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IDK. Most of the time when a guy has a 'bad year' it's because he has one prolonged slump but regained his 'normal' productivity for at least part of the season. Schoop doesn't have a single month over 700 OPS yet and he's starting August even worse at 594. Candelario at least has had one stretch of productivity long enough to give him an OPS of 873 for a full month in July which might hint that there is still some latent hitting skill in there. But the truth is that Candelario's career track record is already one of hot streaks with long periods of non-productivity, so it's easy to take the view that his productive periods are the outliers for him. I don't any confidence in either of them going forward. Krieidler's lost time has been really costly with regard to figuring out whether he is an option. It would be doubly bad if confidence in Kreidler makes them feel replacement of Candelario is less urgent and then he turns out to bust as well.

right. The problem is that they are preaching to the converted. Their ads effectively make Dem talking points, but if those actually connected with the MAGA we wouldn't be where we are. Yesterday I heard a just a bit of an NPR segment done from Wyoming. This guy is in tears because after knowing the Cheney family for 3 generations, he is going to vote against Liz. It just made no sense, the guy wanted with every fiber of his being to vote for her, but the challenge to the self-identity he was attached to was so great it literally had him choked up to where he could hardly speak, but even that emotional impact wasn't enough to separate him from his cult.

It's hard to for even good teams to win both ends of a double header, thus by converse, is easy for even bad teams to be able to salvage one.

another careless smoker!

Seeing some reports that Russian officers have withdrawn to beyond the East bank of the Dnipro near Kherson. Given how well the Russian army fights when their officers are not amongst to manage them.....

Carpenter started 0/8, has gone 5/9 since. EDIT: Make that 6/10

Well, let’s nip any irrational exuberance right in the bud. Myself, I don’t see either Schoop or Candelario’s bats coming back. I don’t see either Castro being any better. Catcher is still not going to generate offense. Baez I’m 50/50 on whether I think he’s likely to rebound. Even in a best case scenario where Greene, Baddoo and Torkelson all contribute next season, they still need a ton of new players. More than one offseason is likely to yield.

It would seem that Al decided he wanted to be good at all the things DD was not. Unfortunately while he has shored up the things that they didn’t do well under Dombrowski, he has failed to also do well at any of the things Dave did. Result: team with weaknesses different from a Dombrowski team, but still weak, or in fact weaker.

And they've reached the point where they are trapped in a mutual death spiral. It's hard enough to hit in the majors, but when there is never a guy on base when you are up to put the pitcher in the stretch, let alone maybe be a threat to steal, and nobody gets to hit when the man in the on-deck circle is a threat to go yard, it just gives the opposing pitchers even more advantage.

don't look now, Baddoo is 9 for last 29. All singles though....

just keep repeating to yourself: "loud outs...loud outs.....lout outs....."

he started out pretty bad, but has only one in his last three games. We'll see if he can turn that into a trend.

Wasted cash at that as Mariot is gone. In fact, Mariot is the other half of the Jacob Robson trivia question: What two players remained on the Mudhen's 2022 published roster one month after they both left the team.

You have to give China credit for their embarrassment free ability to pivot. China: PELOSI CAN'T GO TO TAIPEI. WE ARE GOING TO HOLD OUR BREATH TILL WE TURN BLUE AND THE WORLD ENDS. ... the world goes on, till somewhat later: China: Another Congressional visit? Oh well.

Tork has gotten through 2 games without a K!

yes - you are correct on the Amazon buy. But why would he shut up because Obama was elected? Looking at the history - Mackey got into a bunch of hot water in 2008 blogging about the Whole Foods/WIld Oats merger and at one point was under investigation by the SEC. Maybe that's when his board told him to shut up in public. When you think about it, if he had been ticking off Bezos, more likely he would have just fired him.

"So they're nervously waiting to be told what they’re supposed to think and believe." If I had a nickel for every one of those folks I meet....

If you don't know anything about how a utility Co integrates their power system, and you know the Sun doesn't shine at night, there you are. A person in her position should have a responsibility to know more, but I'm sure a lot of people who know nothing about electricity beyond how to put a plug in the wall would make the same assumption that solar power will leave them in the dark at night, and so whether it's ignorance or demagoguery on her part it's going to play to that audience. TBF, the question of where base load power is going to come from in areas with a high % of solar power generation is not a trivial engineering question, but it's not a any kind of show stopper either. There are plenty of candidate solutions, obviously including battery storage. In many areas wind power is more available during the night than during the day depending on local conditions. The market hasn't even begun to shake out what combination of solutions will be practical and they will vary in different areas of the country depending on things like whether there is local nuke, hydro, or clever storage facilities like the Luddington pumped hydro station.

yes - they are part of Amazon. The 'since 2009' he's referencing with when Amazon bought it.

No pixie dust for Riley tonight

on base twice tonight.

so many useless hitters.

Turn out the lights, this party's over.

yup - for a guy that's supposed to have good game sense not being ready for a guy sliding past the bag qualifies as a brain freeze.

and there you go.