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It strikes me that is he is still playing a strong defensive game but has disappeared on offense it's because there is still too much ill will with his teammates. Your defensive assignments are more individual, less need to trust and be trusted by line mates or want them to succeed or them wanting you to succeed. Just more confirmation of what is already known; he is on the roster but not the team.

The EV in the drive is looking really good.

what it happening on MLB TV is individual team subscriptions for in market games that are separate from the out of market MLB TV package. Most the teams that have gone off Diamond already had their team subscription offers up, but the Tiger one only appeared very recently - maybe today. BUT, before you buy that for $189 for the year, the other half was that they are still trying to get the games on various cable services - TBD. So if you have a Comcast or DirectTV etc, subscription, I think you should hang tight and see if an announcement comes they will be on your system before that March 26 offer deadline to subscribe to MLB directly. For me, we get so little value out of Direct TV I'm thinking it's likely I'd go with the MLB offer and drop DirectTV for something a lot cheaper

and Copp had turned back up ice thinking Moritz is going to make the outlet pass, ends up leaving his man wide open at the net. Not a lot Talbot could have done on that one.

Makes you wonder if McLellan's message the other day about 'Jerseys' might have been directed at Yzerman too - as "why are these guys still here?"

it's what happens when you haven't been able to build enough depth. The difference now is that if Gibson is down, at least there is a chance Cossa is good.

he's still -1 for this hockey game.

From ISM this month: "The Manufacturing PMI® registered 52.4 percent in February, a 0.2-percentage point decrease compared to the reading of 52.6 in January. The overall economy continued in expansion for the 16th month. (A Manufacturing PMI® above 47.5 percent, over a period of time, generally indicates an expansion of the overall economy.) The New Orders Index expanded for the second straight month after four straight readings in contraction, registering 55.8 percent, down 1.3 percentage points compared to January’s figure of 57.1 percent. The February reading of the Production Index (53.5 percent) is 2.4 percentage points lower than January’s reading of 55.9 percent. The Prices Index remained in expansion (or ‘increasing’ territory), registering 70.5 percent, an 11.5-percentage point jump from January’s reading of 59 percent and its highest reading since June 2022 (78.5 percent). The Backlog of Orders Index registered 56.6 percent, up 5 percentage points compared to the 51.6 percent recorded in January and its highest reading since May 2022 (58.7 percent). The Employment Index registered 48.8 percent, up 0.7 percentage point from January’s figure of 48.1 percent."

"Can" is not the problem!

those lines spoken in the movie by one ex-senator ex-watergate Senate minority council and "Law and Order" regular to be Fred Thompson, a Republican of the kind the US would be better off with more of.

they were never meant to withstand challenge, they were just meant to abuse and dissuade.

you hadn't seen Max Anderson

maybe third time's the charm.

yeah - a lot of money needs to be spent to get VZ back in the game

we are near the point of the year when refiners have to stop blending so much cheap light ends into gasoline headed to the north because the weather is getting warmer. That puts upward pressure on gasoline prices in addition to whatever increases in crude come down the line because of the fighting.

Not only the soul, also bigger than the brain.

there is certainly a complex interaction between the frequency of repetitive stress, the intensity, the max stress and the recovery interval and they are probably all non-linear. Superimpose that on the genetic diversity of the population and the relatively small sample size of pitchers to study and you have really tough epidemiology to solve. OTOH, there is a stupendous amount of money at risk that should be motivating people to solve it.

Market opens down but orderly. Exxon and defense up, cruise lines getting hammered (=slow moving floating terrorist targets I guess)

I still pull up DSOTM once in a while. I think it's held up pretty well.

The difference in TJ morbidity for relief pitchers compared to starting pitchers isn't anywhere near as large as I would expect it to be if it were just based on pitch count. But the question is whether it's throwing harder or more often or just both, that increases the risk for RPs.

Future shooting is the key for both of these guys and it's just not easy to predict. The one caveat with Thompson is how long will he keep his extreme outlier athleticism? Another genetic unknown.

I'd say don't let the perfect be the enemy of the better. The fact that two players might be in the same place doesn't mean they will be there at the same time. In the example shot against the other night, it was on a break and Cade was elsewhere on the court while Duren's route to the basket was going to be blocked. It was a good shot to take under the circumstances and was useful to have in his arsenal. Of course it would be better if could shoot from 25 -- Duren with a .375 3pt % would be a superstar. But in the real world where that likely never comes, a player that can shoot confidently from 10-20 still has more tools than one that can't, for instance after an offensive rebound in that range. For serious spacing purposes you want a different guy altogether, one for whom the 3pt shot is major part of his game. That's been the on-going debate. If that is what you really need, you move Duren because I doubt that will ever be true of Duren. But if you keep Duren you may eventually get a player who can at least get his own shot without getting to the basket every time. You wouldn't be trying to build your offense around that, you're just trying to give a player more options for the opportunities when they are useful. The real question is: Can any guy that can learn to shot from 15 learn to shoot from 25? I don't know that answer, I would assume not. But that is an assumption made in ignorance. If it's wrong then I grant you are 100% correct. 🧎‍♂️

Every once in a while you get a tease like a perfect swish on a pull-up J from the top of the key against the Cavs. There has to be more in there, right?

they don't even need to get the phone call anymore, the linear programming computer at the refiner's HQ doing real time market analysis can send price changes over the net straight to the pumps.

There is a reason Khomeini found such an enthusiastic response for his revolution 45 yrs ago, Pahlavi was a murdering tyrant. If they can't do any better than dream of resurrecting the heirs of SAVAK they might as well leave the crazy mullahs alone.