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1 hour ago, Jason_R said:
I don’t agree with the sentiment that nobody wants to come to Detroit. Detroit is the 12th largest media market in the NHL and an original six team. It is also home to many NHL players. It is a town known for an intensely supportive fan base. If you are a free agent and your choice is between Detroit and Ottawa does anyone really think that players will flock to Ottawa? Columbus? Calgary? Raleigh? Buffalo? Winnipeg? Maybe some prefer NYC, Vegas, LA. Maybe some prefer no tax states. But these guys want to get paid, they want to play, and they want to compete. Detroit wasn’t competitive five years ago or even three. They are on the cusp now.
Also, maybe I’m forgetting someone but the only player I remember using a NMC to veto a trade to Detroit was Tyler Myers who apparently has a child with special needs, who was born and has family in Texas, and who ended up in Dallas. Faulk had a 15-team no trade clause, so either Detroit was not on it, or he willingly waived it.
If your team has a rep for being inept, it's a big problem no matter who you are. Beyond that, most of these guys are Canadian or northern Euro. They're not dying to get to Florida or the SW desert.
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1 minute ago, buddha said:
you "think its pretty certain" based on what? again, you put stock in illitch having a plan other than yzerman falling into his lap and him saying "ok." i think its more likely yzerman said "i'll take the job, but the farm system is **** and it will take ten years to rebuild and i want him, him, him, and him to come to my staff and a budget for whatever i want."
yzerman had all the leverage and illitch has no history of knowing anything about hockey or any connections in the league to make a judgment on who to hire.
LOL, c'mon Buddha, you think Chris Ilitch has been in a cocoon all his life as #1 son and heir apparent while his family ran a hockey team? Ok, sure.
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I'm gonna say it's only in rare cases who is on a team impacts a player's choice either way as much as what that team is. In the case of Patrick Kane the fact the DeBrincat had come here probably was a factor, but I doubt anyone can come up with another case outside of family ties.
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6 minutes ago, buddha said:
i dont think illitch had anything to do with it. i think it was all yzerman. i doubt illitch is that involved in the day to day.
I think it's pretty certain Ilitch and Yzerman had talked through the immediate future of the team when he hired him and part of discussion would have to have been "I want this team improving starting tomorrow" vs "invest the time you need to make this team better". Once that was decided, sure it's all Yzerman, but any owner is involved enough to have made that initial guidance determination, and if you were hired as a GM and your owner didn't, you'd be a fool to take the job.
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58 minutes ago, chasfh said:
So If I’m seeing this right, McGonigle might be only the 8th hitter in modern history to debut with four hits and six or more totals bases. I got J.P. Arencibia, Brant Alyea, Billy Bean, Willie McCovey, Ed Freed, Art Shires, and Mike Mitchell.
what's considered 'the modern era'?
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13 hours ago, buddha said:
if youre under the impression that i have never second guessed kenny holland, youre barking up the wrong tree.
yzerman was dealt the worst hand in the nhl because of kenny holland. kenny holland is why we are here. yzerman just hasnt been able to dig out of it.
bottom line is that Yzerman (and maybe Ilitch) didn't want to pay the price for Holland having let things get so bad, which was to be a bad team longer. In a capped league there are only so many levers. Outside of the three big draft hits, they haven't scouted better than the rest of the league, which is one of only three ways to get better. They didn't lose enough to collect more top picks, which is the 2nd way to get better, and Yzerman has not managed to pick any other GM's pocket in a trade, which is the third way to get better. If you don't do any of those, what can you expect the outcome to be? So they either need to go back to losing and collecting picks, they need to trade better, or they need to scout better. How do either of those last two things improve unless you upgrade the people tasked to do them who haven't done them well enough so far to produce the needed improvement?
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Trump says he's 'signing an order' to move funds to pay TSA. I guess this counts as a TACO as TSA is going to get paid which relieves the pressure but the Dems haven't given him anything on the DHS budget. Of course it isn't clear he will have any legal authority for how he gets the money there, but I doubt anyone is going to challenge it.
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Broadcast disclaimer by Bob Costas.
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Holton not finishing his pitches
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Just now, 1984Echoes said:
Expectations for McGonigle are now: ___________.
If he hasn't been sent down by June 1 it's already a massive success.
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Just now, monkeytargets39 said:
That’s a tough error. Should be called an infield hit
yeah - punished for making the attempt. if Javy just eats it and makes no throw it's a hit all the way.
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This telecast is so much better than Sinclair. Higher res, way less crap on the screen. Better camera work. They should have make the move away from Sinclair the last time.
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Just now, monkeytargets39 said:
Harvey on the board with a hit.
if he doesn't challenge that one he gets another one even further away.
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37 minutes ago, lordstanley said:
Yes, final game at Tiger Stadium.
Beckman, ugh.
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2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:
a new channel has just appeared on my DirectTV - 663 - DSN
however while I can watch the stream, it will not record it. Odd.
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2 hours ago, Screwball said:
Helium is also used in MRI machines as a coolant.
yup, anything which uses superconductor magnets needs helium. For the heat transfer applications, the only other gas that gives you the heat transfer coefficients Helium does is Hydrogen, but of course the fire hazard of H2 would complicate things immensely. You just can't plug it into a system set-up for Helium without likely blowing yourself up - not to mention it may react with the substrates and ruin them.
But we've just been told the US 'doesn't need' the Strait of Hormuz.
Market searching for a bottom today and not finding one so far....
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1 hour ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:
We don't need the Hormuz Strait? We are not effected by this? Um, has this dolt looked at gas prices lately?
Wait until US manufacturing comes to a halt because we can't get microchips because Helium for chip production from Qatar is stranded there. That should actually hit before the fertilizer shortage, which will be even worse.
But the real tell in that statement is that somebody finally got through to him with the fact we cannot open it. We will simply fail if we try to open it by force. So just like a 3 year old told he can't have the toy --- "Don't want bad toy anyway!"
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1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:
This is the line-up I expected. As a big proponent of defense, I like having Baez in the line-up. If he hits more like 2024 than 2025, then go to another plan. Same with Meadows except you hopes it's more 2024 than 2025.
Yup, start here and see how it plays out.
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2 hours ago, lordstanley said:
Game is on MLB Network so I will be able to watch.
a new channel has just appeared on my DirectTV - 663 - DSN
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It looks like the next big ripple effect from the Iran war (other than oil prices) after fertilizer production is going to the semi-conductor production. What does the ME have to do with semiconductor production you ask? You need helium to run high tech fabrication processes. A third of the world's Helium comes from Qatari natural gas fields and those fields are effectively shut down.
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4 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
George Cooney is not a ball player!
The long ball only gets you so far.....
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38 minutes ago, buddha said:
the alternative was to not sign middling veterans early and continue to bottom out.
the other aspect would he to have the cap space to make a big move when one was available, which in general they haven't had as they've burned their cap on guys who weren't going to get them over the line anyway.
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50 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
McGonigle has a good face for a ballplayer.
I guess. Looks like the guy she left for George Clooney.
Red Wings March 2026 Games Thread
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Posted · Edited by gehringer_2
This is all true, but there is a big additional step between, "I'd love to have D Larkin as a teammate" and "I'd love to be on a team that's going to miss the playoffs just to play with D Larkin." 🤷♂️ The latter is going to weigh heavier than the former!