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the guy has two 100+ EVs good for 2/4 against one of the best pitchers in the league and he's the one you are complaining about?

Duran's FB is ridiculous

can we PH for Riley?

damn - pretty good pitch to K Tork. He might have handled it if he had been looking to go the other way, but only maybe.

OTOH, when you have a petty, vindictive meddling President and a merger before the FTC, you've got a pretty good basis to presume he had something to do with this one.

He was a moderately successful starter before he blew out his elbow.

I don't think the situation here is particularly unique to Detroit, but it is a big city phenomenon in the sense that the big daily papers in the major pro sports cities had all built these impressive stables of deeply experienced sports reporters - in Detroit it was Jerry Green, Pete Waldemeir, Joe Falls, Watson Spoelstra and then the last of the local line, the late great Tom Kowalski. They were a kind of sports royalty in the 'golden age' years. But with the general collapse of the newspaper business, that is all gone. So fine, times change - but the guys at the papers now still want to bask in the afterglow of an institution that's gone. They don't have the experience, the access, or the institutional support to do what they still pretend to be able to do.

My sister worked as a bank teller in the early 70's and they were responsible for shortages in their till at the end of day also.

At least with Valenti, he doesn't really try to hide that he's not trying to be right, he's trying to be entertaining/engaging, because on the radio that's his job. I suppose a print reporter can make the same argument to some extent, but there is still a vestigial set of 'traditional' expectations for things that call themselves newspapers, though admittedly they're fading fast.

He's been slightly better the last couple of days - he managed three consecutive games without a K before wiffing once yesterday. What's looking really alarming though is he has exactly 1 walk in his last 88 PA. Riley has never walked all that much, but at 1% over nearly a month, there is definitely something amiss in his approach.

What cracks me up is that it doesn't even have a good handle on what should be its own area of knowledge. My latest go around with AI was over a 2020 intel mac book air the SO has. If you ask AI "Will my 10th gen Intel Mac run Tahoe" it will say "Yes" If you ask it if your 2020 Macbook Air it will say "no" (the correct answer). I would say that on IT and computer tech questions I have searched in the last month - it bats just about 50%. Even 80% is too unreliable to be of any serious use. They've got a long way to go.

I will venture to guess that if you dig a little deeper, you are going to find that when Hinch decides to use Vest in the 8th, it has been because the heart of the opposition's order is due up, so on average he is probably facing better hitters in the 8th than when he enters the game in the 9th. How much of an effect is that? IDK, but I imagine no-one here other than maybe Lee or Chasfh does either. In general, paying too much attention to statistics that tell what has happened without telling you why it happened doesn't necessarily get you where you want to go.

we all dump on the writers (your's truly not excepted) because their stuff is bad, but I suppose it's a little unfair. The papers don't have the resources to support them so they are reduced to click hunting just like everyone else.

SGL still only about 50IP since the surgery layoff. Hopefully he's still building to his 100% mark.

Exactly. Carlos works really hard at being the most deeply wrong sports writer in Detroit, undaunted by the depth the competition.

I think when the auto industry was cooking between Southern Ont and MI, Detroit-Windsor was busiest in term of $ value going back and forth.

When your fans won't hold you to any kind of logic or consistency standard at all, you are embarrassment proof.

Of course the market doesn't really care about jobs - if anything they *like* seeing people get laid off if it increases corporate profits, so bad jobs numbers are necessarily going to pull down the market by themselves anyway. They don't even care if unemployment goes up as long as it's the poor getting laid off and so doesn't affect national purchasing power that much.

wasn't much more Javy could do. That's probably only an out if Andy can come up with it.

Good save of the run by Torkelson at least. Knowing when to give up on the out and get off the base to stop the ball is one of those things it can take a while for a 1b to get good at.

well, poverty on one side at least. Historically - at least in Western society, great art was the product of poor artists working for wealthy patrons (or a wealthy Church) with the resources to support them. One of the more depressing things about the current generation of richer than they know what to do with its is their lack of imagination for supporting culture, which is probably the result of them lacking the acculturation to appreciate it themselves.

definitely hate the NHL shoot-out. Play 3 on three until someone scores - it won't take that long. Granted hockey is exhausting, but you've only got three guys on the ice in the OT so you aren't killing your team.

Agree. Another odd one in Detroit historically was that auto theft was counted as a major crime in the FBI surveys and because of peculiarities in the auto insurance and auto parts markets in SE MI, it was an unusually lucrative place to steal cars. Not that car theft isn't crime, but it is generally about the least violent major crime in the FBIs survey (car-jacking excluded of course)

Murder rates tend to follow high poverty census tracts. In good income areas of the US, murder rates tend to be extremely low, meaning <3/100K, in high poverty area they can reach 40/100K. Detroit, because of the depth of the middle class exodus after 1970, had the unfortunate fate of being a city that became almost uniformly poor, so the net numbers for the city really represented the very high percentage of high poverty census tracts as proportion of the total. e.g, Murder on the South Side of Chicago was always as bad as the rough parts of Detroit but Chicago still had a lot of non-poverty areas to balance out the city wide totals. The drop in Detroit's numbers just reflects economic recovery in more parts of the city now. Employment solves a huge number of other problems.

Nope. So far I haven't gotten much sense of that kind of ego from him - all his moves seem 'cold' (i.e. rational). If anyone in the org may have a bit of weakness in not wanting to admit he's wrong about players, I think it would be Hinch - but it's not a necessarily a bad dynamic for there to be a little good/cop bad/cop between the players and the manager vs GM - keeps each other honest.