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Tiger 3b coaches in mid-season form I see.

definitely

Nice play at 2B, but not Torres.

who decided it was alright for both teams to wear almost the same color shirts? A dozen uni's in each team's closet and we get teams dressed as twins.

He had definitely lost a couple MPH before the back and TJ. When he came back last season he could touch 97 but the command wasn't great. He's had a decently big arm other than when the back was an issue. He has to recover his command this year after it being a bit questionable last season.

Management styles and methods are all over the map in big businesses. Some places are a bitch to work for, some aren't. But it's certainly NOT unusual for management in an organization to not understand who is providing the value added in their org. At one point UM spent a 7 figure consulting contract with the firm that used to be Arthur Anderson. They came around and did survey and time studies. A lot of people got their task time audited. The conclusion they came up with was to centralize purchasing across the all the research departments (with lower cost clerks of course). A couple of hundred people were given notice they would be let go. Of course the faculty was asleep at the wheel all the time this was going on or they probably could have saved a lot of trauma. In any case, once the plan was announced, all the people that knew better informed TPTB that commissioned the study that department purchasers were basically all specialists in various arcane technologies and supply chains and if you tried to centralize purchasing, what you would end up with would be faculty members (the most expensive employees in the org) spending all their time hand-holding purchasers who had no clue what they were trying to buy. Plan was called off, money was wasted, but it did grease the skids for at least one high ranking administrator's exit. Stupid episode but indicative of the fact that you even if you pay a lot of money supposedly to analyze what your org is doing, it's no substitute for management that understands its org in the first place.

True - computers don't get embarrassed when they do a bad job.

many games where they never set a decent a balance between crowd and announcer mics, games where one announcer was markedly louder than the other, games with clipped mics like today. Too often get the impression someone set board and went to play video games for two hours.

You could tell they were going to give it up. They didn't have the gas to pursue the puck at all short handed or at the end of the game generally. Did Kasper, Berggren or Veleno even dress for this game?

The Tiger production teams, both radio and video have been really sub par in recent years. There is just no excuse on the radio - what you're hearing is just proof that who ever is producing the feed is NOT even LISTENING to it, which means either they are slackers, incompetents, or the producer is also being tasked to run one of the hot dogs stands around his production duties.

Wings getting Fleuried,

If you have a great FB (and Jobe is supposed to) and you can command a 12-6 curve ( which supposedly is what he is doing now), that's a great base combination because it works against batters of either hand. Whatever you throw beyond those two is gravy.

I'd prefer Kavanaugh, Barrett and Roberts not be JOTSCOTUS, but that said, they are not in the same class of crazy as Thomas and Alito and are occasionally going to contribute to a reasonable result. Gorsuch is also his own kind of crazy, but over different things than Alito and Thomas. (EDITED)

Crosby had a chance on a rebound out in front and couldn't make the play.

Difference between these teams is the passing. USA much crisper than the Canadians. The USA looks like a team that has played together more than the Canadians.

Standards for thee, but not for me.

DVT should be really, really rare in young athletes so the fact that there are more than a handful of NBA cases in the last few years make you wonder if there is something going on.

intention is easy. Pitching is like other kinds of planning, you can do as much as you like but it only lasts until a few hitters put your plans in the seats. Mize has been in this org with Fetter for quite a while now, He's had problems with command, with his temperament, and with his FB being flat. I'm pulling for the guy but in my view he's got a lot to prove this ST.

If I were Chet that pic of the three of them would have me checking my circulation.

Could be, but to me for Mize the issue has always been that his FB is too easy to hit. You can work on tweaking your breaking stuff all you want, but for 90% of pitchers, how the off speed plays always depends on how good a FB it's playing against.

Bierut in the post WWII era was a very cosmopolitan place, but the rise of Arab nationalism, Islamic fundamentalism and the polarization over the constant Israeli/Arab warring combined to not only destroy Lebanon, but also drive out most of the people that had made it the place it was. There were large emigration waves of Lebanese Christians to the US and Europe first, and then later more western leading Muslim Lebanese who had no use for where things were going.

"I need to get back to using the splitter a lot" I actually don't much like the sound of that. He first came up 'using the splitter a lot' and was ineffective and had to abandon it. Sounds a bit too much little bit like a guy clutching at straws at this point. I hope not of course, but I'd rather have heard him say he had a much improved high heater he needed to use more!

Interesting that the big drop in traffic was around 2008 crash and those totals have not come back at either bridge. I'm going to guess an auto assembly plant or two in Ontario must have closed at the crash and never re-opened.

but which last year, the 1st half or the 2nd? They were two completely different teams last year.

hope that's true of anybody!