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I agree, I think there is something to being strong up the middle. What I wonder about is range in this day and age of defensive positioning. Is range as important as it used to be? Certainly having that skill set works well regardless of where the fielder sets up.

Hold on, they created stats with BAcon? That's tasty.

Just make it happen. We won’t care why.

50? I’ll take the over.

Spurs made 3s, Pistons missed 3s. That's that.

I'm not sure I understand you.

I find it odd given advantages these days with respect to training and nutrition and general health and wellbeing that players aren’t able to keep up with the physical demands of the game now vs the past. I suspect pitchers are putting too much on their arms and throwing maximum pitches rather than pitching a longer game is a strategy and health issue. Throw it on a spectrum between the two, I’m not sure where it resides. I grew up with shorter pitching staffs. I think the 1984 Tigers had all of 13 or 14 different pitchers used that season. There’s now 13 pitchers on the roster at any given time and a few of those are shuffled from majors to minors during the season.

Yes, agree, there’s credit to both, but difficulty to assign some kind of amount or percentage. We don’t know all of the behind the scenes that either one (or other people) have contributed to the overall success.

I see the path for this. I don’t think it’s out of the question at all, but I can see where a majority of folks don’t believe in that path.

I know I’ve done that with fresh dry erase over old dry erase. Not sure I knew about the dry erase over permanent trick.

This is silly. Who is claiming Avila deserves more credit than Harris?

I had forgotten about Orlando last season.

Verlander will not win the Cy Young.

Meanwhile the first whore, the 4th wife of the pedophile, was born on foreign soil. Why does that get ignored from National Christians?

Lee would add a RHH bat to 3B and allow a bit more time for Vierling in the OF. I think we’ve seen the best of Jones as a RHH option and his lack of defense anywhere isn’t helpful. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Lee makes the team at the expense of Jones being DFAed. Dingler and Rogers behind the plate. Torkelson and Torres on the right side of the IF. Baez, McKinstry, and Keith on the left side of the IF. Greene, Meadows, Carpenter, Vierling, and Perez around the OF. That’s 12 there. Is there really room for a RHH DH only? Obviously injuries could change the above. Or an absolute dominant camp out of McGonigle.

Quiet, Piggy. You support a draft dodging pedophile.

Well, I certainly hope he dies soon. That would be best for all.

You know how if you have not erased marker from a white board for a while it still kind of sticks and is tough to erase off? Same science here.

Well, given the state of the league, he was going to have to improve his overall game in some fashion or another. He had the quickness and speed that any kind of an outside shot to keep opponents honest and/or defensive capability would have helped him. It’s a shame neither of those have developed for him. And now it might be too late. He’ll probably find a short term deal this offseason, someone will try to develop something out of him.

Ok, so how does this work? Currently Miami is the Southeast Division leader, but also the 7th seed in the Eastern Conference. Does being a division winner protect them from the play in round, do they automatically get bumped up to the 6th and the 7th gets bumped down to the play in? That seems unjustified to me, teams should just be ranked accordingly to overall record, but then the NFL allows for losing records to host first round games based on division winners, so I don’t know.

I don’t doubt he won’t be able to get back to the athleticism that he had before. But is he at his new best now or is that still something that is going to take a bit more time for the either the physicality or mentality aspects to still grow into? And then even if there is a new peak to get to, that’s just the athleticism, that isn’t the basketball specific skill set.

Same. Family trip to Chicago this weekend. We’re wandering around the river area, I’m trying to get a few minutes of radio feed just to clamber out of this hibernation we’ve all been in. To boot, it snowed here last night and I’m expecting to shovel a bit when I get home. But there was baseball on my radio (phone), so the 30 and windy felt a bit more optimistically warmer in those Dan and Dan moments.

I have two Tiger jackets that I am unwilling to unload. A navy pullover with an orange D on the front and a navy button up with the scripted Detroit in white on the front. I think they’re both around 20 years old. Still in good shape.

Can a mod ban him, please?

It’s probably because I’m a jerk, but this is one of the first things I think of when it comes to Jackson. He played this bit so well, especially for a non actor.