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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.

the number of flat shots with no backspin remains worrisome.

I take this as sort of a good news/bad news outcome. It's mostly bad news for the Chinese people for sure, it's bad news in that we are going to have another unstable and possible aggressive international actor a la Putin, but it's good news in terms of international economics competition because what Xi is doing in China is going to destroy economic growth and vitality there as fast or faster than it has died under Putin in Russia. Xi thinks he's built a model that incorporates state control with economic growth, but he's delusional. What's left of Chinese economic vitality is purely momentum from what Deng put into motion decades ago, and that Xi's reconstitution of the state run economy and repression of personal freedom is going to inevitably strangle.

soft tissue wound!

a little more variety to see than Reggie Jackson/Andre Drummond P&Rs and Blake Griffin clear outs?

It's pretty hard seeing the Twitter deal coming to any good conclusion at this point. Seems like the players on both sides want to break the china, which means the broken bits won't end up doing anyone any good except the floor sweepers (i.e. lawyers....)

are you allowed to carry only 8 players?

People in NYC are geometrically challenged, that building is clearly round.

How mnay go right back onto the 60 before the season? Mize certainly, Skubal probably till mid season -- is Faedo supposed to be ready?

Pretty much.....except for maybe Bradley Dartmouth

He could just bulldoze $40 billion in cash into a big pile on Market Street and set it on fire.....would achieve the same effect much faster. Plus it would save us all the need to find a new quicky news updating service.... And also: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-weighs-security-review-musks-ventures-including-twitter-deal-bloomberg-news-2022-10-21/

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/ DETROIT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), Korea's top automaker, is investigating child labor violations in its U.S. supply chain and plans to "sever ties" with Hyundai suppliers in Alabama found to have relied on underage workers, the company's global chief operating officer Jose Munoz told Reuters on Wednesday. A Reuters investigative report in July documented children, including a 12-year-old, working at a Hyundai-controlled metal stamping plant in rural Luverne, Alabama, called SMART Alabama, LLC.

Yankee's lose both games in Houston but the 2nd game could easily have gone either way. I'd take the over on 5 games.

Hinch is so smooth in conversation and with the media it's hard to know if he is real or just presents really well. I've thought he's been mostly OK with the reservation that we don't really have any way to know - and probably never will, if something in Hinch's 'system' has been part of the issue wth Tigers hitters. OTOH, I don't think Dusty Baker is any kind of genius as a manager , just your regular mainstream kind of guy; so the fact that the Astros haven't missed a beat with him at the helm argues that Hinch wasn't a particularly critical piece of that success, but clearly hadn't been an impediment to it either.

Ed counted two, Cisnero would be three. To pare more pitchers maybe Bryan Garcia depending on what they thought about his move to a starting position. I could seem them cutting bait on Funkhouser as well. I could also see them being conservative about keeping arms around because so many pitchers coming back from injury are perforce question marks.

+Cameron, W. Castro, Short, Candelario, Cisnero makes 9. Plus Reyes and you have a spot to add.

In his sit down with Dickerson, he pretty much talked about all the same kinds of things Avila used to - building a productive organization from the inside out. So I get the idea that that part is coming from Ilitch, which would make sense as that is what he says in public as well. So that would lead one to believe that the big part of the early effort is going to be organizational overhaul and that if a big signing comes it will have to be more a matter of luck than the focus of immediate strategy.

Ironically, I would argue Cabrera was the kind of hitter that signing to that age was more seasonable, and the truth is, he still has hitting skills - witness a 300 BA through half this season. Cabrera has been done in by injury to a much larger degree than 'aging out'. So in Cabrera's case, it wasn't to much that he was already 30, it's that *any* long term deal can go bad given injury. And the other weird thing with Miguel is that while he had the arm and ankle injuries put him on the dl, as far as I can remember, he's never even suffered an explicit acute injury to the knee that put him on the dl at the time. I guess it's more a degeneration issue.