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Javy should just tell himself he's not going to swing the bat on any 2 strike pitch for a week. If they throw him a strike - a called K is no worse than a swinging one, and it may begin to give him enough credibility to start getting hittable pitches again.

hunting too hard for walks that MLB umps aren't going to give him.

The system has certainly moved slower than was being predicted earlier in the week. Even yesterday, starting on time today looked like sure thing. Not so much looking out my window now.

no doubt you view that as an open and shut case....

If Hinch were really a great outside the box baseball thinker, he'd run Foley - a RH ground ball pitcher, out there as an opener for an inning or two.

Pit was a bad game to be missing Ras also. Wings injury luck has sucked, as usual.

Wind is going to be howling straight out to left field. Can Riley just play in the bull pen?

If the Wings already had the strength at Center and the blue line and Kane's scoring would put them over the top (sort of like adding Brett Hull to an already good Wings team), it would be all good, but I don't see the Wings getting to that point this off season, so the I'd prefer to spend the resource where the needs are more vital - assuming Yzerman can find any of those better candidates, which is no sure thing.

IDK. It's true he's not the greatest defensive Dman, but I'd hate to give up the skating. I almost fell out of my seat when one of the network guys said the Penguins had to slow the game down because they couldn't skate with the Wings. Maybe not with Larkin and Raymond, but the drop off from there to the rest of the team does not make for the Wings being an overall fast team.

Veleno and the Wings would probably both be better off without each other. Let him go.

I understand that the public communication calculus can get complicated, you don't want to give any segment of society a pass on fixing global warming, or create loopholes in the social discipline needed to address the problem, but....the truth is that the 'zero carbon' mantra is non-sensical from the planetary perspective. The planet turns over billions of tons of CO2 all the time through it 'normal' processes. All that really matters is that human generation has to return to levels that do not create a significant shift in that continuing background planetary carbon budget. That will still be a lot of campfires. But politically I'm willing to understand that that is too complex a tale to tell when you are trying to move a society from point A to point B.

appliance manufacture is a world wide business and without doing any specific research I'm going to guess they have to meet pretty much the same kind of standards in the EU/Japan etc. so yeah - they won't complain to be free of US standards but it is mostly right wing virtue signalling. OTOH, some of the eco stuff can get pretty silly. The greenhouse gas contribution from cooking a dinner on a gas cook top is a pimple on a gnat's ass. Spend the political energy where the real payoff is - the grid, transportation, utility generation, heavy industry.

I didn't hear all of it either but he said something about tying string/ribbons to the screens on the outlets. I didn't catch whether he actually succeeded and did it, or if he was just recounting that it was something he had wanted to try to do.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Petry back. He is the kind of player coaches probably love. He's almost always doing the right thing - the problem is he never does it well enough to make a difference. He gets back, but he doesn't pressure, is always 'there' but he never regains possession, he will get the puck out of the zone, but the poor outlet pass will usually lead to very short possession. I'd rather live with any mistake a guy like Edvinsson makes because the rest of time he is making an impact - he cuts off rushes, wins battles at the boards, moves the puck, etc - but plays by the other team that never happen and goals not given up don't get highlighted on the tele-strators in the film room the way a bad turn over does.

Not to mention, the lions were within one possession in 5 of 16 games, which is a higher % of competitive games than this Piston team has mustered.

He's a free agent signed from 'down under' - he was playing in a league in Auckland.

you might think that, but the bean counters that run most US corps actually hate their engineering and development staffs, wish they could do without them completely, so they hate having to rely on them for anything, and just assume that since they have spent so much effort cutting and commoditizing their own that any requirement for them to innovate will be an unalloyed advantage to their competition. So no, US execs *never* like regulation on that basis.

they did try to score enough runs for everybody.

this is modern baseball - it's all about the probabilities. Harris and Hinch are going to have the team play to the probabilities on Mother Nature's tendencies just like any other pitcher's. - Joking aside, the advanced sale tickets aren't refunded, you still have to use then later, and I'm going to guess they estimate the increase in attendance for the DH on a nice weekend day will be greater than the lost walk-up on chilly rainy school week day game - which wasn't going to be much. By calling that early they probably don't have to pay much/any of the service crew. And you buy the goodwill of the fans that would have gone downtown to sit around the park waiting for a game that did have a high probability of being called anyway.

the thing that is so ridiculous about Revelation 'interpreters' is that it's first and clearest allegory is about overcoming Roman persecution. Rome, the city of 7 hills (beast with seven horns etc) and the comedy is that pagan Rome was never defeated by Christianity in any kind of great battle at Armageddon, it simply converted! Sort of peacefully. No battles, no horsemen. So John, or whoever it was, missed the boat right out of the gate. If they had truncated Revelation after the letters to the 7 churches they would have saved the modern world a lot of grief, but apparently eschatology was already too popular 3 centuries in.

this is probably what a twisted **** like Netanyahu is hoping for as he no doubt sees a straight out conflict with Iran as good politics.

What a moran. Tom - you can write all the checks to do go works around the community you want to, there is absolutely no need to subject us all to bad basketball for that to happen.

Lakeland scores 13 runs, Clark not in the lineup.

Pens strategy was to rag the puck until Larkin and Raymond had to get off, and it worked. Wings just don't have a 2nd set of winning 3 on 3 skaters.

Not to be.