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It was weird. All the refinery services companies had them, but guys went from one firm to another all the time, in fact half the guys I worked with had worked for at least two of the major firms. There seemed to be enough ways to rewrite job descriptions that I don't know of anyone actually trying to enforce one - again probably because they were all guilty of raiding one another. The question is why they bothered.

Torkelson has his own little rain cloud following him around.

Manning sort of meh today. 3ER runs in 4 innings 6H 2BB 4K

and you have to move or buy out Petry.

Flaherty can't stop the bleeding. Monroe actually spot on with the commentary. Flaherty working away and the Rays taking him to the opposite field.

My read would be that the odds of Ghost coming back are higher and deal will get done there quickly if it's going to happen. Yzerman seemed to speak very enthusiastically about having the mix of defensive talent.

Damn - I don't think they turn that DP even if Javy makes a better throw, but I thought getting the lead man would be enough to prevent a run scoring on a hit.

This is the kind of action where the Biden administration is making deliberate efforts to force up wages in the US as the most direct was to increase social equity. The old theory was let business make the money, then raise taxes and redistribute. But Biden's people have realized that the tax increases never come, so their approach is try to get more people making higher incomes. Of course the corporate pushback is just as fierce, but the advantage politically is that you can point directly to the beneficiaries of the policies, whereas the beneficiaries of increased social welfare spending are too diffuse to create effective political support.

The only downside in the situation is if he walks but the decision comes late and the Wings miss a chance to spend the cap space waiting on him. But I have to believe that if a deal Yzerman wants to make comes up he's not to pass waiting for Kane to make a decision that is likely to go against the Wings anyway.

Tigers pick up the 1st run on a Riley single, a walk, a balk, and a Torkelson GO.

He's coming back right up the moment that another team offers him more years than Yzerman is willing to. It is what it is.

So are they are going to give Wenceel a little run? Maybe he will be the sleeper of 2024.

IIRC - Olberman was his avatar

Right - why is this is from Apr 23, the 23rd was Doval's 8th game of the season. His 1st appearance at home was on the 5th.

Colt sits. He seemed to be in the dumps after an AB yesterday. Parker not in the bottom 3 - He has tagged a few balls pretty well despite not having much other than the 2 HR to show recently.

This exactly. Today's prototype has to shoot - whether it's a rangy rim guy like Holmgren or a pass and shoot guy like Jokic, Duren doesn't fit a mold anywhere on that spectrum. He's a player for a different era.

Not sure this is true. A team isn't going to make a free agent a bigger offer because he had been a bargain for his previous team. The Lions aren't going to offer St. Brown any more money than they think he believes he would be eventually able to get somewhere else if he doesn't sign. Markets don't really keep memory of the past, they do have a lot of future prediction built in.

Mike Johnson looking for a winning issue for the the House GOP and to build a little more national profile for himself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/24/mike-johnson-house-speaker-columbia-student-gaza-protests/

Ha! Walker was about the only other position player from the 1st couple of rounds of the 2020 draft beside Torkelson that had done anything.

Hindsight is easy but it would have been good if they moved Ivey last off-season before he set foot on the court with Cade again.

so this shift is going to help statewide Dems and Biden. The implications for House races depends on how many are within the margin of the shift vs how many are so lopsided that 10% still doesn't flip them - as in this case. Sadly, I imagine most are in that category.

Getting back to Pujols for a second, what helped make Albert so extraordinary was his ability to stay on field. He averaged 140games/yr over 22 yrs. That puts him in rare company in the modern game. You wonder with how hard guys train and play today if careers like that, which have always been rare, just get rarer. It makes you think about Mike Trout, who probably won't hit many or any of the milestones that looked in easy reach for him a few years ago. Lots of guys in that boat today.

If I were a GM I think I'd come at low value/high value from the question of what positions require extra-ordinary players vs where can I elevate team play with scheme and discipline. Obviously it a continuum, but near one end I'd put QBs and near the other maybe LBs

There are two thing are work here that are separable. RBs have short shelf lives, other than the rare outlier it's a young man's position, so you can argue correctly that picking one doesn't return the long term value of QB or OLineman who can play for 12+ yrs. But that's a very different argument from whether you can't still put a better offense on the field with a premium running back. Looked at from that angle, you may have to resign yourself to picking a good one more often if want to put the optimum offense on the field.

Absolutely. I get a little irritated when you see a poll reported as "1500 likely voters" and the error bar is ususally given the binomial uncertainty for the sample size. That's BS because the sample population is not random, it was balanced out of a larger raw number by the pollster and no-one is giving an error bar on the accuracy of the sample selection. That's where the rubber meets the road in today's environment.