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Learned something new today watching the Giants/DBacks today. The instant replay room in New York is part of the rotation for umpire crews. They are manned every night by at least one active crew. This explains the oddities last week against the Mets. CB Bucknor must have been the replay ump for our game.

without doing more research than I have time for right now, does his comment about the lower 50% paying 3% of taxes count only the Income tax or FICA (plus the employer contribution) as well because that could be significant difference in that %

i was just going to come on and ask that question. if they re-sign duren, THATS IT. THATS THE CORE. unless you find someone to take him on once he's making $40 million a year. youre betting on his development, because you cant get anyone else at that point. all this talk i hear about signing duren and then trading for someone like kwahi is nuts.

I just listened to TJ Lang on NFL Radio. He said a few interesting things. first, he talked about Sewell’s move to left tackle. He said he watches Sewell at right tackle and believes that the position is not natural to him. Basically, you would not coach a right tackle to move the ways moves. But he is so physically dominant that he has become a pro bowl player. Lang says left tackle is Sewell’s natural position and he believes he is going to become a dominant left tackle. The other thing he talked about was attention to detail. But it wasn’t so much about the players. It was about Morton. Two different times, he said, “I don’t want to throw shade, but….” one of those times, he pointed out that the play action game was frequently run out of different run actions than they were using in the run game. The example he gave was that they would frequently run outside zone but scheme their play action in gap schemes. Bad attention to detail and defenses picked it up.

Everything I read about Wallinder is underwhelming. Maybe I’m missing something but I’ve just been assuming that he has reached his ceiling. I hate to see ASP languish too long in the AHL, but I also hate to see him fishing the puck out of his own net in the NHL. I wonder if his development plays a role in their decision about whether to offer Faulk an extension.

Fair enough, but I feel like my point stands. If you’re going to preach a certain style of play from day one, then roster construction needs to match what you’re trying to do. Guys that actually show foundations of good plate discipline are more DFA bound (JHM, Jung) than others. I’d rather we try something and go all in on it and win or lose that way than by just being erratic all the time.

I was mostly being sarcastic. I think it's one of these lines that management teams like to repeat over and over. I mean it's a line that sounds really good, but it's also pretty vague and probably not possible to have every player in the organization follow.

To make the man in the room the smarterest.

Just tried to e-mail my congresscritter, (Whitless from Warsaw). Just jumped thru a lot of hoops. Doesn't seem to be working

He’s lurking on the bench, ready to be deployed at the primest opportunity.

Sure—but when does the plan match the actions? We’ve drafted and developed McGonigle and Clark who do that well. 2024 we finished with 2 guys that had OBPs over .333: Riley and Carpenter, and we had three pitchers with a K/9 over 9- Skubal, Flaherty and Brieske. 2025 we finished a bit better but Torres was the only guy over .333 who had 200 or more ABs. But Keith, Torkelson and McKinstry all were at exactly .333. Riley and Carpenter regressed significantly in OBP (along with BB/K). Skubal, Flaherty, Vest and Hurter had K/9 above 9. This year, Greene, McGonigle and Torres are over .333 and everyone else on the roster is below .315 except Keith. Pitching K rates are improving with Skubal, Flaherty, Mize, Jansen, Anderson and Vest all above 9–but that being said, we’ve been almost completely flat over the last 3 years as a team in K/9 (8.4-8.6) yet we are now walking more than a batter per inning this year than last year. Granted, the injuries—but we had a ton of injuries and pitching chaos in 2024 and performed a lot better. Mize, Skubal and Keider are the only pitchers with BB9s under 3. Anyway—if dominating the strike zone is the identity and has been since Harris took over in late 2022, why has there been very minimal improvement in high level strike zone related stats? We are walking more guys than we did by a surprising amount, and we can only seem to get about 2 guys above a .333 OBP each of the last three seasons.. one of those he drafted, so definite gold star for the McGonigle draft. There’s a bunch of guys who have been with the team the last 3 years that have not made meaningful improvements to their strike zone abilities despite the ABS system this year. Again, it’s early and there’s been injuries—but if after 3 full seasons for most of these guys under the Harris regime they haven’t been able to grasp the approach and improve on it, then when do you cut bait? A two week hot stretch for a player seems to buy them a years worth of plate appearances in the hopes that they recapture that magic rather than accepting that this player just had a stretch of extreme outlier data compared to what they typically do. We bring up the Guardians a lot in comparison—and they aren’t necessarily statistically better than we are over the last three years in pitching or offense across the board—but they’re very consistent with the things they do well. They don’t strike out a lot, their pitchers do amass strikeouts, they are consistent across the board with their walk rate, and they advance runners (23 sacrifice hits/flies to our 10). We’ve struck out 50 more times than them this year and walked 40 times less (not including IBB) They’ve turned their roster over quite a bit more than we have the last 3 years in pitching and defense. So why are they able to be consistent at these aspects of the game and we aren’t?

Would like to have any of the guys on Michigan's front line at #21. I think Johnson has the highest ceiling of them, Yaxel the highest floor. Mara is intriguing because there may be some growth in his game as a shooter...but not as much overall upside as Johnson. Agree that if we're going to spend substantial future assets we have to get a legit #2 for Cade to work with NC's Henri Veersaar would be an intriguing guy...7ft C who hit 42% from 3 against high level competition in the ACC.

I would do Edvinsson - Seider AlJo - Faulk Chiarot - AnJo Wallinder / JBD scratched I imagine it'll be Edvinsson - Seider Chiarot - Faulk AlJo - JBD Wallinder scratched

Mar-a-lago mafia which is based on Putin's mafia. That's why they want tax immunity because the mafia always gets taken down for tax evasion.

Plus it would give the bottom half more money to buy junk on Amazon they don't need.

11 striped flag 😂

If they give Ausar and Duren a combined $60-$70 million a year, you're not getting a second scorer. Your second scorer has to be one of them. The summer of 2027 the Pistons have 4 guys under contract currently for a cap hit of $98 million. If you give Duren $30 million a year and Ausar $35 million per, that is 6 guys committed at $165 million a year, which is right where the cap will be. Your 7th guy can't be a $40 million a year second option with that roster. You are right they will need those future assets. But it will be to add cheap talent to fill out the bench because they are going to be struggling with the cap.

i guess we will see who stands up to this

wallinder has to be up or they lose him. he might be third pair over asp. they seem to wait until yhe last minute with these prospects.

Getting swept by Cleveland at home may lead me and Tonto to ride off into the sunset. You never know.

Their plan is to "control the strike zone"

So, what's it going to be - Dictatorship or Chinese colony?

i'm not trading future assets for yaxel. they need those future assets to trade for a second scorer.

I was thinking about the idea of a US vet criticizing other US Mil. Its not fun to see it but its pretty damn common.