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this long (an hour) but interesting. In Finnish with English subtitles. The view of Russia by a retired Finnish intelligence officer. This is from about 2018 - recent but before the current war began.

BTW, just saw Smith has 'resigned from the Academy" whatever that actually means. Be nice if it were that easy to 'resign' Putin.

the only disconnect here for pitchbot it that John McWhorter hardly represents the mainline NYT editorial management sensibility that it lives to skewer. JW is actually the resident anti-wokeness curmudgeon.

only the Brits could work a dumb joke this hard.....

the contrast is so clear. Even down 4 on 5 Ottawa has the speed to close on the puck handler immediately. Wings fall back even 5 on 5.

wheels fell off in a hurry in this one.

reminds me of a Where's Waldo drawing

sports based on exploiting fossil fuels and generating more CO2 are exempt - of course.

you know there is a enough buzz around other players this season that Miguel can just show up and work on his game. But's it's all about the legs with him. A prevailing view is that he's slowed down too much to be an effective hitter - that may be true but it's not that unusual for HOF level hitters to maintain their reflex and eye to 40. What we know for sure Cabrera struggles with is the drive off the back leg. When it's there he can hit, when it isn't he can't. As Lee posted, he will likely just give us streaks when the leg/knee is good and not much the rest of the time so all we can do is hope he has more good days with the right leg.

McCosky and Dickerson yakking in the booth during the game when Cabrera singles on an off speed pitch. Chris notes (with some justification) that throwing off-speed to Cabrera shouldn't happen much this season since he can't get around. Still, after Chris leaves the booth, Miguel gets the last word for today by hitting 96 over the fence.....

>They just said lying to voters doesn’t matter. Well it sure hasn't hurt the GOP yet, so....

Woodbery tweeting about him coming back 'down the RF line' so this was after he went to the OF after scoring the run? EDIT: Beck just posted he went off at the end of the inning after he came in from 3rd.

Cabrera homers ....on a fastball.

and don't go to sleep on Tyler Alexander. Kid is pitching up a storm again today. They are going to have to find ways to get him innings.

Greene with a leadoff triple against Cole in the 3rd. Tork fights his way to an 8 pitch walk. The kids got Cole so rattled he walked Barnhardt. Baddoo with the bases juiced.

yeah - India's defense posture against a hostile Pakistan and semi-hostile China goes in the crapper without Russian support for their military hardware - so they cannot simply throw the Russians overboard even if they wanted to, which isn't clear anyway. It is claimed that India has no ideological sympathies with Russia at all, the tie is purely transactional based on Russia being their arms supplier, but India has always been loath to buy from the West because of their dedication to their self image of a 'non-aligned' nation.

I'd have to dig back into old numbers, but IIRC, the year the Tigs went from Renteria and Guillen on the left side to Inge and Everitt, runs against dropped by almost 100. Of course there was turnover in the pitching staff as well (Porcello's rookie yr) but the change on the right side was certainly a chunk of it. Again, other stuff going on but JV, a constant on the staff, had his ERA drop by over 1 run. OTOH, Galarraga's was up just as much - so pick your choose!

Something slipped in Faedo's management. It looked like they wanted to back off on his work, which they also did with Mize and it looks like they are doing with Jobe, but in Faedo's case he ended up losing his FB. That cost him months, then the TJ. I also have a theory that the Tigers in the past were too slow with young hitters. I think if you don't move a guy to where he is seeing MLB pitching by certain age the window is going to start to close on his ability to adjust to it, so it can be counter productive to bring guys along slowly. I worry a lot less about a guys confidence being dashed than about missing his young brain's window to able to learn to recognize MLB breaking balls in real time. Or another way to put it would be if a guy can't keep his head above water against good pitching at 21-24, he probably isn't going to be MLB material anyway. So you may as well/need to push college guys esp hard.

So who is their DH against RH pitching if/when Cabrera can't go? You don't really want Haase or Reyes taking more AB against righties. Willi Castro doesn't hit RHP. H. Castro has no power. I wonder if the answer would end up being Cadelario and Kreidler sharing 3b/DH - or give Josh Lester a shot.....

Interesting that Blashill had props for DeKeyser. Obvious Danny can't sustain playing regularly anymore, but when he comes back from rest, like he did at the end of last season, he's still one of their better D men. His play at the end of last season had me hoping he would be better this season, but clearly his physical condition is such that he runs down until he is a liability and needs time off and rehab to get back. Not a sustainable situation for a player but another case where the Wings are losing/have effectively lost a player that had a talent level they are not able (or willing for now) to replace.

Hill hits another speed bump - sore hammy. Hinch saying they won't know if he's going to miss time until they check tomorrow - as per Freep.

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection. -- W. Shakespeare

well, c'mon now, can you think of a bigger threat to the nation than all those diabetics running around ...healthy!?

this also reads as economic nonsense. A state tax cut would only be inflationary if the state were deficit spending, which most are not allowed to do and which would contradict the premise of the story anyway that the cuts were out of surpluses. Since states pretty much spend 100% of their revenue received, giving the money back to consumers, who will only spend it to a level equal to 100% - the consumer savings rate, will be deflationary if anything, though pretty close to zero. Stupid, poorly researched commentary. The commentator is confused in that Federal tax cuts into deficits are inflationary because the Federal government can(does) print dollars to fund them (all things being equal, printing more dollars = inflation). States have no such ability. State taxation does not drive national money supply. The writer doesn't know Econ 101. The level of general literacy in what gets published in US media is beyond abysmal.

nah, all wrong for Bert ... no sunglasses.