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I don’t know, seems like they might have acquired more width than depth.

He’s preparing people for war. Against whom? You tell me.

I don't think this got highlighted here, but both Dan Szymborski and Ben Clemens over at FanGraphs believe Riley is due for a breakout. Szymborski: Clemens:

Not me. I'm confident they will adjust.

yeah, they don't see it as a problem at all.

I hadn't really thought of it in these terms but I can see where that might be true.

lol cuffs I don't think Biden would ever pardon his sworn political enemy, but it's a moot point anyway, because it will never get to that. I believe Trump won't be arrested, won't be indicted, won't even be subpoenaed. Shit, man, the Jan 6 committee dropped their subpoena of him just to testify. What leads us to believe he will be actually criminally indicted? What will happen is that Trump will run for president, will win the Republican nomination, and will win a bunch of states. Hopefully not too many states, but if he does, he will re-ascend to the White House, Joe Biden will politely step aside as is the norm, and that will be the end of that. But even if he does not become president again, Trump will get away with it. His family will get away with it. His top lieutenants, both business and MAGA, will get away with it. They will all get away with all of it. The only people who won't get away with it will be some true-believing mid-level accountant or campaign manager, some currently-anonymous mope who will be sacrificed on the altar and will never know what hit them. The main thing I do agree with you on here is that we are not all the same under the law. That's been proven out so many millions of times over the past 240-odd years that it hardly bears mentioning, except as a counterweight to any ridiculous assertion that we are.

Well, whaddya expect? He's woke!

It's about time someone stepped up to attempt to redefine the meaning of woke. Too often liberals allow the right wing to define all the words on their terms, like "patriot" and "liberal" and "woke". It's time to start taking these words back.

I agree with your points here, and I also read it as players who have a choice simply did not want to come to Detroit. The reputation we had under Avila was terrible, and Harris was/is an unknown quantity. Pus, everyone expects the team to lose 100 games this year, including many fans who believe in the Scott Harris hiring, and no player who has a choice wants to rush into that.

I don't think so. Does a runner advance on pitch clock violation? When I saw the Tigers and Orioles in Sarasota on Monday, de Jesus got called for balks three times in a single inning, all of them sending runners from second to third. None of them were either a pitch clock violation or a botched third disengagement. Umpires are just being much harder on deceptive motions, which is a big change this year no one is talking about yet.

What the balk is going on here?? Is it 1988 already?

No doubt, and I know he practices that art as well as anyone. But if it is his voice on the phone directly asking someone to do dirty work on his behalf, that is itself dirty work. Real capos know how give orders or approvals with a look, a gesture, or words completely unrelated to the act they are asking for, while making it all very clear what he wants. That's also why capos typically don't work by phone, unless there is an established code word (e.g., "it's a shame about it.")

I have no doubt that she is deeply dumb, although I do have my doubts as to whether there are any normal people in her world, where I would bet one must be either a MAGA patriot, or a woke CRT-loving ESG-addled libtard. Time to pick a side.

If Torkelson bats even a little better than last year, he’s going to start 140 games at first. If Nevin aand/or Ibanez is on the squad they will probably relieve here and there, and Schoop may throw on the glove for a game or two, but Eric Haase may also end up seeing some of the remaining 22 starts there. As for third, we’re probably going to have four different guys starting at least 20 games each there, and no one guy starting 80, unless one guy can suddenly and unexpectedly break away from the pack.

One call would have been enough to indict a typical politician.

I believe the idea is that if people like she suddenly start forcefully arguing some point no one is even talking about, that de facto positions the liberals as being on the other side of it. In this case, Greene forcefully argues a point no one is even talking about—cartels are bad—and by dint of that, her acolytes conclude that liberals believe cartels are good.

Lol she was rattled and also who cares what woke means anyway

In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.

That's the textbook definition of fascism.

Good. The umpire should have been suspended, too. Look, the kid, who is no more than 21 years old, should not have been so demonstrative on the pitch before it. He should have known better, and If he would have been rung up on a pitch a couple inches off the plate, that would have been defensible. It would teach the kid a lesson while maintaining the veneer of credibility for the umpire. But calling him out on that pitch proved the call was obviously vindictive, not instructive. The conference couldn't not suspend the umpire, because who knows how much farther he would go on the next one. If he loses this job permanently, I don't think that would be the worst thing. He can take another umpiring job in a lesser conference and work his way back up. This should teach him a lesson.

With pleasure! It's pretty easy to pick up, actually, if you're already pretty knowledgeable about baseball. I learned it just from watching it.

His #1 problem seemed to be pitch recognition, specifically, recognizing the pitch pecker high and in any major leaguer should be able to crush. Once he overcomes that problem, I think we'll be happy with what we see.

Cricket is awesome.

I read this as it is encouraging that TORK! has exit velocity rates similar to the current best power hitter in the game.