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That's a non-starter with Ilitch.

I think the most likely scenario for Mize is if he can at least get good command of a slider and FB, he can be a serviceable reliever against RHH and in shorter outings maybe he keep his frustrations more in check. You know he wants to start and that means getting command of three pitches, something we have yet to see him succeed with.

and not to forget that that baseball ownership is a quintessential old boy's club, where the most important rules don't even show up in "informal" tallies.

I agree with the logic of this as Matt's success seems so directly tied to his FB velo. It's one of the more counter-intuitive things that with Manning's frame and this coaching staff's smarts that they can't get him over 95mph. You kept waiting for it to happen but it just doesn't seem to be in there. Then again, at 6'8" Doug Fister couldn't throw harder either.

Interesting encounter. I wonder an Asian's experience of Australia is different than an anglo's? i.e - are Aussies less interactive with Asians than with anglos? We spent a little time in Australia and generally found people pretty outgoing - at least enough we never noticed a difference, but (and this was about 15 yrs ago) Aussie society was still in the throes of their struggles with racism - issues were on the news basically every night - reminded me a bit of the US in the '60s.

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My experiences in French Canada were that they were much happier to speak English to an American than an Anglo-Canadian - . Of course the US and Canada were on good terms then.

Well maybe. He may be coachable but he has never had good mound presence and is too prone to emotional meltdown. It's a performance business and In the end intangibles take a back seat to getting the job done. I root for the guy, but just my IMO, I will be more surprised than not if he makes the starting rotation.

Casey is frustrating because the big arm is there, but the pitching skills to get the most out of it have yet to come around. He'd be in a stronger position if his pitching had improved as last season progressed with distance from the injuries , but it didn't seem to, and he was another step worse when he came back after the hamstring, which I thought was just an add insult to injury king of thing. How do you pull a hamstring coming off the mound for a pop fly?

good luck with that.

I think ST will be as important for Mize as for Torkelson. He will start the season pitching where-ever his performance merits, which could be anything from the rotation to the pen to Toledo.

It's not like Davis is chopped liver - but you'd still think there should have been more return to Dallas just based on the age difference. Maybe the '29 1st rounder from the Lakers will end up a lottery pick. We can hope!

6 pts in the books on this trip. Playing with house money in Seattle Tuesday.

McLellan has him at center the last two nights and he's winning face-offs.

opening bell in the morning going to be worth watching.

if Harris lands Bregman and Flaherty, he gets his GENIUS cap back, even with Torres.

I can understand the Mav deciding to move on from Luka if they think they are stuck in not good enough purgatory. The question is whether this deal reflects a strategy that gets them anywhere.

This adds some resilience against the inevitable pitching injuries - YCNHTMP!

This is not a that large an economic commitment, I wonder if an offer to Bregman remains on the table.

when I saw this I assumed it was because Amazon was going to stop using them, but from what I read it was UPS's decision to decline Amazon's business. Not sure whether that is credible or just CYA PR. I suppose if Amazon isn't willing to pay at a rate UPS can make money on you don't want the business, but you better have a cost accounting system that tallies it all up right. I've worked for fortune 500s who learned the hard way that they were not apportioning their overheads correctly and ended up in deep trouble after shutting down volume businesses they thought they were losing money on but which were really supporting the rest of their units.

Probably why ATL made him available.

LOL - you don't usually improve your business prospects by taking your potential future customers to court. Just one of those old marketing rules of thumb .....

What makes it a little harder to read is that Torres isn't going to be here after this season so the moves made to accommodate him are going to get unwound in '26. Who know what this is going to look like. On the Torkelson front, I have no clue what has or hasn't passed between Torkelson and the team since October, I would only hope any good management would be reserving final judge on what a player is until they see what the player does in competitive game situations after whatever work he has done. There is no cookie cutter that reliably stamps out hitters. I suppose if he is goofing off that's one thing, but he he's chosen to work on things in a different priority, that gets pretty grey. Most players do know themselves better than anyone else does. I'd be more interested in what he shows actually show up with in ST than the details what his off-season regime were. But the reality is we don't know anything anyway. And the Truth is whether he toed the line to the team's satisfaction this off-season or or not, he still isn't going to have a spot if he doesn't hit better.

Wouldn't be surprised, but people don't need inflation data from BLS to know it's happening, they sense every time they buy, so people will know.

if Canada shuts down oil imports to the US it might be hard for the midwest to make up that supply from anywhere else very quickly. I don't know how long they could hold out before they had to blink, but it might be longer than we could. Refineries that would be scrambling for supply would be the Marathon in Det, the ex-Sun refinery in Toledo, Koch and Marathon in Minneapolis, Probably Husky in Toledo was well, and probably the BP and Exxon refineries near Chicago.