gehringer_2

I think I did this pretty much this math earlier. If Seider and Raymond go for $16.5M, that's about a $14.5M increase (each now cost just under 1M). If you cut bait on both Kane and Gost that leaves you with up to $12M. That's still major money in the NHL. BUT you have to be willing to do all the rest of you fill-ins from GR, which Yzerman is probably loath to do.

As much as we rag on the Wing Dmen, and as much of it is justified, I also wonder how much of the defensive deficiency is how little quality two way play we get from our forwards. All things being equal, look at our GF/GA and to me a Dman should be a higher priority than a Center, but.....all things are never equal. I think it could well be that another forward player or two that plays two-way as aggressively as Larkin, esp at Center, might make guys at the Chiarot and Maata level look a lot more effective than they do now. How often do you see the Wings regain possession between the half-boards and the blue line? That region is not the responsibility of your Dmen, and the Wings do not generate anywhere near enough puck pressure there.

Was it Nokes or Fick who was the dead pull hitter - virtually every ball in the air right down the 1st base line?

I'll go out on a limb and say I am. There is still a chance he is back, but only if no other team offers him >2yrs. And I'd almost be surprised to see the Wings offer him 2.

Another note to throw in the mix is that Saban complained about the players on this team on his way out the door. Might just be be sour grapes on his part, or maybe he wasn't getting as much of the kind of player he wanted recently.

No doubt something to this.

I'd maybe put it in 'categorical vs continuous' variable terms. They have control of some things and no control of others, e.g, they have zero control over the House agenda and scheduling, but they certainly do control whether Johnson survives a motion to vacate.

Seeking moral clarity or consistency from any profit based organization is an exercise in futility. Such is the nature of activity in the pursuit of profit. That shouldn't be taken so much as a bad thing as just a recognition of reality. You don't get maple syrup from an orange, you don't bother listening to anything a corporation says about its "beliefs" or "ethics" because it can't possibly have any. By definition, everything a corporation does is transactional. Whatever they tell their employees (or any other segment of the public) does not flow from "belief", it flows from marketing to those employees in the pursuit of a workforce to produce profit and will be non-operative as soon as it's seen as an impediment to profit. That's just the way it is. Anyone who goes to work for a corporation expecting more is as logically impaired as a Supreme Court justice that voted for Citizen's United. 😉

I think he is certainly leveraging his critics' believe that putting him in jail will only help him to keep pushing boundaries to prove his power. But like everything else with Trump - it's a con. Throwing his ass behind bars it won't gain him one more supporter he doesn't already have and blowing up the facade of his invincibility will only depress the supporters he does have.

What's striking is how this kind of projection derives so directly from Russian paradigms. It may not prove direct Russian penetration of the GOP, but it does at minimum show how aspirational a Russian system of politics is for them.

we have one guy back - and that's Riley. After his 1 for 12 start in March, with today's 2/4 BB, his April OPS has climbed over 900.

It would be beautiful if the detonations in Istfahan were cyber induced and Iran's air defense net had just gone bonkers for show. Probably not the case but amusing possibility.

Yeah - when Lange closed out the inning so well you figured that was certainly evidence of enough good Karma that the Tigers couldn't lose this one.

He may well have, but even if he did, it was after Gio had already missed making the tag and over run the play.

and the worst take away is having to consider what to do with what is looking like like a $24M bad signing. Dirks noted that Kenta always starts poorly, but that's no comfort when your division is winnable and you are losing games in which you score 7.

Bad series. The Rangers are good, but a split was there for the taking and the Tigers played it into 1 of 4.

not supposed to be high leverage when you score 7. 🤷‍♀️

IDK if Parker makes that throw any better than Vierling did. Even with a strong throw that one is going to be close but it was an out that was there to make.

Riley picked a great time to decide to stop diving...../...sigh.../

Rangers almost as bad as the Tigers.

That was another pretty decent AB by Javy. He did not swing out of the zone, got the ball in play on a tough pitch.

Keith and Greene both going to LF with intent today. Very good.

Could we try throwing a bucket of water on him just to check? I mean nothing ventured nothing gained....

OK - Today Hinch has his genius hat on.