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except in '84 they were going undefeated on the road.

Best overall start since 2015, when they also got to 17-10

yup - they only got to 12-4 in '84.

America 2025: N.o..C.l.a.s.s It's a thing that can be overdone - but some is *always* better than none.

Baez now elevated to late inning defensive specialist - in CF.

Dirk's description of Keith not getting his bottom half out in front of his upper body was a good bit - it put me in mind of Victor Reyes, who had the same issue but an order of magnitude worse - that 6'5" 200lb frame couldn't generate any consistent power because he never learned to get his hips out in front of his swing.

Riley gets BaBIP'd

he needs to keep confidence that he can reach the seats to right because he is seeing a lot of outside pitching and just going to right gives him better odds than trying to turn around an outside pitch.

trump has someone new writing for him. You can tell because: a) this is too long to be a normal Trump post b) the vocabulary is several steps above the normal Trump post c) it's too logical to be a normal Trump post. d) and the slam dunk: there is actual concern expressed for people other than Trump.

This. Sat is Montero's scheduled day to pitch and since it's now a DH it's a free call-up.

the only thing surprising to me is that they didn't segregate the revenue sports - the main direction seems like the inevitable future.

True - on the other hand, the stability of that control is what got them through the crash when the General ended belly up.

MSU and WSU, our two other independently governed UNIs MIA so far.

or you can buy a Mustang Mach E (standard range) and you get the much safer LFP battery system.

law of unintended consequences.

Unless he really eclipses everyone else on the staff, he'll just go to the BP for the post-season. In fact with this staff probably two starters go to the pen.

Payoff line in story: " idealism doesn’t always survive contact with a price tag." and I'm pretty sure you could replace "doesn't always" with "never" with no significant loss of accuracy.

>How can an error count against the pitcher's record when it's made by a player fielding and not by a player pitching? are you asking logically or practically? Practically you do it by changing the scoring rule. 😉 Whether it's logical is clearly in the eye of the beholder. >And how can it can called an earned run against the pitcher when it is not credited as a earned hit for the hitter? But there is no hard and fast connection between hits and earned runs now. The hit that scores a run isn't necessarily the play when the error occurs. That later hitter still gets his hit whether the run is ultimately ruled earned or not. And as it is, there may or may not ever be any earned or unearned run after a hitter doesn't get his hit after reaching on an error. I don't particularly have a dog in this issue, - I can see it either way, but I don't think changing it would be a big deal either. That said, I don't see much chance it actually does change so we are just spitballing about it anyway.

I guess I'm not seeing the effect on the hitting team. If the pitcher is still charged with an error, the batter still doesn't get a hit. What does change is that when a run is scored after an error, the scorer now has two classes of errors to consider, pitchers' errors go in one box and other fielders' errors go in another box when it come to ruling on earned runs.

To me LinkedIn post seems an odd way to make this kind of release, but hey - I'm old so whatever. From a chemistry standpoint, there is nothing suspect in any of what Poon said. Cobalt is a cost problem, LFP is safer and more robust than Lithium Cobalt formulations but doesn't have the power density. If you have manipulated a Manganese rich electrode to give you LFP stability and LiCo density you should pat yourself on the back - they still have to prove their electrode system can stand up to real world aging and cycling and that their production system is scalable enough to realize the theoretical cost advantage of eliminating Cobalt. The thing with batteries though is that there a ton of variables beyond the just chemistry - the details of how you get the various ions into the electrodes to where they need to be in the form they need to be in and keep them stable there for as long as possible mean engineering execution is just as important as the science.

It's the Trey Sweeneys that are one of the things that separate good orgs from bad ones. There solid players out there all the time and some teams identify them and get them, and other teams don't, and it's the strength in the middle and bottom of a team's line-up that is usually made up of those players that make for winning teams.

Was he ever charged with anything?

I won't tell Trey if you don't.

the Cubs hardly gave him a shot - 14 AB. Maybe because he made 3 errors in 7 games. I thought Workman was supposed to be good glove - has he lost it already at 25?

especially since our back-up SS won't be able to take time away from his new gig in CF.