gehringer_2

Tiger bats AWOL again.

That was my sometime AAT that was mic'd up. I'm still frosted about that trade. Actually I wouldn't call sending out either Ray or Adames among the Tigers' finer moves. I really didn't like David Price.

Bert, we must be watching the same game! How weird is that?

Giants announcers start out the game calling 'Malloy' "Mallory"

I'm telling you, in two week Javy is your regular CF. 🤣

but not in CF I would hope!

I think it's the one thing working in our favor. Since he doesn't care about theories or ideologies he doesn't have some kind of set program he has a hard commitment to do, he just does whatever his lizard brain comes up with he thinks make him a 'strong' leader, but then if a lot of people complain and it's unpopular (as long as it's not just his 'enemies'), his need for that adulation does temper his behavior - that's what we are seeing with this constant bobbing, and weaving over tariffs and some of the other walk backs. So it's probably important that people do keep up the energy for making noise about what they aren't liking.

The Tigers seem to like the concept of promoting guys late in the season instead of promoting them in the off-season - so they don't have to start off a season somewhere unfamiliar - helps them hit the ground running I guess? Seems like a reasonable concept.

LOL - I owned one set of GENERALS back in the day this ad was probably from. They came on an otherwise beautiful Pontiac B Body station wagon (the old GM land cruiser). But they were compounded with this incredibly hard rubber - they would not wear out but they didn't grip anything. I finally replaced them with more than half the tread still good because they were so useless.

Since the two were promoted to WestMI just at the end of the season - that would be the logical place for them to pick it up. McGonigle may be a little ahead of Clark as a hitter - better walk rate, lower K's - I wouldn't be surprised to se him advance a little quicker than Clark.

right - I saw somewhere Hinch had designated today as a bullpen day.

Like Buddha - I will grant that Goalies are fickle, but that doesn't excuse the position player moves. It's clear enough to everyone, and Yzerman even says this, that the Wings need to be stronger on the puck and going after the puck, but when the team makes trade/FA moves, they don't move in that direction - it's like they can't find what they need but then are moving guys just to make the moves and as a result too often getting worse. Cat and Kane are both examples - I like both players under the right circumstances, but they were acquisitions that only made the teams biggest deficiency worse. And Gus in place of Ghost? Same thing - Ghost lacked some of what they were looking for - fine - but they replaced him with a guy that has even less of any of those things. That there may have been cap issue is no excuse - they put themselves there as well.

and Uwe Krupp

Maryland wins by 1 with a buzzer beater. B1G with 3 teams in the S16 and two more pending..

Seidel reports Malloy is fine after the collision. Cute that Hinch likes to 're-interpret' history a little when his players screw up. Seidel reports Hinch describing the incident as Clark trying to rescue Malloy after Malloy lost the ball in the Sun. Real time during the game the Phillies announcers said Max was calling for the ball from the crack of the bat. Not the first time Hinch has put a little spin on a game event to take the edge off player miscues.

I suppose the simplest conclusion would be he thinks there are going to be undervalued assets available for purchase soon.

you are over reading. The point was even a bad GM replaces people (it was a contrast not a compare!). Nobody gets it right on all their hires. I don't take the fact that there has been so little turn over - especially among the ex-Wings, as a particularly good sign.

I think this is the a big piece of the issue for sure. You normally see a successful GM bring as much of his team as will follow him. Did Yzerman bring anyone? That probably should have been a red flag from the get go. That and the near total lack of accountability for the poor FO performance with trades and FA is another red flag. You can envision Yzerman being the total Mensch and saying - well it's my fault they didn't do better, but if you are going to be that guy and take the blows for everyone, a sports FO is probably not the long term job for you. Even Al Avila replaced people.

Tork is finally showing signs of being the hitter they want him to be - you have to ride that for now and see how it plays out. If by the time Meadows comes back he's back to being bad Tork, there's your roster spot, even if it is on the wrong side.

In a perfect world Wenceel should have even more advantage since he can field on the IF, if he could throw there he'd be another ideal utility guy, but apparently they don't even want to know if he's ever gotten over his yips throwing to 1b.

Yeah - Francis has been pretty quiet - probably because he's one foot in the grave at this point. Who knows if a new Pope would see making trouble for Trump as a way to prove his bona fides or not?

What interest would the Pope have in Biden not granting the clemency?

Actually, Timothy is the letter's recipient, it's purported writer is Paul, who was Timothy's mentor - more or less.

Perez is going to finish the day today 3/28 and zero XBH. That was probably enough desperation to sign Margot. At the rate it's going, CF is going to be Javy's job to lose.....🤣

Olson out for another inning. EDIT: - just to get to 84 pitches and out.