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Nice game all around, other than that Zadina still can't finish....

so here is my problem with Candelario: If you look at his results, he's had three 'seasons' with good batting results - but two of those were under 200 AB. The exception was 2021, but drill into his monthly results in '21 and there is the same pattern again, good month, bad month. In his entire career to date, Jiemer has never sustained an solild OPS for any 300 AB stretch, 'it' has always come and gone for him, and of course last season 'it' never showed up at all. Now for sure, the team may know some things we don't. For instance, a few years ago they said the situation with his wrist was probably going to be chronic - was he never 100% last season? If not is there reason to believe he might be next season? I'm will to accept that something like that may well be true, and could be the source for assigning him more value, but otherwise, a guy who goes through what should be some of the best years of career and still can't find consistency isn't someone I want to spend increasing $ on. Of course, it's not my money, so if the team's willing to spend it, the news might prompt a quizzical look across my visage, but I'm not going to complain particularly.....

but that's sort of the system. There are always guys out there available to sign as FA's because their own team's only option to lock then down was to bring them back at an arb number they didn't think was worth it.

LOL - I see there is an 'n' missing in the post. Was supposed to read 'never', not 'ever'!

LOL - maybe Harbaugh can finally re-establish a good run against them but it's been too many years since it was safe to make any assumptions about MSU day.

heck almost all teams cut it back to three. I suppose this season doesn't really count against the norms though because they have cut some of the normal off days in this year's playoffs.

Seider is right at the TOI he averaged last season - ~22-23 min, but I'd almost like Lalonde to cut his time down a bit for a while because I'd rather see him get used to skating harder when he is out there. Just haven't seem him play at as wide open a throttle as I remember him being last season and it makes me think he is out there thinking about conserving his energy. Raymond made some mistakes but I have to give him credit for also playing harder than most the guys out there last night. The Wings are also doing a shit job of protecting Larkin. Someone needed to go take it to the jerk that X-checked him again.

Houston 1 hits the Yankees to take a 3-0 lead in the ALCS. Baker has the luxury of going with a 4 starter rotation in the playoffs. Who can even think about doing that? They ever went 4 deep even back in the day.....

yes - I though about him as well, but like Assad, he lacks Putin's scale.

You absolutely have to go back a long way to find a leadership so dedicated to generating human suffering as Putin's. In Europe you bascially have to go back to Hilter and Stalin, if you broaden it to worldwide there's Assad but he's small potatoes by comparison, after that your are back 50 yrs with Pol Pot or maybe the Tutsi and Hutu civil war 30 yrs ago, but that was was more like the Hindu/Muslim mass hysteria when India was partitioned - terrible carnage but as much social mass hysteria as compared to cool and efficiently planned evil where the moral responsibility was both clear and easy to locate.

no doubt shot selection is part of the equation too, and that does go back to the team as well as Cade individually. You have to think having the ball in Ivey's hands more should help with some of that.

It's wishful thinking that Zadina and Veleno are going to pull Vrana and Bertuzzi's weight. It's going to be tough sledding until those two get back, assuming Vrana does....

LOL - no I'm absolutely no basketball skill analyst but good arc and backspin are pretty basic to every good shooter I've ever watched so I that's sort of the minimum I am able to discern. TBF, it may just be matter of not being the last desperation option so much of the time or at least gaining the maturity to bring the mechanics he normally has to bear even when rushed. And that goes back to what BB just said - which is whether he's working as hard as he possibly can on his shot now? Maybe he already is, but for Cade there is not one other thing more important for his and the Piston's future than for him to improve his shooting.

the number of flat shots with no backspin remains worrisome.

I take this as sort of a good news/bad news outcome. It's mostly bad news for the Chinese people for sure, it's bad news in that we are going to have another unstable and possible aggressive international actor a la Putin, but it's good news in terms of international economics competition because what Xi is doing in China is going to destroy economic growth and vitality there as fast or faster than it has died under Putin in Russia. Xi thinks he's built a model that incorporates state control with economic growth, but he's delusional. What's left of Chinese economic vitality is purely momentum from what Deng put into motion decades ago, and that Xi's reconstitution of the state run economy and repression of personal freedom is going to inevitably strangle.

soft tissue wound!

a little more variety to see than Reggie Jackson/Andre Drummond P&Rs and Blake Griffin clear outs?

It's pretty hard seeing the Twitter deal coming to any good conclusion at this point. Seems like the players on both sides want to break the china, which means the broken bits won't end up doing anyone any good except the floor sweepers (i.e. lawyers....)

are you allowed to carry only 8 players?

People in NYC are geometrically challenged, that building is clearly round.

How mnay go right back onto the 60 before the season? Mize certainly, Skubal probably till mid season -- is Faedo supposed to be ready?

Pretty much.....except for maybe Bradley Dartmouth

He could just bulldoze $40 billion in cash into a big pile on Market Street and set it on fire.....would achieve the same effect much faster. Plus it would save us all the need to find a new quicky news updating service.... And also: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-weighs-security-review-musks-ventures-including-twitter-deal-bloomberg-news-2022-10-21/

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/ DETROIT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), Korea's top automaker, is investigating child labor violations in its U.S. supply chain and plans to "sever ties" with Hyundai suppliers in Alabama found to have relied on underage workers, the company's global chief operating officer Jose Munoz told Reuters on Wednesday. A Reuters investigative report in July documented children, including a 12-year-old, working at a Hyundai-controlled metal stamping plant in rural Luverne, Alabama, called SMART Alabama, LLC.

Yankee's lose both games in Houston but the 2nd game could easily have gone either way. I'd take the over on 5 games.