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8 minutes ago, chasfh said:

That’s totally fine. I absolutely get your desire to keep your feed free of the nonsense. Makes total sense. I would assume that folks who avoid political social media might lack a keen sense of the scale of left wing social media influence versus that from the right wing, and assume that the existence of both means they are equivalent. They are not.

The social media debates are all just sub-text to the more important question though, which is do the people asking for, vying for your support see any intrinsic value in truth over falsehood? The answer in many cases on both side is, sadly, no. However the big difference is that today, there is NO ONE on the right side in office or running for office who can possible have any remaining regard for truth, it's a logical impossibility to reconcile even a shred of regard for the intrinsic value of truth and still be within a 1000 miles of the today's national GOP. It's just not reconcilable - whether we are talking political truth, scientific truth, journalistic truth, any kind of truth. There are plenty of liars on the Democratic side, but there is still some basic nod to truth in the Democratic party, and that difference is all the difference in the world right now.

Ha - I heard Jansen talking this morning about an OT that was in play for the Lions and he said after watching him that even though he was big, he didn't believe he would ever be able to keep his pad level low enough to be successful in the NFL -- and gave some detail as to why, but of course I never heard who he was talking about before I got to where I was going!

42 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Hat trick for Larkin. 5 points for Seider. Wings lead 6-2. But Ottawa won so too little too late. 

the story writes itself.

12 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Here's that video;

 

he won't get that kind of suspension when it was Soler that charged him.

EDIt: He got seven and it was reduced to 5. Which for  a pitcher might not even be one start.

And TBH, the way Soler hangs over the plate, the pitch that hit him in the hands wasn't even that far inside.

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Newsweek and Daily Mail do seem to be peas in a pod these days. Remember when the former was up there with Time and U.S. News & World Report?

when they were part of the Washington Post they were doing better work than either of those two, but that didn't sell enough magazines. The US is no place to get rich doing quality journalism.

11 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I wasn’t watching the game when the collision between Parker and Riley occurred. Wow Parker’s in the hospital overnight? 

well, he was bleeding from the mouth, couldn't move his left arm, and appeared to be concussed - any one of those could rate a night of observation I suppose. He was not in a good way when he finally got up.

12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Why is everybody blaming the offense?  They are not hitting home runs, but they are 8th in MLB in OBP and 10th in wRC+

The home runs will come when the weather warms up.

The real culprit is run prevention:

They are 20th in xFIP

21st in fielding

This team is built on run prevention.  That is where they need to excel.  It's been terrible so far.  

Yes run prevention is the bigger issue, but while the offensive numbers are true in aggregate it's largely because of 2 lopsided wins,  also true they've scored 3 or less in 6 of 13 games.

19 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

When it comes to hitting, it feels like the Tigers strategy is to assume those who underachieved last season will be better next season and those who overachieved will continue to do so.  

i've said before that at some level there seems to be disconnect between Hinch and whole 'control the zone' concept. Hinch constantly re-iterates that he is always telling his hitters to "get a good pitch to hit". Well what if you don't? A major league pitcher can easily throw you 3 pitches in the zone and none of them are going to be 'good to hit'. So you just give up any AB when you don't get a cookie? How is that controlling the zone? You can win a lot of games waiting for mistakes when you are facing bad pitchers, but what about when you aren't?  If you make it 'defend the K zone until the pitcher makes a mistake' that means you have to have a real defensive two strike approach with a short stroke to keep fouling pitches off. Do we see a lot of Tigers with that? Riley does say he's trying it.

13 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Riley will be fine, but could be a deadline deal if we turn into sellers

the problem with Riley is that he seems to go overboard with everything. He was hitting too many ground balls in the 1st couple of years to he revised his approach - to the 2nd the most extreme upper cut in all of baseball. Last yr he struck out too much, so far this year his K rate is down a lot, his walk rate is up, but he's not getting any hits either.

23 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

https://prashanthiyer.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-detroit

Worth a read. One passage stood out to me: “At the team-level, this is a team that simply could not disrupt the opposition’s cycle, allowing a league-high 560 cycle chances against at 5v5 this year. They allowed the 7th most 5v5 high-danger chances against while generating the 3rd fewest.” 

I've beaten this point like a drum. They cannot pressure the puck in their own end. They lack the quickness to challenge and the strength to get a take away if they do get there. That is a skillset, and it's basically the same skillset needed to forecheck effectively, and Wings simply do not pay any attention to it in their roster construction for forwards and have not going back to before SY took over. 

There was always the chance that the real Tiger team was the team we saw in the September and the team we saw in the 1st half was the one not playing to its mean level. Keith seems to be the only guy that has started the season hot and he doesn't hit for the kind of power that can help carry a team past other guys' underperformance.

26 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

He's going to the concussion IL for sure.

He was holding his Left arm in completely immobile also. 

5 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

It’s truly amazing they employ 3 guys as hitting coaches yet they miss so many middle, middle mistake fastballs.  It happened all last year too.   

Or just take them. I find it an odd combination. As a team, they K a lot, but they are fundamentally not aggressive hitters, it seems more because they get behind. Tork esp takes a lot of good strike ones. 

Holton wanted no part of Buxton there.

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Fun fact: Tigers are a top ten offense in terms of wRC+ and wOBA, and top half in runs scored, right about where they were last year.

Their pitching, however, is 22nd in strikeouts, 23rd in walks yielded, 18th in FIP, 22nd in ERA.

yeah - it always looks bad when a team doesn't score, but sometimes you are going to face good pitching in the majors. Run prevention has been the bigger problem, both pitching and some of their defense.

2 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Look Greenland! 

aRtiC SqUiRrEL!

12 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Say whatever you want when comparing Jason and whoever compared to Rod and Mario but it's a fact that when Rod and Mario were doing the games, you didn't have to watch to know what was going on. Many times, I'm doing something around the house and I have no idea what's happening without stopping and looking at the screen. With these guys in the booth now, the game comes second to whatever nonsense they're babbling about. A pitcher is pitching the ball and the announcers are busy talking to Danilla about some greasy hamburger she's stuff her face with. Who cares?? Fans are not watching the game to giggle like a 3 year old, it's serious business with a game going on. Go national, Jason. Bring DD into the TV booth and actually talk about the game that's going on.

<rant over>

this is too true, but I don't know that the decision on how much time is spent away from the PBP  is Benetti's call,

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

warning-track power

Too many 100mph EV outs in this series.

2 hours ago, Jason_R said:

Faulk was back the other night, and scored a majestic goal splitting the defenders and finishing a breakaway. Edvinsson had a brilliant move to set up a goal last week. ASP can drive offensive play. Seider is offensively skilled. Even Johansson has flashed some offensive flair. If you don’t have the forwards to drive offense at 5v5, you need to allow your defense to drive offense, and you need a system that has your defensively responsible but offensively limited forwards to cover for them. 

i’ve thought they needed to let the skilled Dmen do more also, but if the forwards can’t or won’t rotate back that can’t work either. 

13 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

I think they need a change of philosophy.  

They need to get back to a dump-chase-cycle system.  They are too reliant on trying to use speed and skill to get in the zone.   It can also reward effort and it’s easier to acquire effort players to fill you bottom 6 than it does skilled guys that can bring it in the zone themselves. 

Along the same lines, they also need to develop some type of checking line that is tough for another teams top lines.  The kind of guys that make them think twice when going in the corner for the puck.  They also need better presence in front of the net.   They need more size and toughness and a little less skill.

 

beyond 3 players they don't have the skill or the speed the play the skill game either.

58 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I think we are at the two-alarm fire stage.

Team is just one run below average run production and a bit above average in Ks. On the other side the pitching has been slightly below league average in almost all categories, including  K's.

But their numbers are not as bad as their results. Pythag puts them at 500.

45 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Trump’s schtick depends on acolytes with memories like goldfish and who get their information only from him. Unfortunately there are many millions of those, and they have votes.

I'm of the view that people get conditioned to "retconning" in all the video entertainment they consume, and the normalization of inconsistency  in the video worlds they consume becomes operant conditioning to the way they process reality. 

Not to mention consuming too much passive video entertainment appears to correlate with brain rot in general.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/mentally-active-vs-passive-sitting-may-lower-dementia-risk-2026a1000a2w?_gl=1*d9w8ox*_gcl_au*NTU1MzMyNDcuMTc3NTczOTYxOS40NTY5MzUxMDYuMTc3NTczOTczMi4xNzc1NzM5NzMy

21 minutes ago, romad1 said:

with electronics, often the best answer is just restart the gizmo.  Which seems like a dumb tech support type answer but yeah, often the reset is the answer.  

I had a Subaru that did a similar thing maybe twice in 10 yrs  - all the electronics crashed. Just had to restart the car. Of course today, if your car is sitting at your house connected to your wifi, or if it has its own cellular modem, it might be updating SW and either introducing new bugs or squashing old ones on any given day and you might never know. 

25 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Actually...

She looks like to me that she is channeling Jim Carrey in The Mask.

Melania Mask?

Madame Mask?

 

 

 

LOL - I could place what it reminded me of, but you nailed it!

We can be frustrated with the hitting in general but the pitching lost this one.