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You are the empiricist here. Going into the same on Sept 1, 2025, they were 22 over, and 18 of that was games started by Mize and Skubal, the rest of staff combined was 4 over. The numbers are what they are. When those guys pitched they won, when they didn't, they were barely 500. That's data, i'm just the messenger. 😉

yeah, I hear that, but all of that margin over 500 was games started by Mize and Skubal. Take those two guys out at the end of this year and you have a huge void to fill. Maybe Melton/Jobe/Olsen can be their equal, but it's not accurate to say we can just add *from* the point we were at in July of 25 because there are major losses almost certainly coming from where that team was.

works for some things - but certainly not all. If you want a good fish dinner the buyer is way more important than the cook! 😉

while the saying is apparently not true that the Chinese ideograph for 'crisis' is 'danger' plus 'opportunity', it applies in this case. The Wings are in a stuck place, Yzerman needs a deep move that can make a bigger impact on the roster than anything on the horizon. Heck - a major move for young talent make so much sense for the Wings, maybe Yzerman should have been playing 4 dimensional chess trying to get Larking to ask to be traded.

Sure - It's true Chris I and Yzerman go back a long way, a lot further than most but even that will only go so far. Teams that lose are a big ego downer for billionaires.

and then he'd bolt like Holland did when some one gets the real job? Trammell was a legend, Joe Schmidt was a legend, Frank Robinson and Ted Williams and Yogi Berra were legends, they all got fired from management gigs.It only gets you so far. Owners are gonna owner.

The possibility of a priori knowledge - IIRC Eric Coe used this gif as his avatar on the old site. Kant spent many hundreds of pages of dense german syntax to prove the impossibility of most of the 'transcendental' knowledge that philosophy had long accepted, including almost all the classic arguments for the existence of God. The work was considered monumental. Then he wrote another shorter work to try and carve out his own exception to his prior proofs to create an argument for the existence of God - It is largely forgotten. 🤯

Bibi finding out he may the the next discard in Trump's long game of Rummy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/08/trumps-grip-gop-leaves-netanyahu-with-few-places-turn/

Just burn the 1st amendent, the 14th amendment, the 5th amendment the 19th amendment, then the 16th just for good measure, and re-write the 2nd in all those spots.

notable that in Manfred's comment to ESPN he did not say anything about capping contract terms. I suppose if they really get full TV revenue share and a hard cap Manfred will have done enough to earn his statue.

Heck - does the oppo research even matter in today's politics?. (Not talking just Maine). Folks will AI fab deep fakes of stuff whether real or not. In that sense it almost doesn't matter any more - the process is so debased that there is always going to be grist provided for the people on both sides of any issue to grind whether it's real or not.

LOL - yeah - biggest indictment I've seen of Dylan so far is that Carlos Monarrez supports him.

good question. But one way to look at it is that it is not credible that you could have gotten the Dodgers (it will cost them about $2B), Mets and Yankees etc on board for full TV revenue sharing if there was any indication there was an intention to penalize them for their current payrolls - so I think we can rest assured things will grandfathered somehow or another.

he's also playing the to a repentance/redemption trope - he's not Kavanuagh denying he ever was that guy, Platner pretty much admits admits he *was* that guy, so he's not going to argue the details of his reddit posts. You can believe him or not, and you don't, and I don't really care, but it is harder to attack someone for what they don't deny - that's part of his strategy - the only one he could adopt really - but it can work if he can appear authentic consistently in the present tense. If he slips up in the present, if the facade breaks and you see the other guy is still there, then he's more likely doomed. Steve Miller is Nazi because he talks like a facsist today and supports cruelty as policy today. You can call Platner a Nazi because he wore a tattoo or posted a lot of crap, but he's running against all that and that is a difference. So it's all a matter of his *present* credibility, and that's why I think he can survive a lot of what has come out so far about his past. This risk is it does get worse, or he loses that present tense credibility.

Joe Walsh and Bill Kristol advising Dems with the best of intentions. Surely another sign the Apocalypse is at hand.

correct

Paul (supposedly) has it exactly right in the Letter to the Hebrews "Faith is the evidence of things not seen" This statement functions on two levels (at least) - the 1st is individual - the fact that you believe something is a kind of supra-intellectual evidence - at some level you should trust your sense of what is true sort of a priori (gnosis). But it also functions at a social level: You should take the faith of other people that what they believe is true as evidence that you should believe it too. We all do the 1st to some degree - it's part of human nature, but to me it's the 2nd that can get tricky and be the more dangerous because it's abdication of your own judgement. We all accept the veracity of various 'authorities', you have to in the modern world to survive, you can't know everything, but it's a life's work to learn how to vet the authorities you decide to accept.

They sent a some kind of drone(s?) out to get the crew that was able to transport them to a point were pick up by Helo was done. Would like to see how that was all configured.

It will be the job of the RW prosperity gospel evangelical pastors to preach against his 'feminized, empathy wallowing, defeatist" brand of Sermon-on-the-Mount Christianity. Might be interesting to be in the pews for that.

LOL - but it would be a mistake for overpay for Duren, where it wouldn't have been to 'overpay' for Max. But they didn't make a serious counter offer to Max, Mike Ilitch instead wanted to fancy himself insulted and after having been snubbed on opening day after winning the CY and generally treated by his manager as Verlander's red headed step brother, it wasn't going to take much for him to want to wave good-bye to Det. We seem to be on better terms with JD.

The actual job was on a contract to dept of State, not even DOD, security detail work for the Ambassadorial staff. that's just the fact. That's the risk with Platner do doubt - it''s that he's a fabulist, what he says about himself is if anything more dramatic than the reality.

the top chart is the real one. Oil has come down a little though.

geez - don't give them any good ideas!

Wiles - then next will be Rubio

Or he signed up for an easy gig that his service qualified him for because he needed a job? There is a lot of spin on all this stuff from a lot of parties only interested in the win or loss. The voters will decide who they believe. If this is all getting any traction it should show up in the primary vote.