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Mize K's Gonzales to open the game.

I have never liked them, but I've taken at least one fall that would have split my head open had I not been wearing it, so I've learned to cope. TBH, if I did my riding on an upright commuter just around the urban-scape I'm not sure I see a lot of risk - but on a road bike on 2 lane county trunk falls tend to be hairy.

This is fast becoming one of those 'be careful what you wish for' situations. Any sane person had to want Russia to fail to take Ukraine, but who believed in that possibility seriously enough to imagine how dangerous it has become to have Putin facing the increasing likelihood of his own extinction. While the possible mechanisms may remain opaque to us, I have no doubt Putin can not outlive an outright defeat of the Russian military in Ukraine. After the early Russian set-backs the talk was all of 'off-ramps', but Putin's brutality against the Ukrainian population keeps closing off possibilities day by day. Putin is basically now Bashar Assad, but without hope of any one to play Russia to his Syria

good times....

It's hard to give up on a potential switch hitting bat, almost as hard as imagining W Castro ever getting his game together!

when the quiet part accidentally gets said out loud.

Infection - not flu, no recent surgery. Just by probabilities: Type II diabetes related? MRSA?

sure, there is (Putin removed from the scene), it just isn't very likely...

With the one exception that he has probably talked too much. Stuff like the 'war criminal' rhetoric doesn't help. It's fine if the US does this institutionally, but I don't see any value in Biden himself personalizing the conflict. It just raises the heat with no other clear payoff.

the reality (problem?) now is that whatever cultural affinity there was between Ukraine and Russia, this war has utterly destroyed it. In fact you now not only have 40 million Ukrainians who will never acquiesce to Russian demands again. but for whom the war has created a new confidence that they are a force to be reckoned with in their own right.

what a strange dynamic it would set up if the Ukrainians took a large Russian force as POWs. Then again, I saw a clip from the southern front the other day where a local partisan was complaining about the Russians leaving their dead behind. Hard to imagine where the head of an army like that must be.

NYT has gotten very frustrating over the last couple of years. When Trump was the obvious foil things were easier, but since then the Times wants desperately to hang on the myth that being the messenger gives one a free ride on the need to exercise more nuanced moral judgment. But there can be no such free ride when you run the NYT. You better accept the reality that what you say matters, or give it up and go work for the society page of the Puducah Bee.

you are right - What I remembered was that Faedo and Carlton combined for a no-hitter the same season - Faedo went 7 no-hit, Carlton threw 8 and 9. https://www.milb.com/gameday/baysox-vs-seawolves/2019/04/24/571796#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=571796

Wentz, Faedo should be on the starting staff for the hens - well Faedo once they finish his warm weather rehab work.... EDIT:... actually Beck just reported that Wentz was optioned to AA this afternoon, but JB still thinks odds are he ends up at Toledo once things are sorted out.

great bit by Ben Sasse today:

that's cold.....

I find the reports about Russian troops suffering exposure/frostbite curious. Do you suppose they were ordered by the brass not to run their vehicles to keep warm to conserve fuel, or had already run out?

Would Schoop bring a top 100 prospect in a deadline deal?

Soto was 95+ his first time out. I wonder if some of these guys have actually overdone it a little prior to ST and we are going to have a bunch of dead arms the 1st couple weeks of the season. ...just looking at the game data, Soto's problem wasn't lack of velo -he was hitting 98 with the FB - maybe just working on his off-speed.

unfortunately not in the same inning!

Greene with a 2 out triple, Torkelson strands him. 😢

right - I had heard the number 9 bandied about. Maybe the Tigers had enough workable off days they ended up with less and some other teams had more?

there are 4 DH on the schedule, but the first one isn't until mid-May. I could see a few split starts though - teams seem to be moving in that direction for other reasons anyway.

Right. I'm sure Tyler would rather work in relief in Detroit than be sent to Toledo to maintain readiness to start. So it depends on the circumstance. If a starter comes up with a blister, they are going to call someone up from the Toledo staff - or maybe do a bullpen day. If they lose someone long term, then Alexander would likely start working his way into the rotation -- unless someone in Toledo was looking a lot like a major leaguer.

I wear one biking, but I'm about the last person on a ski hill without one. But I bike a lot faster than I ski these days!