. The odds of runs going up in the latter case always seems to converge to 100%, I'll take my chance with the questionable reliever over that every time. But almost every manager wants to will his guys to go just a little more. Especially with guys who have performed for him in the past. And of course fans and media will be all over him if the guy he does bring in fails because you can't prove what didn't happen.

Bullpen may be bad but Hinch still has to get back to having a quicker hook. You can't wish guys who can only go 4 into guys who can do more.

Pshaw TTBDNS

Kikuchi is sort of creatively wild.

And Earl had a lot of momentum to spare for about a 6 yr stretch around the end of the 60's

Yup. That should not have been a tough catch if he reads it correctly. Probably forgot about the breeze.

Rabbit Hole? Au Contraire! More like the Great Smials of the Tooks.

Hopefully the blow to the head will leave him with amnesia about his approach for the last 6 weeks.....