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14 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Here’s hoping it matters … 🤞🏼

Tackiest lectern in the Western Hemisphere there.

1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

4 years running...

it's coming down to the question of 'do you know how to build a winning team?' 

Does wings management AKA SY, actually have a plan for what properties he needs in what proportions to build a team that doesn't collapse in March, of has he just been going along collecting as much talent as he could without having a plan how the various pieces need to fit together? Sort of like Randy Smith, or generations of Lions GMS who collected players but never built a team.

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I do think if a team ranks better in pct of innings scored than it does in runs scored, then it probably indicates they are relying less on home runs than other teams.  I don't know if that's a bad or good thing though.    

is it just HR hitting or is it the more elusive capability to hang tough against good pitching as opposed to feasting periodically on bad pitching? The two things are probably correlates of one another, but I don't know they are the completely the same thing. 

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I have long noticed that fans who watched baseball in the 60s talk a lot about outfield arms.  More recent fans talk more about range and fans of some eras don't look at defense much at all.  I am not being critical.  Arms are important, but it's just something I'm curious about.  Is that something that was emphasized more in the 60s?  

Back in the day you still had some huge ball parks, Cleveland, Polo grounds in center, Tigers in CF, the original LF at Yankee stadium,  Fenway in RC, There was a lot more opportunity to hit balls a long way that were going to stay in play, and for those teams in those parks big OF arms were more important. And I think it's also true that guys did a lot less power training. I think the rise of cookie cutter short OF ballparks and the change in training toward pure power lifting for HR hitting just eliminated throwing as skill for most OFs for a long period.  I think today with much more sophisticated training, we again see more guys who train for HR strength but maintain the elasticity needed to keep their throwing  arms. And my very casual impression is that there has almost been a renaissance in the number of guys out there today who do throw well from the OF. The Tigers just don't have any of them - beyond maybe Kerry or when we put a regular SS/3B out there, and even then its not quite the same kind of throw.

1 hour ago, TJ Rollercoaster said:

Is the US ready for Attorney General Kid Rock?

😱

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Companies can't risk the hit to productivity in the meantime by freaking out the people they're going to fire and replace with AI, so they are bull****ting their employees into believing their jobs are secure because they will be so much better and more productive at it with AI. This way, companies can get 100% from their employees right up to the minute they push them off the cliff.

same as it ever was

2 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

S&P futures tank and oil skyrockets even before the orange pedo turd's rambling speech was over

this guy thinks regime changed happened because Ayatollah Khamenei was replaced by his son, Ayatollah Khamenei

Oddly enough, I think the bad reaction in the oil and stock markets is going to bedevil him more than anything else, at least if the reaction carries through when it opens in the morning. He's been able to talk the market back up several times via social media since this started, but to have his formal statements fall flat with 'his people' (i.e. investors) is going to hit him where his pride lives.

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

11-4 without Cade this year.  The 15 opponents they played have a winning% of 44.2%.  So a back of the draft lottery level opponent.  

didn’t the Spurs go from 1st to worst when they lost Robinson? I think that was a default assumption of what might happen when Cade went down. 

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

So much of the Pistons offense is triggered by their defense.  Much of that is triggered by Ausar.

I think they are showing that the Pistons are more than Cade and the 11 Dwarves. Ausar, Duren and Tobias aren't half bad,  and Daniss manages to hold his own.

24 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Tiger announced he is stepping away from golf for awhile. So he will miss the Masters. Not that it matters.

'Limping away' would be more accurate.

30 minutes ago, holygoat said:

Tiger hitters have only hit one HR in four games so far. The lineup stinks, and the bullpen is probably pretty bad, too.

Agree the bats have been underwhelming, yet they put up 11 runs in the last two games. But we've already had 4 different pitchers on the staff suffer melt downs, and some sloppy D. The sloppy D will probably continue because it is at least in part the downside of moving guys all around the diamond every day. There is no free lunch. Every strategy that has an upside has some downside.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Did i see that Oracle is firing 30k workers?

I have no idea what the kind of income AI is going to generate in the end, but I can pretty much guarantee you that half of the companies extending themselves with these massive capital build outs are going to end up in the toilet, unable to get a slice of the market from whichever turn out to be the most successful players. It's the chip makers like Nvidia that are still in the catbird seat, they are going to book the sales whether the data center the HW goes in makes any money or not. In fact sentiment seems to be growing that the downturn since the war has left NVidia oversold.

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

This story is really...the Gerald Ford had a massive fire that it couldn't put out because damage control has gone to **** in the Trump/Kegbreath Navy.  Trump was bragging to the Saudi Sovereign Wealth fund that the carrier had been hit by something even though that story is not official.  

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h15wjjtowg

So, lets hope the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS H.W.Bush can manage their responsibilities and stay safe.  

they have to send the Ford home, they've gone beyond any reasonable abuse of that crew.

interesting that Jensen Huang is talking up a new generation of AI  and agents running on the local machine instead of in the cloud. This should have lot of appeal for both for orgs that don't want to risk their commercial data outside their own control, and also for individuals who want build that their own customized agents based on their life profiles without risking the privacy invasion of their data being on the cloud. The ebb and flow of computing function to and from the center to local and back again continues.

6 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Trump is bored of this show.  He wants to flip to a new channel.  

it's what he does, break stuff then leave it for someone else to clean up.

8 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

well it's nice to hear him make a backhanded concession to reality for once.

Iranian rope-a-dope 1, US technoblitzkrieg 0

If you want the terms of deal in a nutshell, my money is on this: Iran opens the strait with surcharges to recoup damages when the US agrees to sit on Israel to stop their operations.

On 3/28/2026 at 12:34 PM, oblong said:

Interesting. I will play with DVRing tonight on xfinity 

I can report that the 3rd game of the SD series showed up as watchable on the DTV 'fake' DVR service - so I assume the embargo on the 1st two games was just not having all their ducks in a row yet.

15 minutes ago, buddha said:

"Acquired at the trade deadline from Detroit in the Kevin Huerter deal, there were some immediate red flags around Ivey when he held an impromptu postgame sermon in February about the “Old Jaden Ivey” being dead, especially now that “Christ was in his life.”

 

Over the last few weeks, he started taking to his social media account and preaching to people his beliefs, while condemning those that he felt weren’t “saved.” Monday was more than enough in being the final straw, as there was an ongoing opinion that Ivey’s behavior was somehow spiraling....

...There was noise out of Detroit that Ivey was not only very religious but a bit of a “preacher” in the locker room, so why was there not enough homework done on him by Karnisovas before the deal?"

***

Apparently its been an issue for a while.

The species hasn't evolved to be able to deal with the tech culture it has built..  Young people going head over heels for this or that idea/movement/vocation/avocation has always been pretty common, but in the past also usually pretty benign. 'Just a phase' you move past and maybe your best friend remembers and can tease you about it 20yrs later.

Well, no more of that kind of leeway.

8 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Agree. Our arms will be very average but we should catch everything. 

Carpenter throws pretty well, probably the best of the bunch with Perez in Toledo. Vierlings arm may still be good  but we'll have to see.

OTOH, calling Riley's arm average is a stretch. He's firmly in the noodle category.

25 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't think Trump ever distinguishes between right and wrong.  What is right to him is whatever helps himself personally.  Sometimes those things might also be good for some of us, but what's good for us is not how he sees right or wrong.   

well, practically speaking it's only a semantic quibble, but I think Trump actually has a very finely developed personal sense of right and wrong, which when seen from the outside basically goes: I'm right, and what I want is right, and if you don't agree, you are wrong. Of course he doesn't see it that way, to him it's just because the world is a rational place that all choices that happen to be right also redound to his benefit.

My impression is that Trump sees the world in very black and white moral terms, it's just that his is a depraved narcissistic morality. That would be opposed to seeing him as Nietzschean sort of character who sees himself as transcending right/wrong as concepts. Opinions will vary, but that is my take if I'm going to do a little amateur pysch.

the bottom line is a trade only helps if your GM actually makes you better in the trade. That means that if he gets back picks, he has to be able to hit on those picks, if gets back players, he has to somehow get more valuable players back than he sends out. Right now how much confidence do we have that Yzerman would be that GM in either circumstance? 

There is just no free lunch, there is only one route to your team improving, and that is for your management team to outperform other management teams in scouting, drafting, trading, development. Absent that, all the moves for the sake of moves are just deck chairs on the Titanic - or waiting around for lightning to strike your lottery luck.

1 hour ago, LaceyLou said:

His status as an 'outsider' was also too extreme. Many Democratic leaders found him to be unlikable, so they chose not to work with him. Many of these so called liberals ended up cozying up to Reagan.

I always thought it was his handling of the hostage crisis that put the final nail in his presidency's coffin, though.

that was the nail, but I doubt he could have survived the inflation rate even without it. He was an outsider partly because he was cocky and he and his team thought they knew better. Even when that may be true  you can't act like it! Later in his life he freely admitted that at that point in his life he wasn't prepared for the job. The contrast to Reagan was so striking. Carter was a very bright guy, but he and he team were not self aware of their weaknesses, Reagan was never the sharpest tool in drawer but he surrounded himself with a large number of the most competent people  that have served in a admin in my lifetime: Schultz, Baker, Simon, Volker, Regan et al. (of course there were a few ringers like Meese!)

3 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Putting this here too. Lions don’t need a LT. They can draft someone who projects to be a RT and I think they should move Sewell to the left side. 

 

Holmes had talked about that being an obvious option in the interview. 

2 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

Let's not forget that he turned the thermostats in the WH down to 68 degrees and wore sweaters to keep warm. 

I seem to remember a Playboy interview that was pretty controversial at the time, too. 

Unfortunately Carter's economic illiteracy eventually overshadowed his other virtues. 

18 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

The spread between WTI and Brent is $23 right now.  

Brent is volatile this morning (there's a bad chemistry pun...). Gap has fallen back closer to $8 right now.