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Two things have to happen and they will be OK: Sweeney has to hit as well as last season, and Javy needs to play 3b and hit as well as '22. The first one is fairly likely, the second is as much hope as anything else, but as long as the possibility is still in play, the lineup can work. If it ends up 3B (or worse SS) by committee it will be a lot more ugly. I don't see a problem on the other side with Tork, Keith, and Torres. There are enough AB to go around if they all hit and if someone doesn't it's that much simpler. Well, the other thing that needs to happen is Meadows has to get back. I guess that's more ordinary injury issue than line-up issue but it's still a hole they can't adequately fill as it stands.

If attendance volume was that important, teams would still be building 50k+ ball parks instead of 30-35k ball parks. You can extract more revenue getting fewer fans to pay more than by having more fans some to the park in total.

this today on Yahoo Finance news: it's not going to be long before the Chinese have more to lose from working with us then we do from working with them. To not believe that is to be kidding yourself. If BYD has achieved those kind of charge rates, they have a battery chemistry with a better thermodynamic profile than anything being use by Tesla.

I would think you have to be a little careful if your are Elmer's size that you are going to draw penalties on the same plays other guys won't. It's interesting to watch Edvinsson - he seems to practice what I'd call 'low key physicality'. Several times in the Vegas game he just pushed a puck handler sort of firmly down unto the ice. not very high impact, kind of funny really - but still effective.

if this is true, the backlash in Fla (and a lot other places) should be huge.

If they find the right guys for him to play with it can probably work for him. Just watching guys bounce off him when they try to check him is worth having him on the team.

I keep trying to get the SO off google web mail, but she's too change averse even though she's constantly complaining about it to me. I use thunderbird as it goes mutiplatform (and multi-account) so well and I'm on Linux 90% of the time - but I think any standalone mail client has to be better than web mail -even if it's from MS.

The want people that have to work for 3rd world wages. That's how Trump gets his reshoring.

This team can do anything but beat Izzo.

names are the first thing to go. I could not come up with 'Aaron' Boone during the Yankee game Wed - got Bob and Ray then NADA, finally googled "Yankees Manager" when I got to a connection.....

all granted - and of course today just to prove the exception to the rule, Tork, Greene and Ibanez were the only guys on base twice, two of whom are locks and the third is getting pretty close.

I sense things are shifting though. Pitchers are coming to camp already throwing at full velo, and it at least seems to me that the arrangement where our starters play your starters for 5 innings or 3 AB is becoming more the rule, so there are fewer AB by established vets against scrub pitchers or top pitchers against AA scrubs - at least trend wise.

Ray Lane was another guy who could do pretty much anything at any kind of game pretty well. He was one of the group of ne'er do-wells my uncle ran with at MacKenzie HS in the late '40. I remember the two of them running into one another and having a laugh at a Red Wings game at Olympia. Seemed like a totally regular guy. Speaking of Olympia, there's another funny thing - Olympia was built by a bunch of Detroit guys with no particular Greek connection that I know of, and the Wings were already at Joe Louis when Ilitch bought them from Norris, but Mike Ilitch went for the obvious Greek connection to Olympia and adopted it as his Corporate entertainment signature, which now all seems like it was completely inevitable.

couldn't/wouldn't throw a breaking ball strike to a LHB, everything was outside. Tiger starter batters haven't looked all that great all week. They were making Suarez look like Cy Young today of course.

This could get pretty funny.

George and Ernie worked broadcasts together in the early 60's. As a kid I had a hard time keeping track of which of the two southern drawls was which. This thread led me to a story written by Lynn Henning a few years ago - almost all of which I already knew - except the part that Mel Ott had been Van Patrick's partner in Det before Kell. Had no idea Mel Ott had ever worked in Detroit. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2020/08/28/they-werent-close-but-kell-harwell-era-broadcast-booth-bonanza-tigers-nation/5616546002/

I will raise a toast to the day Elon finds out that in his case too, ETTD.

Tampa regional population is somewhat bigger ~ 3.1 vs 2.7 million - then again, traffic in Tampa is so terrible I don't know what proportion would actually have practical travel times no matter where they put it. But this thinking is probably all obsolete. What they care about now are how many 7 figure corp boxes they can sell and the TV rev. I doubt the prole fans in the folding seats move any needles for team economics anymore.

because he's not making the team at 3b and they are just giving him regular PA until he gets sent to Toledo?

I've looked hard at Mazdas in the past, but the A^2 dealer being crooked as they come always trumped the car. They are now out of business.

$100K is couch cushion change for an NBA team. The league will need a bigger stick than that to get anyone's attention.

this is the kind of thing where if it happened to an NFL player back in the day, a teammate would have braced himself and given that arm a good yank. it would either fix it or it would be surgery......😱

Raymond and Larkin need the puck to be effective, but since Tyler B was traded they don't seem to be to able find a player with the speed to play with them who has the grit to go get possession. When Larkin and Raymond have to spend all their time just trying to get the puck, they don't accomplish much.

Aside from now having Musk's stink attached to it, the style of the Y, the most common one, has not aged well IMO. Looks like an aging starlet that's done too much collagen.

Riley's the only guy close to Parker's jump and he doesn't have as much closing speed and they don't want to play him there more than part time anyway. Until Parker is back I'm going to guess he gets moved over there in the 7th for defensive purposes in a close lead game on a regular basis though. Also worried about Wenceel's propensity to be involved in collisions if he is out there a lot. Kriedler is probably the 'safest' option but you know he's not going to hit so even if they start him out there they are going to have to give it up.