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9 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

 Are they keeping Sweeney in the orgaization?

Yost and Ranier are still a ways from AAA so I'd think there is room and reason for them to want Sweeney there. I don't think they care about saving AB for Workman.

Kasper - 1 shot: Raymond - 1 shot: VanRiemsdyk - 0 shots: Copp - 0 shots.

Sider - 7 shots: Edvinsson - 3 shots

Notice anything wrong with this picture? 

You can't score if you aren't even shooting. If you aren't shooting you are either passing up chances or not skilled enough or skating enough to get to open ice. 

2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Overrated? Well buddies Greene and Tork are in that conversation,

'Overrated' depends on compared to what.

However, in '25, Tork and Riley were the two team leaders in OPS+, wOBA, and wRC+

Detroit fans alway love greener grass.

so watching inter-inning ad on the cartoon and the graphics is line being chalked -  makes me think of a question I have wondered about off and on over the years: If they rechalk the baselines 81 times a year, why aren't the baselines just completely all white by the end of the season? Do thy periodically vacuum up the top layer or does chalk fade by itself or do they use a special fading composition?                                                                                                                                    

35 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Second base opens next year and 1B/DH. Can always trade him. 

Out of the pool of 4 positions Colt can play - 1b,2b, 3b, DH, it's at least 50/50 one player at those positions will be down at any point in the season to an injury or slump. Or you just give 6 guys 500 AB instead of 5 guys 600 AB. Finding AB for one extra player isn't much of a struggle in 26 man roster.  Now if McKinstry were to hit so well again that they wanted to get him another 450 AB, then it can start getting a little crowded.

17 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

I think McGonigle is mostly SS and Keith mostly 3B.

I think it was just spring training "let's try him out here just in case"... which will only come into a play in the regular season if a problem or injury occurs.

IMO.

well see 84. I'm going to put my money the other way. I like what I've seen from McG at 3b a lot, and Javy can still pick it at SS.

31 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Knowing Hinch, there will be about 140 different lineups.

this, all the way.

49 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Where does McGonigle and Keith play?  I’d be surprised if they made a rookie bounce between SS and 3B. If he’s 3B, is Keith mostly a DH?

I think McG is going to his main time at 3b. He has played the position well, has a good arm. 

Against a tough RHP, Javy sits, McG goes to short, Keith to 3rd, or they sit Tork and Keith goes to 1st. Colt is pretty much the only other guy on the team now who plays 1st at all. Or they sit Tork and and Javy and go with Colt, , Gleyber, McK, McG, 

And everybody rotates through DH.

With Vierling healthy, when they sit Parker against LHP matt probably gets those PA and Javy stays at short.

1 hour ago, ewsieg said:

China and India

they have very vital interest though because East Asia is where the majority of Persian Gulf exports go. 

I'm a lot less confident the US could sanitize the entire gulf from Shaheeds. Iran has tens of thousands of sq miles of territory they can launch drones from that can range the gulf in minutes. It would be an exhausting task for a navy that is already seriously over extended. The Bush has already had its tour extended from the normal 6mo out to a year. They are at a point where both human and machine fatigue are at their breaking point - as evidenced by the ridiculous 30 hr laundry fire. Never would have happened if the ship had be been back for maintenance on schedule. 

And that doesn't even count that there are several hundred miles of coastline from which Iran can simply float mines out into the Gulf.  How are you going to control that without 5-6 figure commitment of boots on the ground? Who would then be sitting ducks for Iranian attack, trapped between the highlands and the sea. There is a reason that in 40 yrs no American government has been stupid enough to attack Iran outright. These strategic realities have always been known, but the Idiot and the Drunkard  just decided they knew better.

9 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Yes, I was saying that to a friend yesterday. The Wings picked Larkin #16 overall. The Wings picked Kasper #8, Danielson at #9, MBN at #15 and Bear at #13.  The success of the rebuild is dependent upon one of those four turning out as well as Larkin and another of four turning out as well as a Mantha/Bertuzzi/Nyquist. If instead they end up like Svechnivkov (#19), Cholowski (#20), Rasmussen (#9), Zadina (#6) then we are doomed. Given that Yzerman hit on 3 straight - Seider #6, Raymond #4, Edvinsson #6 - I am cautiously optimistic, but those all were higher picks. 

I think someone has to tell Kasper he is better than he thinks he is. Guy seems to have a lot of tools but aside from being a strong checker he's playing to much of a "don't make mistakes game"  instead of a 'lets win the game' game. I guess you might say the same about Ras, but Kasper is already stronger on his skates and plays a more physical game than Ras ever has. In fact maybe they need to tell Marco "we don't need you to lead the team in hits, make more plays."

4 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Plus its so noisy and it hurts petroleum oligarchs and they need the money and . . .

and think of the birds. Won't somebody please think of the birds?

1 minute ago, Jason_R said:

They’ve tightened up their team defense a bit this year, going from about 3.2 goals allowed per game to under 3.

I think the goaltending improved more than the team D, but I think they finally do look better with Faulk. Apart from the injury callups, they still have too many place holders - Rasmussen, Copp would be a good 3rd or 4th line center but you need more than 9 goals from your #2 center. Kasper makes his presence felt on the ice in some ways, but he's not contributing enough to putting pucks in the net. Kane still makes the occasional 'only Kane can do that' play, but in general is no longer a dominant presence on the ice at all. van Riemsdyk seems to have faded away. 

They basically have Larkin, Cat and Raymond as forwards who make you notice when they are on the ice - that's about it. But even more than a 'star', they need three more guys at least at a Copp level. Maybe Danielson Kasper, and MBN will get there but it would be nice if they would hurry.

6 minutes ago, KL2 said:

Dont think losing a journeyman with a 7 era will be that hard to swallow

 

but he's remade himself, doncha know?

17 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

I'm not sure it's the competition so much as the lack of consistency that defines every second or third string player. If those guys were consistent they'd be starters or stars.

He's getting the same shots he's been getting all along - open threes and open 12 footers. He's just hitting them again like he was earlier in the season.

I'm just hoping he's on the upswing and not the downswing again when we roll into the playoffs.

And can he keep playing 40min/game?

aren't the NIL deals public? In Michigan the salary of every single university employee at UM is public and published once a year by statute - are they letting NIL deals violate the law on this?

his ST numbers with the Jays are busy if nothing else. 13K in 6 2/3 IP but also 7 hits, 4BB and 3 HB!  

4 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

The Persian Gulf is only 100 miles wide over most of its length. You can't make the Gulf safe for shipping just by controlling the Strait, you have to defend it across the whole South Eastern coast of Iran.

according to gameday, the first pitch to McK was almost middle-middle, was called a ball, but not appealed. Did the burn their challenges?

Rockies return the defensive favor by throwing out a Tiger I never heard of at the plate. It was a hit for McGonigle though. 

Tork getting his warning track power swing down pat tonight....🙄

Holton gives up a couple of loud ABs. One scores, Nido erases the other on a CS.

top of 7th TTBDNS

Three times now the Rockies PBP guy (who is terrible BTW) has said McGonigle is starting at Toledo. Go figure.

Just now, IdahoBert said:

Flaherty pulled after 81 pitches and starting to look like he was getting in the groove. “He’s working on things…” Got in 4.2 innings.

great K/BB ratio, lousy WHIP

Parker's bat coming around some.

48 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Bonus porn. Crude looks like the reciprocal; WTI light sweet.

The talks announcement came out, the inside traders already had their bets down. Now it will take day or two when nothing good happens for that bit of false optimism to evaporate (or for everyone to figure out the announcement was purely a market play) and the S&P will resume its down trend and WTI will float back up to $100.