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bad MCL as well was the report I think.

how do they not pay him? - he'll show up and suit up and then Mac can leave him in the pressbox but he'll still get paid.

This is comic to envision.

I'm tired of anyone from either side who needs Israel or Palestine to be the top issue in American politics.

Well, has has shot the three ball better than Duren recently .......

this would have been a good candidate for moving up the starting time.

I think if you look at K/9 (10.9 for Jack, 6.3 for Keider) that explains why they are going to have a lot more bias for keeping Jack in the rotation - he just doesn't have to be as perfect to be successful as Montero does- so it's easy to believe Montero can't come out and thread the needle he has to thread to be successful each time out. There a lot of good baseball logic to that, and I won't argue with taking that as plan A. Yet we know it's still no guarantee that Flaherty's control won't be so terrible the K's don't save him and Montero actually can keep threading the needle and you end up being wrong, so best not to be too averse to plan B. 🤷‍♂️

good point - sure could be. But OTOH, a possible difference in the story is that Larkin has always been the two-way player Yzerman had to be hit on the head to become. Not at the same talent level of course. So whatever Yzerman wants from Larkin (assuming that's the narrative) seems to be a different animal from what Bowman wanted from Yzerman. and maybe it's just that Yzerman is a really hard headed cuss. The drive that made him a great player with his limited stature esp, is a rare one. Maybe (and I think probably) Larkin just isn't that guy. and can't be what Yzerman wishes he were. People are who they are. And this has already been said upthread in maybe a different way.

the thing that I've always wondered about in that episode is how much he was actually trying to take it on himself - as Captain and all that - was he trying to speak to management for a sentiment that was percolating up from the team? That makes a big difference in how you might interpret that episode, and whether as 'Captain' Yzerman wants Larkin to be the company man in the clubhouse and maybe Larkin thought it was his job to represent for the players to management and management didn't like it. As you say, we don't know, but the 'obvious' explanations for things involving people and personalities are often not the right ones.

the question is whether any of the money Mills says she needed and didn't have starts coming her way.

I can't imagine driving South thru Chicago to go to a sporting event - that would be worse than going from Ann Arbor to the Palace (which I avoided ever doing!). Of course an NFL team can fill a stadium in the Gobi desert, but it will be a different audience than the one that went to Solder.

you wonder what they expected. in the end he’s just a player. a guy doesn’t turn into combination of Winston Churchill and Clark Kent just because they put a C. on his jersey. he sure can’t do anything about the talent. EDIT:to continue the thought - I wonder if Stevie remembers that when he was the captain of a winning team his coach was Scotty Frickin' Bowman, he had Shanahan ( a future league official and GM), Fetisov, a future league and political figure, Larianov, a future coach, and Linstrom. It wasn't like his teams needed him to be driving them solo over any finish lines. Those teams had leadership bursting at the seams.

it wouldn’t be hard to figure Mac was POd after he went to the olympics and then ended up hurt again, even if happened after he got back. the team knew he would go if given a spot but that doesn’t mean a coach trying to make the playoffs who thus doesn’t care a whit about the playoffs still isn’t frosted over it

Yeah - let's see if Mize can get through more than 3 start in a row.

that's the good news, the bad news is that paychecks are being outpaced by inflation.

everything with Trump is zero sum. His toddler brain can't compute that you can do something for someone else where the benefit eventually redounds to you.

S&P says it will not let the AI IPOs into the 500 index early. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/p-not-change-rules-allow-230217103.html

yeah - at 10 yrs in he is a declining asset - after all the injuries he isn't player he was no matter what you thought that was.

Elon especially - has been the most long term successful purveyor of the 'greater fool' theory in my investment lifetime. His cult of followers will buy no matter what the fundamentals and no matter how outlandish the promise (nobody is going to Mars any time remotely soon - at least if getting back is to be included). And as long as they buy it all stays afloat. Like they say about shorts - the Market can stay irrational a lot longer than an individual investor can stay solvent.

because people with 2K in their accounts don't read Morningstar? Just a guess there....

How can you watch the Wings play and think Larkin is their problem being 'soft' he is more willing to mix it up, defend his mates and take on hard contact than any other forward other than maybe Cat. How many times did we hear Mac say there has to be more leadership in the room than just Larkin? He's been an example to his team, they don't pick up on it, let him get beat to a pulp and skate back to the bench. That's not on Dylan, that's a bunch of lower character guys than he is, and he's not the one that put them on the team. His critics are right about one thing though, he should have told them to take the C back after the deadline argument last season. Let Mac find someone else to be the team's patsy.

meh - athletes don't 'owe' us anything. Don't forget, the implicit bargain when he signed long term was they would put a team that could win a cup on the ice -- they haven't come close and it's for a lot more reason than anything to do with Larkin. He doesn't owe them or us anything at this point. If he feels he has leverage to force a trade, I can't criticize that, even if I don't like it. and "soft" my ass. After 10 years of being head hunted on a team that's never done **** to defend him? GIve me a break.If I were Dylan that would be reason enough to want out.

I guess we don't know how Yzerman will react, but you'd think the rational thing to do would be pull the plug and move all the vets you can get anything for, and 'Cat would pretty much lead that list after Larkin. Or Yzerman could get his back up and decide "I can dump Larkin and I'm going to otherwise carry on as planned" and we'll be a bad team for 10 years more. If you're in management in US pro sports today, you just have to just admit the athletes (esp vets) are the ones in control - no sense getting stupid over it.

so did anyone watch this game via DirectTV?. I got home in about the 5th inning and my channel guide didn't show this game, and it wasn't 'recording' anything even though it's supposed to 'record' the Tigers. So the guide had the game listed at 7! So sure enough, later last night I check and there was the full recording in my 'library' where I was able to watch it. Somehow they had the game but weren't sending it out live. Totally weird. (I put 'record' in quotes because of course the cloud DVR doesn't record anything, it just gives you token into the carrier's library for that item.)

could be, Yzerman might want to play hard guy, but OTOH, I don't think Ilitch would be happy to see those kind of dramatics.