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Exactly.... the bullpen is probably gonna take the bulk of the heat for today. And yeah, the job is to hold the lead and they didn't finish the job. But the quality of the plate appearances late in that game just weren't good enough, especially for a team that purportedly has designs on making noise in the division. The game felt over the moment 6th ended, not in the 8th. It's all a small sample size and eventually they will break out of it, but still frustrating nonetheless.

Yes and no. Because at some point, you have to score more runs. 3 runs per game isn't a recipe for success, regardless of how the pen pitches.

Haase really angling for more playing time...

Andrew Chafin will (hopefully) be back soon enough lol

This is a pretty good idea.... Either way, it's a really good problem to have.... hopefully means no more emergency starts from Hutchison and less bullpen days going forward lol

Nice problem to have... any advantages to a 6 man rotation early on?

Tork off the schneid!

+/- on Dan Dickerson messing up Austin Meadows' name today? edit: i'll take the under

One of his better qualities was on display yesterday - he goes right after hitters and just seems fearless. In that regard, he's the anti-Mize. Not that Casey is a bad pitcher or anything (he's arguably the one I trust the most at this point), but he just seems to overthink sometimes.

Meadows has been such a good addition. And as much as we all wish Greene didn't get hurt, he probably wouldn't be here if that hadn't happened. Crazy

Fantastic!

Pitching has done everything possible to keep them in this. C'mon, do something

Figures that Barnhart would get his first hit batting from the side he hasn't batted on in multiple seasons lol

Yeah, it's hard not to get April 2021 vibes at the moment lol I feel bad for Manning, he deserved better off his effort in this one

So, here we are again.... offense needs to help out

Did not have Manning being the best of the young starters first time thru on my bingo card.... just blew Bogaerts away with that fastball!

El Mago is mago-ing again.... unreal!

Walk Number One for Javy Baez....

About time the Tigs had a 1-2-3 inning.... Manning hitting 96!

Everything's going to plan, Putin's a strategic genius, etc. etc.

If Zillow is to be believed, my home (purchased six years ago) has doubled over my purchase price. About 40% of which is accounted for in the past year. Some of that is supply chain, but a lot of is simple supply and demand.... too many people looking, not enough houses being built or listed.

Truckers can sometime take odd routes when there's incentive to. For instance, my understanding is that, despite being slower, US 20 running along the Indiana Toll Road and the Ohio Turnpike does get a decent amount of truck usage from truckers who do not want to pay the exorbanent rates for multi-axle vehicles assigned to those roads. Particularly in Indiana, which (iirc) has had higher rates per mile than the Illinois Tollway and Ohio Turnpike since they leased the toll road out to a private foreign company to administer.

Not sure that this has been addressed in this discussion, but the fact that Michigan allows a gross vehicle weight of up to 164,000 lbs (in excess of every other state iirc) is a huge incentive for trucking companies to avail themselves of Michigan's roadways. And it stands to reason that it would encourage trucking versus rail in terms of shipping goods across the state (along with geography - as you suggest, Michigan isn't centrally located in terms of rail versus states like Ohio or Indiana, who fall squarely between Chicago and the East Coast). The caveat on truck weights is that axle load requirements (which are used in calculating ESALs, which are the measurement used in designing asphalt/concrete pavements) are somewhat lower in Michigan compared to most states, which means that while the gross consist weight is higher, how the load is distributed across each chassis does result in lower point loads at axle locations. But still, while axle load requirements may be a little lower, that will still be counteracted if trucks pass over a roadway more frequently than in other states. I don't have any data in front of me, but have a civil engineering background and some experience with pavement design. Policies on things like weights allowed on each axle (along with the type of pavement used, thicknesses, subgrade preparation/drainage, weather factors, etc.) can make a big difference on the service life of any pavement system.

To be fair, my experience with Illinois roads is that they aren't much better... at least outside of the ones that ISTHA owns (that, of course, you have to pay for the luxury of driving on)

He must have saw what Gerard Depardieu is being threatened with for daring to question the Putin line (Or he's just a terrible human being)