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This a fine start Romad, but I still say the weapon has no useful purpose. Single action long guns for public sale only.

Could be some general discontent, who would blame him? Also puts into play whether Dylan helped push Blashill out the door. I don't claim to know how Dylan felt about it but for my money the Wings were always a better team playing their best top line instead of splitting up Larking Burtuzzi and Seider into any other combinations to try and get more scoring. I think all that ever got them was a marginally better 2nd line but a much less effective top line, so if it's me, I'm not real happy about that. Of course it's also hard to believe Bertuzzi hadn't ticked off some of his teammates with his vaccine 'eccentricity,' which could have included Larkin. Larkin only said nice things in public, but that was expected. So who knows?

Really. Very unprofessional. In any kind of agency business you work at your clients pleasure. If you don't accept that you are in the wrong business.

I bet Torkelson is going to have a few words for his manager for calling him a 'plodder' -

Let the Heavenly Chorus say "AMEN"!

There is a larger point though, regardless of whether these cops turn out to have acted well or badly, the basic expectation is wrong. You can put the best SWAT team in the world on the site and it doesn't change that the perp has all the initiative, the good guys have no visibility into what is happening inside. Every tactical choice is fraught with danger in a hostage situation. There is simply no way you can expect a good resolution out of a situation like this - by the time it happens you are already too little and too late no matter what resources you think you have. There is ONE way to stop these - eliminate the potential perps by taking better care of people in the society, and eliminate the weapons they can get their hands on if you do miss one. One and only ONE answer. The rest is pure bullshit.

People don't understand much about how emergency response training works. They don't train people to be heroes, they train them to secure situations and then use resources and tactics to end situations as safely as possible. When responders are in situations where they cannot act with *relative* safety to themselves, they wait for reinforcements. That is the nature of the training. Even a swat team is no collection of John Rambos. Again - too fricking many movies banging around inside people's head instead of reality. Again, that is why the idea that the answer to people with guns is more people with guns, whether civilians or SWAT teams, is so absolutely ignorant. The 82nd Airborne is never going to be on 30 seconds call in your neighborhood. NEVER.

I think you still have a better than even money chance of getting three solid starters out of Skubal, Turnbull, Faedo, Mize, and Manning. The more frightening thing with regard to baseball in general is that Faedo, Skubal and Turnbull have all had TJ and Mize already has UCL issues. That's an 80% rate on a single injury class. If OSHA regulated baseball, pitching would be banned.

this may be a little unfair. It is a basic tenet of 1st responder training not to allow more people to go into a dangerous area. If the police were not responding the situation in the building adequately that is completely open to any fair criticism, but not keeping more people from entering it.

Was actually a game at the old ballpark in the Tiger bad old days (late 70's?) and witnessed one of those. Against Toronto. Jay on 1st. Bunt laid down. Pitcher threw it away to 1st. RF picked it up and threw it away past 3rd. Run in and man on third on a bunt. 🤣😭

They've locked him in a dark room with his arm tied down until he agrees to have pre-emptive TJ before June 1 Seriously - I've seen nothing since Monday's report that he is in FLA and not cleared to throw .

If Mother Nature doesn't get to the game first. T Showers supposedly going to be 'isolated' so with luck maybe just work around a delay.

yeah - Hinch appeared just a little bit PO'd that McClendon pulled Manning from his last start when he hit the system 30 pitch/inning rule. OTOH, CCG made the point in the game thread Tuesday that there is a good reason that limit is there. If they bring him back without more rehab will they hold him to 50-60 pitches in his start?

this is a such a key point to all these idiots who talk about arming 'defenders' everywhere, and that is that not only are their tactical assumptions about what is possible completely asinine, but their assumption that you can assume that the personal courage on the part of the defenders to put themselves at high risk of death is just commonplace in the population, it is NOT is never will be. Total loonspuddery.

I suppose, but to some degree the one followed from the other. He drafted mediocre players, fell in love with them and overpaid them. I would think that had he had drafted good players it wouldn’t have been so much an issue to up against the cap. 🤔

Kenny’s problem as a GM in Det was drafting bad players for too many years.

LOL - beautiful Of course, another example of how useless MLB scoring now is, neither Segura at 2B nor Realmuto at C have been charged with an error as per the live box score but the CF has been. Has to be an error on Segura - perfectly catchable ball that even hit his glove. Not a good throw to get the runner, but no reason not to catch it.

Beck reports they are considering bringing Manning back to Detroit without another rehab start despite the shaky outing yesterday - quothe Hinch, "It’s not ideal, but nothing’s ideal right now." no kidding.... https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-injuries-and-roster-moves

Wilmer Flores with a rough outing, 4.1 IP 7H 4ER 2BB 7K Really tough day for Lakeland though: One-hit and no-hit in the two ends of a 7 inning double header

His so damn FOS it isn't even funny. His premise is asinine. To stop a perp with body armor and an assault rifle you don't need a guard, you need a pillbox and a team on a Browning. And I'm sure we'll see Ted sending his kids to a school with a front door like that.

If Harold Castro starts showing occasional power he might be worth something - but still not at SS. Anywhere else I'm OK with.....

Harold for LF for a few games?

yeah - he got the hard one, don't let the bum beat you....

just a wee bit.... and he's in trouble now - he didn't take his rosin bag with him....

I guess we only use Fulmer in low leverage. Pitches great behind.