gehringer_2

29 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Starting staff is a total mess. Put Flaherty in the pen and stretch out Holton? 

TBF, 2 ER is not a disaster of a start, but the 3rd and 4th were the Jack we don't want to see.

wow. when the last time the Saudis were the good guys?

Of course they may have blocked Trump more out of pique than principle, but I'll take it either way.

Starting staff is a total mess. Put Flaherty in the pen and stretch out Holton? 

well, maybe the pistons can play deep into June and by then the Tigers will be watchable again. 

another out on the bases.

so tonight's contribution about broadcast timing. For the 1st time in a long time I'm listening to the game on the WTKA OTA broadcast. I have gameday open, and gameday is just about 7 second *ahead* of the OTA radio at the end of the last inning, but almost 17 ahead on the 1st pitch of the next inning, but again by the end of the inning the difference was back down to ~8sec.  These are fairly rough approximations since gameday is not completely consistent, but on average it appears that they are overextended the inning break on the radio by 10sec. Doesn't seem to be consistent from inning to inning though.

45 minutes ago, chasfh said:

It means whatever you meant it to mean.

Andy Dufresne-Boyd Redding dichotomy.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

He may miss the next start, and it's anyone's guess how he feels about that, but if he could get his suspension reduced from six days to three, it would save him about half a million dollars, so it's worth the effort just for that.

true. Do you suppose player agent/lawyers take 30% of the net for the representation in a successful suspension reduction? 

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

given that the nature of the charges likely transcends statute of limitations laws, it's going to be a long time before all the people who are in range of the long arm of the law die and escape true accountability for good.

This is true, but I think whether as a matter of justice, the hammer finally lands on some of these guys is a separate issue to whether it continues, increases or decreases its importance as a political liability for Trump and/or his political enablers. From that perspective I'm not even in the loop. We were just hosting a friend with conservative siblings and she was telling us that even now, her brother, to whom she will not talk about politics, quite literally doesn't understand what she doesn't like about Trump. I mean, even if you support him, how can you not even understand  the sources of other people's doubts/opposition to him? That seems inconceivable to me, but I met her brother years ago, he's just an ordinary Indiana guy. So at this point I try to remind myself not to bother weighing what I think MAGA may do against my own sensibilities.

17 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Framber suspended 6 games.

Hard to see any point in appealing. If he doesn't appeal and starts serving now, he has a start moved back a couple days. If he appeals, maybe he get's it cut to 3 but they'll have the ruling come down so it still falls into his next start schedule and it will have to be moved back.

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

I still think this scene where Rami Malek goes off captures my mood a lot of the time

Incidentally, listening to Thomas Rick's Churcill and Orwell (or is it the other way around) audio book and he was going over the Luftwaffe's total lack of strategic vision for the Battle of Britain and it because clear to me that having a substance abuser who was a loyal party man in charge of a battle was a bad idea. 

I get the compromise, but I still don't like when screenwriters put 21st century dialog in he mouths of mid 20th century real people. It's good dialog but it's not terminology either of those men would have used.

50 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Let's see what Netanyahu tries to do to torpedo it.

10 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

Winning over voters from another party is a home run, but disenfranchising them from their own party still puts runs on the board if you get enough of them.

Up until Iran, I had felt that the combination of Democratic turnout energy and GOP voter disillusionment (as in "i'm not voting for anyone")  would be the bigger factor in this cycle that the number of voters that actually change sides. e.g. MB just linked a tweet from the Ohio primary claiming that participation on the GOP side of the primary was down.

But depending on how Iran ends and how long it takes for gas prices to come down, I think the calculus on how many people do actively switch sides can change.

14 minutes ago, DTroppens said:

Again, I don't know if they are going to win this series and advance. We'll find out in due time

for me that's the difference for this team as opposed to Isiah's or Chauncey's, I thought those teams should win the championship, whereas I think we all have a good deal of doubt that this team, despite the regular season record, is at the same level as OKC or SAS, which does make it a little more fun in a way.

A good new story about ex-Piston Vinnie Johnson. He gets a news bit on Yahoo Finance for his automotive parts business building out new production capacity on the old Palace site.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/former-detroit-pistons-vinnie-johnson-150432087.html

57 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I think the Epstein thing is far worse for Trump than people believe, and that's even after people have already baked in the idea that he is a serial sexual abuser of minors.

Do you think it's out of gas at this point though? What I mean is that they've survived the pressure to release anything more to this point, and I don't see where there is any leverage left to get past the current stonewall. So you have the possibility that like everything else with Trump, it will just recede into the rear view mirror. Fox will latch on to some story about a trans high school athlete and the RW outrage machine will back page Epstein. I have the same question about IRAN. It's done more to dent Trump's popularity than anything, but will the voters remember 30 days after if gasoline prices start back down?

3 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

but McKinstry hits lefties slightly better than righties   L/R  BA .238/.229    OBP  .307/.296   OPS  .678/.676

And I agree about Colt Keith.  He's your second-hottest hitter this year, let him play.   Colt is .250 BA vs. Lefties.  Not that bad. 

 

yeah - I don't know what Keith has to do to get a shot to play everyday - hit a few HR I guess. Hinch does love the long ball  - not without good reason. He's had a total of 7 AB against LHP this season, 1K 1H.

28 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Hopefully.

Whether Hope is Good Thing or a Dangerous Thing is the question.

20 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

In Indiana, Trump challengers in GOP in state house primary appear to be winning 5 of 6. Hopefully that will mean losses in the general.

9 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

This admin is wearing out the old cliche that it would be comic if it weren't so tragic.

in retrospect it was pretty silly to deal for a player for 3AB.

49 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Already at $7.09 for premium here in Big Shoulders.

No good info on how much of the refinery Whiting has back up and running and they still have the employees locked out so management/engineering staff is doing operations. That might mean no maintenance is being done because even if the engineers know how to operate the plant, they don't have the skills to fix stuff that breaks, not to mention no engineering work is getting done. They are probably also double shifted so the question is how long they go before they start making mistakes. OTOH, they might already have a non-union maintenance staff. Not uncommon for operators to have gotten operations and maintenance split into union/non-union.

37 minutes ago, casimir said:

Or maybe Flaherty starts pitching rather than throwing?

You look at Flaherty's pitch charts and not much jumps out, velo and break on his pitches are all similar to last season, but the pitch value of his FB is way down. The only thing I noticed is that he is throwing the curve less, probably because he's landing it for strikes less, which I suppose reduces the amount of change of speed that batters are seeing. It is the only pitch he throws that gets him to a 10mph delta from his FB. Without good change of speed life is gonna be harder.

8 hours ago, TigerNation said:

but nobody was projecting he'd hit for the power he has because he's 5'8.

speaking of 5' 8", McGonigle's load up is pretty similar (mirror image of course) to Altuve's. He doesn't pick up his front foot quite to the same extreme but overall the step is pretty similar, maybe even a bit longer.

12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Yes, every case is different and it's impossible for us to make a timeline.  I am just always pessimistic about pitching injuries.  If something can go wrong, it will.  

If they manage to hang on and get to the playoffs this season after these pitching losses it should go down as one of the most unlikely seasons ever. The starting staff that won 87 games last season has now had injuries to Jobe, Skubal, Mize, Olson and a potential starter in Melton while adding Valdez and Verlander, with the latter being a non-factor. To that add that Flaherty has been bad. Valdez was a great add but it's still +1 against -5, which isn't good math.