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I thought the shift before the goal was almost comic also. Tampa completely on their heels and couldn't get possession but the Avs had been on the ice so long they were too gassed to get any kind of play going either.

LOL - pretty poor officiating on the goal. The puck was stuck there in the net, don't know why everyone but the referee saw it there.

Av's with all the chances, can't put it away. Looking for a quick breakaway and win by Tampa.

Tampa seemed to have the upper hand as regulation ended - but did they leave themselves gassed?

correct. The issue isn't the trade, it's having Barnhart as your #1 catcher when he'd be a fine #2.

and a 1990's one to boot.

well, Meadows apparently has long COVID, Baddoo is one for his last 8. Manning still isn't throwing off a mound, for all intents and purposes ERod has fallen off the edge of the world. That leaves Pineda. Feel the excitement.

there is probably no level of defensive contribution enough to make up for an OPS+ in the 50s or 60s. You can't just give away 11% of your team PAs before the game even starts.

Fewer HRs coming at AA but XBH, walk and K rate all good so far.

Why are we still dumping on Javy who has at least started to hit. Plenty of dumping to be done on the likes of Schoop Barnhart and Grossman

Baddoo and Kreidler each with a double for 4. Perez 2/5 - hitting over 360 since his promotion to AA. I'm told he can play 2B.

Pu-lease. We've already been through 10 yrs of teams of big men that can't shoot. That was torture enough.

still too many bad hitters. Almost more frustrating now - Baez, Greene and Cabrera can get on base but three hitters is too short a line up to drive anyone in.

Grossman 1 for 10 since the 2 HRs.

unfreaking real. 1st & 3rd no out - 2K Torkelson; 2 line drives, two outs.

wut? How does the league approve a trade of an asset that had already been conveyed?

I don't know if he just couldn't find it at all or the way the Ump squeezed him in the 3rd just killed his confidence for the night.

well folks, the one bright spot left to this season is now flaming out. When do the Red Wings open camp?

no doubt about it, but I think it goes to what I see as a growing phenomenon of complaint levels increasing out of proportion to actual pain levels. Maybe it's social media conditioning everyone to bitch in superlatives. But you see things like survey data stating consumer confidence is lower than it has been forever. Sounds like BS to me. Not that the survey isn't the same survey, but today everyone is a drama queen.....🙄

How does it compare with what we gave up to get him?

a little more from Woj's feed.

Not sure how many times Trump ever pulled a majority vote in a 2016 primary. As long as there are enough candidates to divide up the non-crazy vote, Trump can triumph by winning all the crazies. OTOH, a two candidate mano-a-mano between Trump and DeSantis might be entertaining if nothing else. No-one in the 2016 field was nearly the bully bastard that DeSantis is to go against the bully bastard Trump. It would no doubt set new lows in US political discourse. The MAGA will love it.

I think/hope that is probably where he belongs but I think I still would have waited until he had 50 AB.

Prolly 50/50 he suffers an injury before the end of this season that puts him out of next season, but if not, I agree he will certainly show up to ST and see if he can hit.

If it encourages people to drive more it will just add support to refinery margins. Buying everyone one free night of Netflix might do more to cut demand...