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There was a really bad call in the first at-bat by Baddoo in the 2nd, second pitch of the sequence. Then the last pitch of the sequence against Moncada, who has one of the best strike zone commands of any player in baseball. Weird situation with Giolito getting tossed....more times than TLR this year, lol.

Felipe Paulino gave up 10 ER in 2 2/3 IP for Charlotte, lol...

RENO PD?

They might be able to get away with replacing first month Yermin and Vaughn with Lamb/Sheets, but they're still ultimately one bat short until we get back Robert and Jimenez.

Does Willi Castro homer against us every series against DET?

“White House defends Fauci amid attacks over newly released emails” Here we go with the dreaded “smoking gun” e-mails again, that turn out to be no such thing... https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-defends-fauci-amid-attacks-over-newly-released-emails-200636646.html

Alcides Escobar and Marco Hernandez can rake there as well. It’s like the Dodgers in the 80s and 90s with their Albuquerque AAA numbers.

He will get the same amount of opportunities as Collins his first cups of coffee.

Can’t imagine the outcry if it was Yermin, Grandal or Moncada going into Covid protocols...otoh, many would cheer for Leury to be out 7-10 days, lol.

Burger, next man up, lol. It’s such a great redemption story...although the club would still likely go with Rutherford or Goodwin next.

This is the real reason why the CDC was handicapped from the very start...because Trump didn’t want any negative/alarming distractions during an election year. After this and the test kit disaster and the failures from CDC, HHS and FDA leadership, there was nobody left but the Surgeon General, the US military and, gasp, Jared Kushner. Jack of all trades, master of none. In a February 25 press briefing at the White House, Messonnier warned of the impending community spread of the virus in the United States, stating: "Disruption to everyday life might be severe."[7][8] Following her comments during the February White House press briefing, she did not appear again at the briefing, and there was speculation that Messonnier had been "silenced" for her comments stressing the growing urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[9] On February 28, she said that the U.S. "acted incredibly quickly before most other countries. Aggressively controlled our borders and we were able to slow the spread into the United States. ...We have been testing aggressively."[10][11] While Messonnier no longer appeared in White House briefings, she continued giving regular CDC briefings, which were broadcast to the public, until April 2020, and she made public appearances in All Things Considered on NPR.[12][13] On March 9, 2020 she cautioned those who were at high risk of severe illness, including the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions, to take cautionary measures such as stocking up on groceries and medications, and preparing to shelter in place for the foreseeable future.[14][15] She also addressed concerns around the CDC and FDA's failure to get working COVID-19 testing kits into the hands of public health officials in a timely manner to enable better containment of the disease and mitigation of its spread.[16] On January 21, 2020, she announced that the CDC had finalized its own COVID-19 test. On February 5, the CDC began distributing diagnostic tests to public-health laboratories; however, several of those tests had contaminated reagents, rendering them useless,[17]and leading to a major gap in fighting the outbreak.[16] The situation was exacerbated by FDA-imposed regulations on testing, making it difficult for independent development of COVID-19 tests to fill the CDC's distribution gap.[18] On May 7, 2021 she told colleagues she was resigning from the CDC effective May 14, saying "now is the best time for me to transition to a new phase of my career." She said she would become executive director for pandemic and public health systems at the Skoll Foundation, based in Palo Alto, California.[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Messonnier Of course, she also had to go because former Trump Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is/was her brother. Something important here to consider as we struggle to get from 50% up to 70% (many more young people, Republicans, Hispanics, those with strong religious beliefs, those in rural or underserved areas.) You may also consider what could be the much larger death rate than the current estimates and the prevalence and impact of long covid. The Economist’s model show that possibly 10 million have died and 14% of people who have caught covid suffering some form of long covid. Some/many seem to be focusing on statistically small concerns over US and UK vaccines which have all gone through rigorous trials vs the much larger health impacts of contracting Covid. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/05/15/there-have-been-7m-13m-excess-deaths-worldwide-during-the-pandemic?utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_source=facebook&linkId=100000046117079&fbclid=IwAR3Iclm-TsXb-V1msdyMDu5S8RekrUzANJl-Di306oVcw560TRmTeNqlud0 https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/04/29/researchers-are-closing-in-on-long-covid Concerns of the “public good” (aka utilitarianism, the greatest good for the greatest number of people) based on rigorous science should be what we push as a society, or is it just the right of the individual simply to be a “free rider” and harm the public good based on a misunderstanding under the name of vague patriotic-sounding terms like autonomy/freedom which should be promoted in the US?

Fauci made this comment on an interview with 60 Minutes on March 8, during the early stages of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States. A longer extract of the interview is visible youtu.be/PRa6t_e7dgI (see 30-second mark). The interview predates the CDC’s updated guidance on the use of face coverings. On April 3, 2020, the CDC updated its previous advice and recommended people wear cloth face coverings “in public settings when around people outside their household, especially when social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.” CDC’s latest guidance on face coverings is visible here . As of this fact check’s publication, the CDC recommendation remains almost the same. They note children under the age of 2, people who have trouble breathing, are unconscious or incapacitated should not wear a mask ( archive.vn/wip/TY8JR ). As Fauci told the Washington Post here , at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, masks were not recommended for the general public, as authorities were trying to prevent a mask shortage for health workers and the extent of asymptomatic spread was unknown. As more information became available about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, health authorities and organizations around the world have changed their stance towards the impact of face masks and the spread of the disease ( here ). As of the publishing of this fact check, Fauci is encouraging people to wear face coverings. Fauci has reaffirmed this stance on interviews on Sept. 21, Aug. 10 and Aug. 5 that are visible here ( bit.ly/3dbpHsA , bit.ly/36GS9Bz , bit.ly/2GKAw94 ) Reuters has fact-checked outdated medical guidance being shared as if current and misleading people, examples are visible here , here , here , here . https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-video-masks-idUSKBN26T2TR Very clear, the CDC was responsible for setting government mask policies, not the NIH !!! First, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that only health care workers and people who were sick needed to wear masks. Now, the White House is reportedly backtracking on that advice, and it may recommend that everyone wear face coverings when they’re out in public. Confusion over the whiplashing policies is likely to linger. Clear and consistent communication is one of the most important parts of pandemic response, and the federal government has already gotten that wrong. Calls for the change escalated over the past few weeks: experts started to highlight research showing that masks may offer some degree of protection, and many began pushing for universal mask-wearing as case numbers continued to climb. Changing policies during a crisis event like this one shouldn’t be a big surprise. The coronavirus is new, and when it first appeared in December, scientists didn’t know how it would behave. Researchers are collecting new information on the virus as fast as possible; public health agencies are working to incorporate that new information into the guidelines they give the public. The problem is that messaging from public officials hasn’t done a good job of preparing people for those changes. Instead, the pandemic response in the US has been characterized by inconsistent messaging — notably, around masks and testing — without clear signals why policies might be changing. “That creates cumulative effect, which is to reduce credibility, lower trust, and foster confusion,” says Glen Nowak, director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication at the University of Georgia and former director of media relations at the CDC. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/3/21206728/cloth-face-masks-white-house-coronavirus-covid-cdc-messaging From April of last year. The White House’s coronavirus task force set itself up for a big messaging fail because it hadn’t laid the groundwork that would support changes in approach. “You have to prepare people for contradictions. Contradictions are what pandemics are all about,” says Rob Blair, an assistant professor of political science and international and public affairs at Brown University. “YOU HAVE TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR CONTRADICTIONS. CONTRADICTIONS ARE WHAT PANDEMICS ARE ALL ABOUT.” The CDC tried to do that: during press briefings in January and February, the agency noted that its guidance might change as the pandemic progressed. But recently, the CDC has been silent — the agency last held a press briefing on March 9th — and it’s been regularly undercut by comments from the White House.

Fauci has nothing to do with the CDC. That was Redfield’s show, and he was woefully unprepared for that level of responsibility or even considering bipartisan approaches. How many of those so-called health leaders landed on their feet post-Trump? Where is Dr. Ben Carson? Azar? Birx? Adams? Hahn? All we had to do was use the German or WHO kits that were already in existence, but no, we wasted weeks and weeks measuring something...a complicated component that wasn’t even necessary, kind of like an own-goal in soccer.

Pretty sure we just had an entire administration do that for four years...yet 35-40% of America could care less. In fact, the outrage over Benghazi and email servers (Ivanka and Jared got passes for being generally clueless I guess) swamped the anger over thousands of Trump lies, cancel/woke culture and just generally owning libs. Seriously, there are better hills to die on than attempting to replace Fauci. I would suggest Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Rep Alvin Brooks and Ron DeSantis would all be fine replacements to lead our country out of the woods. Let’s not forget that it was Trump who protected China and Xi Jinping for many months last year until it became politically popular to go after China on nearly every issue. Trump is the one who wasted February, because he was more concerned with preserving thst stupid trade deal that actually managed to grow the trade deficit than saving American lies. Let’s not forget consumers got stuck with higher prices as tariff costs were passed onto them on most goods and we also got a taxpayer bill to subsidize Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Ohio farmers (actually just buying their votes/allegiance) in the billions and billions. But those huge budget deficits and corporate/Top 2% tax giveaways don’t mean anything until Dems are back in office and financial austerity/starve the government of funding (except the military, of course) because the fallback standard position.

4-5 Dimensional Chess. It only works out with dominant starting pitching. Of course, it makes you wonder what the plan is for Vaughn. He really should be playing everyday, somewhere.

Mercedes is under control for a lot longer than that. He’s currently pre-arbitration. Will likely see Eaton departing, as well.

You mean TLR?

Odds are still roughly 50/50 no Olympics this year again...

Didn’t Lewis also get hurt again, meniscus? Guess they’ll now foolishly hold onto Haniger until he gets hurt again.

Other than Vera and Kelly, we’re at least two years away from an impact starting pitcher. Stievers and Lambert types just aren’t good enough.

They’re called strategic public goods, whether it’s military tech, AI, supercomputing and cloud investments, rare earths materials, farming subsidies, 5G broadband networks or PPE/drug supply chains not reliant on India or China. No, it’s not Yahoo News. State Department staff warned a Trump-appointed official against investigating COVID-19's origins, fearing a probe would 'open a can of worms,' a leaked memo says https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-department-staff-warned-trump-115234415.html

Very simple, look what happened when he lost faith in Dr. Deborah Birx...he brought in an ideologue in Scott Atlas. Nobody in the world thought Redfield or Alex Azar were the right picks for their jobs, either. What is Birx’s reputation now in the medical community for selling her soul to the devil to get promoted to a spot higher than Fauci? Well, making faces during his press conference on bleaching and light rays helped to get her basically started on the road to persona non grata with Trump. All her fancy scarves and perceived credibility vanished in just a couple of months of enabling Trump. So basically it’s the Mattis/Tillerson/Kelly theory. Someone had to stand there in the brink and be the responsible adult to protect the American people from Trump’s worst instincts.

Just an example of the type of player (4-5 years ago in case of Yelich) you’d expect back in return for Kopech. With Bellinger back, Dodgers will quickly be back at top. SD has way too many injuries, and Snell has massively underperformed. Yankees, it’s all about Severino, the health of their volatile starting pitching...and keeping their best offensive players in the lineup. Still quite vulnerable, maybe 2/3 against Rays gets them jump started again.

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BALTIMORE – It's called Camden Yards, a ballpark that is normally wonderfully welcoming to the Twins, and a site they hoped would serve as their launching pad up the standings. But this year, for these Twins? Call it Camden Graveyards. Mitch Garver, Rob Refsnyder and Caleb Thielbar all went down because of a variety of injuries. The patchwork Twins had trouble making defensive plays. And the Orioles, of all people, made the Twins look like the offensively challenged bottom-feeders that Baltimore has been most of the season. The Orioles, who hadn't won a series from the Twins in five years, who never managed back-to-back wins in May, who had not won a series in their iconic home park since mid-September, left the Twins for roadkill on Wednesday, dismissing them with a 6-3 loss to take the last two games of the three-game series. The Twins head to Kansas City for four games facing an 11-game deficit in the AL Central that feels about twice that large. https://www.startribune.com/depleted-twins-lose-second-consecutive-game-to-woeful-baltimore/600064023/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=twins