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Yeah, I think I'd be a little surprised if his preparation were all that much more than showing up and being the best Craig Monroe he can be. Maybe a glance at a prepped sheet, or perhaps game notes with key facts highlighted by interns.

I think if the Lions were to win five straight Super Bowls, everyone would forget all about their history.

That was never going to get fixed in two months. It's not all that much easier to build a strong AAA team from nothing than it is to do so at the big league level. After all, majority of those guys are still Avila's.

That might not even be joking!

I was thinking about this some before I saw your post and I was thinking that umpires must be well-trained to stay on the pitch and follow it wherever it goes, without flinching, and trusting so implicitly that the catcher will catch it that they don't even consider the alternative. They have years and years of games called at the minor league level to prove to Baseball that they can do that.

I don't think it's a tough call. He clearly did not deliver the ball to where the catcher asked for it.

And that was definitely a wild pitch because Haase did not call for a pitch at umpire-face level.

Oh. My effing. God. I don't think that was the kind of wild pitch you had in mind ...

What a great effort by Cisnero on the 11-pitch at bat against Grandal. Hinch comes out with the attaboy and how to beat Burger. Mmmmm .... burgerrrr ...

Well, I guess we can't keep Cisnero on the team and never give him a chance in a big situation. After all, if we want anything for him at the deadline, we need him to perform at times like now.

I am getting sick of pop-ups and bat slams.

This goes back to my ongoing criticisms of Craig Monroe: he talks like he’s still in the clubhouse, using clubhouse nicknames for the players, which makes me roll my eyes; he’s a “let’s go, boys!” rooter behind the mic, which makes me roll my eyes; and he’s basically a PR manager for the players, spinning anything that’s suboptimal into bland positives because hey, he’s gotta be around those guys the next day, so he's gotta watch what he says. Actually, "'he's gotta watch what he says" may not be even exactly true. Maybe he doesn't have to watch what he says at all because he's been steeped in elite jockocracy since probably at least high school, with all the language and thought processes attendant to it, so he's probably hard-wired to say the thing that most supports the guys. Either way, it's pretty amateurish.

Well, if the hitters can't hit you in, I guess you have to pray for the pitchers to wild-pitch you in.

Has anyone established the over-under on when Lorenzen goes on the IL with a shoulder injury? He has missed 68 and 107 days in each of the last two years with that. Let's say fifth inning. Who wants that action? 😏

Just remember: this year is nothing like now or never. This year is more like, "Not now—later." Yeah, I know it's been like that since 2016, but the difference is that now, there's a real plan. To the degree we can win with what we have, it's great. But we need to get used to the idea that what we have now is what we're going to have for the rest of the year. Do not expect any future hopes to come back this year and dominate, or maybe even come back this year at all. Right now, in 2023, the important moves are those happening behind the scenes, not on the field. Zen.

Lol, I finally caved and downloaded the MyATT app, I logged in, and I get this: And you can’t navigate into account settings because it’s all blank screens there, too. Totally about completely ****ed up.

I just tried it on my own DDG browser—same thing. So the problem’s on the server side and not the client side.

Welp …

Man, you have definitely been born again lib! 💀

Thanks for taking care of that. And you’re wrong on everything else. 😁

Shut up, you delusional, drugged-up, anti-American foreigner, you.

How about you go through the long list of everyone here who knows Biden is doing is a great job and tell us which label applies to each of us?

Yes it does. Maddening.

The other thing that Biden has is a competent team of policy wonks who know the system and know how to get things done, and can serve as valuable second opinions that eventually land them on the right solution. Trump and his team were a bunch of bumbling, stumbling outsider bulls barreling through the china shop in a bid for self-enrichment.