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The Faedo story is really depressing to read. At one point Avila seemed to be going in the right direction - he had the Tigers working with some bio-mechanics people at UM, but either they picked to wrong people to talk to, balked at the bill, or whatever; that effort obviously came to nothing.

I've also said this as a joke but it's also true - If OSHA had jurisdiction over baseball they would have had to change the was pitchers throw a long time ago. Now of course, that's a joke because we don't care that guys making millions of dollars make a concious decision to put their UCLs at more risk that we allow workers who get more ordinary paychecks to take whether they are willing or not, but consider all the MiLB kids who end up with surgery who never get any kind of payday from baseball. Of course there are lot injuries in all sports, but off hand I can't think of any other sport where you have a particular injury which has become so much a matter of inevitability rather than just the risk of random accident.

Never followed him as a player but always had good thoughts about him because I had a Sal Bando model glove that I liked a lot.

well, it is true, it's mostly rectangles......

he's getting worse. Both legs quaking and his right hand clenched on the chair for suppression. Unfortunately even if it is Parkinson's it could still take a long time to kill him.

I wouldn't care if the corporate inc tax stays low as long as all corporate derived income i.e. - stock awards, stock options, dividends and capital gains get taxed at the same rates as ordinary incomce. But give me one or the other at least.

Sure, there are teams like the Yankees whose local networks are intact, but that wouldn't stop MLB and the orphaned teams teams from setting up a network with no backout for the participating teams. Blackouts would only need to remain for those areas with RSNs remaining. But that would still be a big step toward a more fan friendly system. As a fan in Det who may want to watch both the Tigers and Yankees on the same service, what do a I care if a Yankee fan still needs 'YES' ? 🤷‍♀️

what's the diff? The way managers work it today, they use so many guys they almost guarantee that they are going to bring in someone having an off-day. I say that tongue in cheek but I do believe that the modern system completely misses the reality that on any given day, some guys are not going to be able to perform, and that the more guys you regularly use in one game, the more games you put at risk of hitting a guy who gets shelled and loses that game. That goes under what I would call genneral over confidence in numbers. A player is NOT his stats. His stats are only the average of what he is over time. On any given day he might be anything other than what his stats say he should be. Ignore that at your peril as a manager.

They've seen you coming for a long time...

No starters, no relievers. The perfectly symmetric pitching staff.: 12 pitchers, everybody throws 3 innings every 4th day.

this, x maybe even another 10

4th line getting into the act. 5-2 with 15:30 left

That cudda been alotta of draft picks!

McCarver turned me off early as a broadcaster by coming into Det to do a Tiger game once without having done his homework - I don't remember which pitcher but he was rambling on about a Tigers pitcher's certain pitch -- which was one he didn't throw. After that it was easy to never give him the benefit of the doubt I guess. OTOH, he was good in the booth at all the aesthetic things - nice voice, good delivery.

Is the ice in this arena generally crappy? Seems like an inordinate number of pucks bouncing over sticks. Makes for choppy game. and Trevor still does the worst interviews in all of US sports.

this is the kind of case that cries out for a really punative judgement, which is likely to come, and then eventually be vacated by a craven Supreme Court.

LOL - giving up the bad goal seems to have finally woken them up a little. The 1-1 to end 1.

Wings can't even make a clean pass to save their lives now.

terrible short handed goal for the Flames. Helberg mishandled the puck and Wings were late getting back to help. Wings have been on their heels most of this game already.

I know we've been burned pulling the plug on young guys that blossomed after we traded them, but man it's hard for me to see Killian having a role on a good NBA team.

Maybe he was trying to turn the logical tables on Haley's call for age tests - I guess on the basis of 'be careful what criteria you want to judge people by because they might want to judge you by one you'll fail" but even if there was a germ a good argument in there the rhetorical execution was abyssmal.

oooohhh. I like that one. Perfect for Trout.

Larkin isn't the great physical talent a McDavid is on the ice, but he is a great passer and superlative shooter who can put the puck past a goalie much better than most and he elevates the play of his teammates. I don't know where that puts him in any kind of ranking, but he's a hockey player you want on a winning team and if they let him go for a difference of 1M/yr they are idiots. And so far I have no reason to believe SY is an idiot. But he is a hard nose competitive guy himself so I'm also not surprised he's OK letting negotiations drag to put the max pressure on Larkin's side he can.

WTF? When I saw this I thought it had to Fox and Friends or something. CNN? I guess that's another one circling the drain. Of course we knew that the new management was going to be a disaster, and it's proving it.

My guess is that Yzerman is will not be easily deterred from his long term view. If he isn't going to try to sign Bertuzzi, I don't think he will hold him to zero value for the sake of this year's final record.