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He'll just claim some kind of victory.

HBO needs to bring this back. When this came on, you felt like you were about to watch something special. I even loved watching the making of this thing, whatever it's really called.

I guess I’ve grown up because I resisted the urge to say “yabba dabba do”. I was once at the Meijer in Allen Park (on The Hill) and I was in the produce section and some lady yelled out for her son "MARCO !" so I answered "POLLO" and several people laughed, but the woman looked at me like I tried to kill her dog or something. I don't think it was too inapprioate. It was funny.

Zimmermann?

I might be saying the same thing here... but let me put it my way: I have always been on the "out with the unproductive old and in with the new and unproven" bandwagon. I'll take rookie mistakes and such because I want to see exactly what we have... or don't have. And with some of these kids, it takes an NHL year or two to find out. So I am on board right now with "Clean House". On the Wings roster. All the players that McClellan believes are nothing more than "shirts on ice"... dump them. For 6th and 7ths if that's the best we can get. For something better if that's possible. For nothing if that's required. But OUT with the OLD and in with the new. It will probably be a step back. Maybe even a HUGE step back. But put it on the kids. To either step up and show they belong in the NHL... or not. It may even take a year or two to flesh out what we are working with. And there will be lots of pain involved, I am sure. If at the end of 2 years all of SY's "prospects" are nothing but crap... Then it's time to clean house in the front office and start anew. Yzerman has spent YEARS "building up the farm system". There either is something to that... Or he's been a failure. With picks/ development... it doesn't matter. And that means going outside the Org, not just stepping up a SY crony. IMO.

Indy looks like a Michigan satellite campus right now. Easily 100:1 ratio of Michigan to UConn fans.

I was never a Kiss fan, I was more into R&B growing up, and I didn't know much about Ace until after he died. But then I saw clips of interviews with him and he had the best laugh. It seemed like he was having a lot of fun with it all and I get the impression that he left because Gene and Paul were taking everything way too seriously. That Tom Snyder interview is an absolute riot. How can you not like a guy when he's having such a good time like that?

Food poisoning would be better than a virus going around the clubhouse.

I think Benetti and Dirks can be a bit much at times. I thought they sounded good on the Peacock game, but they also had to fold in Brad Thompson and Adam Ottovino. I wonder if the plan was to go to Ottovino as often as they did. I think Benetti (or the producers or whoever) brought him into the game a good amount even though he was a sideline reporter. It wasn’t a 4 man booth, but he was involved. I like how they piece together during rain delays. It can have its less than stellar moments, but for the sake of trying to entertain on the fly, I think they generally do well.

Stomach flu is almost still always food poisoning. I hope it wasn’t a chili dog.

And it's not just private people who got screwed out of money. It's also billions of taxpayer dollars. From...you guessed it...Medicare and Medicaid fraud convictions being pardoned. Donald Trump is, by far, the biggest conman in the history of the world.

The people he's threatening don't care if thousands of civilians die. Its an empty threat that Trump made, he backed himself in a corner. He cant lie his way outta this one, if Iran doesnt open up the Strait of Hormuz, the whole world will know.

I was going to say Cobb. Nathan provided middling production in his first year. I forgot he pitched all of 1/3 of an MLB inning in his second season of the contract. At least we have on field photographic proof of his existence as a Tiger? Is that a check in the good column?

I was hoping against hope that Larkin would pass on the Olympics. I knew there was no way he would but I was hoping anyway. I guess from his standpoint a gold medal will be a fonder memory than washing out in the 1st or 2nd round of a cup series someone else is going to win, so I can't blame him. Just because .I. don't care about the Olympics.........😉

Carpenter is sick with a stomach flu. Its why hes not in the lineup.

I’m sure Larkin has been less than 100%. I suspect Raymond has. But my sense is that Yzerman is safe regardless. As I have said before, I think his rebuild timeline ends when Copp, Compher, and Rasmussen contracts end. I would bet he and Ilitch have discussed this.

All front office decision issues. I think the most likely outcome is that if Larkin and Raymond are confirmed to have playing less than 100% at the end, Ilitch is going to give Yzerman another year at least. Just my guess about how it will go......

Batting outcomes in different temperatures: https://markkolier.medium.com/when-the-weather-heats-up-do-hitters-really-get-hotter-2245bdbe0689 Not surprisingly, home runs are way more common in hot weather. Nothing else is significant except non-zone swing %, but the raw numbers there don't look like they are practically significant.

Rasmussen is still on the team because of his contract rather than because of his size. This is part of the culture problem with the team. Some guys are stuck behind him and Compher, the rest are stuck with them. I also thought it was a bad message to extend Chiarot for so long. His job was to hold down a spot until the kids were ready. You’re telling me it’s going to be another three years before Tuomisto or Wallinder are ready? The message seems to be that Stevie is running the team not to lose, and in this sense the players seem to have bought in.

Worst signing EVER.

I wanted to let Kane go at the end of last season as I doubted he was going to do much this season and thought there were better places to use the $$ - I know they didn't want o give up what he still brought to the PP, but at his point in his career he wasn't what they needed to improve their 5 of 5 game.

He plays Sieder a lot, but not really more than other #1 Dmen. But just my observation is that when Seider's ice time starts climbing, he does change his game to conserve energy to compensate (which is why I don't like ever seeing them do it). With Larkin and Raymond, I don't think the team overdrives them. Their ice time does not look out of proportion for a #1 line. Certainly nothing like Brian Murray used to do overplaying his best players. But as players you have to be aware of when you are overdriving yourself when you are on the ice. A guy like Larkin has to understand that he has to walk a line between how much time he can stay at max+ effort and still keep himself available. I do wonder if Larkin is a little too emotional (trying too hard) a player for his own good.

did he steal those toys from his 15 year old "friends?"