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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!

What would you have given to have seen Larkin play with a Datsuk or Yzerman? He's not the most dominant player on his own but he's a guy to build a fabulous line with.

Larkin with another wizard play and Vrana with the finish. 4-2

Osterle being totally ineffective behind his own goal....gave the Flyers another grade A chance.

yeah - , Raymond and Seider ended up outnumbered in their own zone.

Manning is in unless he messes up.

and Hronek late getting back and 3-2

I hope I'm right that most of baseball is underestimating the Tiger pitching staff.

I think Clinton bought the globalist line on economics hook, line and sinker, and has turned out wrong like the rest, but I think you are being a little unfair on policy because at that point the failures of the Reagan program had not become clear and I would argue there was very little progressive/liberal political sympathy in the voting public to swing back leftward yet. Policy wise Clinton was a fair reflection of where the public was mostly. You can fairly blame him for not being a better leader pushing against prevailing opinions, but that's a high bar for any pol. But policy is still policy and it's always debatable. Trump was in a class by himself in his disregard for institutional integrity. I was going to say that I'll give you all the bad policy charges against Clinton you want, but he was never that kind of institutional danger to the republic except that as I have stated, I do believe that the fact that we let him get away with such bald faced lying in the WH was one of the big things helping US politics' decent into the mess it is. But in the end it wasn't his fault we enabled him the way we did.

This has been on the agenda at the Olympic committee for a few decades and I don't think they yet have an answer anyone likes. Chromosome analysis was tried and discarded, testosterone testing was tried and discarded and re instituted in conjunction with genetic testing, and back and forth in various courts....and the arguments continue. I doubt US school boards are going to be able to resolve it neatly either. Human like neat rules, nature tends to throw things at us in a spectrum before you even consider cases of medical intervention or re-assignment.

and the Women Won, so the guys better get on their game or they aren't going to hear the end of it! https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2022/03/michigan-surges-past-villanova-advances-to-womens-sweet-16.html