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I was relegated to the ESPN Gamecast thing, too. It is absolutely fantastic but I freaked out twice in the ninth inning with their little animation thing of the field. You get the little animation of the ball being pitched and there's a .................. pause ................... then this little yellow crawl comes up saying "this pitch has been hit into play" ..................... pause .................... then you see the animation of Cano's hit animation going higher, Higher, HIGHER to left field then it dies out and displays that he's out. @#%$!@$!! That's killer for my heartrate. Freaking Damon's at-bat was the same thing, with the added anxiety that he had already hit a 3-run shot earlier. But man.... It was AWESOME hearing the cars going down the road outside after that last out, honking away, people yelling out their windows. That was great!

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We were over on the far wall using a couple tables that were joined up in front of the glass jersey display case.

Had a great time, guys. Little Ava got a little upset on the way home but was fine once we got here. I have to say I'm very pleased with how the fantasy football team faired today: an 84-26 demolition of my opponent. So having Roy in today instead of Stallworth didn't have a big effect.

5:30 would be perfect.

Okay, who is all coming? Would it be out of the realm of possibility to "delay" the start closer to 5-ish? (It's NFL Opening Weekend and it's hard to pry me from the couch -- and damn near impossible to get me off my butt in the Seattle/Detroit game is actually CLOSE in the 3rd/4th quarter.) Too bad the Wings/Tigers Alumni game wasn't announced sooner. Would've been cool to make a day of it with that game and then Hockeytown Cafe or Cheli's right after.

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Zetterberg's OK. I split NN's post into a new thread since the original was more dedicated to speculation leading up to the actual diagnosis: http://www.letsgowings.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=37078

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Oh I know, I was just speculating. Bone chips just seems to be a common culprit with injuries that linger or only surface from time to time. (See: Joseph, Curtis) Might be better to get him back and clean it out ASAP if that's the case. Waiting hasn't obviously helped.

Bone chips?

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It doesn't replace Fischer's physical presence. That's what this blueline corps has been sorely lacking and a guy like Jonsson or Leetch doesn't provide that. Markov may have priced himself out of Detroit and that's what we're left looking at on the free agent market, however. That said, it does look like Jonsson fits the track record, for sure.

Yes.

Leetch doesn't make one iota of sense unless the team is considering trading a guy like Schneider for cap relief. (I don't think Leetch would get a high salary at all and if Schneider were to be traded it'd result in a cap savings around $1-2M, IMO.) Leetch, obviously, isn't the physically imposing figure or presence in front of the net that Holland has said previously that the team is looking for to "replace" Fischer. Do we really need FOUR offensive-defensemen? Markov, however, DOES make sense. The most of any of the mentions here, anyway.

Not yet, no. It's *looking* like it'll be this coming weekend, but nothing definitive yet. It still hinges on whenever she feels ready to come out, lol, though we'll help in the decision process.

Bad news: We're going to have to back out on this one, guys. There's a number of contributing factors, but mostly it's the cost of gas (we're trying to save money as Liz will be off from work for a while shortly), lack of a babysitter, and there's still some things to finish up around the house before Daughter 2.0 is due.

I could talk to Kevin (Rinkside Ramblings) about it -- he's a veteran of these kinds of trips and uses Mickey Redmond Travel & Tours all of the time. I'm sure if the response is good enough (if the people involved are centrally located, I'm not sure if you all must be in the Detroit Metro area) maybe we could work some kind of discount?

Post something here in the Group Events forum! Also, I'm making a renewed effort to better publicize these group get-togethers (GTGs) by adding them to the Forum Calendar... There's currently two events listed so far... If we can get some good concrete details on the TC event we can post that up, too!

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WDFN for me.

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Which location? If it's downtown the Tigers have an afternoon game there and it's going to be craaaa-zzzaaay in there. (FWIW, on the 29th they're away in Minnesota.) Obviously, if this is Dearborn than my post is moot.

Shanahan didn't "agree" to a pay cut, he picked up the player option on his contract ($2.28M) that was 76% of the original salary. He didn't have a choice, and if he didn't think $2.28M was an appropriate salary... well, no one held a gun to his head telling him to pick up the option. He even waited until the deadline to make that decision. Let's not forget that when he signed that contract, even still a regular 30-goal scorer, he still felt his 2005-06 season was worth only $3 million in the PRE-CAP era. I agree (hope?) with this. $4M seems woefully excessive, despite scoring 40 goals among 80 points, for a 37-year old player that's obviously not getting any younger and is notorious for having big seasons in a contract year. $2.75M seems reasonable to me.

Well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it'd have to be in the next couple of weeks. We could do it *after* Daughter 2.0 arrives, but at that point you're looking at late August or early September, around Labor Day?