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It looked like they got to 3-1 and decided they could mail it in the rest of the way. Lalonde's seat must/should be getting warmer.

didn't help that Johansson was beaten like a drum on the play either.

Seider needs to keep his ass out of the box. Tie game.

Petry can't knock down the puck then either he or Compher lose Zebras and they give up a PP goal, then the Wings immediately take another penalty....😡

seems like a little mix and match going on in the D pairings tonight.

Can't be serious? In the universe of possible Trump world options, Lindsay would be a shot out of the park. Came through the JAG office - actually practiced law in the public service. He'd probably get himself fired in 8 wks.

Sadly, I don't find it hard to believe that one out of every 8 or 10 or ten Obama/Biden voters wouldn't vote for a woman -- and when all is said and done it may have been that simple. Does seem to run counter to the logic in MI where we've elected other women, but Prez is still different from all that.

Did they maybe cut bait on Ned too soon though? He hasn't bee great since we moves him but at least he's been available, as compared to say Husso.

Granted it's hard, but whether it's hard or easy the standard has to be to do it least do it marginally better than the guys you're competing against. BTW - have we written off Wallinder?

so the schedule will all be downhill from here, right? 🤔

UCF also has a field not too far away I'm sure they'd be glad to rent out.

Sometimes the obvious just turns out to be .....obvious.

Yup. Just as an experiment, after my 'For you' suddenly went to crap earlier in the year, I just started rejecting posts to see if the algorithm would eventually get overridden. It will after you reject at least a few hundred, but even after that you now need to keep up a constant rate of 'maintenance' post rejections to keep it decent. The site isn't worth the effort any more. If I can help move the market to a better product I'm good with that.

There is a difference between pursuing things which are known to be possible but where the technical feasibility is unknown, and pursuing things that can never work.

Simon had to pick up his D partner after Rust left him in a heap on the 2nd goal. 🤣

This, sadly.

HaHa - Kyle would probably take the job more seriously.

I wonder how much the Tig gave back....

TBF, it's hard to elevate your wing mate much when it's often Steve Yzerman. I agree with most of the comments here. Pavel was the heir of Igor Larionov, but with even more flair. In an odd way I would put Fedorov into a group closer to Messier. He wasn't a bruiser like Messier so so no comparison on that end at all but he had the same all over the ice impact.

Bill Veeck owned them before Reinsdorf. Veeck was owner 59-61 and 75-81. The Comisky's were pre-Veeck

Not good to hear this for the short term result but longer term it could be good news for the Dems in the midterms if 2022 was any indication.

I think the smart people running baseball teams have figured out that in baseball you get paid for what you did more than what you are going to do. That means there are two ways to run a franchise. If you are rich enough to be NYY or LAD, you buy the proven players knowing you will end up paying much higher $$ per performance but you don't care because you have the income. The alternative to invest all you can in the front end and field young cheap teams where the players are building the resumes that will get them paid later, but who are cheap now. The other bonus is that younger players are healthier, faster and play better defense. If you are a low revenue team, this is your path. You might spend on extending guys early and buying out arb years plus, but the older top FAs are not going to be your playing field because the never pay back their contracts in their second halves. The trick is don't get caught in the middle like the Tigers did post DD, paying for players you can't afford who don't produce, which stresses your development spending. I think you have to avoid ending up half in/half out. Which is why I don't take much comfort in the "the Tigers will spend when they are ready" line because what I don't want them to do is what they did before.

I would tend to agree that for heavy engines diesel's are going to be harder to replace than getting gasoline engines off the street. One aspect of this that gets sort of into the weeds technically but that is interesting to me because of my history, is that if demand for gasoline falls precipitously, which there is every likelihood is going to happen in the next 30-40 yrs, but demand for diesel and jet fuel do not - and it's hard to see how they can drop anywhere nearly as fast, there is going to be a very hard question of what refiner's are going to do with all the light ends they are going to have left over. The Otto engine was invented/gained popularity in the first place because gasoline was cheap and available because the major refinery product back then was medium weight oil - heating/lighting etc and the gasoline was left over. It's generally harder to process small molecules into larger ones and since the rise of the spark engine, gasoline has long been the major refinery output, there wasn't much need to. To reconfigure refining in so major a way will cost refiners huge dollars when they are facing overall shrinking sales volume. To me this is the kind of real world tech 'gotcha' laying in the weeds out there that flies well below any academic or political consciousness about the future.

Just for context, there were 25 1B with 350 AB last season, the median wRC+ was 109. Tork was at 90 for his full season but 125 after his return in August. So he 'just' has to be his best self. Still, being consistent in the majors is a lot easier said than done. Also he improved to neutral to slightly positive as a fielder last season as per both Statcast and BR so less concern that he has to overcome liability there.

The trick is to keep your evaluations on level basis. A FO might get too down on its own players because they see the flaws too closely (grass is greener syndrome), or get too in love with their own players because of selection bias (Avila?). You'd think analytics would reduce these effects but at least for now - there are still people making the decisions so it can still happen. Not to mention that less quantifiable non-baseball issues can still end up important as they have with Franco.