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so what just happened? Radio guy was confused. He called it a foul off the catcher picked up in fair territory? Isn't that a dead ball? Or really not foul tipped and the catcher just picked it up and threw him out?

Keidler on base twice - helping his cause.

Blue Jay radio PBP guy (Wagner?) OK technically, just boring.

I don't see Haase catching more than just enough to stay sharp - Hinch seems to like Garneau as a receiver. I suppose like anyone - if Garneau doesn't hit at all he'll still be gone. But other than that Haase's opportunities depend mostly on how much Hinch ends up protecting Baddoo and Greene from LHP. Grossman and Reyes are better against lefties as it is.

Funny. Good question though. I guess OTIS popularized the term 'elevator' in the US because that's what they called what they built - though I can't find that they ever tried to trademark it. Interestingly, OTIS did try to trademark the term 'Escalator' but lost their case because they had never established any other generic name for the apparatus.

Kreidler with a leg double.

yup - It's a limit on Hill's potential DRS. He doesn't have the arm to match his catching ability. Otherwise Reyes, Hill, Green, Grossman all pretty meh aren't they? Still have some hope that Baddoo's arm could be better this year with the extra year after TJ. His was erratic last season so that has potential to improve but at this point he hasn't shown anything there yet.

Haase with a solo shot. Tigers on the board.

Tigers waste a Tork single and Greene double in the 5th. Come up empty.

Tigers getting a little sloppy. Manning gives up one long ball going 3 complete and responsible for 2 runners in the 4th. Not great, not bad. Had to be rescued by Greene in the 1st though. Vest comes in throws gasoline on the fire. 3-0 and still no out in the 4th.

the letter detailing Reagan's Alzhiemer's was released in '94. Text of the letter from Mayo said they detected changes 'over the last 12 months' so there was never a formal admission that he was suffering from Alzhiemer's while in office, though I don't know that there is ever any kind of bright line to say "this is the day when you began to decline." Not to mention that almost every case of Alzheimer's is unique in its progression anyway. https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/physicians-explanation-ronald-reagans-alzheimers-diagnosis https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/reagans-letter-announcing-his-alzheimers-diagnosis

It was pretty boorish. More sophisticated revenge should be preferred. (not to mention Rock was just doing what he was being paid to do at the time, which was at least in part to make fun of the crowd, even if it the Smiths/Pinketts thought that joke was in poor taste.) Then again, if Obama had just bitsch slapped Trump that night instead of making more sophisticated but merciless fun of him at the Correspondent's dinner, maybe Obama just gets a law suit and we never get stuck with Trump as President....🤔

Lot's of potential ironies. Rock's wife of 18 yrs (now divorced) ran a non-profit hair salon. Also back in the day, when many black women made it a statement to stop straightening their hair, black women wearing their hair natural and even very short was actually a thing. somewhere there is probably a joke for a bald male comic about women vs men - one not appreciating the pain of childbearing and the other the 'pain' of balding, but Rock still has too much hair to make it.......

I do think Greene is about as sure a bet as we have seen in a long time to be a well above replacement hitter. I'm not sure what kind of average Torkelson will hit for but the plate discipline and power are real, so I expect a good OPB and some HR so that should keep his OPS afloat. Of course in a 1B that is a minimum expectation.

and of course at his age, like Reagan, the fact that he is mentally acute now is no guarantee he will be in 'x' more years. But for now there is little way of knowing what 'x' may be short of dissecting his brain today.....

good point. Nobody should have to play hockey back to back.

I know this gets fed by his sometimes tortured elocution, but anyone who has actually dealt with the mentally acute old and those with dementia would understand that that kind of thing is just natural physical aging, just like you can't run as fast, you maybe can't talk as fast - it's has nothing to do with quality of the underlying higher level thinking. And especially in Biden's case -as he had to overcome an underlying speech impediment in the first place. As a matter of fact I have known any number of people with serious dementias across the spectrum who happened to elocute extremely well right past the time when what they said represented connected thought. It's just not a relevant marker of anything either way. It does make for poor quality political theater, and that is a problem for Biden in world that no longer has the patience or analytical ability to see past image.

He needs to be ready to play right since if Hill does make the team Riley will play less CF. It will also be interesting what their internal HawkEye evaluations tell them over the season. The eye test is frustratingly inaccurate when judging an OF's overall time/distance to the ball. We only see how fast they seem to be moving (stride, etc), their real speed and first step are hard to assess visually. For instance there is some argument that Reyes actually may have better straight line OF speed than Hill or Greene, but because of his height and body conformation it doesn't look like it. Of course he is not as athletic as Greene or Hill in terms of catching the ball and you have to consider route efficiency, but just an example that everything can go into the mix on these decisions since they now have better quantitative data on everything.

The overtime goal exactly encapsulates the Wings' problems. Sutter, who is billed as near the top of their second talent tier with Fabbri and probably after Vrana didn't/couldn't get back down the ice fast enough then didn't find or engage his man when he did get there. The talent drop off when Larkin, Raymond and Seider, who are good enough to regularly dominate play at 3 on 3 against all comers, leave the ice is just so huge. You need your second tier talent to at least be effective checkers that can hold serve even if they are not gifted scorers themselves (the obvious past model being Drapes/McCarty/Maltby). For Wings that is maybe Bertuzzi, then crickets. Still, they played a decent game overall last night. If Blashill can keep them at last night's level the rest of the way maybe he can be forgiven this month's blowouts.....

Cabrera's double today. Front foot off the ground- good to see.

It will be interesting to see how much the Dodgers regret the $$ they committed to Mookie Betts. So far they've paid Betts $50M to produce less than 4 WAR more than Alex Verdugo. Even rich teams will eventually suffer from those moves.

You hope there is some truth to this - that as they get better at improving the players they pick, it feeds back into the scouting process with the data about what kinds of players they have been able to do the most to optimize and that becomes part of your competitive advantage

yeah - If a Kreidler, Dingler, Workman, Madden or one of the recent international signings make it it will be a welcome step forward. If your 1st rounders make it, you need about 50% on your 2nd rounders and internationals and you aren't in half bad shape as an ongoing system.

LOL - Sutter completely loses his man, Rangers score in overtime.

aaaand Lindstrom with the penalty and NY with the PPG. Wings hold on to insure one point.