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That's partly why I never put any stock into polling done months before elections occur. So much, too much, can happen in the intervening months. It's why whenever I see my preferred candidate leading any months-out poll, I'm inclined to post, "quick, call the election for today!"

And that's the unfortunate thing about being a professional athlete: it may not be his fault that he got hurt, and it may not be fair that he can't tap into the apex of his talent as a result, but he's going to bear the burden of it anyway.

I'm not sold on Manning just yet. So far he is a low-strikeout, average-walk, high-base hit guy with underwhelming stuff. Maybe that was because he has been hurt the whole time last year and this, and maybe if he gets pain-free it'll change and he'll be an ace. But I'll need to see it first.

Your oxymoron of the day.

Clearly he believes he can do better than 20th round in a few years.

Yup. Checks out.

This, or it could be they’re just throwing up their hands and deciding it’s not going to make a difference anyway, which is exactly what Republicans would have liked to see. It’s maddening, yeah, but also points to the disparate structural difference between the two voting bases. Republican voters are all in lockstep on the same narrow set of issues; Democratic voters are not in touch with each other on their wide-ranging set of issues.

I don’t know whether Tork would have gotten that Candy throw last night. That was wayyy off.

Leinenkugels.

Not that it matters now, but I don’t believe we gave Paredes as much of a shot to make it here in Detroit as we should have. We didn’t even give him as much of a chance as we gave Travis Demeritte. Then again, the front office was desperate to make the Shane Greene deal with the Braves look like it was going to pay off. They’ll do the same with Joey Wentz, and we’ll all keep our fingers crossed for that. If he can become at least a serviceable back-of-the-rotation piece for at least a little while—which was supposed to be his ceiling given Mize-Manning-Skubal slotted in above him—that’ll be considered a success. I think the front office had already written off Paredes’s future here, so they were finna deal him at the first reasonable opportunity.

There have been walls and other barriers along crucial parts of the US-Mexico border for some number of decades now.

Indeed I was!

And then there’s this, which seems much better than Republicans could have hoped for.

The price on Candelario ticked down a little tonight.

I can tell you from experience that the line drive to center field is the toughest play for me. I have both frozen on the hit to gauge it and saw it fly way over my head, and broken back toward the fence only to have to shame on the brakes and come in and watch it bounce in front of me.

I assume you’re in Detroit area? If you can pause your directv like a dvr, you might be able to pair it up with a smartphone app like Audacy, which I believe you can also pause.

That 1973 OPS+ was 92, which would make him one of the leading hitters on this year’s Tigers.

What source are you getting the game from?

Skubal was named as one of the players available for trade, and I’m betting he’s pissed about it, which is probably why he was so short with the beat press the other day when asked about it, and maybe even the pressure of knowing this might have been a factor in his throwing shit all over the dugout after he was yanked the other day. It would not surprise me to learn that everything he’s heard about any of this is from the media, and that no one except A.J. and the coaches are trying to manage him on the issue. Skubal may not necessarily want to be traded, but as a named player in the article, he’s got to be wondering to some degree what the future of this organization is, and perhaps whether he wants any part of it. And even if he ends up staying after all, being named like this in such an article stings hard, and the Tigers are going to have to work hard to soothe him and make him feel as if his future in Detroit is bright after all. That might be a pretty tall order.

Did he or didn't he? (I wouldn't click on the link ...)

Between this, and especially recent comments by Chafin and Skubal, I'm starting to wonder whether guys are marking their calendars dreaming of the day they can get the hell out of here. After all, "unnamed executives" have been quoted in the press as having been told by the Tigers that every single player is available in trade, which basically confirms that the organization is complete and utter train wreck. Who would want to stick around wasting what's left of the precious time remaining in their career on that?

In their defense, everyone had Casey Mize 1/1, so they can hide behind the cloak of conventional wisdom on this one. 🤷‍♂️

If they're not trading for impact bats first, they are continuing to do it all wrong.

Gotta kind of wonder whether he believes tying up media companies in litigation will forestall Justice investigating it.

The splitter was always his out pitch and, not for nothing, it's also the pitch that put him on Meister's table. What are the chances he can use that pitch after he recovers from surgery? And if he doesn't have that pitch, what are his chances at a decent career, at least in the Tigers' system?