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he also has lacked any sense of touch so far. Maybe better receivers solves part of that, but on too many throws he made it harder on his receivers that it had to be.

with Acker out I'd put my money on Brown and Schostak. Epstein is apparently a Trumper and I don't see Maklid getting the support of Alumni, who do most of the voting in a regent's election.

I'd prefer a grading system which broke out coach decisions from player decisions. I get its all put together as a matter of team performance, but being sent into sure outs is a fundamentally different problem for a team to solve than than having runners who don't run the bases well, so as a diagnostic metric I would prefer that cases be spilt.

They've had some dumb sends home, which is a reflection on Cora rather than the team's base running ability.

IRRC, Workman was lost to the Cubs via Rule V last off season. Played a few game for the Cubs, they traded him the White Sox but apparently that doesn't change the Rule's requirement that if he falls off the major league roster he comes back to Detroit, so when the Sox Cut him, he ended up back in Toledo.

I think Buddha is referring to one of the candidates running for election on the Dem side in 26, Amir Maklid - a̶s̶s̶u̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ h̶e̶ g̶e̶t̶s̶ p̶a̶s̶t̶ e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ A̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ o̶r̶ B̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶r̶y̶, w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ i̶s̶ q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ -̶ ( my bad - Regents don't have to primary)- but the guy had already lost his endorsement by the SEIU. On the GOP side, I don't think I'd have any real lssue with Schostak, I don't know anything about Epstein but there is a good chance she's not an anti-semite. It's a complex situation in the world right now. You have a traditionally discriminated against ethnicity/culture, which now has a nation state created in its name that has become a violent, repressive, apartheid practicing nation state. The subtlety is that unlike the case of most rogue nation states, we don't want to see them defeated, for instance as we would be happy to see happen to Putin's Russian kelpto-facist-state, we want them to be able to carry on but but just stop being a terrible national actor. That's a very murky position to be in.

i don’t think there is anything like a 1 to 1 correspondence between the voting population for regents seats and the mi dem party, but we’ll see

if grasso is willing to hang around long enough for Alec Gallimore to leave Duke without looking bad, he’d still be my guess.

Enough of this. EDIT - better

If ever there was a prop bet that could motivate me to open an online gambling account, it would be "tiger reliever to walk 1st hitter he faces."😉

Sounds like the Regents are punting again. Grasso has had his 'interim' title removed, no word of a search underway. Grasso apparently passed his audition - though when he took it he professed no desire to keep it.

no question he has fabulous physical tools.

those will be scheduled for release right after the unreleased Epstein files.

Tork seeing the ball well enough to walk, but not enough to hit it.....😡

It's true you can't change a guy's reaction time. What you can try is to shorten his approach so the same reaction time still gives him more time to get the bat to where it needs to be on time. Not a high probability endeavor either and if player is left with zero power you still might not like the result, but it is one thing you can try. And doubly hard to try and re-arrange a guy ten+ yrs into a career.

It's not the final word by any means, but I don't know if I've seen such a highly touted major college QB improve so little over the course of playing his 1st season.

Hitting takes place at the extreme edge of a bunch of the body's capability. Vision, reaction time, strength to swing the bat, plus ability once you do see the ball to accurately extrapolate where the ball is going based on a the short preview before the swing decision is made. You have be an outlier in almost all of those to be a great hitter.

excellent move even if they did lose

DId he? I didn't have video and it looks like the Box at MLB never updated to show it.

When game got to "close, late" esp at the end where anything to the OF wins it and DP could have saved it, I'd have wanted Javy at short and McG at 3rd - mid inning if need be. In Hinch's defense, Fenway is a place where the odds a of a game being won by IF defense quality are lower than most places.

Max is not the weakest link.

Don Drysdale says, “Hold my beer”

Didn't they used to just chrome plate them? For a fricking lugnut that's gonna last probably 10yrs and by then the rest of the wheel won't look so hot either. IDK - I'm out of the loop now - maybe plating is too much enviroment risk overhead anymore.

bring Baez to the IF

people haven’t figured out yet that these weekly negotiation ‘breakthrough’ announcements are biggest market pump and dump going?