gehringer_2

True - Vance isn't doesn't even get close to Clarence Thomas territory on this one.

Probably the same thing we are seeing with the degraded audio quality we've talked about on the baseball thread - plenty of tech but probably not enough people manning it, or low cost people not trained enough to man it well, or only manning it remotely or it's completely on autopilot.

I meant he didn't have an assured roster spot. The Booth crew was talking about Chafin not having to worry about his performance during ST - implying he didn't have to perform to win a job. Hardly the case.

I'm not sure Bernie isn't still in the 60's. I still don't feel like the Dems have figured out how to talk about economics. I think Biden had a clearer and better vision of what needed to change but he was abysmal at communicating it - partly because I think he recognized that his ideas were not particularly popular with progressives and since in the Dem party the progressives tend to suck up the media oxygen, he decided not to talk about it much - just do it and hope people saw results. But A) he simply ran out of gas, B) 4 years is too short to change much structurally, C) you had the covid money supply inflation but D) mainly in the US you don't get credit for doing anything if the media doesn't 'recognize' you for doing it and the media in the US is close to totally ignorant about real world economics. It may be the only thing they know less about than science.

Plus my bad - I actually meant to type against "LHB". They are playing assuming some lefties are not going to pull much. We got to a couple of ST games last week and they were doing it then - of course at Lakeland I think it also has to do with the wind. The get a lot of very windy days in Lakeland.

Tigers playing their RF a lonnnng way toward center againt LHB a lot this spring. High risk/reward when the guy pulls one.

I've had family in CA for 40 yrs so have been out there a lot. I remember my BIL carrying on about In-and-Out once when we were travelling with them to the Sierra's so we had to make a stop. It was good - but I'm basically not a burger guy so whatever. I do remember the Raven in the parking lot though. He saw some value there, and they are smart birds.

The Giants guys did zero homework for this game - from not knowing Malloy's name to not knowing Chafin doesn't have a contract. No idea what they are watching on the Detroit side.

Back-2-Back!

Riley polluting the bay with some old string.

TORK! Flashes the leather.

Tiger bats AWOL again.

That was my sometime AAT that was mic'd up. I'm still frosted about that trade. Actually I wouldn't call sending out either Ray or Adames among the Tigers' finer moves. I really didn't like David Price.

Bert, we must be watching the same game! How weird is that?

Giants announcers start out the game calling 'Malloy' "Mallory"

I'm telling you, in two week Javy is your regular CF. 🤣

but not in CF I would hope!

I think it's the one thing working in our favor. Since he doesn't care about theories or ideologies he doesn't have some kind of set program he has a hard commitment to do, he just does whatever his lizard brain comes up with he thinks make him a 'strong' leader, but then if a lot of people complain and it's unpopular (as long as it's not just his 'enemies'), his need for that adulation does temper his behavior - that's what we are seeing with this constant bobbing, and weaving over tariffs and some of the other walk backs. So it's probably important that people do keep up the energy for making noise about what they aren't liking.

The Tigers seem to like the concept of promoting guys late in the season instead of promoting them in the off-season - so they don't have to start off a season somewhere unfamiliar - helps them hit the ground running I guess? Seems like a reasonable concept.

LOL - I owned one set of GENERALS back in the day this ad was probably from. They came on an otherwise beautiful Pontiac B Body station wagon (the old GM land cruiser). But they were compounded with this incredibly hard rubber - they would not wear out but they didn't grip anything. I finally replaced them with more than half the tread still good because they were so useless.

Since the two were promoted to WestMI just at the end of the season - that would be the logical place for them to pick it up. McGonigle may be a little ahead of Clark as a hitter - better walk rate, lower K's - I wouldn't be surprised to se him advance a little quicker than Clark.

right - I saw somewhere Hinch had designated today as a bullpen day.

Like Buddha - I will grant that Goalies are fickle, but that doesn't excuse the position player moves. It's clear enough to everyone, and Yzerman even says this, that the Wings need to be stronger on the puck and going after the puck, but when the team makes trade/FA moves, they don't move in that direction - it's like they can't find what they need but then are moving guys just to make the moves and as a result too often getting worse. Cat and Kane are both examples - I like both players under the right circumstances, but they were acquisitions that only made the teams biggest deficiency worse. And Gus in place of Ghost? Same thing - Ghost lacked some of what they were looking for - fine - but they replaced him with a guy that has even less of any of those things. That there may have been cap issue is no excuse - they put themselves there as well.

and Uwe Krupp

Maryland wins by 1 with a buzzer beater. B1G with 3 teams in the S16 and two more pending..