1984Echoes

I was being facetious...

How could anyone tell the difference?

I know, right?! The Pistons are without Cade Cunningham, Marvin Bagley and Cory Joseph. I guess just wait until next year...

No... They're kicking ass. Although the Rockets are trying hard to get back into the game...

What a Brainless F*@k Family.

And the Ukrainians are counting tanks coming from the West. Each and every 321 (at this point) of them: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-receive-321-tanks-western-095800258.html

An educated guess: It's on the hush-hush... but the US, right now (and possibly the past several weeks), is sending ATACMS over to Ukraine.

They should be losing 4 or 5 to 0... They've looked bad all night long...

That should be hash-tagged: #BNT or #BNTS

US Training of Ukrainian troops (in this instance their NCO development program) from 2014 through 2021 (before they pulled out... was that Jan-22?) resulted in Russia's defeat, starting in February, 2022: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraines-battlefield-success-surprised-russia-174110124.html

Yeah... Hopefully the majority of that will now be in the past. It's torture trying to read a Lions game thread... Given my nature that is...

The Psyche mission...: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/rare-asteroid-may-worth-70-140000062.html

It's not Kasper's chances at issue. It's the timeframe. Horvat is a rental. Lower return value than what people think...

Without a contract... He's a rental. And his value just dropped significantly.

This is where I'm at. Maybe add Buium and Mazar (at U of Denver) into the mix because I believe they are showing themselves as belonging in a potential future Red Wings core... Also, Hronek (I know quite a few in here are pretty dead set against him based on history) has shown enough improvement that I'm reluctant to let him go. As far as I'm concerned, he's a part of the core, at least for now, until he proves otherwise to me. And as a 2nd pairing RH'ed D, who else do we have? We have NOONE as a RH'd D otherwise, aside from Seider. So that's 1st pairing, what about 2nd and 3rd? I'm reluctant to let go of anyone that might fix a hole on the team, but just creates another gaping hole.

Several Feds have commented on having 25 basis points raises in Feb & March. Others still holding out for 50 basis each of these two meetings. But then nothing until September... I don't see an overshoot, I see fine tuning. And the unknowns are where the fine tuning is only a best guess. The primary unknowns are: (A) Does China come roaring back because they've stopped their zero-Covid policy. Who knows? They're suffering hospitalizations and deaths right now because zero-Covid basically just delayed the impact of Covid spread and as a population, they are NOT highly vaccinated. Plus, the US and EU are treating China differently than pre-Covid for multiple reasons. They're losing manufacturing and other jobs to SE Asian countries. But if they do take off, that's a huge upside pressure on energy prices, again. (B) When is Putin going to stop? If he just stopped, today, then (1) a huge pricing easing of foods and fertilizer and related occurs because both Russia & Ukraine are heavy worldwide suppliers (fertilizer and grains in particular) in these areas. Stopping the war will ease access to these supplies in multiple different ways. And (2) the opposite of a China increase in energy demands will be Russia having less difficulties getting oil & related products to China & India. Not certain if the price cap remains or is removed though... another unknown. This is just my opinion, but: the labor market is less critical to inflation than the Russian war against Ukraine.

No on Hronek, Kasper or Ras. The offer is Zadina, Veleno, a 1st rounder from 2024 or 2025 (not 2023), Cross Hanas, and choose any 1 of McIsaac, Viro, Albert Johansson, or Sebrango. Add a 2nd rounder if it clinches the deal. If not... If they say no, that's fine by me. As Shinzaki stated, we are not yet in "win now" mode so I have no interest whatsoever in moving any primary players or prospects. If we were a playoff team and needed a Brendan Shanahan trade and Horvat was "that guy", then I would treat it differently. But I believe this trade is a couple years premature. I want our best guys (and prospects) as the core of our team, not traded away in a short term not-ready-yet move. One last question: If we do trade for Horvat, and sign him long-term... is that a message to Larkin that he can be replaced? That Stevie Y has no problem moving on from him if they cannot come to an agreement? He's done it before.

We Won!!!

Trayce Thompson through 6/19/22 with Toledo (bandaid player but Grossman was atrocious): .299/ .352/ .639 = .991 OPS 2022 Kerry Carpenter at: Erie - .304/ .359/ .646 = 1.005 OPS, promoted to Toledo 6/25 (after Thompson went to LA) Toledo - .331/ .420/ .644 = 1.044 OPS, promoted to Detroit 8/10 (after Grossman was traded to the Braves) Detroit - .252/ .310/ .485 = .795 OPS Kerry in particular looks reactive, not proactive.

Nothing matters anymore.

Should've guessed...

I believe that ticket would garner a lot, a LOT less than the 45% TFG got in 2020. I'm thinking in the 24-30% range. Maybe less than that. That is such a "Jackass Ticket" that everyone would easily recognize it as such and even Republicans would run for the hills. Except for the MAGA hard-core that is... And even they would start peeling off at the sight of that ticket. Worse than McCain-Palin by a long, long shot.

Plus that 10 mile long line of cars because everyone else wants to go get lost in the corn. Call it a corn fetish. That's on every one else's bucket list, right? Not just mine...? to go get lost "in the corn"....

That was the joke KL2 was playing... It definitely is Goff and the played joke was on the VW Golf... It certainly seems to fit the narrative though, doesn't it?

I thought I remembered seeing a VW Goff somewheres... I mean they have a plant in California, don't they? Or at least a dealership...