gehringer_2
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is anybody even up? Cordero didn't go to 2nd. Break for us.
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He can't locate the FB at all. His breaking balls have decent location but the FB are all cookies. Go figure.
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lead off doubles are pretty much automatic runs for most teams.
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OH boy
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yes
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Faedo needs a little better location when he throws that FB
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I liked that Tork didn't give in on that AB after tagging that foul shot.
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Is that a question or a statement? DirectTV is a streaming service - I can watch it on anything that has a browser, same as I can Amazon Prime. A Firestick is just an interface for a device that can't talk to the web directly.
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you also have the over lay of the transition to maple bats. That also increased the number of hitters that could reach the seats. At some point the ball should have been adjusted just to match the harder bats, or maple could have not been allowed in the first place...
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It is more wrapped up in the particular history of Tx.
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Hmmm.... Is this one of those cases where if the Dodgers want him we don't want to be trading him?
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who do you mean by 'we', the GOP or the citizenry?
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I could still do 185 miles in 6 days on a bike, but I started that trip on foot you could just bury me at about Leeds.
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I always like the explanation about crypto being the Millennial whiz kids revenge for having missed the tech revolution that made the lucky boomer whiz kids there at its beginnings into billionaires. That from the beginning cyptos were designed primarily as a vehicle to make its launchers rich, any other objectives/functions being secondary.
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the only person I've ever met from Kaliningrad was an ethnic German. 🤷♂️
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Funny thing, if I were to drop my DirectTV to the lowest service level (meaning I would lose Bally) and buy the Bally service separately, my total bill would......wait for it......end up exactly the same.
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Cable cutters rejoice. Bally to launch its streaming service next week. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/other/2022/06/20/bally-sports-detroit-launching-subscription-service/7681616001/
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the park is a lot bigger than Tiger stadium, but again, part of that is the rotation of the ball park. Summer wind in MI is prevailingly from the west so the wind blows out to left at COPA a lot more than it did at Tiger stadium. Tiger Stadium rotated to where COPA is would be a band box for RH hitters. Of course a lot people believe Tiger stadium was also 440' to dead center. It was not after some renovation in the 60's (don't remember the exact yearz) - more like ~425, which is pretty much what COPA is where the CF wall meets the LF/RF walls (maybe even 430). the 440 marker for Tiger stadium was for where the flag pole was, but at some point they put up a fence in front of that area to level it off which created a storage area and also removed the pole from being in play. CF originally went out to almost a square corner which was the 440'. That fence shortened the distance by about 15 feet, but they never changed the 440 marker on the wall which IIRC was just to the right of where the added fencing started.
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sure. Since COPA opens to the South and the South is where the Sun is in the northern hemisphere, the Sun literally shines into the stadium during the day particularly all along the 3rd base line, in a way it never did at Tiger Stadium where the Sun was always behind the high walls of the stadium to the South and West along Mich and Cochran. At Tiger stadium for the the primary grand stands between the foul poles, the boxes on the 1st base side were about the only place the sun could ever shine on you during a game. At COPA you can get fried anywhere in the lower deck at a 1:pm game. Maybe when they designed it they assumed Sunday would be the only day games left, but since then Thursday and Sat days games seem to be making a comeback.
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I have an FDM at home but almost wished I had gotten an SLA. Your material choices are much more limited but the design space is so much wider for the objects you can make. One thing I would recommend now is to get a dual head FDM (which I didn't). Using soluble resin in a second head to create extractable support for geometries you couldn't otherwise do easily is something I wish I had. With a single head, your slicer will add support webs as needed, but you may not be able to get it out easily if that is what needed and the finish is usually poor where support is removed. -
I think part of the problem with the ball was accidental and it only got bad because they wouldn't just admit the problem and fix it (no doubt in part because the suits thought HRs were good for the game anyway). The specs on the ball go back pretty much to when they were hand made so the tolerances were pretty loose. The problem is that the at upper end of those tolerances you got a pretty live ball - but the balls in a box were always a range. Well what would naturally happen over time? Production techniques got better, variation went down, but the balls began converging to a point that was on the live end of the old spectrum so now instead of having one or two live balls in a box, you had a whole box full of them. Yes, they still met the original spec, but the variation that kept more of them in the ball park was reduced. I can't prove this is what actually happened but I would place my bets on it.
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the article goes into depth mostly about the local gang feud. The Russian connection stuff is this:
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I wonder if KC has a sports writer that bitches and moans about the size of the OF at Kaufman? Maybe we can send them Lynn. Trade him to the Royals for a fountain that works better and a UL Washington memorial toothpick.
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Well, the odds are Robbie isn't going to have to worry about COPA being his home park for much longer anyway.
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Lynn is moron about some stuff. Just look at the numbers Lynn, the park plays as close to run neutral as you could ever design another one to be (ask the Yankees about how easy it is get exactly what you intend when you design a field). Yes you are going to lose some shots to CF, but you get some back as you move to the left and right. The bonus is the park gives a lot more excitement when you have a great CF out there with room to show off his stuff, plus more of the rarest play in baseball - the triple. The park has produced 5 BA crowns in 20 yrs, Tiger stadium produced 2 in the 60 yr post war period. Plus one HR crown. It's not too hard to hit in. Also a couple of Cy Youngs. The balance between hitting and pitching in the park is actually much better than average. That said, lack of protection from the Sun is without doubt the biggest single issue at COPA.