We currently forecast what we believe is a 'reasonable' recovery, which includes assumptions for slightly below-average sequential growth in the third quarter of 3 percent, above average sequential growth in the fourth quarter of 4 percent, and a fairly typical first-year recovery in 2003,
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Just about all of the U. S. looks to see below-average temperatures dominate things for the next five to seven days at least. It's late in the heating season so the actual demand for heat, while being above average, will not be too excessive.
I am very happy, as far as how all four lines, all six defensemen and the goalie played tonight. The key to us becoming a better team and a competitive team in this league was our work habits and our accountability. And if we lose that, we are an average to a below-average team - as we've seen when we don't work hard.
Are they bad mistakes by the goalie No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there.
So far, it's not been good. He's part of that young group we have, and you've got to continue to watch how they perform. If it goes well, you give more opportunities. If it doesn't, over time, you've got to look at how many performances at a below-average rate he gets.
I was thinking about that. If I have a good game, we lose, and if I have a below-average game, we win. But however we can get a win, I will take it.
I've said it before You're not going to win in this league with average or below-average goaltending. Tonight it was below average. But Crawford was awesome for a kid that was thrown in there.
The evidence so far would suggest we're probably going to have a below-average employment gain in this recovery.
What would be more impressive would be see a day like yesterday and then follow through from that move. Let's see if the Nasdaq composite can advance for more than two or three days and on volume. Every rally we've had off the low has been on below-average volume.
I can't understand why one would pay so much for a company that has below-average potential growth.
Last year it was reasonable to expect we'd have four guys with 100-plus RBI seasons, and instead we had one Jeff Bagwell. No one had anywhere near a career year. More players than not had below-average seasons. We expect the offense to do significantly better.
April and May are going to be very critical around here. If we continue to see below-average rainfall, things could get ugly.
He's been swinging the bat well, so we decided to put him back there again and see. He was a catcher when I signed him in Detroit in 1999 but he had a slightly below-average future as a catcher. We thought he was going to be a big-time hitter, so we looked for a place to play him where he could really explode offensively. He's come back full circle.
His confidence level is getting better and better, and that's a huge part of being a pitcher. I've seen guys with below-average stuff that actually go out there and look like they have above-average stuff because their confidence level tells them that. That's something that Brandon never really had last year.
We had let a (lack of) effort seep into our team and I was scared to death that that kind of effort had become acceptable. If we lose our work ethic, we're an average or a below-average team.
If we don't play well, we'll get beat. We're just not good enough to have an average to below-average night and expect to win.