Dave
davebabich.bsky.social
Dave
@davebabich.bsky.social
Faux - economist; Detroit sports cynic and out of patience! ; Go Blue; loves his family; likes to learn about old things.
No chance you're slower than VMart was.
Even his HR trots were waaaaay below average.
May 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Gneisenau, based on her mainmast being attached to the rear of her funnel; Scharnhorst had her mainmast more towards the rear of her superstructure just in front of the rear rangefinder.
May 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Can Ausmus' WAR fall due to how bad of a manager he was with the Tigers
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Great pics.
That's the NKC-135 Airbone Laser Lab. Was tested in the 80s to use its laser to destroy missiles in flight.
April 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Tigers had him and thought "no thank you." Instead, we'll sign this guy for $140 million
April 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Rare is a bit of an understatement when it was literally the only time between 1943 and 1992 that the sisters sailed together.
April 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Pretty sure a Spearfish breaking the back of one of those yachts would qualify as an accident
April 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
So we're stuck seeing some dumb jock talking buffalo yelling "lets go sports bar."

They could still be producing new OT commercials, but I feel like Goodell, Silver, Bettman and Manfred all told BW3 to never bring this premise back, similar to the NFL telling ESPN to cancel Playmakers.
April 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
March 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Says the man who's gone bankrupt too many times to count.
March 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
And I thought us Americans were the ones to use absolutely every other possible object to measure with before the Metric system?

Please make sure moving forward all measurements on your submarine diagrams are in units of Kim.
March 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
100% yes. Now imagine the backdrop for those colors if it's snowing.
February 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Are the Chinese starting a new tradition of placing differing types of aircraft under the mast for good luck instead of coins, like in the RN or USN?
February 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Great story on Chet from last August in the Detroit Free Press
He was, thankfully, able to make it to the Tigers '84 WS 40th appreciation night here in Detroit.

www.freep.com/story/sports...
Tigers' Chet Lemon can’t walk or talk, but family hopes Detroit trip could spark something
In a Florida stroke rehab center, former Detroit Tigers outfielder Chet Lemon sits next to his bed strapped into a wheelchair.
www.freep.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The 2nd one looks like that all you need to do is clean the graffiti, mop the floor and turn on the lights to host another school function.
February 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Getting early 20th century naval air vibes
February 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Except they currently are not
January 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Didn't realize this exists outside of the Olympics
January 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The USN has similar disfunction but on a trillion $ level
January 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
While some ship designs age well, the macks of the Knox class have never looked good, then or now.
January 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
By this time shouldn't he go see a doctor?
January 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So much better than pumpkin pie!
December 24, 2024 at 10:47 PM