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there were a bunch of really stupid scores in the open week or so of the season and I'm willing to wager the league 'suggested' to the umps that they should put an end to that and thus we've definitely had an oversized zone - but it seems it's been every crew and every park so that's why I don't think it's any kind of accident. You always have the outlier ump worse than the rest, but right now I think that is superimposed over an already enlarged zone. The league sees the video and statcast data every day just like everyone else. The zone can only be consistently biased in any direction if the league is validating what the umps are doing on an ongoing basis. also keep in mind that the Fox/Bally graphic may or may not be that accurate. I haven't spent anytime comparing it to gamday recently - which is probably more accurate.

Killer ABs with RISP by Vierling earlier and Haase just now.

make'm pay for the insult Eric.

And Riley doesn't even have anything like a platoon split.

don't they have three levels of MiLB for that? Just something I've heard rumor of....

Aaaaaand they don't get anybody.

And now he brings the IF in.

But Swiss Army knife interchangeability is *sooo* valuable to a team....

Cue the circus music - that one's gonna cost two runs.

Cabrera and Schoop in the lineup has put the Tigers in violation of the "3 black hole rule"

need to score some more Runz.

Boyd's choice I guess. Or maybe the Card's system broke - isn't the deal that if one side want to use theirs but it won't work the other side can't either?

Bah! Spencer got himself into a hitter's count and squibed it.

LOL - I lived in MN for a number of years and don't think I ever saw a single Impala. I'd guess Hertz made a huge rental car purchase during the survey period of something......

It too long to except meaningfully and it's behind the NYT paywall, though I think NYT gives you a couple of feebies a month, but Thomas Edsall has a long piece about the evolution and de-evolution of the Alpha male in primate anthropology and Trump stands as exhibit A of what the species has evolved beyond - at least in theory. 🤔 It's a serious discussion and also pretty funny at the same time. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/opinion/trump-evolutionary-psychology.html?searchResultPosition=1

does any of this noise from Prigozhin get seen by many Russians?

Careful, you're being woke.

Well. That take is nothing if not ....imaginative.

Hoover: CHECK!! Ike: check Nixon: happened under Ford so apply 'full-term' exclusion Reagan: check Bush I: check Bush II: CHECK!! Orange Menace: check -- OK I'm out.

this always makes me laugh - we were lucky to win a single game in a season when I was there.....

the value of the face to face interview is the most overrated piece of social theory invention of the modern era. It's a relevant predictor for maybe 10% of the places it's used. But it plays so well the the ego massage needs of managers it will never go away. Especially in sport. I mean WTF - do you suppose Ted Williams was ever a good interview?

yeah - I don't think there is any long term possibility of intersection between the Venn Diagrams of "successful unitary nation" and "a place where War-Lords are running around." Putin may have signed the death warrant of the current Russian state when he took the path of least resistance of encouraging the growth of a massive private army in order to fight his pet war at reduced domestic poltical cost. All that needs to happen is Prigozhin to wake up one morning and decide the easiest way to resupply his troops is start taking supplies from MOD troops by force. About 2 days after that Russia is Sudan.

at some point just not making an out is a victory.

weird hot and cold team. But good to be on the hot side.

I was never under any illusions that Roberts was a conservative, but I did think that he did have some concern for the legitimacy and integrity of the court as an institution, but as this all emerges it sadly evident that he has been MIA as an honest adminstrator of this court and at this point has retreated to full scale CYA. I suppose that constitutionally he may not have any explicit power over other justices, but if had been at all interested he could have done a lot to institutionalize a higher ethics standard - esp in the early years when the court was more balanced. Disappointing.