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Either the years of substandard coaching in the minors screwed up Parker Meadows, or he wasn’t all that good a hitter when we drafted him. Either way, it’s not as though he was a kickass hitter all through the minors, so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise when he has an execrable stretch in the majors. Fingers crossed we get him straightened up and hitting lasers somehow; otherwise, we may have to tamp down our hopes for him on that side of the ball.

Well, Joey has had a pretty good five innings and he’s added a tick or so to his pitches, so OK, I’ll wait and see. Young guy, he could still turn it around. Vest, on the other hand, is this close to letting the Twins get within a slam.

Well, we now know Colt Keith can make solid contact with a 73mph heater.

Have I ever told you how much I ****ing hate position players pitching?

Yeah, that makes sense. Hopefully when we have a 10-0 lead in the fourth. And really, besides him, there are no super obvious weak links in this entire pen.

I wonder whether McCann was the objectionable one because the umpire started pushing him away, and not Adames.

This is the first time I have ever heard Wenceel Perez’s name said out loud. I always wondered whether it pronounced “Wen-SEAL” or “Wen-SAIL”. I never even consider how Benetti said it: “WEN-sell”.

I don’t know that I like Chafin here with two games on tap for tomorrow. This garbage time moment is tailor-made for Joey Wentz.

Benetti talking to Petry about laying down with the 7-0 lead, to avoid the Twins bringing in a position player to pitch to save their bullpen for tomorrow, got me to wondering about the new position player pitching rule. You can’t bring a position player in to pitch unless you’re down at least eight runs, right? Suppose you’re down eight and your position player pitcher shuts down the other team, then your team puts a run on the board to cut the deficit to seven. Do you have to bring in another pitcher from your bullpen for the next inning, since you’re no longer down eight? Or are you grandfathered in for the rest of the game and can use the position player pitching even down seven or less if you want?

Wow, a nubber to second that even TORK! can beat out!

BERRRRRRT!

The best they can with what they have to work with?

That’s great, but interesting, because the radar says it’s still raining. But then, the radar is not in anyone’s driveway.

But make no mistake: whether they start at 800pm ET, or 900pm ET. or 1000pm ET, they're playing tonight.

If Skilling is any indication, Tigers won't start until something like 930pm ET.

lol

I never really thought of her as being of The Squad, even though she was presented as the face of it. I have thought for some time now she has a long and serious future in the party and in national politics. As far as I'm concerned, she is nothing like Cori Bush or Rashida Tlaib. She is definitely not a dilettante.

Disagree. Closers are not openers. Not interchangeable.

All fixed! 😉

Happy birthday! Twenty?

There is no doubt that Hamas has an agenda and the Gaza Health Ministry works under the auspices of Hamas, so they would have an incentive to cook the numbers to make the death toll seem high, and to ignore the difference in deaths between Hamas fighters and ordinary civilians. But Israel also has an incentive to cook the numbers to make the death toll seem low, and to characterize the percent of deaths being Hamas fighters as being as close to 100% as possible. So whom to believe? Most people will believe the numbers of the side they are squarely on. Me, I'm not on any side, except on the side of the people who want nothing more than to live ordinary, everyday lives minding their own business, so I would want to know the number closest to the truth, versus the number that best supports the purpose of breathing fire into a political forum. Why do I tend to out more stock in the Hamas numbers than I do the IDF numbers? According to this, the World Health Organization characterizes the Health Ministry numbers as, if not "perfectly accurate on a minute-to-minute basis", then at least as being "largely reflect[ive of] the level of death and injury" during the siege. Also, Israel sealed Gaza’s borders and barred foreign journalists and humanitarian workers from even entering the area from the very beginning. That's the action of a party that has an interest in shielding what's happening in the area from the outside world. I wouldn't take the numbers of either side as being ... ahem ... the gospel truth, but I do believe that one side's numbers are probably more accurate than the other's. In the end, though, we won't know anything that's closer to the truth than either side's for years, if at all, and even then, it will be at the behest of the party that gets to write it all up as history.

I could definitely see the possibility of manufacturing groups lobbying Republicans for favorable legislation that reduces or eliminates regulations.

It is a problem when two sources with divergent agendas are combined to create one data point that’s convenient for one of the sides.