gehringer_2

Yup. Sometime you need to be able to recognize when a guy is on his game and maybe pitch around him, even if it costs you one run.

A friend was a senior test engineer at Hydramatic for 20 yrs. One of the guys that would take cars to the Baja enduro rallies and beat them to bits. He had similar stories. They'd be denied approval for a $0.15 increase for better gasketing to reduce internal flow losses in a tranny. Just idiotic stuff when you consider the cost of warranty repairs. But "that's on someone else's budget!" The stupid, short sighted, put yourself out of business down the road decisions I saw made by refinery managements are just as legion. The corporate system doesn't work in the US anymore. Pick whatever theory you like for why, but it's broken in all of them.

and the thing, as I learned after the T sensor on my Chevy drifted, is that the engine computer makes a bunch of decisions based on what it thinks the temp is so you pretty much need it to be right. Back in the day if you had a bad sensor but you knew nothing was wrong, no real biggie. No such luck today. Seem to be a lot of things in today's engineering world where there is race on between increasing reliability of individual components vs decreasing fault tolerance of an increasingly complex system. We went through a long period with cars where net reliability kept getting better (solid state ignition, better instrumentation, cleaner fuels, better machining tolerances, more corrosion resistant materials, higher performance lubes) but we seem to be in danger of them going over the cliff with so many added bells and whistles that those gains could be lost.

that works too.

why is the 'all' outside the quote?

you misspelled 'cheap'

78 chances. If a guy has enough quickness and is accurate, he can make back in handling time some of what he may give up in throw velo. In any case, he's probably going to play more 3rd and 1st going forward than he has so far, so he'll probably get ample chance to prove it on the field.

IDK - by about 2012 I though we were set for a generation with Scherzer and Verlander as anchors. Then instead of spending whatever it took to lock those to up and then staying patient on everything else, they got impatient and ended up slowly frittering it away. But '12, '13 I felt as hopeful about that team as I do about this one. But once Max walked what was over the horizon did just keep getting bleaker.

I think this one is a reasonably close call. And if he does decline do the Tigers make the QO? I think that's an easier 'yes' call. If the Tigers don't that tells me Harris is pretty confident he can do better somewhere else, but it would also make me wonder if that confidence is justified. 🐰

That would be nice news. The CW was that the arm would not play there.

Hinch was pretty clear in his statement that Melton was a starter, he just didn't say where.

Not because he is interim per se, but it another reason he's even less likely to get crosswise with the Regents. But because at UM the Regent are a governing board. They get the last word on anything they decide they want the last word on. The Prez is a direct report to them.

It would appear the one of the first true signs of senility is being convinced you are indispensable.

A friend of mine is a retired Navy command rank officer. He thinks what they are doing is likely illegal.

I've always thought Blashill and Lalonde were way too fixed on young players making mistakes and thus sitting them. Yes they do, and they lead sometime to goals, But the problem with that analysis is the classic - "you can't prove a negative". How much do you lose the game overall because guys like Petry weren't making mistakes but weren't making plays or bringing anything positive to the effort either? I'm sure ASP made some mistakes last night, but he also got back a lot of pucks that the guys he replaced would not have. Keep the eyes on the main chance: Are you winning or losing when a guy is in the lineup?

Wings pressured the puck much more effectively in their own zone than they would have last season. Panthers were there but it almost never turned into the normal extended shooting gallery session the Wings have been prone to giving up. I don't want to get too head over heals about defending a Panther's offense without Tkachuk and Borkov, but the 1st step is win the games you should.

I remember driving to Pittsburgh. As late as the early 70's as you got near town everything got black. FIrst time we flew into LA was about 1974(?). They didn't have jetways at LAX yet. It was SoCal, you just disembarked to the Tarmac. The door of plane opened on the LA air and the ozone and NOx stung your eyes immediately.

the river in question was probably the Cuyahoga in Cleveland, which did famously catch fire a number of times in the '60's prior to the passage of the clean water act. I couldn't tell you off the top of my head who the major industrial operators were. Republic Steel was there but there were many others. I have no idea how AOC would have gotten to Deloitte - clearly misinformed or typoed or a sloppy research. That bit aside, 'burning rivers' in the pre EPA days is truthy. If you missed the 60's you really don't have any idea how bad the environment was before the clean-up started. You could see the smog hanging over ever major city, smell the stink walking near any highly trafficked road, crappy dead inland water everywhere. It was real and it was bad.

I follow the logic, but I'd be amazed if the NFL could get the dots connected fast enough to call for the play to be overturned in real time.

LOL; Bill Gates, about as button down a nose to the grindstoner as ever was, blew more on his involvement with a woman than Ilitch even dreams about. It can happen. That said, I have no reason at all to believe it will, but there are no certainties when it comes to older men and younger women.

Elmer occasionally uses his size well to pinch off rushers and he came up with a few take aways. Edvinsson has really upped his game though. There was one almost comical play where Edvinsson and a Panther were tied up fighting for possession at about mid-board in the Det end. Simon just sort of surrounded him and bulled the Panther player and the puck along the boards all the way to the mid line then politely disengaged. That was one way to clear the zone. Panthers did well attacking the one man high on the Det PPs

Gardenhire loved him too when he was in MN.

Mine ended with Tom Baker (who is apparently still kicking in his 90's)

and the Yankees and Dodgers out-draw everyone even when they lose. Nothing new about teams having brand ID.

This was season for Wenceel to improve on his 1st season and cement his future. Instead he treaded water - ended up with almost zero net improvement. Pretty much mush rather than cement.