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6 hrs. Tick..tick...tick.

46 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Perez and Vierling can play CF, but you don't want them playing there regularly.  I think Hinch will be playing his usual musical chairs

Perez's can make good plays, but the consistency of his concentration level as a fielder has left something to be desired. Vierling has not graded particularly well as a CF. If neither Javy or Meadows can hit enough to stay in the lineup the team is going to suffer it.

Does give them another RH shot. Don't how much one can expect from a 37yr old journeyman though

17 1/2 hours of hope left, dwindling fast.

9 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I am not optimistic that either will hit.  Baez went two straight years where he was garbage.  One year he was injured, the other year I assume not.  They can both be useful with their gloves, but their at bats should be limited.  It's not ideal for both to be in the line-up at the same time.  

I think one of them is going to get a lot PA though because I don't really see a reasonable CF choice for that ballpark beyond those two unless Clark shows up early in the season.

BTW - what are we calling it now that Comerica is in the corporate dustbin? Are they really going with the completely non-sensical '5th/3rd' moniker? There won't be an out of town announcer that recites that with a straight face.

54 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

back in the day there was a word for that that has pretty much disappeared : Stalking Horse.

36 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Over the past three years, Meadows has a .694 OPS.  Baez .606.  Chances are neither will hit, but I'll take my chances with Meadows over Baez.  A platoon makes sense though.  I expect McGonigle to be the starting shortstop.  

Or you can look at the most recent indicator - last season when Baez was 60 pts better. It comes down to including the year Baez was injured vs including the year Parker was injured so it can be sliced and diced anyway as desired.

Why I am less optimistic about Parker is that he came back and had no discernible upward trend as he moved away from the injury (one 5 hit series against the Yankees in Sept was about it) and he has followed that up with an ice cold spring that he can't afford to be having.

going to be interesting to see if the S&P closes below ~6800 tomorrow. Trend says yes, but that's been a support point for all of the dips in '26 so far.

5 hours ago, Screwball said:

Crude is at $79 and change as I type this. Was as high as $79.97. Dow down 780ish, S&P down 48, and the NASDAQ only -77

Here are two very long and sobering reads on the Iran/oil situation.

Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis of a Zero-Flow Strait of Hormuz Closure

The Invisible Siege: How Insurance Markets, Not Missiles, Closed the Strait of Hormuz

"The myth that digital civilization floats above heavy industry is, in this scenario, extinguished. Compute is shown to rest on copper, transformers, stable voltage, LNG, and ships"

Best quote in the piece. Civilization is not linear, it's cumulative. The things that were before don't go away, they continue to underpin what is now.

1 hour ago, Shelton said:

I think any solution that includes Javy as a regular is a bad one. It feels to me like a Parker and Javy platoon or time share in CF is a reasonable outcome. 
 

And Jones is a lock for platoon DH. I think Vierling is also a lock especially given Hinch’s comments and Matt’s veteran status.
 

Is Wenceel still passable in CF? If you can share CF among Wenceel, Javy, and Vierling, I could see Parker going to Toledo. But ultimately I think they defer to Meadows and his defense, and we are looking at Wenceel as Toledo bound and the first guy up when there is an injury. 

I think Perez is sort of erratic as an OF, but maybe the Tigers don't agree. Javy could certainly hit (or fail to hit) himself out of regular playing time, and a platoon is always possible, but my original post was premised on Meadows showing so little stick the decision to send him down is unambiguous.

27 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Nice

35K registered voters in the county, so basically nobody cared about this election - or Dems didn't care marginally less than Repubs.

6 minutes ago, The Ronz said:

Your monitor functions as a two-way mirror.

It has been this way since April 30, 1993.

 

 

Thinkpads have a shutters on their cameras, desktops don't have cameras built in. Tape is handy otherwise.

7 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

He's had about 2 good months in August and September 2024.   He's been invisible other than that.   The last spot for the OF should not be between Vierlng and Jones, it should be between Meadows & Jones.   

Parker is screwed anyway because when McGonigle makes the team, Javy goes to CF.

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

Atlanta has long profiled as more progressive than Houston.

Houston was a company town for all of its early years. The oil biz still has a big presence there, and that's a lot of professional, engineering and scientific types who should be the ones telling their neighbors the truth who have made the deal to self-censor  (or self-delude) themselves for their paychecks.

30 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Great upgrade.

be hard for it not to be.

3 hours ago, oblong said:

Trump is a NY guy and he likes winners.  That's it.  There's no principals to it. 

right. NYC will always be the center of the world to him and he will always crave approval there.

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Why did they call up Cossa? 

 

8 hours ago, pfife said:

Hearing momtana senator that is not running for re-election and his buddy rigged it so that his buddy could run w/o a primary challenge

No primary?   HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

the guy who just stepped down as University Pres at U Montana also filed as an independent - apparently with Jon Tester's backing. 

Left Oblique strain for Hao Yu Lee. See Yu Mai  - maybe.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Not exactly true. Atlanta has long been considered a much more progressive city than Dallas, Houston, or any other Texas city except Austin.

Houston and Atlanta are also both minority majority cities, but in Houston the largest group are Hispanics, In Atlanta Af-Am. 

1 hour ago, slothfacekilla said:

If I was Patrick Kane I'd threaten to retire if they played me another shift with Rasmussen

I saw Ras make exactly one useful play in his ice time tonight. I also saw guys repeatedly skating around him as he waved at them going by on rushes.

I'd love to hear McLellan or Yzerman tell us what it is he's doing that we apparently aren't seeing that forms the reason he's getting regular ice time. He has maybe one game every two weeks where he actually looks like an NHL player.

7 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

if true, tactical foolishness for Iranians to waste a ballistic missile against one the least likely places for it to succeed. But when the enemy screws up, you take it.

I don't like Kane out there without Debrincat - he's seems to be a non-factor without his alter-ego.

weird game - the Wing had a long 5 on 5 cycle in the Vegas zone in the 2nd, and once that was over the game shifted to Vegas the whole rest of the way.

4 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

It will take more than regime change in Iran to change the basic animosity between the Shia and Sunni, Arabs and Persians. You need the religiosity on not only the Iranian side, but also the remaining Wahabi influence on the Sunni side to subside before you get anything that looks like a real peace.

12 minutes ago, Screwball said:

It's not only about what might, or could, get blown up, but what does it do to the supply chain.

This has all been war gamed and they all know the score. It all depends on how ugly it gets.

 

supply chains may determine the outcome on this one. Does Iran have more drones and missiles than the defenders have defense? If the Israeli's run out first it could be catastrophic for them.