1984Echoes

I think the roster is improving quickly and will so again before we start next season. The issue in my mind is what can Steve do about the coaching? A) Blash is losing the team so badly that he MUST be replaced? B) We are not yet at the stage where we can find a premium coach willing to take on this team and therefore, by default we are stuck with Blash for at least one more year? C) A premium coach IS interested in jumping to the Red Wings, this offseason, and therefore Steve is able to make the coaching change that he wants (whether that's Larionov or someone else... just saying...)? D) Steve actually believes that Blash is the right coach for this team, right now, and sticks with him. At least for one more year?

There was definitely a plan.

Because... this... I saw this earlier and was going to post this... So in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the Russians decide that it's an OK idea to poison/ murder the Ukrainian negotiators? Or maybe they were just F'ing with them with some kind of irritant? Either way... WTF is wrong with these pricks? Where is the Queen of Hearts when you need her? "Adolph Putin... OFF with your Head!!!"

Personally, I want his head.

Nope, absolutely not. At least in my mind it's a hard no. As to some of your other questions... I think there is nothing anyone can do outside of Russia... so it's a moot point anyways. But inside Russia is where it gets tricky... I don't necessarily believe Putin will lose his head over what he has done so far... But the oligarchs aren't stupid either. They are in a permanently damaged financial situation (for however many years "permanent" actually means) and, even though they no longer are in "Putin's inner circle", I can't imagine they have zero contacts both within the inner circle and with Putin himself. Any serious griping from the oligarchs or the inner circle will have some kind of impact on Putin's leadership, including and up to "you need to step down." What actual chances of that happening are... unknown. But it's not zero either, and it may, or may not include, violence. The other thing is: I don't think the Russians are stopping anything at this point. After the rainy season, in another month or so, the ground will dry up and Russian tanks can roll again. There may be another secondary invasion beginning mid-May or so. ONLY if Ukraine survives that and damages Russian invading forces will the "inner circle" talking get loud enough for there to be any chance of regime change in Russia. And I won't bet on a violent change either. Russia may back off (if Ukraine survives a second assault), ask Putin to retire to his billionaires mansion in southern Russia, and simply hide/ protect him while emplacing a less belligerent leader. But... I'm certain Putin will have something to say about that scenario. Currently, the world is stuck with a belligerent, fascist, murderous dictator at the head of a nuclear state... with no real way out of that aside from what Russian Insiders may, or may not be able to do. In whatever direction Russia turns over the next several months... Everyone on the planet seriously hopes that Putin isn't so reckless/ dangerous/ belligerent that he actually decides to start pushing buttons.

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Hopefully with his head cut off?

Yeah, I think that's just a (very) infrequent anomaly... I don't remember any other game of Cade's with 30+ min's and 0 rebounds...

Cool !!!

I was going to say give Blash no more than one more year to see if he can make something out of this team, with its influx of young talent (if no other high level coach would be willing to take us on yet, at this point in our rebuild...). But as with Buddha mentioning Igor... Yeah, if he wants it, IMO, the job is his... right now.

Getting slaughtered...

Which means he needs to be removed... Internally... By his Russian inner circle, or Palace Coup, or whatever name anyone wants to put on that. I hope Peskov and all of the rest of his inner circle... actually realize that.

While the media is tripping over their feet over what Biden said, here is what PUTIN War Crimes continue to be done to Ukraine, including the use of phosphorus bombs against civilians and an additional kidnapping and deportation to Russia of Mariupol residents against their will: https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-ukraine-did-while-were-160412218.html

This.

Which service did you serve in? What unit? How long was your tours of duty?

Opinions aren't based on true or false. They're based on personal beliefs, which may or may not be horseshit. For Example, the 9/11 terrorists believed that (it was their opinion) Allah would love them if they killed Americans. Is their "opinion" true or false? Nothing you post is true. You are the most fact-free poster I have ever seen on this, or the old, site. Nothing but slanted opinions that have one, and only one, sound. But you keep telling yourself how "true-minded" you are... The biggest joke I've ever heard in 55 years.

Not even that. It's not talking a good game when nothing comes out but a stream of horseshit. That's not talking a good game. That's just talking a stream of pure idiocy. IMO.

Harris is going to follow whose orders? Putin's? You're on PUTIN'S side now? WTF is WRONG with you?

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I think Miggy in the #5 or #6 spot should be a non-issue. I'm just guessing but... I think Miggy is just happy to be here. He loves the game, he loves being here, he loves all the kids coming up, and he would love to be in the playoff hunt again. Just my opinion, but I think #5 or #6 is not disrespecting him and I think he will agree to that and not make one single squawk about that.

Dude... you've got Morris-Stieb backwards.

I particularly like your comparison to Reagan. It's apt.

You apparently are ignoring two key points: 1) This appears to amount to Vice President Biden seemingly going to one dinner. 2) The second involved a business venture that Hunter tried to set up ... So this amounts to Joe Biden apparently refusing some deal Hunter tried to enmesh him in. In other words: Much Ado about NOTHING.

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I would still do it. It would be the Lions betting on themselves. And I think they should do it.