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IDK, I was really surprised to see either Castro even on the roster this season. I figured with Reyes, Cameron and Hill available as reserve OFs and Clemen, Short, Krieidler available they would have cut bait on both of them. You can put me down as unhappy with whichever half the Avila/Hinch brain trust is responsible for those choices. Willi is a disaster waiting to happen every time he steps on the field. To me Harold is the classic fool's gold ballplayer. The BA sucks you in but everything else about his game ends up hurting you. They keep hunting for the reincarnation of Donny Kelly, but there can be only one!

Price of computer video cards has fallen about 30% in three months. Some supply chain kinks are resolving, though Chinese lock downs remain a problem.

and Rod didn't appear to work very hard - did very little research beyond his infamous strolls past the batting cage and so had precious little interesting to add. I'm sure that is what wore on Mario after a while.

A Marcos appears set to regain the presidency in the Philippines. “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"!

Dr. Fauci speaking at the UM commencement: Fight "the normalization of untruths" Good advice but not exactly prime bumper sticker material. 🙄

he's made gambles that came up losers. Managers are going to that, it's their job, but when too many bets come up losers, you're going to get heat because they're paying you to have it come out the other way. My guess it that to some degree Hinch felt pressure to get the team to play better than they were, and the injuries just made it worse, so he forced things a little, hoping to escape with nothing bad happening. But when he put Willi out there the ball found him and playing Harold a lot at SS instead of bringing up Short resulting in a lot of balls he couldn't handle finding Harold as well. Maybe the odds were that didn't have to happen, but it did. Statistics make predictions but the future decides itself. For better or worse, sports is an outcomes based business.

I think you are confusing me with someone else, I don't think I've ever made any particular deal about Hinch's troubles in Houston. Beside, as per my last post, I'm speaking purely hypothetically, I don't don't actually think anyone is going anywhere. But *IF* I'm an owner whose trigger finger is getting itchy and a bunch of veteran guys are playing below their capabilities I don't see any connection to the GM that managed to bring them together, I would ( if I were going to) have to go after the management on the field. >and you think they're slumping because of something the manager did? Did the Red Wings start playing badly because of something Blashill suddenly changed in what he was doing? Field managers/coaches take the fall for players who don't play as well as they are expected to. That just is the way it is. But again, I don't expect anyone is taking a fall in the Tiger FO in any immediate future.

I don't think anyone is going anywhere anytime soon. They have no choice but to ride it out. I think the only question left is if they really get themselves in a hole (well, they already have) do you sort of pull the plug on any dream of competing and start looking at Clemens and Dingler and Wentz and Cameron (again!) and decide you are going to move veteran pitching depth (Pineda, ERod) or even one of the younger pitchers to restock the position cupboard for next year. All I know is that I've come to appreciate the game day animation. It's a lot less frustrating keeping tabs on team playing horrible baseball that way than having to actually watch......🤮

Fantastic! Always room for another pitcher on the roster to take losses in Quality Starts!

because the computer says LEFT!/RIGHT!. I'm as big as anyone on the importance of handedness in baseball. To this day I will never understand why DD didn't seem to care about it at all. But there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. One of the problems in working in complex systems is that you can easily start making mistakes based on measurement bias. We can measure platoon splits very accurately, Rdrs is kinda shaky, especially in less than a couple of seasons. So the temptation is strong to pay a lot of attention to what you measured and give shorter shrift to what you can't, even if on some level you realize it may be more important that you are giving it credit for. But you can answer your critiques by pointing at the numbers you have much easier than arguing your vague notions about the importance of what you have softer data about.

I'm fine with ranked choice in primaries, but what I'd like even better is to require run-offs in generals if no-one gets >50%. Especially in Presidentials. Too many guys get to the WhiteHouse on minority pluralities thanks to 3rd party mischief.

you still may not like the development system but Schoop, Baez, Meadows, Haase, Candelario aren't slumping because of it.

Willi hasn't played enough for his fielding stats to mean much, but has clearly and grossly misjudged two balls out of a small number of chances. I not sure I want to wait until the stats prove out what we can see already - He's not good at judging fly balls.

I guess I'm glad I just got back. If we have 5 starting pitchers (Rodriguez, Pineda, Faedo, Skubal, Brieske=5?) and the DH isn't until Tuesday why are we doing a BP day today?

Easily. All this is needed is for Biden to get sick and have to resign, Harris taking over - as incumbent being too difficult to defeat in the primaries, and then getting plastered in 2024 by another Trumper.

TBF, from personal experience they can be bad enough that you'd have hard time playing without taking something and once you did you might have a really hard time catching up to a 95mph fastball. For me even today with the newer options there is only one antihistamine which is strong enough to suppress my symptoms without making me at least a little drowsy. If Austin doesn't have anything that works that well for him I could understand it might be an issue. If they're hiding something I'm not sure what the point would be, just IL him - you don't have to say why.

I guess they can't find a drugstore that sells Zyrtec. (there's Tx medicine joke to be made there but wrong thread.....🤭)

If any one in the org is in the cross hairs today (and I don't believe anyone actually is) it would be Hinch. GM's don't get blamed when guys under perform their lifetime averages, managers and position coaches do.

LMAO. Keep pumping the fantasy. There is no "we'll see", there is only "HAVE SEEN."

In that long presser, Yzerman kept coming back to the difficulty hiring someone he didn’t know or hadn’t worked with before. If that’s his preference then having to eventually fire a friend may be his fate.

true enough.

Actually on 2nd thought this is doubly disgusting - Alito justifies his decision by expecting the poor to supply wombs for the barren upper classes? Handmaid's tale indeed. What an 'effin bastard. To even consider that as relevant completely denies the dignity of those women.

Gee, does that mean they are going to start overturning media mergers because I can't get cheap internet? ......didn't think so.

It was inevitable that while they were congratulating themselves on the low ERA of the BP that the walks they were getting away with eventually would burn them. To many arms in the pen have not been able to throw strikes.

I've always thought of all the sports, football is a game of weakest links. If you aren't balanced enough the other team is going to exploit your weaknesses and beat you. Maybe that comes from watching teams with stars lose.....