gehringer_2

I wouldn't care if the corporate inc tax stays low as long as all corporate derived income i.e. - stock awards, stock options, dividends and capital gains get taxed at the same rates as ordinary incomce. But give me one or the other at least.

Sure, there are teams like the Yankees whose local networks are intact, but that wouldn't stop MLB and the orphaned teams teams from setting up a network with no backout for the participating teams. Blackouts would only need to remain for those areas with RSNs remaining. But that would still be a big step toward a more fan friendly system. As a fan in Det who may want to watch both the Tigers and Yankees on the same service, what do a I care if a Yankee fan still needs 'YES' ? 🤷‍♀️

what's the diff? The way managers work it today, they use so many guys they almost guarantee that they are going to bring in someone having an off-day. I say that tongue in cheek but I do believe that the modern system completely misses the reality that on any given day, some guys are not going to be able to perform, and that the more guys you regularly use in one game, the more games you put at risk of hitting a guy who gets shelled and loses that game. That goes under what I would call genneral over confidence in numbers. A player is NOT his stats. His stats are only the average of what he is over time. On any given day he might be anything other than what his stats say he should be. Ignore that at your peril as a manager.

They've seen you coming for a long time...

No starters, no relievers. The perfectly symmetric pitching staff.: 12 pitchers, everybody throws 3 innings every 4th day.

this, x maybe even another 10

4th line getting into the act. 5-2 with 15:30 left

That cudda been alotta of draft picks!

McCarver turned me off early as a broadcaster by coming into Det to do a Tiger game once without having done his homework - I don't remember which pitcher but he was rambling on about a Tigers pitcher's certain pitch -- which was one he didn't throw. After that it was easy to never give him the benefit of the doubt I guess. OTOH, he was good in the booth at all the aesthetic things - nice voice, good delivery.

Is the ice in this arena generally crappy? Seems like an inordinate number of pucks bouncing over sticks. Makes for choppy game. and Trevor still does the worst interviews in all of US sports.

this is the kind of case that cries out for a really punative judgement, which is likely to come, and then eventually be vacated by a craven Supreme Court.

LOL - giving up the bad goal seems to have finally woken them up a little. The 1-1 to end 1.

Wings can't even make a clean pass to save their lives now.

terrible short handed goal for the Flames. Helberg mishandled the puck and Wings were late getting back to help. Wings have been on their heels most of this game already.

I know we've been burned pulling the plug on young guys that blossomed after we traded them, but man it's hard for me to see Killian having a role on a good NBA team.

Maybe he was trying to turn the logical tables on Haley's call for age tests - I guess on the basis of 'be careful what criteria you want to judge people by because they might want to judge you by one you'll fail" but even if there was a germ a good argument in there the rhetorical execution was abyssmal.

oooohhh. I like that one. Perfect for Trout.

Larkin isn't the great physical talent a McDavid is on the ice, but he is a great passer and superlative shooter who can put the puck past a goalie much better than most and he elevates the play of his teammates. I don't know where that puts him in any kind of ranking, but he's a hockey player you want on a winning team and if they let him go for a difference of 1M/yr they are idiots. And so far I have no reason to believe SY is an idiot. But he is a hard nose competitive guy himself so I'm also not surprised he's OK letting negotiations drag to put the max pressure on Larkin's side he can.

WTF? When I saw this I thought it had to Fox and Friends or something. CNN? I guess that's another one circling the drain. Of course we knew that the new management was going to be a disaster, and it's proving it.

My guess is that Yzerman is will not be easily deterred from his long term view. If he isn't going to try to sign Bertuzzi, I don't think he will hold him to zero value for the sake of this year's final record.

also notice whose vision all that was. A dead guy's. How obligated is Chris Ilitch and the ongoing corporate entity to be bound by his father's ambitions? Corporations are never particularly reliable partners. How many venues have signed big endorsement deals with companies that went belly up and they get squat? Show me who is knocking at the door to do the devlopment that Ilitch isn't? Again, I'm not trying to defend Ilitch, just trying to inject a more realisitic take that expecting a bunch of pie in the sky ambitions to all come up roses - especially after the singular personality driving them leaves the scene, is, well, pie in the sky.

and just to finish on the topic. In a city with literally thousands of acres of total wasteland abadoned property, the existence of clean parking lots that generate revenue (and mostly suburban dollars at that) on a regular basis is not the biggest land use worry.

and how much have even they slowed down. The Hudson's bldg has been on a slow walk and the Book bullding also took years longer than planned. And there is also a big difference in that Gilbert was rehabbing landmark structures - the parking lots around the ball parks were not filled with structures that had class A potential. I'm not trying to give the Ilitch group a pass on having oversold their plans, but almost every developer does that - its part of the poltical dance to get the funding to do the job you actually want to do - which in this case was build the two sports venues. The truth is that if they had promised nothing other than the arenas in the 1st place we still should have been glad of the effort but it more likely would have been shot down. I will definitely knock them for the block north of LCA though - the city needed to push them way harder on that. The parking lots I can live with until the market decides they are uneconomic.

LOL - yeah it seems like everyone everywhere always wants to trade down so maybe being the partner willing to trade up is the new market efficiency.

The parking lots are just the reflection of commercial sq footage demand. We rag on the Ilitches but if parking lots are more profitable than what they can build on them that's because of the broader economic conditions in that area of the city. This is one situation where the market really will solve the problem for you. When the property becomes valuable enough to be demanded for some other use, the parking lots will disappear. The city is still having trouble filling the commercial spaces South of Grand Circus Park. Until there is higher occupancy pressure there, commercial development going North is going to continue to be slow. If/when the work at home shift from the pandemic ebbs, that will help. If it becomes more permanent, it won't.