gehringer_2

pretty much

I'm guessing the Kings are thinking likewise.

bizarro. the refs giveth and the refs taketh away - or maybe that should be vice versa. They swallowed the whistle a couple of times in the 3rd that could/should have put the Wings on the power play.

before the penalty that was as poorly as I think I've ever seen the Wings play in a 3 on 3 in the Larkin era. Total lack of coordination.

couldn't buy a face-off win

someone finally found it!

QFT

I don't know if you can lose what you never really had. Teamsters have leaned GOP since Nixon.

Well at least it's a blow against the 'stubble' look.

Complicated since the players are still mostly American, or Latin, so who knows the degree to which their sympathies are or are not with their 'home' city?

actually let me correct this. These are reports - the Tigers have not announced anything.

Max Anderson leading the AFL with a 517 BA in 42 PA https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/arizona-fall-league-early-statcast-standouts https://www.mlb.com/arizona-fall-league/stats/batting-average

LOL - OK, you got me there.

The comparison isn't even fair to Marie. She was probably pretty clueless - these folks know exactly what they are doing.

These announcements dribbling out day/weeks apart instead of all at once are probably great for staff morale.

Have you seen the UM endowment? $20 billion - so maybe half of that is appreciation - that $10 billion in non-football giving. If you think university donors are all and only about sport you need to wake up and smell the rest of the green. And that's what crap like $20M NCAA fines and ridiculous coach buyouts help put at risk.

Not the point at all. It's the the opportunity cost to the overall higher education enterprise in the US. Just another case of something that used to be useful becoming another bread and circuses immateriality. Higher ed is just about the last thing in this world we are still good at in the US. Once we **** that up we will can get in line round about the level of Venezuela.

LOL - they are all whistling past the graveyard on inflation.

It was an odd decision by Gleyber to demand to stay at 2b because if he had shown he could play 3rd he'd have increased his FA value big time. Everyone needs 3Bs, but most teams have a glut of IF prospects that can hit but have to move off 3B or SS for lack of arm strength and so have a log jam of 2Bs (like the Tigers). Gleyber came up as a SS, so at least at one point he had a arm that probably could have handled 3rd. Maybe it's gone and he knows it.

I don't think it's a slam dunk either way. I doubt he will be offered a multiyear at near the AAV of the QO and if he likes it here he might decide getting more dollars assured up front is a conservative strategy. Or not.

At the time I though it was a mistake for Roberts to leave Ohtani in the game so long last night if they wanted him to pitch today - especially once it was plain Schnieder would not pitch to him anyway.

The Evangelicals are used to watching their pastors get rich (on their backs). 🙄 They love it, proof of God's favor.

Tarkington had a few big years but even when they had Tarkington I remember them as a defense first team. Page and Eller, the purple people eaters.

It's an iffy thing. There is no way to know if a playoff bound team with the money will also find themselves critically pitching short (i.e. an injury) enough to be willing to overpay that also has something you want/need. It's a narrow set of circumstances that all have to line up. You might get to the deadline and no good deal is there. So then I guess you are no worse off than if you had just decided to keep him going into the season.

Yeah, that could certainly be true. Depends on how it ended. Was the deal just an 'honest' fail because Detroit wouldn't match Boston's last offer or did either side feel like trust had been violated or that they couldn't believe one another?