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Kerry just hit it out opposite field on a half checked swing. That's why he's hard to get out of the lineup.

this game starting out a little sloppy. As long as the Cards are sloppier...

weird inning for Jack. He would have been in even worse trouble if Walker had had the confidence to challenge the 2nd strike call. It was absolutely a miss.

On 4/3/2026 at 10:22 AM, Jason_R said:

I stumbled across this site which shows ice time for various line combinations: https://frozenpool.dobbersports.com/

Just for grins I looked up Marco Kasper. People talk about a sophomore slump but last year he spent almost half his even strength ice time with Larkin/Raymond or Kane/Debrincat. This season he spent less than a quarter of his even strength ice time with them. This is not so much a sophomore slump as it is the obvious consequence of pairing a kid with linemates who are replacement level or worse. 

It goes both ways though. I remember when playing with Pavel Datsyuk earned Abdelkater a contract that we found out was a mistake once Pavel went back to Russia. If he's not good enough to be at least somewhat productive without a lot of help  then he's probably not a building block.

58 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Not only that, but if you play each position enough, your brain can map out the difference between needing a certain-sized glove at one position versus a different-size glove at another, even if the difference is a fraction of an inch, basically because of the thousands and thousands of balls you have fielded at each.

easy to assume, more difficult to prove. I'd be interested to see some controlled work that shows how well the brain actually does avoid crossing itself up. You certainly do see the issue in industrial safety incidents where context has changed.

I think the more technical term for what happened to Philips is 'a bender.'

2 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

Tol wins 7-1; Max 2/3, SF, BB, no Ks; keeps rolling on

Hitting side good, Madden throwing 30 pitches and not getting out of the 1st not so good.

47 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Not sure—but the idea of an outdoor Minnesota baseball stadium has always struck me as dumb.

Summer evenings in the Twin Cities are pretty nice. Sure you are at risk at the beginning and end of the season but the rest of the summer outside is a pretty nice payoff. They could have tried for retractable but they didn't have the room at that site, the $$ probably weren't available, and the easiest retractable designs are open air so they don't keep in heat which is probably a bigger issue than precipitation.

Not a terrible send with 2 out, but OTOH, the Tigers have been hitting the ball hard.

1 minute ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

trump only likes pilots who don't get shot down.

8 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

F15 was shot down.

5 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

McGonigle 3B

Torres DH

Carpenter RF

Greene, R LF

Dingler C

McKinstry 2B

Torkelson 1B

Meadows, P CF

Báez, J SS

Classic L/R alternation.

20 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

Yes, but one of the challenges for a young defenseman is learning how to assert yourself offensively while remaining responsible defensively. It is exciting to see him flash that skill though. 

It's not only the Dmen learning when to do it. It's also the whether team supports it. I think one of the great failings of the Wings as team is that their two big D men are two of the best puck possession talents on the team, but the lack of ability of the wing's forwards as a group to rotate and back check in any useful way means the Wings can never let those two play to their full potential. McLellan has them playing a little freer, but not all that much. Of course you generally need speed and size in your forwards for them to be good 200 ft players (even if DeBrincat is the exception) .....

11 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

He’s leading off too

'bout time Hinch stopped trying to outsmart himself.

21 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Yes, you definitely need a shorter glove at short and second to ease the ball transfer during plays, especially double plays. Sure, you need to do something similar at third but not as often because SS and 2B gets way more chances to transfer than 3B, and the extra inch is more important for a more stationary position like 3B. In the middle of the dirt guys rely on their range more than their reach or their reflexes.

I don't argue the idea that there is an optimum glove for each position, what I'm speculating about is how well the brain  copes with using two different gloves that are relatively close to each other from day to day. Seems like you are working against your brain's ability to key into 'knowing' the glove as an extension of your hand. If you are going from an IF to and OF glove, that's a big difference, less chance of mental 'template' confusion I would think. But I wonder about the ability to mentally resolve a relatively small difference as successfully under pressure. The idea being that if you are charging to scoop a slow roller and your brain has got the wrong finger length dialed in -> probability increase for booted ball?

2 hours ago, oblong said:

What I mean by a legal document is the law can’t come after you.  Poor choice of words. It’s not a criminal act to “break” one. Nobody will arrest you.  If you sign one and I thjnk you break it by only course of action is to sue. I can’t call the cops or city hall. 

Right - a corporate NDA can only lead at most to a civil suit. If you are dealing with classified information you are subject to criminal sanctions under various Federal Statutes. FTM even if you never signed anything!

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

I've been around softball more than baseball, but what the heck is a 3B glove and how is it different from any infielder mitt besides 1B?  

I realize the infielders like a mitt that's shorter than the OFs who love the giant jai alai gloves.  I personally play with a 13" mitt befitting my status as a perma DH who should only play outfield on an experimental or shock-art basis. 

 

I imagine you might play 3rd with a slightly larger glove than SS but I have to wonder if switching gloves for that small a difference is even a good idea if you are playing both position a lot. The human brain is really good at learning things like how long the fingers of a glove are if you give it a lot of reps. You are giving something up to not take advantage of that spatial learning. Is that more or less advantage than the other glove can give you? I'd like to believe teams/players really know the correct answer to that, but baseball has been based on so much incorrect lore/conventional wisdom in the past for so long it's enough to give you doubts. 

53 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Since leaving the Wings after the 2021 season, Luke Glendenning has played 33 playoff games for two different teams over four post-seasons. Now with the Flyers and contending with the Wings for another playoff spot. 

What's worse, they have yet to a single player to the roster who is as good a forechecker as Luke was. Again, where is the overall concept behind what players they add vs let go?

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.