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Tobias is in my 2nd row.

True. While he's young and fast he can live with a somewhat higher GB rate - but as hard as he hits the ball, there will be a lot of benefit from getting the ball into the air more because at the EV's he gets, HR's will follow.

Brooks with a relatively long open pocket glove, Aurelio with a shorter solid pocket.

I had some folks I followed, but it seemed like the episodes where I would have to take the time to block a hundred trash feeds that got dumped on me got to where the site was a waste of time. The only thing I ever do on it now is read a link from here.

I liked Inge - the team moved him around a lot and he sucked it up and did his best. He was a dumb hitter though. Not that's it's easy, but he was just a continual sucker for breaking balls out of the zone at 0-1. If someone had just nailed his bat to his shoulder on every 0-1 he'd have been a better hitter.

I guess the very fact that Ras is still on the team is a reason I despair about their concept of what a team should look like. And I don't even care that much about 'finishing checks'. The game is almost too fast to spend too much effort on that. There's a place for it but too much time spent trying to line guys up for the big finish can just get you left behind trying to make a big hit when the play has already crossed the line away from you. What I do want to see is way more aggression pursuing the puck. Just to go back to Rasmussen and Solderblom - guys skate past Ras unaccosted up the side boards constantly, it's like he's not even there when a guy rushes past him. Soderblom was miles better at least at that skill, guys could seldom just blow by him. So when I say there are skillsets they just don't seem to look for (care about?), it's that kind of thing.

I noticed the other day that Bobby tends to spend a fair amount of time echoing Dan a lot. Don't need that. If you have something to add, add it, otherwise calm and quiet is OK during a baseball radio cast.

I think it would have to be related to the strength of cues that differentiate one situation from another. Take IF and OF. All the visual and spatial cues are different and the gloves are a lot different, so it's easy to keep two memory maps isolated. The nearer the conditions converge, the easier it will be for the brain to lose discrimination. So if I were going to follow my own theory, I'd want my 3b glove to feel a lot different than my SS glove even if the physical difference was modest just so my brain never lost the context. And like anything else, the ability of different individuals to keep subtle context has to vary, which may be part of the reason (far beyond just gloves) why some guys can move around position to position with so much less difficulty than others.

I will predict that the day after the season sends the story will come out about a sports hernia suffered at the olympics.....

I can see that having been the case if Yzerman pushed that view with inexperienced head coaches like Blashill and LaLonde but I have a hard time believing a coach with McLellan's experience is taking his coaching cues from a GM whose never coached, or that Yzerman would even be dumb enough try and tell McLellan how to coach. But something sure is wrong, I come back the idea that it's just the way the FO has been constructing the team. We've said it before but there is too much preference for a type of forward who needs support from bigger stronger guys to flourish, or at least guys who are better at forechecking and chasing down pucks (like Glendenning, Bertuzzi - OK I'll forgive moving Bertuzzi, he was a head case, but they didn't replace what he was providing), but they never get those guys, or have let them go, or don't like them when they do get them (Soderblom?). It's seem impossible to be true but I have to question whether SY actually has a concept of how to put different kinds of players together to get synergy or if he's just too stuck on chasing best available talent even when it results in a team that has glaring imbalance.

curious day. Since Iran started, S&P and oil have been pretty locked on inverse moves, but not today, S&P Is up but oil is also up. Not sure what that means investors are thinking.

Fanduel will be officially dead as soon as this basketball and hockey season conclude, so you'll have a clean slate finding where they will be next season.

would have been nice to have Keith taking that AB.

He just can't have a foot down in the stands before the catch - correct?

This is becoming all too obvious isn't it? Is Ilitch paying attention?

Don't forget the converse. The broadcast with Shep was getting so bad you were going to lose fans even if the team was winning.

FanDuel appears to be officially dead https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/48388773/nba-nhl-teams-told-main-street-sports-network-end-operations

IDK, I always thought he at least made the other team aware he was on the ice, which is more than most RW forwards achieve. I would have liked to have seen them given him more run.

I've often had the feeling in recent years that the Wings are a team where players come to get worse. So do they have really poor coaching and development people? I don't think TM is a bad NHL coach, but guys are not exactly blossoming under his coaching when they come up here either. Does Yzerman have a toxic philosophy about how to manage young players that has been enforced by him only hiring coaches that share the view and they are all just wrong? An org that can't progress has to make changes if that is going to change. I get that there are a lot of reasons CI is going to be slow to fire SY, but I can at still hope Ilitch would at least tell Yzerman that it's time to turn over his staff if he wants to remain the guy in charge. They just are not accomplishing anything more than 'about average' and you can't get better with that FO performance level.

"All your ovoids are belong to us"

walker looks like he has it all the way - until his arm hits the wall and gets deflected just enough to make it a miss.

They love that he's a high K guy, but if he's going to give it right back up in walks and HBP the WHIP ends up so-so and the results likewise.

Jason is incorrect. The last run is Anderson's

Did you know Anderson had remade himself as a pitcher in Korea?

Jack is a guy I'd like to see Hinch give a less rope than he usually does. Sure he works his way out sometimes, but I think the probability of an inning going south for Jack in a hurry is high enough I'd be willing to give up the times he gets out of it. Esp when he's at his third or 4th jam.