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nigh on a hundred and 19 yrs old, maybe.

We are the worst team in baseball without them. 🙃

Well, good luck finding some salt of the Earth type that happens to be a billionaire to replace them.

War seems to be a lull before whatever the next storm is going to be. Russian advances have pretty much come to a complete halt. The question is whether that means momentum is actually swinging to the Ukrainian side or the Russians are just reconstituting for the next go.

Easy to say when it's not your 40 million.....

Usually the idea to force domestic battery production so, these things are not aimed at the nationality of the corporate entity as much as whether they are producing here. If Samsung builds battery plants in the US I'd guess they would qualify, but yeah - that's a guess.

hadn't seen this until this AM. Now the automakers are upset because the EV credit contains domestic sourcing requirements. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-auto-trade-group-warns-ev-tax-proposal-would-make-70-ineligible-2022-08-05/

Pearson out as Hockey coach at M. Athletic dept maybe cleaning up their loose ends before Ono officially takes over. Not actually fired as his contract had run already run out and had not been renewed, but he was still acting coach until someone (Ono? Manuel certainly could already have let him go if he had wanted to) finally made a call on the whether to offer him a deal or show him the door.

Kerry Carpenter still has an OPS above 1000 and his K rate since his promotion is still <20% Tork 9 hits (2 HR) and 3 walks in his last 7 games.

Joe was so thrilled about not being traded he forgot where home plate was.

Tork stenciled "for Buddha" on his bat tonight.

Personally, this is another case of the 'rehab' mentality run amok in the Tiger org. The kid has limited innings to give - it hadn't been that long since he had pitched - he hadn't forgotten how. If he was going burn innings he should have burned them for the Tigers. The act like they are 1/2 away from missing the playoffs and any possibility of guy having a melt down is some kind of critical. It's just absurd.

Taxing buy backs is fine with me. IDK if I'd rank it that far below carried interest on my list of abuses. Buy backs benefit primarily big holders, but the effect does also percolate out as gain to every holder of that stock which does include a lot of people. Carried interest benefits very few and probably harms more by making outfits like Bain Capital more profitable. So on the grounds that carried interest encourages outright destructive activity whereas buy backs are basically just one of many ways for the rich to get richer, I'd have preferred carried interest to have remained in the bill.

Interesting https://www.yahoo.com/news/head-russian-hypersonics-lab-arrested-123032785.html

Will Vest's 15min of reliever fame seems to be nearly up.

slider is all over the place - but he got out of it.....this time.....🙄

LOL - Garcia gets a caught stealing to get to 2 outs and then walks the bases loaded. This is going well.

meanwhile - at the game. On gameday I saw a HR go up for TB leading off the 2nd but now it's a K. Good edit.

yeah - for me this has been the mystery with Mize. He was billed as having good quadrant level command of his FB but has really never shown it since being drafted.

Obviously he feels better today than a couple of days ago. I'll go back to what I said previously - his mood and intentions are going to be variable with his health so I would not be surprised by a lot of confusing signals from Cabrera's camp going forward. However, two things are true regardless: 1)It is not the Tigers' choice to pay the money, they are on the hook. The only way out for the Tigers would for be Cabrera to officially file his retirement early, and you know that isn't happening. 2) It is the Tigers' choice whether he plays for them. If he is too much of a liability for what they think they are doing next season, they can IL him (with his agreement) or DFA him (without his agreement).

which was a weird thing to say wasn't it? Wasn't he #1 guy? If he liked the Red Sox org, why wasn't he building the Tiger org into it? Was M I pinching pennies everywhere else even though he didn't mind big player contracts? So now we get the inverse? They are trying to build the deeper org but they're doing it with a guy who has the right road map but isn't a very good driver.

that is the question going forward. If there there is too much pain there will be a lot less joy! But OTOH, Miggy is no fool. He's going to force the Tigers to at least make a settlement on most of his remaining contract - like TM said - he's not just going to walk away from the $. If that means staying in the lineup until it hurts the team badly enough that they agree to put on the 60 day through 2023 (or DFA) that's probably what makes most sense for him to do.

And they probably pulled the plug on his work at 3b too soon. And why? Because they thought Candelario was the answer at 3rd. Again, bad FO work. You leave him at his highest value position in the minors until the very last day when you call him up and *have* to move him, because you never know what is going to happen. Banking on Candelario at 3rd looks pretty stupid today.

so fare I see three adds to the Hens - Garneau coming off rehab, and Bergner and Lipcious promoted from Erie.

No shame in that. I think it all comes down to his knee. Earlier in the year he was driving off it at least occasionally and it looked like it might have reached some stable condition - under which circumstance I'm sure he would try to come back for next year. But if his physical condition is deteriorating that changes things. If he suddenly feels better tomorrow or someone comes up with a helpful therapy, his outlook will no doubt reverse again.