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There are definitely many variables to be considered, but I would expect more stolen bases this year with the larger bases and pickoff rule change. 64% seems like a lot, but it would be pretty cool if it happens. I think there needs to be more action in the game.

Two Baptist ministers down here got sentenced to very long prison terms for their relations with minors. Ban churches.

20 year old with a bad back? JFC. Hire Al and fire him again.

The spine is related to everything though. I am not sure what kind of success pitchers have coming back from this. I guess we'll just have to be patient with Jobe.

Mets are all-in this season. Will be interesting to see how they replace him. Wish we had a closer we could send them—their desperation would make them a great trade partner.

Should of picked a shortstop.

Guess he can shelve that for this season...

Watched the entire Montgomery presser. He’s super impressive. A perfect fit here and I think he’s going to quickly become a fan and team favorite.

Glasgow really takes the Evan Brown role. He can play guard and backup at C.

I like the pitch clock and am glad the shifting is gone also.

More hit and runs too maybe with no shift?

sure, but there are black qbs who dont murder dogs and sexually assault massage therapists. lol. but i agree with everyone who says this is nothing. i just think its funny. plus he's a buckeye so you know he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Well, whaddya expect? He's woke!

I thought I was in the Wings forum....

You're a lot of fun. 😆

He definitely showed bad judgment that night. I think from a legal aspect he is fine. But if someone texts me to bring them a gun at 1:30AM I know what is up. This is what Weaver said before last years draft: I don't see how Miller is even on Detroit's board after hearing Weaver say that.

Michael Vick was drafted the same year Stroud was born. How time flies.

I choose anti-fascism.

I don't know the whole story, and I am completely unqualified to be a basketball GM. But with what I know about it, I wouldn't touch Miller in the draft. The risk doesn't seem worth the reward. Trade out if it, let another GM rolls the bones on Miller. Maybe I'm wrong about that. The Pistons are an awfully young team. The decision making by Miller leading up to the murder, while he may not have pulled the trigger, there were opportunities for him to duck out of the issue and not be associated with it, and maybe it ultimately wouldn't have gone down at all. I'm not sure I want that kind of decision making and off court mess around the rest of the team. Sure, they ain't all choir boys. But why bring that into the fold?

For the most part. Baez, Greene, Torkelson, and MeadowsA are probably starting everyday heading out of camp. Ignoring C, that leaves 3 defensive positions and DH to fill from among 13 position players on the roster - the 4 starters mentioned above - 2 catchers = 7 players. One of those bodies will be Cabrera, and we know his limitations, but let's be generous and call him an everyday DH to begin the season. They're down to 3 defensive positions from among 6 players. It seems likely that Maton and Vierling are making the club. A LHH IF (that can cover all IF spots) and a RHH OF (that can cover all OF spots) are fits for the above. Now, whether they play everyday or not, that's another question. I think it stands to reason that at least they get playing time in a traditional platoon play, Maton vs RHPs (likely at 3B) and Vierling vs LHPs (could be any OF position). Down to 4 players. Let's say Schoop makes the team. He's the starting 2B, at least for April. Down to 3 players needed. 10 position players on the roster, technically each starting spot could be filled and there's a backup C. And if they go with Rogers as the backup C, that probably allows more LF team for Haase, which would factor into things a little. So, while starting spots are technically covered, there's still Cabrera included as an everyday starter, which seems a stretch. They could throw anyone into that DH role to give Cabrera a day off, but who backfills that defensive position. Baddoo and Carpenter aren't very versatile defensively. Carpenter seems to be relegated to poor fielding LF. Baddoo has lesser fielding foibles, but his arm shouldn't be in RF. I guess with Vierling on the roster they could use him in RF to spell MeadowsA, so maybe that isn't an issue. But if they both make the roster, that leaves only one spot for a backup IF. That seems a little thin, although with Maton being able to move around, maybe not so much. Ultimately, I think where I am going is that the roster might not be deep enough for it to carry all three of Cabrera, Baddoo, and Carpenter at the same time. I do think there will be a constant shuttle from Detroit to Toledo involving pitchers based on availability and usage and performance. I'm not so sure we see that with position players, although maybe they intertwine at times when the schedule allows (going from 13 pitchers to 12 pitchers to add another position player for a spell). I don't know. There's still 2 weeks to go. Still time for a trade (seems unlikely) or for an injury (not rooting for it) to factor into this.

I have no doubt that she is deeply dumb, although I do have my doubts as to whether there are any normal people in her world, where I would bet one must be either a MAGA patriot, or a woke CRT-loving ESG-addled libtard. Time to pick a side.

IOW, another form of projection. That word should go down as the title for this whole era in GOP politics, in fact in all the right side and facist movements of this era.

I believe the idea is that if people like she suddenly start forcefully arguing some point no one is even talking about, that de facto positions the liberals as being on the other side of it. In this case, Greene forcefully argues a point no one is even talking about—cartels are bad—and by dint of that, her acolytes conclude that liberals believe cartels are good.

I'm surprised someone as sensitive as Aaron Rodgers would go to New York.

I don't think the Tigers are going to have traditional starter and bench roles this year. They are going to have a lot of multi-position players moving around the field and the Toledo shuttle is going to be busy. They have enough players who can play 1B and 3B even if they keep Carpenter and Baddoo.

Vierling, Haase, Carpenter, Maton etc. have yet to put on a first base glove this ST as far as I can tell. When that changes, maybe I'll start giving credence to the idea that they are going to back that position up from alternative sources.

Houston beat LA last night. We are now the best team in the league at losing.

I gather she was wrong about the bomb too. Whither, meathead culture? Arnold Schwarzenegger might have been a body builder but he wasn't as asinine as half these idiot roid head magas.

I heard a few minutes on the radio and when someone called in to ask what the Lions were doing, Karcsh said that he thought they wanted to use free agency to pre-patch all the potential glaring holes (CB, RB, DL) so that when the draft comes, they won't feel any pressure to draft to need but will be free to go BPA no matter how the picks before them went down. Seemed like a take that matched the evidence.

Any parent rumbling about bad calls as 12 year Olds and under play a game should recheck their priorities.

If the cordyceps ever did collapse civilization, like in The Last of Us, it's pretty clear the GOP would blame wokeness, right?

Speaking of that song….

Somebody told me there is an ETF that basically simulates shorting all of Cramer's recommendations.

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I'm still going with how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.