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Willi did set a hit against a RHP

I've run both, PC laptops and MacBooks. The Macs are pretty nice as long as you can work inside their universe. Other than the misstep with the keyboards, they are awesomely well built and MacOS doesn't constantly ambush you like Windows. I do think they are slipping a little, maybe because of the strain of supporting M1 and Intel but Monterrey is the first upgrade that I ever had issues with. I actually backed it out and am staying with Big Sur for the time being. Still less headache than windows constantly is - which is why the primary OS on my PC stuff in Linux!

Is Hope Hicks still on the payroll?

Rays are also 7 games over 500 with a -1 run differential. Tigers need to prove pythagoras is right about them.....

Great. Now we're going to have PRC Unification terrorists?

I've seen an argument that scouting tech is so much better today and that college ball quality is better so that bad misses are supposedly less frequent. Then again, what constitutes a 'miss'? Injuries are always a wild card. If Mize washes out because of arm trouble, that doesn't mean he didn't have the talent to be a successful major leaguer, he's already demonstrated that. Adley Rutschman and Tork both look to be on track, Mize made the majors, Royce Lewis is now up with the Twins, Danby Swanson is a plus player, Mickey Moniak is in the majors but not looking line much right now, so assuming Tork straightens out that's 6 of 7 recent 1/1s without a confirmed bust.

No, Rays haven't hit a ton, but good starts from McClanahan and Rasmussen.

Schoop has hit in 8 of his last 10 games but even that is a bare minimum 8/32. Could be evidence he's coming around, or it could just be evidence that he's gonna plateau at <700 OPS.

a lot more on Russian manpower situation in this podcast https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/counter-attacks-and-can-kicking-in-the-russo-ukrainian-war/ an interesting point Kofman details is that unlike the US Military, that trains inductees at dedicated training bases, the Russian army is structured to largely do their training inside their active divisional forces, but that means when their forces are under pressure, suffering losses, having to be reconstituted etc., the training function is pretty much 1st to be thrown overboard.

if you look back at the complete list of #1 picks the painful thing is the number of busts in taken in the top 10. That they haven't had a bust in a top 10 since Jacob Turner is actually a big improvement over the previous 40 yrs. But of course while you can't call any of them busts now, the jury is out on Tork, Greene and Jobe and even Manning for that matter and one of them could flame out.

Luka is easy to like, but can't root for Cuban so tough call. 🙄

Maybe that. Since I don't think Yzerman is a ditherer, can only surmise that whoever he is pursuing is either still playing or playing hard to get.

Stellan Skarsgard. Under-rated.

I don't think he was going to have a detailed diagnosis until today. Generically a 'broken finger' is about a month

2nd set because I don't see him being less than a month. I also should have added Kreidler. Of course that need depends a lot on whether Candelario starts earning his keep more consistently. Greene could surprise and be here by the 2nd week in June.... EDIT: Candelario is 754OPS since May 1, so I guess he is coming back some, but the glove??

need back list in order 1st set: Manning, Meadows, Reyes 2nd set: Greene, Pineda. Can only hope or matter less set: Mize, Alexander, Cisnero, Funk

Just read that the parishioners in the Laguna church overpowered the shooter. And they did it without needing a gun of their own. Which only goes to illustrate that what matters is the level of offensive firepower brought to the scene. Buffalo vs Laguna show that without turning every street corner into a military base, the 'good guy with a gun' scenario is *always* subject to negation by a determined perp with more firepower and initiative. Sane people need to understand how foolish their belief is in that scenario as a mode of public safety - if any sane people still believe it.

The Ukrainians seem to be banking on exactly that, planning to keep grinding up Russian units until the Russian army reaches a point of rapid collapse.

I have to wonder if the term "athletic" has reached a point of misuse in the NBA.

definitely. Last season we had parked East of Woodward at a game - probably the Ford Field lot, and decided to go down Beaubien to Jefferson to pick up the Lodge and the area past the casino was pretty much a zoo.

Not sure if he is a bad guy or just lacks filters, which doesn't necessarily matter practically once what's said is said. He can also be pretty funny.

you figure in a game like that Calgary would eventually get caught overcommitted and give up a winning odd-man rush, but Dallas was completely inept.

well, that may have been about as alone as a goalie has had to play since Hasek's days in Buffalo....

Dallas defense seemed to waver some after the 15 min mark but Calgary couldn't score. OT. Nutty game.

if he does need it he needs to have it soon to be back in '24. Can't screw around until this off season. That said the report was out there that the imaging didn't support that surgery was needed, for now that's all we got.