gehringer_2

Your presentation is exactly the argument why corporations should never be seen to have fundamental rights under the constitution. As long Thurgood has exactly one vote, we don't have to care too much about which side he sees his bread as buttered on, but if you let him marshal all the resources of Widget AI as a direct player in the political process, you are one big step on the road to perdition. There is a fundamental conflict of interest at work. An easy majority of individuals have some sense that there are linkages between their liberty and welfare that of others. The only way around that is by defining some souls as non-human, which always has to be combated but is a battle we know the process can win. But a corporation has no shared interest in anyone's liberty or welfare. They are purely nihilistic players at the table.

and probably regularly burn a couple of gallons of gasoline to save a nickel finding those imported products at the lowest price.

It's been a ridiculously long construction. and it's not even that far behind schedule. The long build was mostly waiting for each section of concrete to harden as the towers went up. They probably could have built a conventional suspension bridge faster, but cable stayed design costs less and this is not a project where time was money to any great degree.

I would guess temperature - and for sure low wind load. These huge structures have to be designed to expand and contract around some neutral temperature - again a guess, but I think they would want to lock the ends in place on a day when the whole structure was as near as possible to the neutral point design temp.

The Wings are already too small/lack physicality up front for Berggren to be a good fit on the current roster, and when he was up he did not defend, which wouldn't have endeared him to SY.

the connection they made the other day is interesting construction tech. From what I could gather, they couldn't predict the exact distance for closure working the two ends from so far away(the main beams bolt together, the holes have to line up exactly), so they installed temporary adjustable beams to lock the ends in place while they customize the last primary beams to fit exactly.

I think there is some truth to this generally but you can't say it categorically since you have the recent examples of Stafford and Brady winning Championships in their first year on a new team as counter cases.

Flying Tigers sweep a DH. Clark 3/4 and McGonigle with a HR in the 1st. Clark with the HR and McGonigle 2/4 in the second.

Best case scenario Carpenter and Torkelson come back after the ASB as effective players and they manage to play >500 ball in the 2nd half. The $64 dollar question is will they fall too far out of it before then, and the answer to that is looking like yes. They don't hit and they are down to 2 effective starters. Manning isn't doing anything much at Toledo. Oslen maybe finds his grove again, maybe Mize's command keeps improving with more IP. A lot of things will have to go right, and when have they ever for this team? You'd have to go back to 2006. I guess they must have burned a couple of generations worth of good Karma that year.

Well, it would be cooler if I knew the pitcher was doing something extraordinary, but if you no-hit this team the way its playing now it should go in the books with an asterisk.

Maybe, hopefully -- it's because they have told him to swing at more pitches in the zone and learn to reach more of them and this is the beginning of an adjustment period. The last couple games he does seem to be taking a lot fewer pitches in the zone.

A waste to have used Holton and Foley today.

And the Michigan GOP (other than Snyder) fought it tooth and nail right along with Matty Maroun. Too bad they aren't yet as dead as he is (at least metaphorically speaking.....)

But if you want to off yourself, do you really have to take a bunch of bystanders with you?

Yes, there is that....🙄

True - Baez is having a weird season.

Here's another theory - they are above average at hitting below average pitching. Thus you get feast or famine. Beat up on guys who throw too many cookies, struggle to hit against even moderately good command when they have to adjust to hitting pitches where they are thrown. Since run scoring is an asymmetric distribution, you get more boost to your average on the high end than you can lose on the low end (since you can't score less than zero).

No doubt they depended too much on the power play - which is partly because it's such a thin roster that getting the few good players out there together at the same time makes a huge difference. 🙄 Shooting percentage is partly just the style they play. The Wings don't take nearly as many low percentage shots as most teams, and I'm fine with a style that works for fewer but higher quality chances. So they should have/maintain a higher shooting percentage than average. But yeah - they really can't afford to 'give up' anything.

I suppose, but from the construction side It's not really a 'moment'. Setting each section is a long, slow, drawn out process - with many steps. Sort of like watching grass grow and picking a point at which to say "it's long".

Wings had the 5th highest GF in the conference and the 5th worst GA. They still need more defense more than more offense.

BTW, on the topic of Torkelson hitting fastballs, he did hit a couple of 95mph pitches decently tonight - a 106mph GB to 3rd for an out, and 320 ft 95mph fly ball he got under too much (32 deg LA). Nothing to show but at least he was getting around on some velo.

Yes - I think what gets lost in discussion is that to actually 'control' the zone it has to go both ways - it must not only mean not swinging at balls, it has to also mean not giving pitchers too many free strikes -- or else it's a policy for failure. It's no different than the fact that controlling the zone for a pitcher means more than just throwing every pitch down the middle. A pitcher tries to throw as many hard to hit pitches in the zone as he can, in turn a hitter has to try to convert as many of those pitches into hittable as he can. That's where the whole game lies. Teams with batters waiting for cookies will never do more than win on days they are lucky enough to face sub-replacement pitching. Now on the plus side, they have talked about trying to make Torkelson "more athletic' in the box - and I have to assume this means to enable him to reach more pitches, but the roster in Detroit is deep enough into being passive hitters it's going to take a broader effort to dig out, even if the coaching will is there.

Ah yes, remembering more bad old days when a marginal knuckleballer was the ace of the staff.

Petry and Dan hitting the connection again that the Tigers take the most 1st pitches of any team by far in a context clearly implying the connection to the inept offense, a point also having been made by Monroe and Gibson, none of that, let alone multiple years of terrible results, appears to be motivating this coaching staff to reconsider its assumptions.

Point taken.