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LOL - Maureen Down (who I am not great fan of) did have a good line today - actually she was was borrowing a line from the late Mary McGrory: "John Robert appears to be a small man trying to walk a large dog."

Hamstring problems mostly IIRC. Lost his leg drive. His 'explosion' as they would term it today in football.

Chet didn't have top shelf blazing speed, but he was really sound in all phases. A bit like Mickey Stanley in that regard but Mickey was even less flashy. Stanley never looked like he was working at it, he just somehow caught everything.

g.o.t..t.o..d.o.u.b.l.e..d.o.w.n.

OK - If you want to play scripture quotation bingo check Ex 21:22. That is not a murder. Straight from the core of the OT law, of which Matt 5:17 says not one iota will pass away. All of which is immaterial because the Bible is not the source authority for US Law, the consensus of the governed population is and I'd be very surprised if anyone can show a majority of the population thinks the Bible - by whatever of a million possible different interpretations and internal contradictions, should be. Heck if you wanted to take Jesus at his word you should shut down most of the police and court system because you wouldn't prosecute anyone for theft or simple assault and absolutely not for sexual indiscretions.

I believe if Austin hadn't messed up his legs he would have had an all-star career. He was never the same player on either side of the ball after the hamstring injury.

I don't recognize much of what I take the teachings of the NT to be in US Evangelical Christianity. TBF, there is some pushback from within, but not enough to alter the political alignment the Evangelical church has chosen. You can still find a more social justice aligned church in the US, but its numbers have been in long decline and the Evangelicals accuse them of being too theologically squishy- basically anyone who doesn't accept their very particular takes on "Bible Inerrancy." The sad fact is that it is much easier and appealing (and profitable) to preach certainty to a population that is as philosophically umoored as is that in America today.

probably, but I want to see where Manning tops out. TBH, considering he was trying to get by on two pitches early, Brieske may have a damn high ceiling. With the spin on the FB keeping guys swinging under it, once he started mixing in some off speed other than the change he shut Houston down - 1 hit in his last 3 IP.

I think there is justification for playing lesser defender, if the defender is at least adequate and you are going to get a bona fide bat in the lineup (i.e. Nick C), but subbing out Hill for W. Castro is barely justified on the bats before you even consider the D and Willi has shown limited fly ball judgment. I don't know how you can even think about playing a guy in the OF who doesn't have a decent sense of where the ball is going - it negates every other skill he may have as a defender if he takes them all to the wrong place. And OF mistakes are expensive - usually cost multiple bases.

And the thing which just adds to the frustration is that all this crappy fielding is supposedly in the pursuit of positional flexibility - Well how many substitutions did Hinch make tonight? Exactly Zero. How many did he make last night, Exactly one - he pinch ran for Cabrera and the player never hit or went to the field. Just WTF good is all this positional flexibility doing for us?

That's the other side of the equation. Once one side is in power by basically non-democratic means, their loyalty to the democratic process can easily evaporate in the pursuit of the maintenance of their power, which is exactly what we see in this GOP.

Tiger pitchers threw a shut-out. The D and the batters managed to lose it.

well, he didn't self-destruct tonight. That's something. Basically means he'll get another chance to self-destruct when it matters.

and of course the irony should not be lost that it's the side that already has most of the marbles that feels so aggrieved they needed to storm the Capitol.

exactly. That's the problem with any democratic system. It's inherently only meta-stable. Should any democracy tilt too far out of balance it quickly reaches a synergy where the side in power uses it to consolidate it and the other side is out of luck short of a major upheaval. The conservative minority had a majority just long enough to put in place a court that supports jerrymander, the small states will never cede their excess political allotment by the standard constitutional reform process because they have veto power in it. We are basically screwed as a democracy. I'm old enough not to have to worry too much about living through the complete crisis that is inevitably coming but I feel sorry for my kids. Hopefully they'll have the sense to go somewhere else before it goes completely off the rails. The only real hope is for the large states to call their own Constitutional convention and go ahead with it whether the small states join or not. Then after they hammer out a new deal the rest can either join or go broke, which they quickly would without the blue states. But it won't happen. The people in the blue states don't have the political imagination, or the confidence that they wouldn't come up with a really half-assed replacement document.

Good to see Chafin has joined right into the Tiger BP camaraderie and is walking the first batter he faces in solidarity.

QFT

9 pitch 7th for Garcia?

WM drop their game in the 10th Colt Keith 3/6 HR(2) 874 OPS.

really have come to despise MLB scoring with a fury of 1000 suns. The Astro runs in the 3 should not be earned.

which wasn't 'legal' BTW, so not sure it's germaine to anything here, other than to point out that when abortion is not legal, it does not stop abortion, it simply drives it underground, which for those old enough to remember, was a big reason that a compromise like Roe seemed like a better solution to many at the time.

yup - you can't be too bummed about 3 runs in 5 IP against this team in this park. It's kind of joke how they keep saying how critical it is to get innings from the starters in this stretch when all they are doing is wasting them anyway.

I remember taking the HD out of my Comcast box and transferring the recordings to my desktop when I cancelled the service before we moved a few years ago. If I actually want to capture anything for a permanent collection from DirectTV I have make the reservation, then play it and and capture it to a PC while it's playing. Needless to say, even though I can, I never do.

our old friend Cristin Stewart playing against Toledo for Worchester tonight. Hens win the game 6-2. 1/3 for Clemens, 1/3 HR(5) 2BB for Short.

Garcia 'hung' a slider exactly where Skubal gave up a HR yesterday. Schoop fouled it off.