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“Dead from the neck up. Meat. Head.”

Apropos of nothing, I struggle with BP meaning anything but batting practice, just as I struggle with DH meaning anything but designated hitter.

Dilemma. Pick the right one.

This is a big leap.

Give us this game our scoreless late innings, And forgive us our “offense” As we forgive those past bullpens who have trespassed against us. And lead us not into last place, But deliver us from 100 losses.

They were headed to a Pride event in Boise so they could riot and create chaos. Maybe they should have stopped at refusing to wear a rainbow insignia.

I appreciate the difficulty cops face when there is a potential for violence in a situation that has become uncertain. They need to be able to react decisively in a situation they can maintain control of, without using more force than necessary to subdue the subject, and without hurting bystanders. That’s what good cops do. Unfortunately, we have seen evidence that it too frequently doesn’t work out that way, and that there are people who are cops who should not be. As a concept, “back the blue” can be a defensible as a reason to maintain adequate funding and training for police. In practice, too often, it exonerates and protects cops who behave very badly.

Anyone else watching the broadcast from out of town on MLB.tv? The source where they clobber you with the same commercial repeatedly? Apparently, it’s Loan Depot’s turn. I hate hate hate the music playing underneath the customers giving the testimonials. It’s this creepy-sounding vibrato keyboard thing that serves only to distract. I think I figured out exactly why I hate it: it starts out like Clair de Lune, which causes the song to go in that direction in my head, and then it goes in some other direction, and I become very unhappy. The moment I see the commercial start, I go “LALALALA!” very loudly until I can locate the remote and press the mute button. It’s the same as the Draft Kings commercial: the moment I hear the generic studio rock guitars blare out, I race to mute it before the ugly blonde can come on to tell me how I can Make. It. Rain.

Like a different hitting coach? 😁

Scapegoating in baseball? Quel horreur!

Booo

I have actually wondered whether it would make sense to pump Great Lakes water out west to the desert population there, to help alleviate their lack-of-water situation. I have long thought if this could be done, it could really help not only their water drought situation, but it also help alleviate revenue shortfalls in the rust belt Great Lakes states. The average household uses 138 gallons of water a day, or a little over 50,000 gallons a year. There are 30 million households living in the southwest desert area. There is an estimated 6 quadrillion gallons of water in the Great Lakes. If we could pump enough water from here to there to irrigate every household in the desert for a whole year, that would amount to just 0.025% of the total water in the Great Lakes. So it’s not as though we couldn’t spare it. I know it’s 1,500 miles from here to the southwest desert, but come on, it’s the 21st century, we can figure this out. Get ‘er done! 😁

Somebody once told me, unapologetically, that her thing at stoplights is to keep looking at her phone, not paying attention to the light, until someone behinds them honks. That’s when she knows the light has turned. She thought it was clever. Maybe she’s changed her mind since, who knows.

Well, if they find this level of run-scoring acceptable, then I guess Hinch and/or Al will keep Coolbaugh.

That’s right. The Curse of Ham. Oh, wait … is that why we can’t eat pork? 🤔

This is a new one to me. Can you provide examples of this?

Then I got nothin’. 😁

Because Brieske is a rookie and Gausman is a veteran?

Looks like this might be another one of those games in which it’ the umpire’s world, and the players are just living in it.

If God says gay people are sinners that have no place with them cause they are gay, then why did he create them to be gay?

Also, not for nothing, not long ago Christians pointed to various passages in the Bible that they insisted validated their right to own other human beings as property.

Well, it was always going to do that, right? After all, the seasonal flu we get today is a direct descendant of the 1918 “Spanish” flu.

No vertigo on that play!

Not saying this is you, but a lot of fans ask what good a hitting coach is, since major league position players already know how to hit, duh, so what can a hitting coach teach them? There may be little new that a major league hitting coach can teach a major league hitter, but the coach should be able to get to know his players well enough to see when a guy is out of sync, and should be able to suggest tweaks to fix whatever the problem may be. As for this particular situation, I don’t know whether Scott Coolbaugh doesn’t know enough about Javy to fix his issue, or whether Javy is resistant to whatever input Coolbaugh is offering up to him, but either way, it doesn’t reflect well on Scott Coolbaugh. Add to this that there are multiple qualified batters on this team who are having terrible years, and that almost none of them have been doing well all season, or in the last month, or in the last two weeks, or during just about any period this season, and, coupled with the fact that the Tigers are having a historically terrible year scoring runs, it looks to me like Scott Coolbaugh is going to have to stand tall before the Man to answer for it. But wait—wasn’t Scott Coolbaugh the Tigers’ hitting coach last year? Sure he was. So why wasn’t I calling for his head last season? Because we were not this terrible last season. We were merely a slightly-below-average-hitting team. It is this season our hitting has completely collapsed. Just because the Tigers weren’t this bad hitting last year doesn’t mean Coolbaugh bears no responsibility for the hitting collapse of this season. We have no proof positive that this team’s relationship with Scott Coolbaugh is the same or different, whether players are listening to him more or less this season than last, whether there were broad coaching changes he implemented leading to the scoring outage or whether players are getting worse on their own and ignoring his input. What we see are the results, and the results show that the 2022 Tigers are in the 1st percentile in history for run-scoring through 57 games. Shouldn’t that be considered unacceptable? Unless there is dramatic improvement in run-scoring starting today, Scott Coolbaugh will be fired really soon, and I would agree with that.