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Parker battling.

Did Lange have to face three if he started the inning? A rule I take as ironclad for a manager is never give the reliever the opportunity to load the bases.

Baseball Gods just rained on Palehouse parade.!

just guts a team to have climbed back into a game and then have a reliever do that.

Hinch with two questionable decisions today. Stayed too long with Maeda, should have waited to get Lange into his first game at lower leverage.

Lange has not thrown a FB in the zone yet...

Lange - we're going to live dangerously

Parker being an OBP force.

Nice AB from Kelley. Loses the double, works the count to full and singles.

Faedo's command sucking then he throws one away. EDIT: but gets out of it.

this is a team that is out of gas. Yzerman may be building a young team but he still has an old one.

Maeda might as well just walk Robert instead of wearing himself out on a guy he can't get the ball by. Was there there anyone who didn't think that was going to happen?

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.