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FTFY.

No... keep trying.

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Just making sure people saw what you did there.

With a normal bullpen, that's my instinct too, rather than let pitch count dictate. But with Kintzler likely not really available, I can't fault Molitor for sending him out.

Oy.

Still, let's wait a bit and see if Das Kid can repeat the success when they take away the pink bats.

Here's hoping we don't find a need to ask you to take another break later in the game for the same outcome.

The core of the fascist mindset (and this is IMO the proper term for it) is a sense of treachery thwarting their values and their rightful place in the world. It can't be crushed head-on - their intentions can be thwarted but it only increases their fury. Letting their guy "linger" for 4 years will involve constant resistance of a sort that will feed their indignation, which comes out already as the kind of rage you are asking for. This cancer can't be excised easily, but perhaps can be shrunk bit by bit, through individual interactions that assuage their sense of mistreatment; the Democrats have done a pisspoor job of this, as has been discussed to death.

The one alternative that comes to mind at present would be some kind of low-rent variant of the Dance of the 7 Veils using kleenex instead, but only Chief could pull off a joke so labored.

I was told there would be no meth. Wait, what? Well then. That's very different. Never mind.

First, I'm not a big fan of trying to guess what goes on between somebody's ears. Second, when you can't tell fastballs from sliders it doesn't much matter what amount of other thinking you do. Third, when one explanation suffices then Occam's Razor suggests not introducing another explanation. Fourth, my fallback theory is that a witch turned Buxton into a newt but then he got better - or alternatively that our friend here was only mostly dead, and there's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead, mostly dead being slightly alive. Now, all dead, well, with all dead, there's usually only one thing that a hitting coach can do - go through his clothes and look for autographed baseball cards you might be able to sell.

An established position player for bullpen help is not how I think of successful franchises being built.

Norma Desmond: I *am* big. It's the pictures that got small.

Today's Bizarro cartoon:

That's pretty much the gist of it, yeah.

I eat a bowl of Chu-REE-ohs every morning, what's the problem?

You know how to make a kleenex dance, right?

He looked to me like a guy who was underrecognizing breaking pitches in the dirt.

What was Torii's interaction with Buxton during the cold start to the latter's season? Was he kept in an isolation chamber? I guess those #freetorii hashtags worked.

Fun With Numbers. I wouldn't even have made an issue of it but your closing sentence seemed too good to pass up.

For those interested in Felix, who is my Adopt-A-Prospect, I pieced together a bit more information about this shaky start from the box score and game log at milb.com.

Jorge was the starter in the Lookouts' 9-2 win over the Biscuits of Montgomery, but failed to earn the decision because he could not get through the fifth. (Aspects of the game not relating to the starting pitcher can be found in TD's daily minor league report.) Both of the opponents' runs were charged to him, although only one was earned, as he was sabotaged by an an error with two out in the third inning by, um, well, uh, errr... Felix Jorge himself. I suppose you know how I feel about charging unearned runs in that circumstance. Anywho, the solo home run in the second inning by Nick Ciuffo was very earned, and the tone for Felix's night was set by the first two batters singling, although scoring that inning was averted in part through an unassisted line-drive double play snared by first baseman Jonathan Rodriguez. Batters reached base in every inning, with multiple runners in every inning except the fourth, and at least one opponent reaching third base in every inning except the first. Ryan Eades was finally summoned with two outs in the fifth to put down the Biscuits' uprising.* The score was only 2-2 at the time, so the eventual margin of victory could not yet be guessed and leniency was not indicated. When the dust had settled, Jorge's pitching line showed 9 hits, 2 walks and 2 wild pitches, to go with 3 strikeouts, consuming 86 pitches for the night. 55 of his pitches were for strikes in any form (including fouls and balls in play), but only 4 were of the swing-and-miss variety if the game log is to be believed - it sounds low. If you like Bill James's "game score", where a 50 is about average, this game registers as a disappointing 41 using b-r.com's method. Still, only one earned run means his season's ERA actually decreased slightly, to 3.45. Here's hoping his peripheral stats improve to match his earned run results in coming starts, rather than the opposite happening. * Pun intended. Pun also not very good.

My take, at least.

Now that the Twins are winning, he likes you too.