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lol a guy named "Whit" from small-town South Carolina doing his own research on an infectious disease.

Orioles have five in the top sixty.

Given how it's generally accepted now that Hinch has a five-year contract, I can't see Ilitch firing him in year two and eating the remaining three years.

Seems like I hear the phrase “you can’t have too much pitching” most often when a team stockpiles pitching at the expense of hitting. That’s been the Tigers’ MO, and that phrase has been used in their defense repeatedly during this process.

Miggy got a bit lucky with a bad throw. If a good throw had nailed him we might be talking about what a dumbass he is. I also wonder whether Miggy feels freer to do something like this because the cost of failure is low for him. If he gets caught at third, it’s a shrug and a grin. If Willi or Harold or Baddoo get caught on something like that, that could hasten the end of their careers.

As good as it might feel in the moment, shit-canning AJ fixes no organizational problem.

You can’t have too much pitching …

It’s all part of the race to the bottom.

Looks like Arizona is taking that step toward converting their college-degreed teacher force into a high-school-diplomaed babysitter force.

Shot: Chaser:

Red hats will never hear this, and as far as they're concerned, Antifa is definitely behind it.

This is mere speculation and there’s no way to check it in this specific instance, but one of the wild cards at hand is the system each player ended up in. Move any of the three to either of the other two systems, and are we seeing the same results thus far? Again, no way to know—all we know is what we’re seeing in this universe.

Errrr …

I do too. I think there's a decent chance that everybody in the triangle of Al Avila, Eduardo Rodriguez and Rodriguez’s agent knows where the other two are and what's going on with them, and that we're the ones who have no idea.

This may be a clue: Witness intimidation is a form of obstruction of justice and under 18 U.S. Code § 1512, it's a federal crime to interfere with witness testimony or cooperation in a criminal case. In order to be charged with witness tampering, it has to be proven you attempted to alter or prevent witness testimony. It's important to note the action doesn't actually have to be completed. https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/federal-witness-tampering

Today? Probably nothing. August 2, after he has something like a .280/.370/.430 run? Maybe something.

As airtight as this procedure has been, I gotta believe they have actionable evidence, not just hearsay.

Today's hearing revealed the first overt indication that your typical violent red hat insurrectionist is down with the idea of killing "every man, woman and child" who they suspect is a Democrat, and that "your average Democrat is a traitor" and must be killed.

That said, seeing as how voting has been established as a constitutional right, I don't think its regulation should be subject to voter fiat. Especially since we have seen how the requirements for what constitutes voter ID can be easily manipulated.

Voters with voter ID vote for law requiring voter ID. Shocking.

I agree that talking about Rodriguez that way to the press looks unprofessional, and I am wondering what Al was trying to accomplish. He may have made those comments as a bull in a china shop, cluelessly and without thinking and unconcerned of the effects, which some might conclude. Or, maybe Al was trying to send a message to Rodriguez and his agent along the lines of, "hey, we're embarrassing you here, you can put a stop to that by getting back to us." That could be considered unprofessional in its own way, too, but at least there would be a point behind it. I think it's also possible that Al was laying some public groundwork for Ilitch to terminate the contract, whether in advance of petitioning Baseball (and the Players) to simply allow us to void it, or perhaps as a ploy to create more favorable terms for settling it for an undisclosed amount that's more in the Tigers' favor. If the Tigers can in a public way successfully portray Rodriguez as being continually unresponsive to them, that may strengthen their case to have the contract simply voided without penalty to them.

I don't think everyone here is concluding that, although it's still within the range of outcomes.