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earlier in the drive, before the 3rd down, they took way too much time. When you are running the ball successfully pace is important to keep a D on their heels and M took all kinds of time on a play when they should have come to the line as fast as they could. Almost the reverse error as against MN when they didn't use the clock when they should have. Poorly drilled and managed team. Have to be able to do the fundamental nuts and bolts stuff.

by my informal record keeping, every single call they have made from the sideline to change the play has failed.

If you are going to give up a bunch of runs, might as well do it when you are being shut out.

They never had enough pitching. They were lucky that Petry and Wilcox each had their career year at the same time. When the best a wannabe championship org can do to shore up their pitching is Walt Terrell, you have an org which really isn't serious either within their farm system or on the market.

Nah - she may have come to hate him, but even that isn't stronger than her personal grift. If he goes to jail and losses a bunch of civil judgments, the value of her pre-nup may follow the same fate as $DJT. She's gonna vote for whatever preserves her $$$.

Sparky was a great clubhouse guy and he was fine managing his offense, but I didn't think he never had a good sense for pitchers. After Roger Craig left he never made up that loss.

even a Maize and Blue fan can give OSU props on this one. They are moving all classes to 'asynchronous' for one day - meaning not in person, for election day. Making sure 60K will have time to stick to favorite son JD Vance..... https://oaa.osu.edu/election-day-asynchronous-learning#:~:text=Ohio State will have a,first week of autumn semester.

Yup. The things people would have noticed the most are consumer goods and electronics and they come in from Asia via the West Coast. I know it would be tough for the kids at Princeton and Yale to miss the deliveries of their new Bimmer's though....

I don't think Hinch will walk Ramirez, just not in his DNA. I think he should, but I don't think he will.

Tigers had brought in Ralph Houk in '74 after they finally had to can Billy Martin. Houk was supposed to be a good teaching manager and were going into a rebuild. Houk brought the kids along and then hung 'em up after 78 and Less Moss got the job. Tigers hired Moss before they knew Sparky was getting canned. They dumped Moss part way into the season once they had a deal in place with Sparky

and the good part is that if your 1st two starters switch sides, you might get another group of cold guys in game 2 as well.

nobody cares about playing extra time in an exhibition game, but more inexplicable officiating from pro sports officials. Not the Wings didn't deserve to give up the goal, Larkin with the brain freeze.

the union can negotiate a bit of holding action for their current members, but you can't stop it anymore than you can expect to see farmers turning in their combines and hiring serfs to harvest their wheat with a scythe.

It works for the Tigers because the guys they have in the pen are better than their available starters, but for most teams that would be a transient situation. On a 'normal' team, Holton would have been stretched out and moved to the rotation by now, and maybe Brieske as well, in which case most (though not all) of the motivation to do it goes away. For whatever reasons, Hinch has decided not to go that way - probably because you do get some platoon advantage if you match an opener and long man of opposite hand (Holton/Hanifee; Brieske/Hurter). The Tigers happen the have the pieces for that to work. The downside you have to deal with is that human performance being what it is, every additional pitcher you decide to rely on increases the odds one of them will be having a bad day.

Yup. Jace's track record is pretty short and he didn't hit significantly better in the minors than Torkelson did. You can always be optimistic, but it's more hope over data at this point. You have to look at the differential upgrade though. I don't think paying huge dollars to upgrade Torkelson is going to add as much to the offense differentially as Bregman would. But he's going to want way more years than I think the Tigers are willing to even think about contemplating.

BLS employment report this morning: +254,000. Expectation was +150,000. Unemployment ticks down to 4.1% Probably not a good idea to hold your breath waiting for another 50pt rate cut from the Fed in Nov. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/september-jobs-report-crushes-expectations-as-us-economy-adds-254000-jobs-unemployment-rate-falls-to-41-123503927.html

Fun fact, both Alonso and Bregman are Boras clients.

Bregman

So will this be the lowest miles traveled divisional round in history? You have KC/NYC at 1100mi but then: LA/SD - 112mi; Mets/Phillies - 110mi; Det/Cleve - 170mi

Heck, at this point just do it for the psychological edge. Keep the other team thinking Hinch's brain trust has their team's number.

pretty inept power play. Leaf's completely plugging up the middle, Wings won't just take the longer shot and play for a rebound or scrum. and Petry beat one-on-one for the Leafs' 2nd goal. I think I'm going to spend a lot of time shouting at the screen watching this team.

right. "What couldn't happen, didn't happen, news at 11" 🤔

Most player careers follow and arc that peaks between 27-30 and since most Tigers are still climbing that, there is good reason to be optimistic. Jung - probably could have used more time at AAA. Definitely an open question there. Dingler - definitely hard to be optimistic about the bat based on what he has shown so far. Torkelson - still has days when he does look lost, but his OPS since his call up is 781 and his defense has taken a big step forward. Still cautiously optimistic. Meadows - don't know if he's ever going to hit for much average but he has huge power that we will probably see more of as he matures. You can live with a 750 OPS CF who plays GG defense. the players on any team can regress or get hurt from year to year. I don't think the Tigers' chances of this team regressing are particularly worse than any other, but that's why they'll play the games next season.

It's a millennial thing I guess. I love Ezra Klein of the NYT, but he is a prime media offender of the dropped 't' that somehow tranforms to a 'd' before 'ent'

so many good people.