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TBH, a couple of years ago Al spent a good deal of time talking about the need to instill more zone awareness/discipline in the Tigers system. Wanting to do it is the easy part - drafting and developing to do it is a lot harder. Also to be honest the Tigers have had some recent success stories with MiLB players improving their K rates: Meadows, Lipcius, Carpenter, and some disappointments on the same score - Workman comes to mind.....

Manning living dangerously in the first - Baddoo picks one off the wall for him.

another one bites the dust.. https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-aviation-scientist-anatoly-gerashchenko-falls-to-his-death-in-latest-plunge-mystery

Tigers have some pitching. They are so bad record-wise I think we tend to underestimate it, but the system is in pretty good shape arm wise even if Mize ends up a miss. The hitting is the problem. Greene has held his own. Tork looks good in his second tour, Baez should be over his adjustment issues. That's one third of a line-up and that is a long way from being competitive. They have a couple more promising bats in the system in Meadows and Crouch. And then a big wild card in Austin Meadows. And almost no trade capital. A lot of work to do. Still, I would expect a GM who actually does immediately upgrade the team's ability to make more intelligent and strategic personnel decisions coupled to the Ilitch resources *should* be able to get this team next year at least to where it was supposed to be this year - which is to say - watchable again.

yup - very very old school slur - but Trump is old.

Jerome Powell is probably hoping she announces a Trump indictment ten minutes after the Fed make their announcement.

Decoding that: "Just because we don't don't even actually have an immigration problem in Fla, damn if that's going to stop me from cashing in on MAGA immigration hysteria."

hope for AJ's sake that Harris is as impressed with him......

so where will Harris rate on the "zero-to-Yzerman" scale for up and comers?

but Chris Ilitch doesn't know anything or anybody....

welp, if the Finns ever decided they wanted Karjala back, might be the time!

two years out I'm beginning to think Hinch is a manager just a little too prone to playing personal favorites. If you have a set lineup of good players, that's not going to be a problem, but when you have a team where virtually every line-up spot is/should be up for grabs, I keep feeling like the approach is flawed.

there are going to be companies out who have secured long term low interest debt that are going to be able to clean up and then there will be their competitors who will see their funding costs go up and will have to scramble. People had plenty of warning to figure rates would be heading up eventually. Their bets will pay off according.

If they keep this up Goff won't be making anyone forget Staffords 4th quarter comebacks.....

don't be thick SB, what do you think Fedex borrows money to buy? They operate over 600 aircraft, including 52 triple 7s. Not sure the mix of leases to purchase but they do purchase plenty of them.

it's a stupid system but when so much money is on the line it's hard to blame a coach for playing it as it lies. As long as there as schmucks out there willing to pony up for seat licenses for 'event's like yesterdays......🤷‍♀️ Then again, CF fans will pony up to go watch a practice, so.....

hard to make out 2022 on that chart but here is the UM survey link http://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/ Preliminary Results for September 2022 Sep Aug Sep M-M Y-Y 2022 2022 2021 Change Change Index of Consumer Sentiment 59.5 58.2 72.8 +2.2% -18.3% Current Economic Conditions 58.9 58.6 80.1 +0.5% -26.5% Index of Consumer Expectations 59.9 58.0 68.1 +3.3% -12.0%

One thing weird in the Soto situation is Dan Dickerson's conversation about him. Dan keeps acting like what's going on with Soto is some kind of mystery, when it's most obvious thing in the world: he's not throwing his slider effectively.

Indeed. Putin's stubborness may yet end up with a Russian army so emasculated that he can't keep the whole east asian empire from spinning into chaos and dissolution.

depends what they were doing with it and what the terms are. If they borrowed another $250M to buy a 777 on a low interest 10yr corp bond and it generates 400million in income, then debt was good. If business falls off and it sits parked, then debt is bad but the cost is still fixed in the face of increasing rates. If they went to market short term and the 777 sits parked while their interest costs rise with each Fed meeting, then debt was very, very bad! Without knowing the duration of their debt portfolio and what income it bought them, I don't know how much their debt/income ratio is changing given some move in current interest rates. If you have slogged through FedEx's financial reporting and say they are up shit's creek, I'm happy to believe you ( I don't own any ) but the devil is in the details, not the generalities touched on in these short postings. Ford mortgaged themselves to the eyeballs a few years ago and made it work to save the company. Debt is a tool, it can be useful, it can be misused. Sure it's true that there is always some point that is too much debt, but like everything else, it's going to depend.

In the high capital industries I worked in (energy/chem) it always did because it took lower ROI projects off the table. I can't get my 10% ROI project funded if interest rates even approach maybe 7% because even if the company has internal cash flow up the kazoo and doesn't need to borrow, the suits in NY would rather put those funds out in the financial markets - where they don't have to worry about the risk and complexity of seeing Capex through to product. The finance guys only love Capex when they can't get returns anywhere else, and even then only sometimes. Which has helped turn the US into an under-invested place. If Biden succeeds in moving the needle on that even a little he gets a cheer from me....

you mean as in "they boooked an early flight"? maybe just the 'D'.

Soto can't play the bunt, then gives up a hit. Good night Irene.

you don't even want to look. 😳

better to be lucky than good - as long as you are fast!