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This is kind of out of left field but Ras reminds me of Rasheed Wallace in a way. Players that have a level they can show but can't hit consistently or even most of the time. Rasheed's baseline was higher than Ras' but the idea that there was always more there that wasn't showing is the same. I sort of wonder if sometimes with big guys if it's a physiological thing, that maybe its genetics and they just can't get to a high enough metabolic output consistently. That would certainly be a factor in both basketball and hockey.

they all have the same teeth?

But it sort of proves the point that making progress in trades and signings of NHL players is very slow going, the big jumps come from the guys you draft and the Wings didn't bring anyone up this year until they finally ran out of reasons to keep Edvinsson in GR. If Cossa is the real deal a step up in the goal tending next season could drive the next point total increment.

If Selleck had done Jones it would have been one and done. He couldn't have given the character the irony that is Ford's calling card and makes a romp like an Indiana Jones movie work.

Still hope someone on the schedule picks him up!

Agree. The question is progress. The conference is weaker, but the year to year point improvement is still anemic. This has been a very weird team - maybe I've just watched it closer but it seemed to ping pong between great and terrible more than any team should. The hot stretches made you question the coaching in the cold ones, the cold stretches left you wondering if the good stretches were just a mirage. And it continued the odd Wings phenomenon of new acquisitions playing great for a month and then disappearing.

Look on the bright side. That's 0.53 R/K. Last season they finished at 0.45 R/K. If they just keep up this pace, they'll score around 120 more runs this season than last!

Manning hasn't pitched since April 4th, but Maeda and Flaherty are scheduled to start tomorrow as per the Tigers MLB page.

The top 3 teams in the AL central have the three lowest Runs Allowed totals in the entire AL.

I had thought it was Wen-SEAL, but his BR page has it as: \WIN-cehl PEH-rez\

That's a good question. My guess is the rule applies to the situation when the pitcher enters, otherwise as you note it would get pretty nutty. Maybe we'll find out tonight.

Seems to have a thing with Spanish speaking shortstops. Maybe one stole his lunch money in 3rd grade.

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.