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I’ve watched the replay several times. It keeps getting funnier. When he is lying down at the plate, Jake looks like a dad who was goofing around in the backyard with his kids but threw his back and can’t get up

A frank assessment in the Vancouver paper. https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/daniel-sprong-signing-complete-player “The newly acquired winger can score, can't defend, can infuriate, was often benched and comes with some additional baggage” “Nobody doubts the ability of the mercurial 27-year-old Amsterdam native to generate offence. However, his inability to defend has kept him from being productive, predictable, responsible and with a full pull on the team-first rope.” “What they did provide in a one-year, US$975,000 curiosity contract is the chance for Sprong to bet on himself, silence the critics, and prolong his career. The Canucks also had leverage because numbers that projected Sprong tripling his salary in a three-year deal elsewhere never materialized.” “he had just one goal in his last 17 games and was a healthy scratch six times in a 10-game span down the stretch with the Red Wings pressing for a playoff position. Rather than re-sign the 6-foot, 195 pound Sprong, the Wings opted for former Canucks grinder Tyler Motte, 29, in a one-year $800,000 free-agent contract to bring better defensive structure.” “Sprong has carried a certain edge with a personality that often rubbed teammates the wrong ”

Zach Bryan's Pink Skies is all over TikTok. Everyone is adding personalized videos of loved ones who have passed or family homes that have been sold. The kids are in town for a funeral So pack the car and dry your eyes I know they got plenty of young blood left in 'em And plenty nights under pink skies You taught 'em to enjoy So clean the house, clear the drawers Mop the floors, stand tall Like no one's ever been here Before or at all And don't you mention all the inches That are scraped on the doorframe We all know you tiptoed Up to 4'1" back in '08 If you could see 'em now, you'd be proud But you'd think they's yuppies Your funeral was beautiful I bet God heard you comin' The kids are in town for a funeral And the grass all smells the same As the day you broke your arm swingin' On that kid out on the river You bailed him out, never said a thing About Jesus or the way he's livin' If you could see 'em now, you'd be proud But you'd think they's yuppies Your funeral was beautiful I bet God heard you comin' If you could see 'em now, you'd be proud But you'd think they's yuppies Your funeral was beautiful I bet God heard you comin' The kids are in town for a funeral So pack the car and dry your eyes I know they got plenty young blood left in 'em And plenty nights under pink skies You taught 'em to enjoy

Ray Lane's call of the 2nd of Northrup's grand slams that day. 6th inning. northrup's 2nd grand slam - june 24 1968.mp3

Sprong signs with the Canucks for $975k https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/vancouver-canucks-sign-free-agent-daniel-sprong#:~:text=Vancouver Canucks sign free-agent forward Daniel Sprong Back to,shot forward originally from Amsterdam.

And that's for the 2nd wild card. Only 5.5 games back of Boston for the 3rd wild card.

Am I naive to hope that with him being out of sorts all game, rather than a sudden pop, the injury might be a little less serious? Somewhere between precautionary and catastrophic? Tigers' Reese Olson pulled from start after two innings with right shoulder soreness https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/07/20/tigers-reese-olson-pulled-from-start-after-two-innings-with-right-shoulder-soreness/74484066007/

Yesterday every other game except Tigers-Jays and the other Apple + game were MLB free games of the day. So they owe us!

I was going to University of Toronto in downtown Toronto during the September/October '87 pennant race. I went to all four games the penultimate weekend, but because I was a poor student sat in the left field stands. The first couple sections near the left field foul pole weren't horrible, but since the stands angled away from the left field fence you got further and further away as you moved out sections. And for that series they opened sections that had rarely or never been used for baseball before. Put it this way - when Gibby's game tying home run in the 9th inning on Sunday went out, my seat had a straight on view of it going over the right field fence. As for the Skydome, I lived 3 blocks away from it when it opened in 1989. It was a relic the month it opened. It had a few neato features like the center field restaurant (which I ate at on a date) and the center field hotel (which I did not take the date back to) but tons of concrete and steepness and ugly turf. The last of the Veterans-Three Rivers-Waterfront style stadiums. Even back then, there had been a few voices for a different look, like that of a Buffalo minor league park that had opened a few years earlier. Camden Yards wasn't yet opened but I think it was already known what direction the Camden Yards builders were planning.

I noticed that tonight for sure but I don’t remember him being so much so last year. Gania needs to take some ganja and chill.

It’s literally double what I think he’s worth.

3 Tigers in it in the summer of ‘76. To me it was great to see the Tigers relevant again. In fact they had really only been bad for 2 years and were only 4 years removed from an AL East title, but when you’re 9 years old that felt like forever.

College me thought that I did my best singing when drunk.

Most fun weekend of the season so far, when honestly, I stopped paying attention a few weeks ago. Will see how the post-ASG week or two goes. When does Carpenter get back?

If Skubal continues to no-hit the Dodgers for four more innings until through 7, and he is at 99 pitches then (40 now), will Hinch pull him? Because that just happened to Paul Skenes. The Pirates’ reliever gave up back to back singles to open the 8th last night.

When Steve Simmons gets in on it you know Yzerman-bashing has jumped the shark. It's probably a good sign. https://torontosun.com/sports/where-did-steve-yzermans-golden-touch-go-in-detroit

Walt seemed like a good guy. I was Facebook friends with him for quite a few years when his kids were really young. He lived in Minnesota, I believe. For some reason I vaguely recall him posting on the Red Wings section of Motownsports.com, but I can't clearly remember. I think his username was just "Walt", maybe a couple of digits behind it, but I think that's it.

Sweep!

Hit a ball right over my head and up and over the right field of at Tiger Stadium. Probably ‘77 or ‘78.

Hoping. DeBrincat is a bit of a wildcard. Was a tale of two halves for him last season. Or first 1/3 of season’s output vs final 2/3 of season’s output.

I think our forward lines are slightly upgraded since April. I will take Tarasenko over Perron for example. And we haven’t downgraded like losing Kane without a replacement would have done. I think goaltending is a slight upgrade too, with Talbot-Lyon-Husso being better than Husso-Lyon-Reimer. I’d also be comfortable shipping out Lyon if an opportunity arose. I think our defense is downgraded but that might not be the case by December if we’ve traded for a defenseman like I think we will and brought in Edvinsson and Johansson. Overall, another playoff bubble team at the moment.

Alexander is a career minor leaguer so salary dump I guess. $4mm savings, I believe? Fine. Wings could ice a team of 6 goalies for a shift in pre-season. EDIT: career minor leaguer might be a bit dismissive. He's only 22. Still, salary dump I'm sure was main motivation.