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Rod Allen providing color for Marlins radio tonight... stopped in for a bit. Wasn't his biggest fan, particularly toward the end, but he's so much better than Morris, no contest at all

Game has been called, two tomorrow

I'm a bit of a traditionalist on this question, so light drizzle shouldn't be a reason to cancel. Especially with the drainage on these modern fields. But I can understand why someone with tickets to tonight would prefer they cancel

Yeah, the yellow stuff on the radar I'm looking at (currently in WMI) looks like it's tracking ENE enough that it will more clip Downtown Detroit than hit it straight on. I wouldn't bet against them playing.

Continued movement toward Macron... It'd be great if he managed to push or exceed 60%, which would put him close to his 2017 numbers.

At the moment, even setting aside whether his offensive production may or may not be flukey, I do think you have to look at Reyes in the lineup more just because of being relatively better at defense in center than the other options.

Yeah, kinda the same situation as the Boston game.... lots of incentives to get it in.

Dylan Smith is looking like he could be a fast riser...

And I don't think the success pitching is as flukish as it was during April last year either.... even without Cisnero and Funkhouser, the stable of arms is better in the bullpen, for instance. Even on the back-end and fringier side of the pen, relying on guys like Will Vest or Jason Foley (who are young and have potential to be steady MLers in time) seems preferable to having guys like Derek Holland and Buck Farmer in those roles, which is where this team was not that long ago. But they need to start hitting more... the approaches have been getting better, but they need to start seeing some of their hits fall in and exhibiting more power.

He's eligible to be activated tomorrow, iirc.

As per usual, the costs of the Culture War will be passed onto the taxpayer.

The GOP will win back the House in all likelihood. But Kevin McCarthy will never be Speaker. The man is everything that is wrong with politics. What a piece of suet.

Lol

And we all damn well know that it were a Yankee sitting at 2999 in that situation deep in the Bronx and AJ Hinch or another manager did what Boone did, those fans would have gone as crazy as Tiger fans did today. That's baseball, Suzyn...

They also seem to have viable options in Toledo depth wise as well. Beau Brieske, Joey Wentz, etc. That's a massive and underappreciated difference from last year, even with all the injuries... they have more options to cover starts than they would have in previous years. Especially since they did land Pineda, who covers Mize in the short term.

I agree with this, although I think the high IQ baseball people who are complaining about the boos need to be realistic about who buys tickets and attends games... it's not all a bunch of avid baseball watchers like on this board, it's the general public who paid good money to see Miggy get chances to hit. Not everyone is thinking about the minutiae or strategy In other words, it may be the right baseball move, but it's not should not be shocking or surprising that it elicited a lot of boos and heckling from the crowd either. And I dont have a problem with it

We also don't know that Brieske will be here very long - seems like just until Manning gets back. Either way, I like that we've improved beyond just throwing bullpen games when the going gets tough. (Granted its early)

After some thought, given that His Williness got called up for Baez, they may be looking at Zack Short.

Really good question.... Hope it's not a precursor to a 60 Day IL stint for Mize...

*record scratch*

I don't blame the Yankees for doing what they did, but it would be idiotic not to expect the kind of reaction that they got from the crowd when they ended up doing it.

And I believe only one game behind the assumed winner of the division...