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This is like April's team: never out of it.

And so-called McStinky keeps it going!

Two runners on, two outs, bottom of the ninth, and the tying run in Colt Keith coming to the plate. AND HOLY ****!!!

I missed this story! Excellent! I hope that eventually he works every game there.

Hitters hit, managers ruin them. Fire Hinch!

One thing I seem to remember from the movie is the one douchebag Ah-nuld eliminated as a potential rival who said Jamie Lee had an ass like a ten-year-old boy. Hey, it was the Nineties ...

I think it might have to do with Bernie and AOC appreciating the actual gains that Biden policy has elicited, versus others who have loyalties to other potential presidential candidates. The flip side of this hypothesis is that Bernie and AOC really work for Putin and are trying to help get Trump elected by keeping Biden in the race. Take your pick.

How else you gonna keep 'em down in the salt mines?

And then, suddenly ...

Maybe the Biden campaign should do a smash-cut of media figures misspeaking and then correcting themselves, with the tagline, "it happens to everyone".

The music director was legitimately playing Hava Nagilah during the bottom of the first, an organ version no less, and not the major-key knockoff on trumpet they’ve played here, at Red Wings games, and at Michigan State games.

This has gotten scant attention here, but the effect of the overturning of the Chevron Deference is that the expertise of scientists will no longer be privileged in court cases, and judges and panels can simply set them aside as irrelevant to whatever legal doctrine is deemed more convenient and beneficial to whoever is in charge at every level of government. This is as bad as an under-the-radar ruling can get.

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- Trump is looking more presidential than ever …

Tough way to lose. Dodgers are a pretty good team.

Ohtani got that pitch up in the zone to smoke because the home plate umpire did not give us that first pitch strike, and I wonder whether it had anything to do with Jake jawing at him after striking out on that legitimately in-the-zone pitch.

Damn it they are just singling us to death here

Yes, I too am "down", as you kids apparently like to say, with both the idea that the COVID season was an impediment to development, and that four years should be enough for a top flight talent to have gotten past it. And lest we forget, when we drafted Matt Manning, it was with the idea that he was a top flight talent. But he has proven that can't strike guys out, and now he can't seem to keep from walking guys. That's a bad combination that's not going to play in a major league bullpen, and I'm not sure we have room for a garbage-time guy only. We just had one of those added to our bullpen this week. Manning is still cheap this year so he's still worth working on, but he starts to get more expensive starting next year. Probably not a lot more—I wouldn't think an arbitrator would give him much more than three bills, if even that—so maybe we give him one more shot at it next year. But really, the hourglass is running out fast on this guy.

I wonder whether putting Franco on the restricted list is the MLB way of suspending him, or are they somehow two different things?

Match-up to watch: Shohei Ohtani is 0-for-3 with a strikeout against Skubal.

You also win with both pitchers and hitters, and not just pitchers.

Minor leaguers don't return prospects in trade. They return lottery tickets.

Urshela will return almost nothing in any trade he headlines. Not only is Kelly not on the list, but catcher shows up on the list only at #24 and #25, the Rockies catchers. Maybe catchers don't generally draw a lot of attention at the deadlines because good teams might already tend to have their catcher situations figured out. You know which contender is surprisingly soft at catcher? The Orioles. Adley Rutschmann Is still on track for a 5 or 6 win season, but he's hitting only .235/.305/.365 at catcher, albeit with plus D, while he's raking .364/.412/.612 at DH. I don't know whether this means they will make any moves, but I did find this to be surprising.