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When did we sign Grizzly Adams?

Seriously, Javy might be a better CF than Vierling. Play Vierling at 3B against a heavy LH hitting team with Javy in CF, swap them against LHP with Ibanez getting some AB in there also.

Well, the FO sure missed the chance to get one more inning out of Maeda....

yeah - Jace is struggling.

That doesn't always turn out badly. Captain Bligh navigated the launch the Bounty mutineers put him in 3500 miles to safety at Timor and went on to become a provincial Governour of Australia.

Every statement issued by this admin is operative right up until it is not. I doubt this one will be be operative very long.

the other issue in large US business is just lack of any long term stability in the average corp management. A management team can spend several years building up a commitment to CS and core of people to do it, and a management change can destroy it all in one quarter. So as a customer, even if you are well taken care of once, you have little expectation it will be repeated again.

"Wolfram" was indeed named for "Wolframite" which is a Tungsten Oxide but "Wolfram" remains in the list of the 'classical' names for some elements like Natrium is Sodium and Aurum is gold and etc (Ag, Hg, K, Fe, Sb) and why the W on the periodic table remains for element 74. But just another measure of how esoteric that tidbit from Benetti was!

He does occasionally try for a connection that's just too out of reach. During the Milwaukee series, when Wolfram came in to pitch (#86) he said something about how he really should be wearing 74, because Wolfram is element atomic number 74. But aside from the tiny number of people in the audience that know enough chemistry for 'periodic table' and 'atomic number' to register, this was even more of a stretch because of course we don't even know element 74 as Wolfram, we actually call it Tungsten. So there was a miss on multiple levels. Overall though, despite the misses, it's interesting to hear all the bits of knowledge Benetti has squirreled away in his noggin that you wonder where he ever got.

GDP numbers for the 1st Q have come in negative. We are 90 days from officially being in recession. On Jan 20 Trump walked into a sunny blue sky day and now has a rain cloud all of his own making.

This GDP number would make one think unemployment is destined to start trending up faster as well.

great point.

well that is interesting. It seems inconceivable that when they post some obscure prop bet those odds can be based on money already wagered, how could there be any? Someone has to be handicapping those props as the starting point don't they?

I don't gamble either. I've thought it was interesting to watch point spreads on football games as a reflection of better sentiment but that was about the only thing I ever paid any attention to and the 'moneyline' format doesn't tell me anything intelligible about that either.

And I have to assume the need to do that and the awkwardness of it is probably exactly why today's bookmakers prefer this format.

well, what goes around usually come around. After the right interprets the Establishment clause away, it opens the door for a future court to interpret the 2A away. At least I can hope.

the theater formula can be profitable though, it has been working for wrestling for 50 years. When the only measure of success in a society values is dollars, how do you argue?

The odds of any draftee making the majors is pretty terrible, but OTOH, you only need a couple of hits out of each draft to keep a team pretty well stocked, so I've always thought you draft purely on ceiling and don't worry about the washouts. A guy can have the highest guaranteed floor in the draft and all that probably gets you is a career AAA player.

Starbucks may be the poster child for a firm unable to make an in person sale efficiently, but it's amazing to me how many retail/counter sales type operations can't get a sale done quickly. It's such an obvious requirement to stay in business...🤷‍♂️

They did go for the guy that was supposed to have a short path the majors with Madden. Hasn't gone particularly well.

Keith did hit one well last night but was BaBIP'd. No doubt that right now he and Jung in the line-up together is putting you 2/3 of the way to the dreaded 3 man black hole line-up. And Malloy is not much of a challenge for any pitcher that simply understands you can throw him strikes and let him get himself out. Jace is looking a bit like Malloy from the left side - OPS driven by a good walk rate but no ISO. That's not supposed to be his MO so any time he'd like to start hitting the ball hard would be a good time.

I think to a degree, McClellan was giving Yzerman cover arguing the team was good enough to have made it. He harped a lot about game management, but the real problem for the Wings is that even if you make the safe dump to the corner and fall back - the puck is still coming right back at them because most of them still don't fore-check worth a damn and they can't pressure the puck effectively once it gets in their end, and when the other team raises its energy level and start to press, you get 5 wings standing around waving their sticks at passing lanes hoping their goalie can make a stop because they know only way they are getting the puck back is a lucky rebound right back to a Wing. The ability to pressure the puck and take back possession when the game gets competitive is just lacking with this team - has been for years now. The rest is all just noise.

Yikes! Crankshafts and rods. This could be the recall from Hell for GM. How on earth do you "inspect" the crankshaft/rods on a V-8 SUV? Maybe a specialized fiber optic through the oil filler or dipstick hole? Drop the oil pan (half a day's work at least)? And that assumes that visual inspection is even going to tell them anything useful. It's likely to cost them a small fortune. Not to mention doing a short block replacement of the defectives they find. Then fixing all the AC/Steering/tranmission/Electrical damage likely to occur in the process of doing an after market engine replacement.

Jace may have been tearing up AAA pitching but he's not showing much with the bat since his call up.

I think he was still stewing over Larkin - I imagine he felt 'betrayed' by him in a way - but Yzerman has to realize that he is management and Dylan is the guy dealing with the locker room. McClelllan absolutely looked like he wanted to be somewhere else and the worst thing to come over loud and clear is that Todd thinks his group is mentally weak - and you don't coach your way out of that, you need to turn over the roster. And there-in was the disconnect - Yzerman repeatedly talking about the need to win with who they've got, while McClellen talked about the guys they've got not being able to win -- albeit while giving lip service to trying to make them better.