1984Echoes

Yeah... I see no reason to trade up whatsoever. A QB and a WR will fall to us at our second 1st round pick and at our 2nd round pick. I don't see it as any more complicated then letting the draft come to us and if there's a QB the team likes then go ahead and get him (using the Rams pick, not trading up) and there will still be a WR that we like at our 2nd round pick. I believe buddha is categorically not correct that we will be trading up in this draft...

I guess our game plan is to wear out their 16 players with all this scoring...?

3-2 first period... Ugly.

That's crazy. That and we're down 2-1 already.

I wasn't a hard-coded Correa or Bust. I also stated that around here a few times. I wanted Correa because he was the best player. And Baez the least because as a wild swinger I think that will cause serious problems, in the near future. But I also said if we signed him, or anyone "Not-Correa", I'd get on board and get behind that player. Even Baez. It was a soft (not completely serious) Correa or Bust... But now our best outcome is for Hinch to convince Baez to not swing at everything/ anything... For Baez... that means replicating what he did with the Mets, and improving upon that if Hinch etal can get him to do that...

Teach Baez to have a lot more patience and a much better discerning eye and we may have a "Correa Equivalent" anyways. Like he did with the Mets in a SSS.

Who were already barefoot anyways so "Shoeless" caught their attention...

That's why we opted out of a weekend like July 4th as that would indeed be a monstrous mess... we'll see about a later weekend... although July in the cool mountains might be a must see anyways... We'll see about that first part... My stamina at the moment is a little less than zero... We'll see how my older aunts & uncles and Mom and Dad fare... My Mom has had foot, knee, back and hip surgeries so I don't think she'll have an easy time negotiating a lot of hills...

We're going to have a family reunion in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee last week in July. We haven't had a reunion in over 10 years... We're a bit of a Michigander Diaspora. Searching for jobs and we ended up in: Florida, California, Texas, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, England (my sister has lived outside of London for over 25 years...), maybe some other states with the great grandkids but I've lost track. Tennessee is roughly in the middle for everyone. Between Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and kids... I think we have roughly 100 coming in... Grandma & Grandpa had 9 kids which got us off to a nice little start on that...

Oh how I want to see arrests of some of these Congressman while they are IN SESSION: "Jim Jordan, you are under arrest for Sedition against the United States of America". Handcuffed in front of the entire congress, and walked out the door...

Hah!!! Now with Kingpin? Now I gotta remember which Vigilante series he was in, and which season... And I know he made it into more than one series/ season so... Wait... wasn't Vera Farmiga his love interest in his main vigilante series? Funny, at the start of this episode, just as Jack Duquesne was getting arrested I thought "OH, her mom is going to go bad...". I blazed through the different vigilante series and was ok with some of it but... it didn't sink in like the rest of the MCU...

Sheisa.

That doesn't bother me either. It's a rebuild. We are going to suck. Goff plays perfectly into that anyways...

Yep: http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/1999/0914/57651.html

I thought Barry actually did demand a trade and the Lions refused to consider it. And I think players had less power then so he was stuck with the Lions or he could retire. If my faulty memory serves...

Detroit Red Wings, 14-12-3, 4-9-1 AWAY ESPN+ 12/16 7:00 PM Carolina Hurricanes, 19-7-1, 7-3-0 HOME

Having a historical attachment does not mean that Putin OWNS Ukraine. Russia does not OWN Ukraine, in fact, Stalin BRUTALIZED Ukraine because of their independent farmers refusal to join in with Stalin's "collectives". Which directly led to their deaths, as well as a resulting "collective" famine that wiped out 10-12 million Ukrainians IIRC... Putin definitely has an emotional attachment to Ukraine, because of the historical connections (Kiev as the birthplace of the Rus (who everyone knows... were Swedish Vikings)), but Ukraine still has the right to self-determination. And they have decided that they prefer the European Unions capitalistic economy versus Putin's kleptocracy/ dictatorship... and have also decided that they are safer under NATO's brotherhood of like-minded democracies rather than under Russia's/ Putin's KGB/ Mafia/ Police State. Putin did after all steal Crimea from them as well as southeastern Ukraine's two provinces of Donetsk & Lugansk. FYI in case anyone cares...

I hope he didn't get singed too badly with that...

The Russians paid a heavy price when they tried to break out of the Donbass to grab Mariupol (in an attempt to start/ establish a land route from Russia/ Donbass to Crimea... along the coast...). They might be able to overwhelm the Ukrainians with numbers and technology (tanks, etc...), let's say to again attempt to establish the land corridor to Crimea... or to take all Ukraine East of the Dnieper River (essentially the same thing, but with more northern Ukrainian land and cities and industry/ resources...); but they would pay a nasty, nasty, nasty price. Ukraine is much more well-armed and trained this time... especially with anti-tank weaponry. No.. I think this is just posturing. NATO is talking about adding Ukraine. Putin is having a conniption fit. This is the result. Which... I don't think ends up in actual war but... Putin will do whatever he can to discourage Ukraine from entering NATO; which is why he keeps insisting that he gets guarantees that Ukraine is never allowed into NATO before he will back down... even if it ends up with some nasty skirmishes, or worse. This is the ENTIRE CRUX of the current situation.

The flipside is that it's not as hard to replace a RT as it is a LT. And we've already seen Sewell at LT so we're not worried about swapping him back over there. For an overpay (we're not getting the #3 pick for Decker T&P, dream on...), say a late 1st and another pick... I could do that for Decker. You can draft a top-3 round RT and make a go of it. We're really relying on our current admin to make the correct draft picks though. We're relying less on a trade/ no-trade of Decker than on this admin really being able to identify and draft talent...

Hah! I thought you were leading us into a "maybe they will win this game" comment as I'm reading along your post... I should have known!!! 😉

I'm interested in seeing what they make of Shai Buim. Supposed to be very raw, but highly talented/ athletic/ and Seider-sized IIRC... and they used a 2nd on him, so... We'll see what happens. He looked really good in that video. Good skating, mobility, creative, and nice shot...

On all counts.

Correct.