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6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Watching my first Tigers game of the season, at the Orioles, on MLBN. They’re wearing those new blue alternates. They are ugly and cheap-looking. They look like the kind of uniform you get playing for a team in amateur men’s hardball.

when they played Atlanta you virtually couldn't tell the teams apart. I assume they won't do anything that dumb in the regular season but who can be sure anymore?

Talk about a play were it looked like there was nothing there. Face off was not a clean win, Raymond wasn't really open for the pass, then Lucas with a pass into empty space with his best guess to where Larkin could get and finally Larks having to execute with hardly a millisecond to spare before he was going to be in too far. 

Not too shabby.

2 hours ago, Dan Gilmore said:

The story I read about Myers emphasized that he has deep roots in BC, including the care for his special needs kid,

One the plus side, this is kind of thing the Ilitch org is generally really good at making right for guys. 

16 minutes ago, Screwball said:

People who makes parts for the big three are walking on towels on the floor soaked with hydraulic fluid leaking from the machines they have to run. That's nuts - but a sure sign of a company that is very poorly ran - and about to go broke - or sued into oblivion

Deferred maintenance because margins are too thin? One step from there to injuries and shutdowns. 

I don't know how many times I had the conversation with a suit. "You are telling me it's going to fail - will it be tomorrow?" If I couldn't given him a statistically derived proof that it was he didn't care, and when most of the specialized equipment in the plant are "One-of" being run in ways they were never run before, there is no such thing as those kinds of statistics. So they run till they don't, and for want a day or two to do maintenance, you lose the whole operation for who knows how long. The maintenance guys go to 12hr shifts and everyone else goes home.

....And the tech staff gets blamed anyway!

6 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

My cousin in Boston retired from the insurance industry in his 40s and went in with two friends on a boat and they do charter fishing trips (Mass in the Summer, Florida in the Winter).   One of the two other guys ALWAYS gets seasick when it gets dark........every single day and he's been around boats his whole life.  

Darkness is the thing because you can't see the horizon. When we spent time on the lake, you always wanted to see the horizon when the boat was pitching because if what your eyes see matches what your ears (otoliths) say you have half a chance. Same thing with reading in a car. Look out the window while driving, most people are fine. Give you kids a book or game for the back seat which has them looking down and they are tossing their cookies in no time. I'm usually pretty resistant to motion sickness at sea but I never try to read while riding in a moving car for more than a minute or two. Oddly, the SO can read in the car but doesn't do too well in boats.

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

a piece of toast with little bit of butter stopped my nausea/vertigo the other morning

This reminds me that when we spent time on lake superior on a boat, the soda crackers were always on hand to help with seasickness. Bland starches are the thing I guess. 

16 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

I hope they have a plan to get Cade some rest down the stretch.  Home court is very overrated.  If they can secure it naturally, cool.  But it's not worth fighting the Thunder/Spurs for it if it burns Cade out.  He plays heavy minutes and has a heavy workload during those minutes.  Plus, he doesn't use the defensive side of the ball to rest like a lot of other stars do.  

Great. They'll rest Cade and watch the league decide the Pistons are the team they are going to hammer for it to make an example...

17 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I mean, their CEO said in an earnings call that their rollback of DEI contributed to their losses. Many economists have noted that their reversal on DEI has contributed to their losses. 

But they haven't reversed the rollback? Seems if they really believed what they were saying that would be their fiduciary responsibility. Or management just isn't as lefty as their customers and they don't care. 🤷‍♀️

US corp management is a weird mish-mash. At half of US corps, you miss a quarterly guidance and you are turning in your key to the exec washroom, in the other half you control the board and all the proxies and you can run the org right into the ground without anyone on the inside saying 'boo'.

2 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Target's decline coincided with them grabbing their ankles in front of Trump and ending DEI. Target's customer base was left leaning. If Target is going to bend the knee to Trump and give the finger to their customers, why shop there when they are no different now than Walmart or Amazon?

It's also worth noting that Costco told Trump to **** off and they are doing better than ever. 

could be, but that's easier to assert than prove. Frankly, I think the number of people who decide where to shop based on politics is a pretty small number, but OTOH, margins in retail are small so maybe that's enough.

6 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

What's funny is Target's decline started when they ended DEI and liberals started boycotting Target so technically the forum Nazi is correct and liberals have caused the downfall of Target but not in the way he thinks. 

Target and Walmart overlap a lot and Walmart is doing really well, basically pulling folks from other retailers again. TBH, I don't know how much is politics and how much is that Walmart is doing a better job, esp in e-commerce.

21 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

What? You mean protesting in Targets stores and causing carnage all over the city wasn't a net positive for one of your largest employers? 

 

 

 

you know that Target moved people out this bldg to remote work during the pandemic right? And that Target world Hdqtrs is still in DT Minneapolis in a bldg about a block from this one?

This is the new Tiger 'rope-a-dope' strategy to fix their terrible April starts. Make sure none of the teams they play early in the season take them seriously.

they've got some work to do on their challenges. They lost 2 of 3 today, only Liranzo got one right.

6 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Yes, when I work on behalf of Ford and I fly somewhere I get a Ford Lightning to putz around in most of the time. They are nice but I would never buy one. I need V8 power to move my boats, toys etc.

A working truck is the worst application for current EV tech though (and I think a mistake by FoMoCo    to put so many eggs in that particular basket). The value is in commuter/short trip cars.

but no problem. You have one for around town with bumper sticker that says "my other car is a truck".

16 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

If you don't like how I participate, feel free to block me

This is a thread about Trump, and if you follow the rules - i.e. no personal attacks, I don't feel the need to shun anyone that shows up here to post about him. It's not like TH doesn't participate in the sports fora here, he does the game treads for the Pistons. I doubt a pure provocateur or  malicious bot would be doing that, though maybe I shouldn't........🤔

If he gets banned, then he's gone, otherwise, he's just telling you want he thinks, which is what everyone else is doing.

3 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I work in auto industry and no one is laying off just hiring. Unless you take into account EV but the big 3 look at that as sunk losses. 

Have you driven an EV yet? They really are very cool.

5 hours ago, chasfh said:

This is a core reason I don’t care to know anything about players as people. It’s not that I don’t like them as people—after all, I don’t know them as people IRL—but their personhood, which occurs exclusively outside my purview, is simply not germane to my preferred way to understand them.

When I follow a team, which is by necessity populated with players, I build a profile of those players in my mind, and that profile is about only their performance in games. In that sense, I care only about the player and what he does on the field, not the person and what he does off it.

This is why I don’t care a thing about who a player dates, or who his wife and kids are, or what his charities are, what he wears on the red carpet, what he does for fun away from the game, what his opinions are, any of that. I don’t want to know any of this because the more I know, the more a fleshed-out person he becomes, and then what he does or says something awful, I end up disappointed in them as people, and I don’t want that. Miggy and his two families is a good example of that. Why did I need to know that about him? How am I to factor that into my appreciation of him as a player? How can I not let it affect my view of him? How can I root for him without reservation anymore? I don’t want to have to think about that.

Let the players be people to the people who know them personally, away from the game. To me, and as it relates strictly to my enjoyment of being a fan, I would prefer them to be only players.

Bingo. This hits for me especially at the Olympics. For all the reasons you catalog, I find all the 'human interest' stories about the athletes a total waste of my time. I don't want to know what they went through to get there, I only want to watch them perform, so get to the coverage of the damn event!

47 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

So in other words inflation is under control. . 

and Trump had no part in it. Both can can be true and are.

This isn't that complex. When covid hit everyone thought the world was coming to an end and both the Federal gov and the Federal Reserve (but mostly the Federal Reserve) dumped a ton of dollars into the economy to tty to keep it afloat - and they overshot. That pig had to pass through the Python. By the time Trump was elected it was largely already through. Read some Milton Freedman. Inflation is at least 90% a monetary policy phenomenon. Presidents have very little to do with it. The national debt fuels it to some degree (and Trump has made that way worse) but that is still small potatoes to what the Fed reserve does. The real influence a Pres has is who he nominates for the Fed board. That's the funny part. Trump put Powell on the FR, then consistently hated what he did even though Powell has largely saved his ass.

and part of this is that we are in what John LeCarre would have called a 'silly season'. There used to be some level of separation between the office and then person or the politics. Like the line from Band of Brothers - "you salute the rank, not the man". 

But the problem is that is a two way street. When Presidents refrained from using the ceremonial aspects of the office for personal political ends, then they could expect people to respect the office irrespective of the occupant. But when the occupant doesn't respect the office or the institutions represented, then that level of respect from the public is likely to be withheld. But a lot of people are still sort of lost in transition - they may know full well Trump is jerk (even if they do vote GOP for tax purposes) but still think it's too rude to refuse the President - and of course a range of views on both sides around that. Trump is obviously a much more uniformly negative  figure for young independent women, so the difference in the response of the men's and women's team is not surprising.

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

I would think “can Tork prove once and for all he can hit” and “can Kenley make a real difference in the back of the pen” might be up there as well.

Certainement.

7 minutes ago, buddha said:

michigan state set up a separate legal entity to handle their sports contracts.  with specific rules that it does not have to answer to the public or foia requests.  how can a public institution do that?  

They probably can't. Sounds like fodder for an ACLU action, but they are somewhat otherwise engaged recently.....

If you want to start the suit I'll throw in $100 to a go-fund-me just to see it. 

4 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

So inflation is skyrocketing under Trump? 

Rule one: Correlation /= Causation.

Trump has been completely irrelevant to inflation. In fact by pushing the Fed to loosen money more than they were willing to, he was moving to make it worse if he could have, so he gets no credit for other people whose actions he opposed tooth and nail having done a good job despite him.

3 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

how long before schools start arranging for NIL be escrowed?

Just now, chasfh said:

Me, I’m glad I never turned it on in the first place.

I feel sorry for people who have to cover this guy for a living. It must be mentally, emotionally, and psychically exhausting.

that's what he counts on.

Check the dates on your own chart. He inherited an economy with a rapidly falling inflation rate. This would be like the Avila/Harris debate except in this case Avila really did already do the work.

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

If I had to pick a spot where the biggest offensive weakness is probably baked in, it’s CF. Every other position, there’s a fairly wide range of potential outcomes depending on how much progress certain guys at certain positions can make, and of course, whether McGonigle breaks camp at short. But Tork, Torres, Keith, Riley, Carpenter, and Dingler all have the potential to rake. Or to flop.

If I had to rank my 5 top question marks for this season, "will Meadows hit enough to be the regular CF" is probably #1; followed by "can Keith hold down 3rd with the glove" #2; then "which Flaherty do we get" #3; Can Riley be more productive" #4; and finally "What does JV have left in the tank" #5