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There is a Circle K on Van Dyke about 2 miles south of John James office. I'm emailing John James everyday to let him know what the price of gas is at that Circle K since he is never in the district.

So here we are, 68 games into a 82 game season, and it feels like the Wings’ playoff chances are around 50/50, although most playoff odd trackers sites are showing higher hopes in the 60s or even 70s. Don’t know how much if at all they factor in things like the Larkin/Copp injuries or recent form. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if next week the Wings announce Larkin to still be out indefinitely. If you’re a more casual fan (as I am with the Pistons), but still hoping another Detroit sports fan makes the playoffs so have wandered over from the Tigers’ forum, welcome! This “primer” post is lengthy but I think you’ll find most posts going forward are shorter posts by those of us tracking rooting interest and results for that evening’s games. As we know, the top 3 teams in each division make the playoffs as do the conference’s 2 teams with the next best records. So 8 playoff teams per conference. The Wings currently sit in 4th place in the Atlantic division, holding the 1st wildcard spot. The Wings’ 82 points are 6 points behind division leader Buffalo (and 8 points behind conference leader Carolina), 2 points behind 2nd place Tampa, tied with 3rd place Montreal and 2 points ahead of 5th place Boston. Primary threats on the outside looking in are Columbus at 3 points behind the Wings and Ottawa at 5 points behind the Wings. Philly and Washington at 8 points behind the Wings are longshots running out of time. This overstates the Wings’ position though because as you will see from the standings below most of the teams in the mix have 1 or 2 games in hand in the Wings, and can be expected to pick up at least a point per game in hand. The first three wins are Regulation Wins “RW” (winning the game in 60 minutes), Regulation Overtime Wins “ROW” (winning the games in either the regulation 60 minutes or 5 minutes overtime) and Wins “W” (all wins including those decided by a shootout). Playoff format is that the conference’s division winner with the better record plays the #2 wildcard, the conference’s division winner with the lesser record plays the #1 wildcard, and the #2 teams in the divisions play the #3 teams in their division. The Wings have 14 games remaining, with 8 at home and 6 on the road. Oddly enough, they play Philadelphia 3 times! Looks like a lot of evenly matched games on paper. The Wings only have 2 games against teams more than 2 points above them in the standings - at Buffalo and home to Minnesota. But the only 3 opponents way behind the Wings are the games against New Jersey, Florida and NY Rangers. The Wings only have two back to backs left, and in both cases they play the first game at home and the second game on the road. The Wings have 82 points through 68 games. In 2025 they had 70 points through 68 games and were through 3 points out of a playoff spot - finished with 86 points and were 5 points behind the final playoff spot. In 2024 they had 74 points through 68 games and were 1 point out of a playoff spot - finished with 91 points and had the same number of points as the final playoff team but lost the tiebreaker. In 2023 they had 69 points through 68 games and were 9 points out of a playoff spot - finished with 80 points and were 12 points behind the final playoff spot. I think 97 points is the safe zone. Chance that 94-96 points could be enough but I wouldn’t count on it, given the imbalance between the East and West this year. As of this morning, 10 of the NHL’s top 13 teams overall in points are in the East. Columbus is #12 overall and has 2 points more than the Pacific Divison leader but as of this moment wouldn’t be among the NHL’s 16 team playoff field

Fingers crossed it will matter.

Dan said JV had 7 wiffs on his 4 seamer. Amazing the guy can throw a swing and miss FB at 43. Has anyone else done that since Nolan Ryan?

weak on security like having a SCIF in a ballroom?

JVL today... https://www.thebulwark.com/p/our-low-iq-president-did-an-oopsie?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=191131928&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true

I agree it has ben a bit unfortunate for Keith playing second one year then first base the next, for a while , and now third base in a crowd. I hope they just settle him in at third and let him play most games there without moving around so we cn actually find out if he is any good. Can he field ? Can he hit with power ? Either get actual production from him or increase his trade value.

He forgot to say something about transgender to distract from the wealth gap.

We are doing some serious damage to American prestige that will take a long time to sort out.

I don't know which is worse, a President that spends his time just making **** up, or that there is a public so gullible it still believes anything he says.

Is he asking Henry Kissinger to kneel and pray in front of the portrait with him?

He's talking to the portrait of Reagan on the wall.

Was he in Frontier Town at the Hall of Presidents?

Was it Glenn Beck’s AI George Washington?

I was 10. In those days that stuff was off the chart incredible and cool. Our black and white TV made it look real. We all wanted to be Astronauts.

I wish leaving the gang was an option once you got enough money

Sec of Small Excursions Pete Kegsbreath

Just watched Mike Flanagan‘s The Life of Chuck on Hulu and I liked it more than some of of the reviewers did who said it was too maudlin, contrived, and derivative of its source material in a Stephen King novella, but I still liked it. I’d figured it all out in the first few minutes, but it was still intriguing and worth my time. Had a great cast too.

That old POS is still there. And it still gets stuck in the up position from time to time.

Couldn’t get it off last night, now it July

“would of”

the pedophile/rapist/felon, who is CIC of the most powerful military the planet has ever seen, begged China and others to clean up his mess. and because we are respected like never before, they all ignored him. pure humiliation. both in begging for help like a dog, and then getting none. this is why I think he is going drop 3 nukes on Iran.

I like the WBC, full stop