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3 hours ago, guy incognito said:

I don't know if this story will get traction or if the American public is totally somnolent at this point, but our inability to defend our bases should be a huge story.

43 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Unless the bullpen continues to be a problem, I think a healthy Melton will be a starter in Toledo as insurance, filling Montero’s old role.

 

Skubal, Valdez, Mize, Montero, Melton will be the rotation in by June - and that's assuming Casey doesn't injure something esle recovering from his current injury

36 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Jobe will be back but 1st year after surgery, most really struggle.

TJ procedure has evolved into two somewhat different surgeries depending on the exact conditions. The STD full transplant procedure and a newer less traumatic one. IIRC (but I really am not sure at all) I thought it was reported that Jobe underwent the 'modern' technique - so in theory he may have an easier recovery, but I don't know if enough of the newer procedure are in the books for there to be a lot of data.

3 hours ago, casimir said:

I’m not against dealing guys, but that sort of deal creates holes now and takes away the best CF option for the future.  I’m not sure they have much else in terms of CF prospects.  I’d like to see the Tigers build up their prospect base via up the middle guys that can move to corners as they age in the majors.

If they had better options to bring up and take some spots on the major league roster, it’s a different story.  If Clark were closer, and/or Perez  & Jung were better, and/or Lee were a but further along, and Meadows hadn’t flamed out, then I think Alvarez as an addition to put the lineup over the top is a more reasonable move.

 The org is too short of starting pitching to think about including Jobe in a trade for a position player.

3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

I really do believe there's a reckoning of some kind coming. We can debate whether it's sufficient or good enough because it may be more about material conditions (ie. Gas prices) versus issues like abortion or immigration, but people are angry and there will be a response politically

Having said all that, what I despair about is that all of this stuff is happening, and he says and does all the stuff that he does, and people who know better in elite circles, whether it be the media or in business or what have you... They see everything we all see, but they downplay it or turn away and act like it's NBD or "politics as usual"

It's really been a blackpill for me to see how much Trump has done to alienate a large majority of the American public, only to see elite circles try to downplay it all. It's enough to make me think they're fine with all this BS

The NYT (of all people) did a podcast interview with Tucker Carlson. It was interesting, one of his biggest complaints was exactly how the media was normalizing what this admin was doing  - in his case his concern was over the normalization of what he considers an immoral murderous foreign policy and all the happy talk about killing innocent people, but his complaint about the oligarchy keeping everyone distracted with issues that are fundamentally unimportant while ignoring the things that actually affect the lives of everyday Americans could have come from any progressive, and he even said as much.

wonderful. Let' get the whole staff on the DL, they can throw themselves a Tupperware party.

2 hours ago, Hongbit said:

As is BP. They are always the most expensive.  

In a lot of places BP runs a loyalty program and discounts their list price to the same as the competition for card holders. I guess the theory is that non-regular customers are willing to pay more because maybe they are refueling at need? But that seems dumb when there is a station across the street at a dime less, which is the situation for at least a couple of the A^2 BPs. The corporate programming must tell them it works overall, but seems like a tough deal for those stations where that competitor is right across the street.

37 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

My Pet Peeve right now is Microsoft - who have included in their most recent FORCED update something they call Efficiency Mode.   It's designed to help save battery life in your laptop.   I'm not on a ****ing laptop.  I am on a PC and I don't need it and even if I WAS on a laptop, I wouldn't want this nonsense.   It's a total resource hog and it slows Google Chrome to a crawl.   You can only seem to disable it - one instance at a time, which is a total pain in the ass.  NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS !   GIVE US AN OPTION TO KILL IT !     If I go through battery life on my laptop it's because I did not plan ahead.  

try setting you default power mode to high performance. Of course that might keep your fans running. If you're brave you can go into 'Group Policy' or the registry for a fix but it not clear those work either, and have a good back-up first.

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Group Policy (Pro/Enterprise):

Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Power Throttling Settings.

Set Turn off Power Throttling to Enabled.

Registry Edit (GPO Preference):

Create a DWORD (32-bit) value named PowerThrottlingOff set to 1 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerThrottling. 

what adds to the confusion is that some reports are that after you do this, task manager still reports efficiency mode is applied even if it isn't.

I've been using a Mac more and more recently and the intel boxes run Linux for everything except Solidworks. I'd really like to be completely done with MS but I can't get off that and couple other critical equipment control application that are only available in Windows.

The stupid irony is that I'm only in Windows maybe 5% of the time I'm on a computer, but still spend at least 50% of my total system maintenance time  keeping up those windows shells I hardly use.

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

prep on the pool image too much to believe Trump did it himself, which means it's even weirder that he has some aide working late with him just to create troll fodder.

If you are Gage Workman this move should concentrate your mind on life after baseball.

Maddux would be the guy I probably must have seen but have no real recollection of as a player because I just never cared about the Braves other than to pay attention to Aaron.

Just now, monkeytargets39 said:

“Shoulder tightness”

Zimmermann V2.0

What are they doing to with Flaherty? I can see one more start, but if it goes like this again....

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

nice of WXYT to suddenly go to commercial in the middle of an inning.

Yeah, that was kinda cute. Tigers didn't do anything though.

The BP has given up one run in 6 IP. If they don't walk this off the BP is going to get the loss but it's not really theirs. 

3 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

We all know by now that Hinch is really stubborn. Use the back end of the bullpen? Why?

Vest apparently not available tonight.

he's faced three batters, you can go get him any time.

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

Burch Smith?

Needs to keep Texas barking up the wrong tree.

Not off to a great start

Burch Smith?

Needs to keep Texas barking up the wrong tree.

Lee picks 107mph.

With the game now close I wish someone else were pitching

Bah - was hoping for a tougher AB from Gleyber there.

1 minute ago, Motor City Sonics said:

What the hell happened to Flaherty?      Is he tipping his pitches?  

Dirks and Dickerson talking a lot about his mindset. I think it may be simpler, the FB is down enough ticks that he rightfully has no confidence in it.

1st of May and 2/5 of the opening day rotation is a loss. Who'd have thunk in Feb that the season would pivot on whether Melton can get back and be a top half rotation starter.

Tork failed to barrel up a middle middle FB but salvaged a walk.