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If Manning gets back and pitches well and Faedo pitches well and assuming Pineda and Rodriguez are only out <6 weeks each. But they sure can lose 100 if Skubal ends up the only reliable starter. Steve Carlton won 27 games by himself in 1972 while the Phillies were losing 97 as a team.

Except they won't run out of water. Your tax dollars and mine will fund some massive project to get them water. Part of the American way is that no-one is ever required to pay the price for prior stupid policy decisions - except us.

It's pretty bad when the 'retired' freelancer nutball is still doing a better job than the regulars.

Just the fact that he is throwing is a small miracle. They have him on the Mudhen's roster IL.

better yet - just make the kids clean it up.

News and Freep are free to me - the SO is a newspaper junkie.

So when you are wrong, you know you are wrong, and objective reality demonstrates you are wrong, there is nothing left than to deny reality and create fantasy. The GOP is on the exact same road Putin has gone down. Those that would seek power while denying truth never have any other choice. But the Universe is an unforgiving place, and eventually she will crush those that deny what is, just like that convoy on the way to Kyiv. The only question for America is whether the GOP will fail in its denials of reality before or after it takes the US with it.

I'm too for that one. But my daughter and I have an "I am alone" meme from a 80's computer mystery game called 'Lighthouse'. There is a point where you find a young forlorn female robot in the fantasy world, and she says "I am alone here. No-one to gather shells for poor Lyril" 40 yrs later we can still crack each other up by dropping that one at the right time.

There are reports out that commanders, worried about 'scape goating are refusing any initiative, forcing all field decisions high up the chain and creating immobility/predictability in the Russian force - though again more of an issue on offense than defense. Also that Putin is increasingly taking low level field decisions himself. That should spell disaster but given the quality of the Russian officer corps it could be a step up. I would have to guess a huge amount depends on whether the Russian propaganda machine can keep up the warrior motivation going in the troops. I would think a big factor in when an army reaches it's "Lancaster Break" is going to be it's belief in the regime it's fighting for, in support of which I would offer Russia in WW1, the ARVN, and even Iraq for that matter.

The sad part is that this team will eventually hit; it will happen just about when the starting pitching is about done falling apart, and so it won't help enough to matter except in Skubal's starts.

Calgary is hoot to watch though - so much speed to burn.

3-1. Oiler's take a penalty on a bad change then break a stick. I've never understood why a guy that breaks a stick defending on a PP doesn't go straight to bench for a sub. It would be less than 10sec of 5 on 3 compared to up to 2 min of 5 on 3 1/4. LOL - and the Oilers get it back already.

Willi is on a 1/12 and that was a swinging bunt.

Tiger's finished with 3 hits. one walk

Olsen wasn't too shabby in that game either. 4H 1ER in 4.2IP with 11K

Colt Keith and Wenceel still tearing it up at WM, both finished the night >900 OPS. Colt with a 4 game hit streak on the heels of having his 15 gamer broken. 3b for him tonight. Wenceel with HR, 2b

I would guess you swing above the ball too much because you are either pulling off or late.

It makes your head spin, Thomas can sign on to an opinion written by his wing man that looks to the guidance of a 12th century misogynist who believes women only exist as appendages to their men, all the while draping himself it the mantra that nothing his wife does reflects on him as there couldn't possibly be so much as influence in their marriage. I don't care if there is anything illegal there or not, the intellectual prostitution is breathtaking.

No doubt. Are there any players Coolbaugh can point to as accomplishments so far?

LOL - McCosky already has a story up at Detnews.com that tells us ...exactly nothing. LOLOL - Not to be outdone, Evan Petzold also with a story up at the Freep. That ....you guessed it....tells us exactly nothing. The "sports *reporter*" species has become extinct without ever even getting on the endangered species list.

and another atem ball.

Lee said Ramirez took one off his shin yesterday and there he is. Meanwhile, Tork is starting to hit a high percentage of balls hard. One ray of sunshine.

If we get Manning - If Manning is sharp - If Faedo surprises us all, then you have reached.....treading water status. Just very hard to be very optimistic. You need a guy like Peralta to come up big but there's no sign they have even decided to start him yet.

Hardly matters, one good pitcher in a rotation is better than none, but the rotation is in such a hole right now that even with Skubal the % of good starts they have had so far is not sustainable. Even with Tarik, their second best pitcher is only 30 IP away from his TJ. It's a damn big ask to expect him to be consistent at all.

But that's the joke, given the pitching they've lost, whatever else they did or didn't do becomes a purely academic argument, no way it's going to matter when you're starting Brieske, Faedo,TBD1 and TBD2 for the next month. Tiger's runs against, which had been great, is about to start moving to the back of the pack.