1984Echoes

I would do this in tiers... Mostly, because there are so many players that I really like I don't know who to call as a "favorite" that I want. I have lots of favorites IOW. So I think the best way I can look at it is in tiers, just like teams do on their draft boards, with "grades" (1st round grade, 2nd, etc...). A couple other points: My favorite 1st round tier guys will most likely all be gone by the time the Lions pick, so: A) Maybe Holmes moves up for a guy they really, really want. B) Letting the draft "come to the Lions" most likely means they're choosing from several guys that are "borderline". Latu maybe because he falls due to injury concerns. Chop Robinson maybe because while he has high-level skills, he's extremely raw. Amarius Mims because teams are scared to draft him with only 8 games college history....? C) Which tells me... if they have 4 or 5 "borderline" guys that they like, and a team wants to trade from the top of the 2nd and into the late 1st to draft Penix or Bo Nix... or however Holmes can wrangle a trade down for extra picks, then he should do it. If it's a "can't pass him up" guy then draft him. But if there's only a raft of guys they'd rather pick at the top of the 2nd round then... trade down and get extra picks. That's part of how I'm going to break up the tiers: "Can't pass on him 1st rounder", "Borderline/ Top of the 2nd" guy, "pure 2nd rounder", "3rd rounder", etc... One last point: Kool-Aid and Wiggins are GARBAGE. They are crappy tacklers and the Lions HATE crappy tackling CB's. They will NOT be drafted by the Lions so why is every mock throwing one of these guys to the Lions? Are they stupid? The Lions have flat out said we DON'T LIKE these guys. (Now watch them draft one of these guys and make me out to be a flat out liar!!!) But I won't consider them on my draft board, for reasons stated. At all. NOT on my:

As far as I'm concerned... Gost provides power play + But is a negative everywhere else. IMO: no thanks.

I'm saying that the IDF number is a SUBSET of the Health Ministry number. Health Ministry is total deaths. Good number as far as I'm concerned. But they do NOT differentiate between Hamas and civilians... so: IDF reports Hamas fighter deaths. If they say ~13K... then that is a SUBSET of the Health Ministry's TOTAL 33K deaths. They have divergent agendas... But I don't see a problem with doing the math. I think what the FDD is doing is not right: Excluding death counts on the pretense that incomplete validations is a justifiable excuse to do so.

This isn't the problem. 13K combatant deaths (IDF) out of 33K total deaths (Gaza Health Ministry, or, Hamas) is probably a decent guess. That's using the two sources. But what they are doing wrong is basically saying "Well, the Health Ministry doesn't have FULL DOCUMENTATION of the death so we're not going to count them. So there's only 26K dead that we're going to count..." Even though there's actually 33K dead. That's what's sort of... ****ed up.

Correct. Roughly 13,000 (that's a WAG) of the dead are Hamas fighters. Other gray areas: 1) They don't report who killed the dead. IE: It was proven that Hamas bombed Al-Shifa Hospital (the one time) when they were claiming an estimated 300 or so dead from Israeli missiles. Only they weren't Israeli, they were failed Hamas missiles that went awry. Those deaths are included in the Health Ministry totals. In other words: We have NO IDEA how many of the Health Ministry's 33K dead were killed by HAMAS because they don't differentiate. Whether it's an errant Hamas missile (and they misfire often), or caught in crossfires between Hamas terrorists and IDF soldiers and killed by stray Hamas bullets... It's NOT zero. 2) Hamas uses child soldiers. As messengers, as weapons & ammunition "transporters", as battlefield damage assessors, as battlefield "scouts", as lookouts, etc... Of all the women and children killed and reported by the Health Ministry, we have no idea how many were actively, militarily, supporting Hamas terrorists. But it is NOT zero. It's dangerously close to genocidal due to the induced famine and the total wipeout of their cities, outside of Rafah. But the civilian casualties to military casualties are roughly 1.5 to 1, in an urban war. That's unprecedented. The UN expects 9-1 civilian casualties in an urban war. That's their standard. Israel has taken more steps, outside of the U.S. in our ME wars, than anyone, ever, to reduce civilian casualties. Not a genocide. The wipeout of their cities...? I'm thinking of Dresden, Germany, in WWII, when we firebombed Dresden. I believe there were quite a lot of civilian casualties in that event. In other words: compared to Israel in Gaza: there's been much, much, much worse. And... as already stated, Israel has taken unprecedented measures to try to prevent civilian deaths.

Read the FDD analysis. Just because they have "incomplete data" does not mean that the dead are NOT dead... it just means they are unable to fully document the death. I think that's a misread by The Persian Jewess.

We are no longer in control of anything... However... We play at Toronto & a home-and-home with Montreal. Penguins play Boston, Nashville, and at the Islanders (tough games but they've been on a HOT roll...) Islanders play at the Rangers, at the Devils, and then home against the Penguins. They're tied at Montreal right now with 2 min's to go... Caps play Tampa, Boston, and at the Flyers. We still have a chance...

Bzzzt. Nope. One point this game. And we are out of the playoffs unless we get some help, the math is still there, and what they do in these last 3 games.

Exactly what I was thinking... "I don't want to know ANY of the young people that Ronz is hanging out with..." I'm a boomer anyways so I wouldn't be welcome which is fine by me. I couldn't stand this level of ignorance or stupidity (whichever one applies).

That does it for me. Can she be replaced? Or, rather... how soon?

Which means even more kids, like Tuomisto & Wallinder... 😉

And I said abortion was a much, much bigger issue. What a lucky guess!!!

Go for it. Bigly.

Two things on DJT shares: 1) They're trying to get a waiver so that they don't have to wait 6 months before they're allowed to dump shares. Of course they are. The shares will be near worthless in 6 months, so they want to dump them NOW!!! I hope the SEC tells them to go **** themselves. Point blank. 2) I wanted to short sell those shares when it hit $70, but... "shares not available to sell short". Sold at $70 (if they would have allowed such...) and the current price below $34 = a purchase cost of 1/2 of the price they woulda been sold at. Or, more than double money, in less than a month. "I coulda been a contendah...".

To answer your question: Middle class MAGA White Trash Bigots firmly in Trump's pocket are definitely overlap. They're not leaving him even if they get ****ed over by him or he ****s all over the middle class... because they could care less. They have a different set of criteria. Enraged overturned Roe v Wade middle class that previously voted for him... are definitely lost to him. But not for the reason you are questioning. Christian culturalists... ??? Again... middle class economics is not their criteria. Indie middle-class moderates that voted for him previously: muddled. They SHOULD be against him based on his absolute FU to the middle class, but also democracy, and a host of other issues. So it's a bit hard to get a read in this area which is very, very... muddled. So I think your question is pretty much irrelevant... but not because it's irrelevant but, rather, there are too many other overriding issues that are drowning it out...

Tight. Soooo tight.

Wenceel played 2B almost exclusively until this past year, when they sent him to the OF to learn that too. Does that count? Also, he played SS a long, long time ago... although I don't think he has the arm to play there in MLB. Not in the recent minors either...

That's an interesting theory if it's true they receive nothing in ST... Also, to your point, it will be the younger hitters that struggle because they'll need to rely on those reports more than the veterans will who have, been there/ done that. It would be interesting to compare vets versus youngsters out of the gate for the Tigers. Although, IIRC, everyone has struggled on this team out of the gate. It could be as much as we have warm-weather hitters on a cold-weather team.

I agree with this. I'm just of a mind to not fall asleep on this because they will try **** again. And they're (the dreaded "they", in which I don't have a specific name. But how about "Trump's Minions' ", who are...) hunting any and every crack in the system to try and take advantage of it and corrupt it or destroy it, if they could. So we don't know exactly what new **** they may try... Just sayin'

That would be my hope. That any further insurrectionists against the United States of America are put down like the rabid dogs that they are.

With millions of militant followers armed to the teeth, and prepared for violence, and hanging on every word from TFG, ready to follow his orders, or to follow him into the Capitol ready to overthrow the Constitution of the United States. As they've already demonstrated.

Hmmm... That's sort of interesting.

I thought he had two or three more years on his contract... That buyout actually looks attractive. And we could wait right until before the season just to make certain Cossa can earn at least the #2 goalie spot to start the season, or that we don't have an injury that opens up a spot anyways... I don't know why I thought his contract was longer than that...

I agree with this 100%. They should be blaring this message across every loudspeaker that they can get their hands on. I think they are doing this. But it's at a low level right now. I'm going to guess it's going to get louder and more pointed as we get closer to the election... So I'm not really worried. But my patience is starting to get a little "impatient". I'm just so sick and ****ing tired of hearing "trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump..." 1,000 times a day no matter which way I turn. Can this grotesque anti-democratic scum just go the **** away? So I NEVER have to hear about him, or think about him, EVER again?!?!?! But yeah, on your messaging point ewsieg, I agree 100%.

San Jose Sharks. Kahkonen is a UFA in 2024. They're more than $15 mill under the Cap Floor for 2024-25 so they'll be looking to absorb some contracts to gain draft picks or pick swaps, and just to get to the floor. Husso is a great comeback lottery ticket for them, he's better than what he's shown in Detroit, and they have no picks between 33 and 86. So offer Husso and #48 for #86. They might ask for our 1st rounder instead swapping #33 for #16-ish... But I think they'd take the 3rd for 2nd rounder pick swap. However... if they made another swap prior to ours, picking up some other contract, and it was an early-to-mid 20's pick they swapped for our 1st rounder... I think I'd be OK with that too.