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Barkov goes right through Petry. 2-1

Seems someone here forgot to send Robert the memo.

Ump called a clear ball a strike on the first pitch, Tork turned and it checked with the ump. Then he decided he better be willing to swing out of the zone, and promptly singled on the next pitch, also close but out of the zone but reachable. I hope to see Tork get just a little less selective early in the count, he gets himself behind more often than he has to. He can take more base hits on pitches like that if he is willing.

3 runs per inning = 27 I'd be good with that

They strung new wire all over my neighborhood all through last Spring and Summer. We were still out a couple days in one of the storms. The grid in A2 was obsolete, but that's not what knocks the power out - it's that they've skimped on tree trimming for 20yrs and still have a ton of catching up to do. The improvements will help them find and get stuff back up faster and increase capacity for stuff like EVs, but a falling tree will take down a new line as easily as an old one if it hasn't been trimmed clear.

Hoskins did slide directly to the bag and even managed to stay on it despite his overslide which I think is what the rule requires. A slide toward the 2B that does not get you directly to the bag would be a violation, but Hoskins didn't do that.

Seider, Edvinsson, Walman, Maatta and rebuild the rest. A RH shot Dman worth his salt will be expensive, but it's a necessary expense.

Won't be surprised if by June the rotation is be Skubal, Mize, Manning, Olson and that it will be one of either Maeda or Flaherty that ends up hurt or ineffective.

DTE (Consumers also I believe) have sold all their transmission lines ITC, an outfit that only does transmission lines. So when DTE talks about the 'grid' they are talking local I guess. I suppose an example would be that they are upgrading the local distribution system in A^2 from 4300V to 13,000V.

I was going to say the same thing.

No question - but I'd call it a two track process. just plain good pro scouting and dogged FO work is going to net you the marginal improvements to get you from terrible to watchable-and Yzerman has done well at that. But to get to great, better amateur scouting and drafting is the where all the big payoffs have to come and you can only get so much out of each year.

Hockey is a funny sport. Of all major sports it's the one where energy (and maybe good goaltending) can allow a team to play far better than it is for a fairly extended period (or even low energy resulting in a talented team playing worse than it should). But in the end, talent will out, and the high level talent Yzerman has been able to add on the ice is still a very short list. Two skilled but small forwards in Raymond and Debrincat, one great and one potentially good defenseman, and Kane, who is probably just passing through - and he has given up one pretty good defenseman to get there. What the Wings have is a pipeline and a lot of optimism about it.

Xi was educated in Russia. From that I will suppose he internalized european in even mongol cultural DNA about power and statehood that continue to drive him, and from that standpoint your analysis of China as a wannabe imperial power in European historical terms is spot on. I'm still not so persuaded that because Xi sees the world through the lens of a largely Russian understanding that is enough to move a 3000 yr old culture into a form of military imperialism that it is hundreds of years removed from. Clearly you hope for the best but must prepare for the worst, so whether what I believe about China will turn out to be true or not is immaterial to the fact that the threat has be met in the terms you describe. Or in short form, there is a difference between predicting the future and preparing for it.

yes - It's only fair to concede that none of the downside consequences of 'Reagonomics' were yet visible and the Dems faced the choice of getting on board or getting run over in the face of overall positive economic momentum. Tim Wu, who recently left the Biden admin,wrote a column for the NYT describing Biden's efforts to pivot away from "new democrat" economic theory. I'm in nearly complete agreement with what he lays out, but nobody would have though any of this was important in 1992. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/opinion/biden-trump-economy-election.html?searchResultPosition=1

Spring baseball journalism - where all the skies are blue and Roses bloom without thorns!

Broderick couldn't persuade as sympathetic an ear as Ken Starr to take up her allegations - so they remain that.

Indeed, but TBF to Petzold, the headline may not be his

Maybe they approved that he was outgoing.... (the best numbers do come after the election was over. And 40% negatives isn't that great for a somewhat less polarized era than today.)

He's quoting Javy that Skubal can win the CY.

Ha! I've always been conflicted about Clinton on a lot of levels. It's pretty clear there was a fair amount of petty financial grift going on in Arkansas, albeit that may have been normal for the place and time. I don't really remember that that carried into his presidency like it has with Trump. Clinton's bigger problem was that he was just co-opted by the really big US economic interests into falling for what became the 'new democratic' economic theory i.e. globalism and comparative advantage - republicanism lite (much of which Biden is trying to reverse). And I've said before he absolutely should have been removed from office for lying under oath. We can criticize Gore for trying to separate himself but the Dems left him in an untenable position. He was going to lose people either way he went on Clinton. If they'd just made him the incumbent his chances would have been way better! 😉

Makes me wonder if Yzerman regrets not selling at the deadline. Or as I think someone here suggested, maybe he was and no-one was interested in what he was making available.

It's a calculation. I was going to say that the Biden campaign is not under obligation to re-adjudicate the judgment of the majority of the American public that voted for Clinton - but LOL - I just looked it up and he never won a majority of the vote. He was a plurality winner in both elections thanks to Perot; though he almost made it a majority in '96 with 49.2%. Be that irony as it may, I'll stand by the point. It's really the same reason GOP candidates can't quit Trump, their voters love him. It's easy for us on the other side to say they need to have some backbone and run away from him, but most of them understand if they did that they might as well not run - their voters are where the voters are. We can, and should, blame a generation or two of GOP leaders and strategists for helping to product the current electorate (along with Murdoch of course), but that doesn't change what a GOP candidate faces in the present tense. But back to the other side, I would note that Hillary won the popular vote still married to Bill. I don't remember her "me too" sector voters lobbying her to divorce him before she ran. So ultimately no, I don't think Biden is worried about blowback from being on stage with BC. As MB notes, there is a hierarchy of concerns and Bill still has a lot of fans among the people whose top of the memo concerns align for Biden. On the other hand, you won't see him asked to take any other role either.

More deck chairs. ...Whatever

This is spot on the difference. China is not going to destroy Taiwan to win it. The military threat is real but it's primary objective to create a sense of pressure and inevitability that will lead to an outcome more like Hong Kong. China has already shown us their preferred modus operandi.