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  1. No. The Pistons have played 5 playoff games there, losing all 5. Last year they lost 3 home game by a combined 6 points. No team has won a playoff game there yet
  2. I could see someone like Lou Whitaker not even realizing he didn't have his regular glove. "It's just a glove, man".
  3. I think the answer lies within each player. At this level everything is so precise. Our own experiences aren't really relevant any more than it would be a weekend golfer comparing themselves to a touring pro. Some might prefer another glove and others might prefer the same. It's not one answer.
  4. So the "network" that runs FanDuel will be gone... I assume that DSN will take over that 'slot' on cable/satellite systems? Will the Pistons integrate into DSN? Or will they do their own thing? The entertainment entities between the Gores and Ilitch company merged into the 313Presents, which used to be Olympia and Palace Sports and Entertainment. So there is precedent to them merging some things and obviously they share LCA. Granted you have statues of the Red Wings and the Giant Steve Yzemran picture holding the cup so one would be forgiven to thinking it's a hockey arena the Pistons play in, but other than that they do have fair share of Piston props throughout the concourse. And this spring could be fun. That's gotta rub Chris Ilitch the wrong way a little bit, if the Pistons, a tenant, take over LCA. They built that big plaza out front for fans to party in for playoff games and...
  5. I have a friend who is in a tribute band, I won't say which, but because of that I've been doing that more and more. It's just as good. A fraction of the price. Very little stress. Small venues. It satisfies. I go to the Token Lounge, District 142, and a place in Flint.
  6. The crew was woken up today with a prerecorded posthumous message from Apollo 8 and 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell who welcomed them back to his old neighborhood. He echoed Frank Borman's Christmas Eve message by mentioned "the good Earth".
  7. There's nothing wrong with being in a bubble if your goal is to entertain yourself. I've resigned myself that I don't care anymore to hear what Tom Nichols or George Conway have to say anymore. it's just repeating the same thing over and over. I'd rather follow Noir Chick in Old Hollywood to see classic beauties of yesteryear or NASA **** or Codify
  8. but I question the effectiveness now. I still use the site but I'm finding it less useful for what I liked it for. If it's just a bunch of crackpot right wingers talking to each other, and arguing, then it's just an AOL chat room. I just it for entertainment and sports.
  9. I don't think Benetti's national aspirations affect his willingness or ability to still do Tiger Games unless he wants summers off or to work less in the summer. The overlap with football and college BB is a short window.
  10. Just now I looked up at the moon in my backyard and for the first time in my life I can say "there's people up there". About 26,000 miles away. Netflix will be livestreaming the flyby this afternoon, starting at 1 pm EDT. They're sleeping right now, will wake up at 9:50 EDT, I wonder if they'll do something special. Charlie Duke, moonwalker on Apollo 16, woke them up the other day. He's the one who was CAPCOM on Apollo 11's landing. "We copy you down Eagle" At 1:56 they'll be further than Apollo 13's record. Around 2:15 they'll darken the cabin to prepare for photos. During this time they have assignments and they might be able to see the Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites. 6:47 they'll lose contact 7:02 is the closest approach to the moon 7:27 reacquisition of signal 8:35 a solar eclipse for them 9:20 lunar flyby ends
  11. I’m pretty sure Dan prefers radio and agreed to do the TV splits when necessary if it meant getting Jason on board most of the time. That how I interpreted his comments last year when they discussed this.
  12. It was the kind of move that tells me the organization, particularly Chris Ilitch, is serious about putting a good product out.
  13. They showed the managers and Scott Harris and the umps in the dugout and everyone seemed agreeable and happy.
  14. The network is. Fanduel as a company is fine. They just put their name on it. I’m sure you know that. Just clarifying as I have seen it elsewhere that “betting is done”.
  15. I saw it too but from a person who posts a lot of crazy ****.
  16. JV also said it’s not that bad and he could have played if he needed to but everyone agreed this is not the time of the year to do that.
  17. Today was a perfect opening day. Wore shorts. Ditched my light jacket around 11:30. Got home and walked to the local bar for the final fish fry of the season. A mile walk after that. 20,000 steps and a tanned face. and a tiger win.
  18. Let’s see what the good Catholic JD Vance has to say about the pentagon.
  19. Isn’t there a fundamental issue that EO’s are not laws? Regardless of the scope of their intent the law is the law and the constitution is the constitution. If the court were to agree that this anchor baby stuff going forward should be negated isn’t the place that’s done via an amendment or law and not an order? I’m assuming there is something I am missing I guess
  20. Yes, like they did on the space shuttle and today on the ISS, but in Apollo days they put it in bags. Entirely manual. You taped the bag to yourself. Urine was deposited outside. “Constellation Urine” as Wally Schirra called it. That used some vacuum tech as you attached yourself to a tube. I guess it hurt sometimes because of the vacuum portion. Then it was dumped. In Apollo 13 the crew was told to stop the dumps because they were worried about them affecting their trajectory. That request was rescinded but the crew didn’t realize it. So they had bags of urine taped all over the inside of the spacecraft and the moisture was causing the tape to come off. So it’s cold, dark, hungry, and bags of piss everywhere. in some Apollo missions the fecal bags were carefully labeled and analyzed later by scientists to see how the body digested food in zero G. Everything in they ate was carefully logged.
  21. That’s what I am getting at. What a government employee signs because of their job and the data they have access to is not th same thing as Trump making his whores sign so they won’t talk about his sick or his employees won’t talk about tbhim young girls visiting mar a Lago.
  22. What I mean by a legal document is the law can’t come after you. Poor choice of words. It’s not a criminal act to “break” one. Nobody will arrest you. If you sign one and I thjnk you break it by only course of action is to sue. I can’t call the cops or city hall.
  23. Isn’t an NDA just a contract between two parties? It’s not a legal document. It’s never been tested for government work and I doubt would hold up in a civil court.
  24. What we're seeing is AI being put on objectives so people coming up with things that are not AI, calling it AI, and everybody plays along... the the big wigs can tell Wall St we did AI.
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