gehringer_2

yeah whether the interference succeeded or not should not be the test.

did they call him out for tossing the running glove? Seems like that should be a rule just like throwing a fielding glove at a player or ball is an out.

distance is similar, though traffic in Chicago is usually worse. Detroit has a road network built for twice as many people as currently live there. But they build football stadiums so small now they don't even need any particular population density around them to fill them, and they don't care if the people in the stands are from Ill or Ind. When the Lions were in Pontiac, even with 80,000+ seats, much less of the crowd was from Wayne Co. than the draw to Ford Field is now. I'm sure the team didn't care a whit one way or the other. Less than 1% of your fans are in the live seats. I suppose you could argue that downtown businesses paying big bucks for boxes might prefer they be close to the business district, but I doubt that preference is enough to make a real difference in sales.

spending any time on the ins and outs of the NBA CBA is something I'm not willing to do, but in my limited understanding I don't see any downside to making him an offer and letting see if he can beat it out on the market.

The economists who started pushing the theory of 'comparative advantage' on American economic policy makers roughly 40 years ago couldn't have been more wrong. There may such a thing as competitive advantage in geographic determined spheres like natural resources, but in the industrial and technology sectors, competitive advantage amounts to whoever spends the money and creates the incentives to become competitive.

Yesterday was the kind of thing appearing from the WaPo Ed-Board recently. They editorialized against Trump's coal program - but not because it was Trump and not because of climate science -the arg was that the gov was interfering in a market that has dis-favored coal on economic grounds. So the opposition was net "correct" from any rational standpoint, the reason given wasn't wrong, but it was hardly the most important. IOW they went out of their way to look for a 'conservative' angle to get to their answer even if the 'liberal' one was far more significant..

Also - as stands out on the lower chart, he doesn't walks guys, which gives him a little more slack everywhere else.

they must think you are straight out of central casting.....

depends a lot on what he says publicly between now and his (assumed) exit. Most fans understand sports today is a business for players as well as owners.

it has seemed to me that the shift from the editorial board op-eds is more pro-business than pro-Trump, but overall it's the exodus of the better liberal contributing editors that makes it less anti-trump.

I'd love to know whether there are any investment managers out of there getting out of their Nasdaq index holdings adding to this or they are all fine with the IPO shenanigans.

I don't know whether it was an actual point of contention between them, but as a fan, I think the failure to have ever put a reasonably good, strong, hard nose physical player next to Larkin (and Raymond) has been their single biggest failure in offensive team building. Bert was close to that guy, but they never replaced him. Maybe Kasper was supposed to be that guy but he just didn't fill the role and maybe even too little too late. Skill players need that counter weight on the ice with them to excel. Gretzky had his Messier etc.

IIFC the Vikings had signed a deal to move South to Ramsey county before the final deal for stadium in Minneapolis was worked out. I think in the end the Vikes got a somewhat larger public cost share (~45%) than the Lions (~est 36%). I have no idea what the Bears are asking for.

wouldn't be surprised. OTOH, how much difference should it make if a player doesn't like his GM? How often do they need to talk? They move in the different spheres. The Tigers all hated Jim Campbell and his FO operation in the 80's and were a great championship team anyway.

Holton in need of a complete short block rebuild.

Not a cult

Yup. This can be Yzerman's chance to give his rebuild a big momentum swing if he can make a good deal or three.

bad MCL as well was the report I think.

how do they not pay him? - he'll show up and suit up and then Mac can leave him in the pressbox but he'll still get paid.

This is comic to envision.

I'm tired of anyone from either side who needs Israel or Palestine to be the top issue in American politics.

Well, has has shot the three ball better than Duren recently .......

this would have been a good candidate for moving up the starting time.

I think if you look at K/9 (10.9 for Jack, 6.3 for Keider) that explains why they are going to have a lot more bias for keeping Jack in the rotation - he just doesn't have to be as perfect to be successful as Montero does- so it's easy to believe Montero can't come out and thread the needle he has to thread to be successful each time out. There a lot of good baseball logic to that, and I won't argue with taking that as plan A. Yet we know it's still no guarantee that Flaherty's control won't be so terrible the K's don't save him and Montero actually can keep threading the needle and you end up being wrong, so best not to be too averse to plan B. 🤷‍♂️

good point - sure could be. But OTOH, a possible difference in the story is that Larkin has always been the two-way player Yzerman had to be hit on the head to become. Not at the same talent level of course. So whatever Yzerman wants from Larkin (assuming that's the narrative) seems to be a different animal from what Bowman wanted from Yzerman. and maybe it's just that Yzerman is a really hard headed cuss. The drive that made him a great player with his limited stature esp, is a rare one. Maybe (and I think probably) Larkin just isn't that guy. and can't be what Yzerman wishes he were. People are who they are. And this has already been said upthread in maybe a different way.