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I was taking that more as a couch GM in general, not necessarily here. Someone will probably give him 10 yrs, just saying I wouldn't give *anyone* 10 yrs at 30+

I have a suspicion is that this has more to do with our dem progressives trying to re-establish their political relevance when Newsom, Federman and Tim Ryan (and Biden) types are sucking up most of the Democratic buzz, than it actually has to do with Ukraine.

the way it goes it that SCOTUS has exempted itself from all the rules it has made for the lower levels of the Federal Judiciary - so probability of recourse = 0.

I love him as a player. I'd offer him $40M/yr but for 5 yrs tops. If he wanted longer, just not interested.

Is Teeter getting Rand's gig?

He'd fit right in on RT. Of course RT is probably where he gets his material...

exactly. One question might be: which is more along the lines of Harris' idea of 'calculated risk'; risking a chunk of money on a guy you have doubts about, or being OK with churning through 3 or 4 guys at some position in one season looking for one that can stick and accepting the risk of some bad play? Two very different approaches that you could hang the same label on depending on your perspective.

you take the film from his 60 AB from July 7 to July 27 over which he OPS'd 1.100 and if you can't figure why those 60 AB stood in complete contradiction the rest of his season.....

Judge will be 31 next season - massive potential for some team to be having serious regrets in 2027, '28, '29... 🤔

and Judge makes the last out.

IDK, this issue has disappeared from public view recently so maybe it did go away. I didn't really mean to focus so much on any particular ailment he may be suffering so much as the possibility that for whatever reason he's been less than 100% and while the team knows it and the prognosis of whatever it is, we don't. Thus they may evaluate this performance this season in a different light than maybe I do.

I have wanted to see them try to play faster and so far they are having success pressuring the puck that way. Of course we'll see how or it they are able to do it against the faster teams in the league like maybe Denver or whether they just get run to exhaustion with no good results. But in the NHL you don't have to be able to beat the best teams to at least get to the playoffs.

Nice game all around, other than that Zadina still can't finish....

so here is my problem with Candelario: If you look at his results, he's had three 'seasons' with good batting results - but two of those were under 200 AB. The exception was 2021, but drill into his monthly results in '21 and there is the same pattern again, good month, bad month. In his entire career to date, Jiemer has never sustained an solild OPS for any 300 AB stretch, 'it' has always come and gone for him, and of course last season 'it' never showed up at all. Now for sure, the team may know some things we don't. For instance, a few years ago they said the situation with his wrist was probably going to be chronic - was he never 100% last season? If not is there reason to believe he might be next season? I'm will to accept that something like that may well be true, and could be the source for assigning him more value, but otherwise, a guy who goes through what should be some of the best years of career and still can't find consistency isn't someone I want to spend increasing $ on. Of course, it's not my money, so if the team's willing to spend it, the news might prompt a quizzical look across my visage, but I'm not going to complain particularly.....

but that's sort of the system. There are always guys out there available to sign as FA's because their own team's only option to lock then down was to bring them back at an arb number they didn't think was worth it.

LOL - I see there is an 'n' missing in the post. Was supposed to read 'never', not 'ever'!

LOL - maybe Harbaugh can finally re-establish a good run against them but it's been too many years since it was safe to make any assumptions about MSU day.

heck almost all teams cut it back to three. I suppose this season doesn't really count against the norms though because they have cut some of the normal off days in this year's playoffs.

Seider is right at the TOI he averaged last season - ~22-23 min, but I'd almost like Lalonde to cut his time down a bit for a while because I'd rather see him get used to skating harder when he is out there. Just haven't seem him play at as wide open a throttle as I remember him being last season and it makes me think he is out there thinking about conserving his energy. Raymond made some mistakes but I have to give him credit for also playing harder than most the guys out there last night. The Wings are also doing a shit job of protecting Larkin. Someone needed to go take it to the jerk that X-checked him again.

Houston 1 hits the Yankees to take a 3-0 lead in the ALCS. Baker has the luxury of going with a 4 starter rotation in the playoffs. Who can even think about doing that? They ever went 4 deep even back in the day.....

yes - I though about him as well, but like Assad, he lacks Putin's scale.

You absolutely have to go back a long way to find a leadership so dedicated to generating human suffering as Putin's. In Europe you bascially have to go back to Hilter and Stalin, if you broaden it to worldwide there's Assad but he's small potatoes by comparison, after that your are back 50 yrs with Pol Pot or maybe the Tutsi and Hutu civil war 30 yrs ago, but that was was more like the Hindu/Muslim mass hysteria when India was partitioned - terrible carnage but as much social mass hysteria as compared to cool and efficiently planned evil where the moral responsibility was both clear and easy to locate.

no doubt shot selection is part of the equation too, and that does go back to the team as well as Cade individually. You have to think having the ball in Ivey's hands more should help with some of that.

It's wishful thinking that Zadina and Veleno are going to pull Vrana and Bertuzzi's weight. It's going to be tough sledding until those two get back, assuming Vrana does....

LOL - no I'm absolutely no basketball skill analyst but good arc and backspin are pretty basic to every good shooter I've ever watched so I that's sort of the minimum I am able to discern. TBF, it may just be matter of not being the last desperation option so much of the time or at least gaining the maturity to bring the mechanics he normally has to bear even when rushed. And that goes back to what BB just said - which is whether he's working as hard as he possibly can on his shot now? Maybe he already is, but for Cade there is not one other thing more important for his and the Piston's future than for him to improve his shooting.