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I know, I was trying to resist the temptation to bring up Parker - but it can't be avoided.

No, I didn't say that - in fact I said somewhere today that not counting on Tork was completely justified. In the bit you refer to I had shifted away from the specific (Tigers) to the general (team managements in general). Do you actually consider Torkelsons '23 to be 'turd'. I'd like to have more guys lay some of those!

still missing too many pieces. There was a point in 2019 I though they might only be a couple of players away - turns out it's going to have taken more like a dozen.

Yeah - javy was quoted in the story as saying he's always wanted to play some CF. Who knew?

You mean giving up three even strength goals in one period doesn't cut it?

good outing for Montero. Kreidler and Dingler and Guenther helped their causes. Everybody else pretty meh.

Schumer claiming today that his initial stance against the CR was a short term tactic aimed at helping the House dems peal off some votes and stop or modify it there. Even accepting that as true however, his Spidey sense for the harm this backlash is doing his caucus versus how much was accomplished in the House (nada) certainly was a fail.

So what’s the deal with Joey Barts renaissance in Pittsburgh?.His career was dead and buried in SF.

Petzold says Perez, he’s probably got that right.

And McGonigle. The future waves hello….…..maybe

Tough day for Sweeney

Won’t be ready as per Freep. No timetable, no bugger all.

Make it six. Tiger run prevention failing on all counts

JHM not covering himself with glory in the OF here....

Ha. Don't mind the night games. I have more of a puritanical guilt thing about watching/listening to a ball game during a week day instead of in the evening even if it's perfectly true I wouldn't have accomplished anything in particular that day.....🤷‍♂️

that's the thing though - you look around the league and even at our own Tiger management over the years and you get no lack of scratch your head "why did they do that?" moments. So it's not as surprising as one might assume given the money being spent, that team managements do take a lot of strange turns. I suppose falling in too in love with your own choices drives a lot of it. A GM that can stay detached from his ego has a leg up on his competition.

I guess there wasn't much point in talking about Baez at 3rd until there was some inkling about whether he could hit, but obviously if javy's bat can play again, it's a no brainer to let him work out at 3rd and see what happens.

my nephew has a Rivian - absolutely loves it.

starting to see a lot of IONIQs. Hyundai seems to be doing well with that.

they are projecting - and I'm sure they would agree there is a lot of uncertainty in all of it. Things nobody knows for sure: which of the two faces of Gleyber Torres will we see this season - so far it looks like the 2nd half guy - we hope it stays that way; How good was Colt's defensive learning curve at 2b and what will it be like at 1b? How much better could he have gotten with more reps at 2b, how many reps at 1st before he's at least neutral?; What is Colts ISO going to look like thise season?; Torkelson of course a huge unknown. A lot of assumptions had to made about what we would see from him this Spring - it was completely right not to leave themselves dependent on him. So far he is probably upsetting a lot of those assumptions but who knows if it will last? What I hope for in the FO is that they make a plan that has enough options so that they can adjust to whatever actually happens that wasn't plan A. As it stands, with Vierling and Meadows out - Carpenter spends his time in the OF and having Keith, Torkelson and Torres rotate through 3 open positions is no problem at all as the season opens. From then on, performance will probably sort things out.

I don't know how either system weights outright misplays, but for Colt most of his errors at 2b were early in the season - he played much cleaner in the 2nd half, so if the numbers we see are averaged over the whole season, I would argue that by the time he finished the season he was playing significantly better than his season aggregates. Hard to know exactly how much from what we have available, but of course the team has breakdowns over shorter intervals.

But it doesn't force the GOP to any table - they're the ones who don't care if it's all killed. Do the Dems think the GOP cares if they the dems decide to hold themselves hostages? It's like Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles. Not to mention the opposition will lose a ton if he decides the can shut down the federal courts as 'non-emergency'.

Granting all that, the question remains whether forcing a shutdown does anything but make Trump stronger. ‘Accelerationism’ is a nice buzzword,another intellectual construct, but I’m not seeing any real way a shutdown advances any practical increase in opposition power.

This.

Of course that contract also makes him a very attractive trade chip if some of them surpass him as well. Love your players, but never too much!