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1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:
I feel like our offseason is a lot like the Orioles offseason last year. They sat on their hands for the most part thinking that they would just progress without major intervention - and we saw what happened to them - and I think that could happen here.
I feel like Kansas City might leap us significantly this year.
Plus it's 13 degrees outside and feeling stir crazy and negative, so there's that.
At least we don't have Toronto, Boston and the Yankees in our division.
Yeah - I don't like it either. I've always felt like if you are not actively getting better, you are getting worse. With a young team maybe you can bank on some improvement, but most of these guys are now already what they are going to be, maybe Dingler has some upside and maybe McGonigle makes the team and impresses, but OTOH, you can bank that some other guys are going to have worse seasons than the last one. Bottom line you should be working to upgrade the bottom 3 guys in your batting ordet, your #4/5 starters every single year, and your BP every single year.
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57 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:
it would be really nice to win one of these where enough people voted for it to mean something!
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7 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:
Here comes the February and March collapse. We're about to be losers of 4 of the last 5 games. This is really starting to feel like the last few seasons now. If we somehow full on collapse again there are serious questions we're going to have to start asking.
they are just not deep enough to play over injuries to any one of Larkin, Cat, Raymond, Seider, Edvinsson or Gibson. For those 6 guys the drop off to next man up is too big. If Simon comes back and the rest of the core stay healthy, they'll be OK, but otherwise not so much.
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18 minutes ago, lordstanley said:
Wings fall behind 2-0. 3rd clunker game in a row?
Simon's improvement may be the largest single contributor the the team's improvement.
Lose either him or Moritiz and you are looking at the 2024/5 Wings again.
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Just now, chasfh said:
Here’s a hoary old chestnut for you: “Did you know that Derek Jeter’s favorite food is spaghetti? It’s true—during every Yankees broadcast, Michael Kay will refer to him right in the middle of a play as ‘pasta-diving Jeter.’”
nyuck-nyuck
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5 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:
Yet ARod was a great shortstop and had to move to 3rd.
There certainly was a tremendous amount of noise about ARod going to third, and at the time the argument he was a better SS was a good one, but my guess is he probably wasn't going to be able to stay at short much longer anyway and the Yankees probably recognized that.
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11 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:
Derek Jeter?
Made routine plays for 29 other shortstop into diving stops.
Derek Jeter is exhibit one for the fact that defense is nice, but hitting is nicer.
Jeter's BR page is interesting. Hit over 330 three times and had an OBP over 400 4 times but never led the the league in either category. His best bold face numbers were leading the league in hits twice (200+ hits 8 times in his career) and runs once.
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25 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:
This is a minor blip on most folks radar but Dr Robert Reynolds who served for 26 years as director of bands at the University of Michigan and nearly 30 years as conductor o the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, as well as mentoring numerous current and former band and orchestra directors around Michigan and the nation passed yesterday. He was 91.
When we lived in Michigan I was fortunate to spend a bit of time playing in the Farmington Concert Band. Director Damien Crutcher was one of his students (and friends). He had Dr Reynolds in on a few occasions to conduct the band, including our 60th Anniversary concert at Orchestra Hall.
Reynolds was also one of those guys who had the thankless task of succeeding a legend. He had to go to work everyday in building with his predecessor's name on it.
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9 hours ago, buddha said:
its pathetic for someone so athletic.
it's sort of the natural result of the selection process. If you can't shoot, you aren't going to get to high levels in basketball unless you have something you can do on the court to make up for it. That's either going to be being a 7'4" rim protector or being so athletic a runner and defender you earn your keep that way. It worked for Rodman, who couldn't shoot and has 5 titles. But sure it's even tougher to be that guy in today's game.
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16 hours ago, Tiger337 said:
So, every year 29 teams fail and the average team wins a championship only once every 30 years.
Another take on this is that pro sports leagues are just too big today (and college conferences are following down the same wrong path). More fans would be more happy if they were rooting for a team in a smaller league that did have a better chance to win each year. The old 6 team NHL was great in that regard, as were the 7 team baseball leagues when winning a pennant was considered to mean something. It's the American obsession with having to prove (as though a short series in baseball ever does that anyway) who is the absolute top of the biggest heap which has been responsible for more and more fans being more and more unhappy about their team's lot!
If I ruled baseball I'd go back to strict < 8 team divisional only play and only have an interdivisional playoff and WS every 4 years.
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4 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:
The NFL could care less. Tom Brady has an ownership steak in the Raiders and still gets to call games. It's outrageous that he does get to. It should be one or the other.
I don't get what bothers people over Brady doing game analysis
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44 minutes ago, Screwball said:
And if Lloyd Blankfein thinks this is a good pick, it probably is for him, but not us. But then again..
Thank you professor Blankfein.
The bankster types I've been hearing interviews with, esp one who is one of Warsh's buddies, seem to want us to believe that he is sandbagging Trump to get the job, or at least they want to believe that themselves.
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37 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:
Izzo was extra grumpy tonight. Must have been a bad birthday party.
Izzo is about the sorest loser you'll ever see. Probably why he wins so much.
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29 minutes ago, Adullin said:
have to come out like the game in tied and go on a run
LOL - just what State did.
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7 minutes ago, Edman85 said:
Works out. Plastic Face can shoot the dogs. The Haitians can eat them.
Win-Win!
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33 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:
Every new thing that pops up is like another domino to the end of democracy. Not just the USA, they are coming for the whole world. They don't care about billions and trillions. They want complete control and forced devotion just like North Korea. It's not just Trump, it's his filthy rich backers too.
Maga thinks it won't affect them, but they will have chains around there necks just like everyone else.
the generations after the WWII generation in Europe and the US have gotten lazy, and since we have been the richest, we got the laziest. For close on 35yrs we've basically forgotten to take care of all the things that make a society work - education, fairness, citizenship, equity, truth. So here we are.
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10 minutes ago, Screwball said:
I only want to say this, and I will say no more. I don't know how much of this stuff is true, and nothing would surprise me. I have read about this Epstein stuff for years, for the record.
If this takes down Trump, and if he is guilty, I hope it does. But don't stop there. There are a whole bunch of other sick ****s who were also a part of all this. They ALL need to pay the price.
Nothing less is acceptable. I have a daughter. Nuff said. And probably better off not said.
Agree. The thing is though, as much as the people one the one side would currently like it to be true, I'm afraid it is not true that the rich bad boy's club breaks particularly on political ideological grounds, which is why as much as each side talks about the other, they never quite actually get all the way to dropping the hammer.
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9 minutes ago, Screwball said:
For some reason I think a curling rock weighs around 40 pounds. I don't know how I know that. Looks like fun.
After bowling night was over, we used to go to another bar and play shuffleboard. Probably a 20ft table. Threw sawdust on the top and threw little metal pucks. Another sport. 🙂
It was all just an excuse to drink beer. 🙂
Sorry for the distraction.
Make it 3 Stone.' Seems only right to give the weight of a curling rock in 'stone.'
And who is this 'Harris'? Haven't seen nor heard from anyone of that name.
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26 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:
go for it. If he can piss off Ohioans, that would put an end to GOP 2028 hopes.
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38 minutes ago, oblong said:
I have a family member who likes to show off with "fancy" gifts.
I just remembered, when we were in school the SO had to take an anthro course and part if it was about some group of arctic natives and the way chief established himself was to intimidate the members of his tribe by giving them better gifts than they could give him. This guy happen to have any Innuit blood?
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6 minutes ago, oblong said:
I have a family member who likes to show off with "fancy" gifts. Drives everyone crazy. I've gotten 2 Miggy autograph related items and another Miggy thing and they're huge. I don't want them in the first place as I don't like "stuff". And If I were to hang sports things in my office it would not be him. He might have spent $1000 total on these things and I'd have rather gotten something else.
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10 minutes ago, mtutiger said:
Gonna guess he'll be acquitted in like five seconds...
But still meant to chill any sort of independent journalism
the people who stood up and got arrested in the civil rights era were celebrated the rest of their lives. The same will likely happen here.
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6 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
Jerry Dior, the creator of the logo, says that the logo is not any single player. Killebrew says it's him.
If by 'no 'single' player' he means 75% Harmon and 25% his extrapolation I'd believe him. Aside from the bat position being exactly right, the tell is the nose. Harmon had a very pointed nose and so does the logo.
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1 hour ago, Arlington said:
Yet Harmon is reportedly the batter in the MLB logo
Pretty sure this is true.
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Interesting stuff about Warsh wanting to unwind QT (reducing the Fed bond balance). Under Powell the Fed both ran up and then reduced the asset balance some recently, but the big run up from the QE during the pandemic is still on the books along with most of the run-up after the Bush crash - almost$6.5 trillion in total. Warsh could have the Fed give the appearance of being dovish on the discount rate, while a major bond sales program going at the same time could actually be contracting the money supply and driving interest rates everywhere but the Fed discount window up. I bet the banksters would love that because it would set them up for nice carry trade profits as they are the only ones the low Fed discount rate is available to.