gehringer_2

57 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Go touch some grass. So angry all the time. 

 

 

TBH, I could believe (don't say I do at this point) that Trump is the type that is always like a moth to the flame of men who really are libertine, but has always been too much of coward to be one himself (it's certainly not his morality that limits him!) so he talks the part to try and act the part, then disappears when anything is happening. 

Saying I *could* believe that. But I would say at this point there is no credible predonderance of evidence exonerating him opposed to the claims against him. Generally those that have defended him have too much skin in that game themselves. 

For me though - that he is a terrible person is a given, I don't need to know he is any more beyond the pale than I already know him to be from his actions in the public sphere when the light are on. But more to the point he is a terribly incompetent and dangerous Chief Exec and that would be true if his sexual rectitude matched Mother Teresa's. I'm only interested in the case against him if it has potential to get him out of office!

Students at OSU want Wexner's name taken off some stuff. I don't see the "U" giving back the money though...🙄

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

all about as easy to have predicted as the Sun rising in the East.

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Was it his arm still recovering from injuries? I seem to remember fans saying he had a weak arm last season. 

IIRC -He hurt his shoulder going into a base while still in the minors so they swapped him and Jung 2nd and third because the shoulder. At the time they said it could take a year or two for it to regain full strength, if it did. So he was tooling along as a 2B then they signed Torres but also figured Tork was toast so he was a 1b, and then when when Tork wasn't, it was  - well share the ABs as best we can, and then finally: "Well how is the arm doing now? Try 3rd again" Last year once they put him back there he seemed to be throwing OK and there were no issues, so he is back where he started. He doesn't have anything like a cannon, but he gets rid of the ball quick and he's accurate.

I'm guessing some people got a little misled looking at statcast data because you just don't try to throw max effort at 2b so his throwing velo looked pretty low, but at third he was  hitting upper 80s, and with regular throwing there who knows he might loosen up and be able to add to that.

17 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Third base is not a position of need?  

Isn't Jung now Torkelson's designated backup? Even if he does it from Toledo?

Trump appears to have lost Joe Rogan on Iran. I take that as a better indicator for the Dem's prospects than some of these low turn-out primaries, though I'll take them too.

Also fun but probably won't come to anything, a Dem got the most votes in the primary for MTG's seat. Big field and the GOP candidates outpolled the Dem candidates overall. It goes to a run-off.

2 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

It wasn't the stats.  It was the chains!😀

12 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I'm getting young Gabe Kapler vibes from him.   Remember when Gabe was a prospect - he had some sort of website (they were new then) calling him a "future Hall Of Fame" player with a shirtless picture of him.    The Tiger strength and conditioning coach had that statement and picture blown up into a big banner at Spring Training to humble him a little.    I certainly hope it goes better going forward, but this guy needs a little ego deflation -- especially in this sport.     I also seem to remember "The Little Unit" Ryan Anderson bragging about striking out Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez in practices and those guys giving him a box of baseballs to sign as a way of mocking him.  His ego was out of control too.  Never pitched in the Majors.  Was trending that way when injuries and ignoring advice derailed him.   He's a chef now, I believe. 

maybe the difference is that from all reports, Max is a very likeable kid, that it's more a matter of him trying to have fun with it than the kind of ego trip Kapler was. But time will tell.

I am a lot more concerned about his bat stalling out than that his personality is going to hurt him

27 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

Saying the "the cap is fake" isn't specifically saying the cap isn't real... just that there are way to play around with it to make it feel like it's not as strict as it could (should?) be. I mean the point of the cap is to prevent a handful of teams from just buying up all the talent, but if a team can just buy up all the talent and pay them next year or the year after or the year after... and oh by the way three years down the road that contact that eat up 5% of a teams cap will only count for 3% of the cap then so it's not as much of a hit.

In the end all teams are still playing by the same rules so it's fair. It's not like only 1 or 2 teams know about or can use these tricks. So I'm not complaining that teams are cheating or whatever. Just that it feels like these loop holes make the cap far less of a solid limit and much more of a numbers game that you just need to plug in the right formula rather than actually make sure the contacts stay under a certain limit.

I'd take if from a different angle. In the NFL, you have a negotiated revenue split. It's not really a 'cap' in the sense of a number that protects owners from overspending or limits what any player can be paid- every NFL team must spend the same total on players. If a team's contracts don't total the cap (within 95%) in a given year, all the players on that team get a % surcharge adjustment. If they are over they have to cut players or move spending commitments into the future. It doesn't favor any team, its just the budget number that represents each team's players right to their percentage of league revenues. If some teams do a better job of managing contracts within those rules than others, what else is new?

59 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Next month could be interesting.  You can't move a single good in this country without using gas/diesel.  Oil prices are one of the biggest drivers of inflation.  

 

They are also 'normalizing' the 2.5 number by calling it 'expected' when the target is 2.0 or less. That you are expecting not to make progress doesn't really excuse not making progress.

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

 

Notice, it's not a tanker. If I can send a message without creating an environmental disaster on my coast, that might be what I do.

54 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

And this is why people say the Salary Cap is fake. I mean if you can just so easily adjust a few things and BAM, 32 million (more than 10% of the Salary Cap) is freed up, then I find it hard to argue against those people.

I get the feeling that the Salary Cap rules are as convoluted as the Tax Code is here in the US. It's starting to feel like all the deferrals that are happening in baseball. None of it is real money anymore. It's all just kicking the can down the road and when the road ends? Well, just build more road and kick the can more.

I don't see why people think that because contracts can be restructured, the CAP is fake. If anything, it proves that it's real. The bill still comes due on all those deferrals. If there is a complaint it would be that the CAP keeps going up, which makes deferrals less painful. But that's just because the league keeps making more money (and inflation). But if the league makes more money and today's players that are building that success get to reap some of that benefit, I don't see a problem with that either.

3 hours ago, buddha said:

Hey guess what?

DANIELSON IS HURT TOO!

just put a bullet in them and end it.

Crap. I thought I heard Daniels say something about that but then I couldn't find anything about it after the game.

13 minutes ago, buddha said:

elmer was just as soft, come on.  their entire forward line does almost nothing in this game.  nothing.

HIT SOMEBODY!  DO SOMETHING!  

I didn't say he didn't have issues as a player, but helping gain possession was not one of them. If he went to the boards with someone he could get a puck. Whatever, he's water under the bridge.

The funny thing is, while I agree they are too small overall, Cat has more heart challenging for pucks and getting takeaways than the rest of them put together

And there may be hope for Kasper. I don't know where he was earlier in the season but he has played a lot better recently.

Another example was the 1st goal. Copp just sagged off his man for no apparent reason instead of following through and tying him up and challenging for poseesion. It's not even a matter of hitting people. He didn't have to body check him, he was in position to just ride him into the corner and he couldn't have taken the shot that scored.

5 minutes ago, buddha said:

theyre too damn small up front!  debrincat, compher, kane, raymond.  and ras is their big guy?  useless!  

But Elmer who - whatever his other faults were, did always help generate takeaways with his size and reach, wasn't good enough to stay in the lineup.

15 minutes ago, buddha said:

They better call danielson up.  

The last goal was a screwup, but on the third? I just don't get how it is the same issue year after year after year. Most teams find different ways to be not good enough, maybe no scoring, or a lot of puck mishandling, or a poor power play, or too many penalties- whatever. But with the Wings, the lack of enough speed/quickness to challenge possession on defense and break sustained pressure is like it's now baked into Winged Wheel contract forms - or like it's like its an "unskill" they draft for. 

With Blashill I used to think he just coached too conservatively, that he was so averse to the possibility of a mistake that he coached a passive D, but we are now two coaches down the road and they look exactly the same under pressure. Go get the damn puck once in a while.

Unreal the way this team folds under pressure, and it's the same thing it has been for 6-7 yrs. Players come and go but it never changes. They cannot effectively pressure the puck in their own end. All they do is fall back hoping for a pass deflection or the goalie to freeze the puck and hope to win the next faceoff.

Wings with a power play, Panthers are all over them - Wings slow, passing not crisp enough.

1st period ends down 0-1

Panthers score 10 min in. Copp: "I think I'll just sort of back off here a little so this guy has enough room to shoot....."

😡

5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Sweeney has been optioned to Toledo, would they have to recall him to move him to the 60? I guess it may not make any difference roster wise to the Tigers but it could  to his paycheck. 

EDIT: Just saw on Tigers MLB page that Brieske is scheduled to throw a sim game today.

Brieske threw in his sim game today. SGL threw a BP.

Depth is good.

I listened to Yzerman's presser after the deadline and it was interesting to hear him talk about the Wings needing to keep playing offense with a lead. You can't argue with the better success they are having under McLellan, but Mac still hasn't quite gotten this team to understand the balance between not playing stupid and playing too passive. 

5 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

The only media coverage is Red Sox radio.

and they were pretty terrible. Their run down on the Blue Jays was about the only thing of any value they offered.

Ward is so fast you put the guy on in front of him so he can't go anywhere. 😱

Jung with 99 mph EV to CF against a LHP.

We've got both Perez and Meadows nervous - they've both been on base so far today.