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Loved Andersons. By the time I stopped working in Toledo a lot of retail East of the river along Woodville Rd had collapsed

Yeah, it does seem like every off season there have been lots of guys signed as roster filler for Toledo/Erie.

it makes sense that there is a balance. If you don't give guys enough time you are occasionally going to move on from the next JD Martinez before he hits. If you give them too much time, there is an opportunity cost because that means you have a chance to look at far fewer guys. My take would be the Tigers were way too far over on the 'stick with the guy' side - and individual cases like Niko Goodrum and Buck Farmer are poster examples, as will be the Castros when they are gone......

can't tell the inmates without a diagnostics manual.

this.

yup. Also - bench discipline in the NBA is a joke. Westbrook pretty much had his toe in play on the court in the corner the pass was thrown to. Would have served LA right if the officials had waived off the bucket.

when you get down to two games, and in fact once you get to the end of Verlander's start tonight - however many innings it goes, from that point on there is no bullpen/starters - it should be every pitcher all hands on deck at any point for the remaining innings.

except Rolling Stone. No one should ever try to cover that.

Too bad he can't get the win when Dusty pulls him after the 1st time through the order.......

game 7?

Well, I can't say I've ever heard an American President give that speech before.

I worked a project in that facility for a number of weeks. Wasn't a day there I wished I wasn't.

The Lions put a TE in the HOF. Got him in the third round.

I may be slow to the party here - maybe someone already reported this but: Just saw a Biden tweet that gas prices were back to March levels. My wife is retired and I communte less than 10 miles per day so I don't have to buy much gasoline anymore but my impression, without paying much attention, was that local gas prices were sticking awfully high. Well, I knew BPs big refinery South of Chicago had had a major fire and outage through Sept, but hadn't taken the time to look any further. Today I finally took a look and it turns out our friends at BP have blown up their refinery in Toledo and put another 160,000 bpd out of service indefinitely. So between that I believe Whiting is still not back to full capacity and Toledo being completely down, we are screwed locally. When I was working refineries, BP was without question the worst operator in the industry. Disaster after disaster at BP facilities and nothing ever changed. At least Exxon cleaned up their act in big ways after the Vladez. BP appears to learn nothing.

In one sense, it doesn't really matter if the whole draft was a bust or not, if you have high picks that aren't building toward a winning team, your rebuild is bust. Whether it's the fault of the the GM making the picks or a cosmic alignment that meant no good players came out of the NCAA for a year doesn't really matter to how depressing it is for Lions' fans to see one more of their shots at impact players coming to ashes.

The thing about this trade is that it signifies different things at different levels. In the abstract, simply based on price and performance, it's a typical economics driven move any team, good or bad, might have made purely on their evaluation that the performance of the player wouldn't justify his cost. From that angle, it's fine. But with the infinitely rebuilding Lions, moving a top draft pick who should be in the prime years of his career is just another marker that any chance of a good team just took one more ratchet further into the future, so it's depressing from that angle.

this is nice. Russia rejoins grain deal

well, tbh, if I had googled something and then walked into the early voting station and they handed me a different ballot for my precinct, I would tend to assume it was what was on-line that was wrong. Prolly would try to look into it once I got home though.....

LOL - somehow, someway, he'll be back in the org somewhere by July.

It has always amazed me that a voter would ever think they would get competent government by voting for people who hate government.

I think they prefer to play teams they can beat. Reality is they could still have an outside shot of getting into a playoff with one loss to a #1 OSU, which couldn't happen if it were the 2nd loss. Everyone hated the computerized SOS ranking system, but using a hard-core system like that's the only way a 2 loss team ever gets in, which means it's not worth the risk to schedule anyone you could lose to. All the tut-tutting at this point in the season about SOS is just that, on the last weekend wins and losses will carry the day.

all I would add on the debate about Chris Ilitch is the question of how much resource he is willing to commit pales in proportion to the question tof whether he has put management in place capable of winning with any resource level. Going all the way back to when Tom Monaghan bought the franchise from Fetzer, FO competence has always been a bigger road block than ownership resourcing.

I'm thinking the 40% is that it goes more like this season all over. A decent start - hits a few long balls in ST. Every body feeling happy. Then the power will disappear but the average will be good and he'll hang just below 700 OPS with a decent OBP - a month, 2, maybe even 3, but then at some point everything is going to start to hurt again, the output will plummet, and the only question will be how many months does it go on before the Tigers stop waiting for the Spring version of Miggy to return and make the needed move.

yeah - I think this is the point that's significant. No it doesn't matter to wins and losses per se when you score your points in a game, but in football it's the teams that make adjustements and finish strong that tend to win the most games. It's an indication that your guys pushing the buttons are a step ahead of the other guys, and that your players are wearing down the other players and not vice versa, and that's what you want/need.

Don Cooper? I think he was let go when LaRussa arrived? Wiki doesn't note that he's attached to any team now. Now 66, maybe he's hung 'em up.