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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.

Kerry just hit it out opposite field on a half checked swing. That's why he's hard to get out of the lineup.

this game starting out a little sloppy. As long as the Cards are sloppier...

weird inning for Jack. He would have been in even worse trouble if Walker had had the confidence to challenge the 2nd strike call. It was absolutely a miss.

It goes both ways though. I remember when playing with Pavel Datsyuk earned Abdelkater a contract that we found out was a mistake once Pavel went back to Russia. If he's not good enough to be at least somewhat productive without a lot of help then he's probably not a building block.

easy to assume, more difficult to prove. I'd be interested to see some controlled work that shows how well the brain actually does avoid crossing itself up. You certainly do see the issue in industrial safety incidents where context has changed.

I think the more technical term for what happened to Philips is 'a bender.'

Hitting side good, Madden throwing 30 pitches and not getting out of the 1st not so good.

Summer evenings in the Twin Cities are pretty nice. Sure you are at risk at the beginning and end of the season but the rest of the summer outside is a pretty nice payoff. They could have tried for retractable but they didn't have the room at that site, the $$ probably weren't available, and the easiest retractable designs are open air so they don't keep in heat which is probably a bigger issue than precipitation.

Not a terrible send with 2 out, but OTOH, the Tigers have been hitting the ball hard.

trump only likes pilots who don't get shot down.

F15 was shot down.

Classic L/R alternation.