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Relief pitching: Can't live with it, can't live without it. Before last night Aroldis Chapman had appeared in 3 games, faced 10 batters, K'd 5 and had not given up a hit, walk, or run. Last night he came in against the Jays to start the 9th and walked the bases loaded. Michael King came in and got him out of it with a K and DP. Chapman still hasn't given up a hit or a run! 🤔

meh - you know the Russian bureaucracy - they will likely just float through the work.

Must be the only way to save it from the Nazis.

he does look like a different hitter this season. Time will tell if that is a better hitter, but so far so good for 13 PA

So bottom line, Mize only gives up 2 in 5 and the Tigers win. I'll live with that.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Alex Lange.

Carlson with a somewhat 'elastic' K zone to say the least.

In terms of pure stuff Skubal and Manning both have more, but only time will tell which of the three makes the most of what they have.

also only 5 pitches at 95 or better. His 4 seamer was sitting around 93 too much for my liking. Velo isn't everything for everyone, but Casey is better when the throws harder. But again, let's see if some of that comes back as he gets worked in. Bottom line for Mize is what it has always been - he does not throw a great swing and miss FB. so he can't get away with mistakes. Maybe if he commands it better up high there is still some potential there, but in general Casey has to hit the corners with his FB to be effective. When he misses a lot he's going to look like he looked tonight - a lot of struggle. Now to his credit, Mize has a knack for struggling a lot and still not giving up that many runs - which is not nothing.

Sal had him pretty easily. But how 'bout that Cabrera kid. He's been a team player with all the talk about being moved down in the line-up but you know he can't like hearing it.

Major victory for KC to get 5 complete from Greinke, who for as much as Jacks talked him up, is pretty much over the hill truth be told.

Also - Mize has given up 3 steals and still hasn't gone to 1st once?

exactly. He gets into a rut where where he nibbles outside and then misses high. But I think the real problem for Mize is that he just absolutely cannot pitch mid high - he just get's hammered in the middle vertical third. He has to stay up and down, and then misses too much when he goes up. Hopefully he's still just not on his game with the short ST, but he hasn't been very impressive so far this season.

How long is Greene out?

If Mize could finally learn to command his high fastball he'd be a beast, but he can't throw it close enough to the zone consistently enough to get swings. Persistent issue for him.

True, but I think even more to the point, an officer in danger of losing any one-on-one with a perp is also in danger of having his lethal weapon taken and used by the perp to endanger him or a bystander. But it gets to where all these arguments are like bad kabuki theater. There is only one overriding reality here - which is that you can't fill a society with guns and not create the conditions were they kill a lot of people.

the Swedes and Finns should just tell the Russians they can waste all the money they want arming their side of the border, it won't bother them because as any fool would know, they have no intention of invading Russian.

It can get very hard to blame the officer given their tasking. There is a problem with the structural concept here part of which goes back to having any police officer work alone. It's baked into the equation that the only thing that allows a single officer to effectively apprehend a single perp is the implicit threat of the officer elevating the encounter to the use of lethal force. You can't reasonably send officers out to do solo apprehensions and take the threat of lethal force off the table - it becomes a non-sensical formulation. If you what to remove the use of the lethal force threat from routine encounters, you have to change the interaction equation - the cops have to have more non-lethal support for an apprehension - i.e. at minimum more than one officer. But that costs money. In the end taxpayers would rather see people get killed, esp ones they don't care about, than pay more in taxes for social order in places *they* don't go.

The tigers did some simulcasting back in the early 60's? If fact I think Kell and Harwell may even have worked together on some of those, but if nothing else, I think replay has made simulcasting pretty unworkable. You can't show replays on the radio and you can't not use replay on the telecast so that alone make trying to do both simultaneously pretty impossible. Even if I know Dickerson is looking at a monitor to give me details of the last play, that's still very different from him doing the correct narration of a clip for a viewer who can see it.

Doesn't look like there will be general recommendation for 2nd booster - at least until most people are further out from their first. Seems the consensus is to leave it a case by case decision for the time being.

US Gov seemed to be playing this one very circumspectly all day. Which is fine, you don't need to shout when the facts are already doing it for you.

Yeah - I don't know if it was so much a matter of those supporting the pick claiming he was a generational talent, as the skeptics arguing that he had better *be* a generational talent to justify taking a TE 8th. But I think I've heard people argue against taking virtual every position but QB and LT in the 1st round. 32 players get taken in the 1st round and there will never be to 32 top LTs and QBs available! Guys at various of positions are going to get picked in the 1st round.

A Ukrainian pilot talks the limitations of MIG29s - that they need something better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/ukrainian-fighter-pilots-mig-29-russians/

If the Russians have prisoners they will be videoed post haste, so the claim isn't likely to be in question long one way or the other.

On the flip side, Russians claiming they have forced a surrender in Mariupol.