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Good friend just retired from a position as a long time network manager for a major IT firm. iPhone guy all the way.

Red Wings and Hirose with a 2yr deal. Well, it a good thing that *that's* out of the way so will finally be be able to focus on a coach and the draft. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2022/05/21/detroit-red-wings-taro-hirose-agree-two-year-contract-extension/9876271002/

I really don't see why he's not up. Well, I do, it's Harold Castro. But Kody might give you a bit of pop that Harold doesn't. I think Kody has one less HR this season than Harold has for his career.

Jobe with a clean 3rd but a got dinged by a 2B and HR in the 4th. Was done at the end of the 4th with the 2 runs allowed WM wins a pitcher's dual 1-0 behind Dylan Smith's 5 ip 3H 0R 0BB 4K. Keith did not play.

you just know, if Candy or Schoop get hurt and they finally call him up, he will go 0 for 50.

LOL - Avalanche get the empty netter before the Blue's goalie even gets off the ice.....

De nada

I sort of assume Bill Browder speaks Russian, but I don't know one way or the other....

The average wall in the majors is 395? I guess what he's looking for is for is something along that lines that even if the ball is more juiced in a given year, when the number of HR's goes up, most of the added ones are still right at the wall and that effect swamps the effect of the balls actually going farther because they are more live. Or another way to put it is that if the average fly ball travels 10 ft further, you'd probably still only see a fraction of that 10 ft increase in the average HR because there would be many additional HRs at the wall that would prevent the longer ones from moving the average much.

I know, but our weather usually is Clevelend's weather in 2 hrs. The pattern ended up moving in streaks NE so it rained there even though the morning rain stopped here.

2019 third round pick Andre Lipcius with a couple of hits today. He's beginning to hit a little at Erie after a disappointing '21 campaign.

LOL, his 2nd inning was a little more adventurous. K, single, threw away a pick-off, walk, WP'd the runners to 2 & 3, K and GO to get out of it.

Funny, IIRC, forecast yesterday was rain all day here, but it's fine outside right now. You could have played a 1pm game at Copa with no problem.

no arg with any of this. I was aiming more at the fact that despite Henning being off the wall a lot of the time, he is still out there actually - you know - reporting stuff he goes and finds out - like finding Kreidler and Perez on the back lots instead of just listening to press box announcements and recapping post game press conferences that are already on the net.

If Manning gets back and pitches well and Faedo pitches well and assuming Pineda and Rodriguez are only out <6 weeks each. But they sure can lose 100 if Skubal ends up the only reliable starter. Steve Carlton won 27 games by himself in 1972 while the Phillies were losing 97 as a team.

Except they won't run out of water. Your tax dollars and mine will fund some massive project to get them water. Part of the American way is that no-one is ever required to pay the price for prior stupid policy decisions - except us.

It's pretty bad when the 'retired' freelancer nutball is still doing a better job than the regulars.

Just the fact that he is throwing is a small miracle. They have him on the Mudhen's roster IL.

better yet - just make the kids clean it up.

News and Freep are free to me - the SO is a newspaper junkie.

So when you are wrong, you know you are wrong, and objective reality demonstrates you are wrong, there is nothing left than to deny reality and create fantasy. The GOP is on the exact same road Putin has gone down. Those that would seek power while denying truth never have any other choice. But the Universe is an unforgiving place, and eventually she will crush those that deny what is, just like that convoy on the way to Kyiv. The only question for America is whether the GOP will fail in its denials of reality before or after it takes the US with it.

I'm too for that one. But my daughter and I have an "I am alone" meme from a 80's computer mystery game called 'Lighthouse'. There is a point where you find a young forlorn female robot in the fantasy world, and she says "I am alone here. No-one to gather shells for poor Lyril" 40 yrs later we can still crack each other up by dropping that one at the right time.

There are reports out that commanders, worried about 'scape goating are refusing any initiative, forcing all field decisions high up the chain and creating immobility/predictability in the Russian force - though again more of an issue on offense than defense. Also that Putin is increasingly taking low level field decisions himself. That should spell disaster but given the quality of the Russian officer corps it could be a step up. I would have to guess a huge amount depends on whether the Russian propaganda machine can keep up the warrior motivation going in the troops. I would think a big factor in when an army reaches it's "Lancaster Break" is going to be it's belief in the regime it's fighting for, in support of which I would offer Russia in WW1, the ARVN, and even Iraq for that matter.

The sad part is that this team will eventually hit; it will happen just about when the starting pitching is about done falling apart, and so it won't help enough to matter except in Skubal's starts.

Calgary is hoot to watch though - so much speed to burn.