gehringer_2

Linkedin is terrible.

Yeah - Candy looks kind of frumpy physically. OTOH - Beltre was a good example of a guy where you'd be misled if you judged his defensive longevity based on the fact that he never looked cut.

I can't tell from your pick how tall the fence is. I'm guessing this is like a 4 footer? If so the deer could go over easily enough I wouldn't think they'd bother spending the energy to push. Coyote? Canids are natural jail breakers. If my perspective is wrong and it's 6ft+ then i could see deer. But it's funny, in our area - where there are a ton of deer, even chickenwire normally keeps them out of places. Our local deer don't seem to have much tendency to work past barriers.

Jeimer shouldn't be playing 162 games. He's not a reason that you shouldn't have a spare 3b. If Paredes doesn't make it and Willi and Niko are not on the team (Please!) then Tork being worked out at 3rd and Schoop/Cabrera at 1st/DH all works fine for giving Jeimer an occasional off day. So I still want him to be able to play there if his play there can cut it. Not to mention, guys get hurt. If he can, I'd sure rather have Tork playing 3rd every day than Harold Castro if Jeimer were to go down. I don't see any other solid backup 3b - it could be Paredes - maybe, but it's still not clear he will stick.

Whichever, I'm still on board with the occasional execution of an admiral.

File that under "Spirits Filled Retreat"

Bah - Humbug!

yeah - Tampa IFs with the yips. Rushing on plays when they have way more time than they think.

Kiermaier to Arozarena on the fly ball: "get out of my way kid, I've got a throw to make.'

Tampa Bay fights their way back into the game, then Wander Franco air mails a throw to 1st into the dugout on a play where he had more time than he though. Boston with lead run at 2b with no out in the 8th

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They wanted to give Short, Paredes, Kreidler, Clemens and who knows who else all time on the Hen's IF - i.e. it was already crowded before Tork got there. It made sense to leave him at 1st.

not if you end up moving him back the rotation, which they should be thinking about if they aren't.

Trump was the one man who could have actively fought the anti-tax movement successfully. He didn't do squat. They had to pull teeth just to get him to make a lukewarm endorsement of the vaccine long after the fact. He never made any serious attempt at pushing *his* people in the positive direction and never took on any of fake reality peddlers in his own party or his buddies like Hannity at Fox. That's just the reality. Even at this late date - you think he might cut a pro vax PSA? You'd be kidding, right?

Think about it: You would think a president would come into office hoping to spend his political capital trying to accomplish something positive. GW decided to spend his trying to democratize the ME. Foolish goal but ethically laudable - at least initially. Obama spent his trying to get people more health care and it cost his party dearly. Trump could have spent his directly saving people's lives -- how much better could you do that that? But NOPE, he wasn't having any. A sad man, a tragic man, and a tragedy for the country.

yup. Almost every US death recorded since this summer is due to vaccine hesitancy, and Trump is maybe the one person that could stopped that from ever taking hold. Really - it's all on him, both the crimes of commission and omission.

I'm still not absolutely, totally sold on Jeimer. If he's doing well by the ASB next year I'd be ready to make the commitment.

woundn't think so, but at the time I had seen no report for the reason that he didn't play the last day.

it's true he didn't play in the last game. I wondered if it was just so his BA couldn't fall below 300. Woozy makes more sense.

purely from a cost perspective, Niko's is the worst number. I wouldn't mind him on the roster as a backup at <<300PA or so, but that number is too big for a part timer and I don't want to see him get >400 PA! Jimenez I can go either way. We don't see his side work so I'd be willing to be persuaded the staff still sees something there that is worth a $2M bet even if you can't see paying him based on what he has done between the lines. All the other marginal guys there are cheap enough the money is not a factor. I have a feeling Boyd will settle with the Tigers before arbitration. Maybe Fulmer also. I don't have a problem with Hutchison. He got blown up in his first appearance but did OK after that. Again, they may or may not want him but $900K won't be the reason.

Yeah - the rules are fine. Unfortunately, it often seems the Umpires are maybe a little tight when they are calling them.... 🍷🍷🍷

or it could have little to do with anything other than which team is better. Of course if M could hit more receivers open deep, they could play with anyone. I just can't figure Harbaugh. The guy loves QBs that can't throw. Now granted, I'll take McNamara over Patterson any day of the week. Patterson was the worst thrower I've seen under center at M since Bo insisted on playing Ricky Leach with a torn up shoulder. Cade at least does throw a reasonable mid range ball, but he's still a cubit short of an NFL quality arm.

yeah - but he's slow.... (old engineer's joke....)

It's a simple question. If most runners on 1st score on an actual double, then the rule should reflect that and give home plate to all runners on any ball ruled a ground rule double. If you had asked be before I did a search on this I would have said it's a slam dunk that the runner usually scores. Well - not so much - at least not up through 8 yrs ago. It's actually close enough to 50/50 that the only fair way to call it is to make it one of the umpires' responsibility to make a call about where the runner is when the ball goes out of bounds. There are 4 of them on the field, it seems one of them could be doing that. https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2014/4/21/5631146/chicago-white-sox-adam-dunn-score-from-first-on-double

LOL - but look at the map of where the terrible case rates in MI are - it maps the GOP voting areas, so the Trump/GOP angle is implicit anyway - it's all cooked in at this point. 🤷‍♂️