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This might be how it ends up but presuming these are the eight guys, I think Miller starts out further back in the pen: Lange Miller Foley Chafin Holton Brieske Vest Faedo I’m guessing even this would not be etched in stone end of March, though. We’ll probably see save opportunities go to Lange and Miller and Foley; set-up opportunities go to all three plus Chafin and Holton; and spot starts/openings from Vest and Faedo. I wouldn’t doubt it if we saw Olson and SGL spend some time in the back of the pen at times. As much as Harris is criticized for seeking flexibility with the position players, I think we’ll see the same with the pitching staff, and that will continue until we get enough guys rising up to earn established roles that we will finally have a team of regulars. Bet you a dollar Brieske never sees the Tiger roster ever again. Just a hunch.

I seem to remember one of our problems is that we did not construct a staff with an eye toward the inevitable injuries and the having to slot guys in and out of the rotation as a result. We would go north with five guys in the rotation and then be surprised when man down. TBF, I think that’s how most teams would handle it, at least up tol the past few years. I like the idea that this team might be setting themselves up with aforethought to manage through that inevitably.

I don’t mind the six-starter theory as long as there are only five slots in the rotation, and the last slot is split among various optionable players, long relievers, and openers. But I definitely do not want my best, most reliable starters to have five days of rest on the regular.

BP is used for both here, but it’s not used for bullpen anywhere else. Now I remember what the other one is: DH. You: We play a DH today. Me: We play a DH every day. Pitchers don’t hit anymore. You: No, I mean we play a day-night DH. Me: …

OK, I’ll have to try to remember to watch these ladies next year and see whetehr they’re actually bolting like this as the pitch crosses the plate, which is the rule in slo-pitch.

lol i keep forgetting that’s how BP is used around here. There’s another one used like that around here, I forget which one

And, more importantly, not getting paid for long.

Llol Alanna Rizzo No Ohtani. No Judge. No Goldschmidt. Trout #8. Salvador Perez even being on it. Apparently based on criteria other than baseball playing.

Speaking of base running techniques: one inexplicable thing I will never understand is anyone who leads off from the back of the base. A lot of women I play with in softball, especially those who have team experience from their school years, do this. I will never, ever, ever understand it.

I still play and I still do it the same way I always did: clipping the left lower corner of the bag with the outside edge of my right foot on the turn. That probably cuts a foot or so off the distance versus trying to clip it with my left foot, since that way most of the body is over the bag versus my way where the none of the body is over the bag.

I think the base line is meant only for running through first base so batter-runners can’t run all the way to the stands to avoid a tag. I believe once the ball gets into the outfield there’s not need to stay within that lane.

I’m pretty sure we signed Miller to do more than throw batting practice. I like the signing as a good bullpen depth move. Miller added a splitter last season and was crushing hitters with it, although the flip side is that his already high-ish walk rate spiked. Maybe the Whisperer mentioned seeing something he could work with and that why they went for him. Miller’s also going to get a chance to close some games early on since his contract has incentives based on that. It may or may not work, but might as well try him there because who else we gonna put there? Lange or bust?

Manafort. https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512613-five-takeaways-from-final-senate-intel-russia-report/ You’re welcome.

I’ll never forget his 2008 meltdown live on Fox Views. 👨‍🍳💋

News flash: your “Democrats could” is not the equivalent of the actual “Trump did”.

The difference being that no Democrat ever incited their followers to storm any capitols to overturn elections that Republicans won.

It just proves that Biden wants illegals to flood the streets with fentanyl.

The Electoral College is why Trump TKO’ed Hillary. More people voted for Hillary to be president than voted for Trump.

I think a lot of it has to do with the black-and-white version of the world people are brought up in. Right and wrong. Good and evil. God and Satan. It's either all one or all the other. They don't learn about shades or gray when they're little, probably because their parents and teachers don't know much about it, and when they're confronted with it as adults, they get confused and annoyed and suspicious and reject it. I think that's why so many people fall prey to charlatans: believing in the absolutism of good and evil yields easy answers, and when charlatans merely cloak themselves in the trappings of what's considered good, simple people accept them without question. I think America, as a society with a high percentage of its people steeped in judgmental religion, is more susceptible to his line of thinking than most countries, or at least most first-world countries. It's almost as though we're a first-world country with a third-world culture, and even people who aren't religious, or who reject religion, people who consider themselves educated and worldly, are affected by it, I think. It's mostly harmless, until the moment it's not.

That's because you're super emotional and can't think your way past that.

Sure, i would expect that, but they don't know any better.

Meaning there are people who truly believe Biden stole the election working in various state houses and whatnot. Horrifying as being a true believer in this is, it's dishonest only if they know for a fact it's all a lie. If they truly believe it, they can be said honestly argue their case. That's what I mean.

They may actually, perhaps even honestly, argue Biden's entire presidency is an insurrection against a free and fair election that Trump won in 2020.

It's not escaping my notice that no actual Muslim leaders are even mentioned in the press release, so its provenance is, at the very least, suspect. This might as well be a missive straight from Trump campaign headquarters, aka the Kremlin. Not for nothing, the guy's X feed is extremely pro-Trump.