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The easy answer that doesn't really answer the question - just move it up a level on the 'meta'-scale, is that this group hasn't found meaning, or maybe is more focused on finding meaning, than the generation of young men that went before them. To me a number like that is a double-edged sword. I think in general it's great if any group of people are approaching life a little more seriously. OTOH, young men searching for meaning are usually the willing clay for all kinds of radical movements and irrational/disastrous results. Or it could be as simple as that they are unable to find fulfilling relationships with the opposite sex because relationship culture for the young in the US is really screwed up today.

there are some places where I would agree it's better not to get tied up with the gov in the first place. For instance I think NPR is better off being fully independent. Turns out the public is willing to support them. Now they can stop looking over their shoulder all the time and do their thing. But I think when it comes to services for the indigent, public/private is often a good mix. The private charity is usually is a lot more disciplined with money than a purely public one would be, the labor force is generally available at much lower costs (no-one volunteers to work for government agencies for free!), and services for the poor don't have appeal to middle/upper class donors that something like NPR (where they get a lot of the direct benefit) does.

we are now a winning team again.

Chasfh - Yes, I *do* absolutely believe that the radio broadcast has done time compression/expansion to lengthen the commercial breaks in the past, but I do not know if they are doing it now because I haven't checked this season at all. There have certainly been times when I've had MLB audio going with the gameday cartoon or even the video broadcast that I had previously synced and the cartoon has made a pitch or two or the video returns before Dan comes back, and then magically the radio catches up. Using the gameday cartoon is not really definitive proof since we know that has random buffering or entry glitches all the time, but I've seen enough in the past to be reasonably persuaded that on the audio side they are playing games in the time domain. IIRC I even stop watched the radio breaks and they where exceeding 2min at innings when they should not have. I had forgotten about that in the earlier discussion - since as I noted, I don't have enough of an issue with the current videocast to be doing what you are doing anymore. That makes me wonder if they only do it on the audio fed to web-stream, or if it's in the OTA source as well?. I suppose if it's the same commercial grid it must be in the original broadcast, but I don't know for a fact if the commercials OTA are the same as in the stream feed. It's a huge temptation since with digital audio It's trivially easy to speed up or slow down audio while holding the frequency distribution perfectly constant or just slicing silence, making it very hard to detect by ear.

I used to listen to Dan on Gameday when I watched on DirectTV because because I really didn't like Shep - and I could adjust gameday until it matched. But I had to stop doing that and now I don't remember if it was because gameday started being *behind* the video, which there was no adjustment for, or if it was just because they dropped the adjustment tab from the interface - I'd have to try setting up again during a game to check which it was. In any case my direct TV is always way behind, usually 2 pitches behind the gameday cartoon, which itself is usually behind OTA radio, which traditionally had at least a couple of seconds of delay for bleeping things they wanted to bleep.

this will be an interesting tension. Game is already delayed and KC maybe has a plane to catch - OTOH they will really, really hate to take runs off the board.

Nice AB by javy as well.

dingler was not far enough for that send.

I wonder if the Wings philosophy isn't just wrong. Yzerman looks at his own career and probably thinks he should have been the 200 ft player he eventually became from the beginning and everyone else should be too. But maybe it just doesn't work that way - maybe you just have to let young players play and take the speed, energy and skill they bring on their terms (at least a little) along with the mistakes because if you try to beat them into fully 'responsible' players before you ever let them play, they end up stillborn. Just a thought, whatever it is they seem to be doing something wrong. The hits thing - it has to be one or the other. I don't care you hit anyone if you score and forecheck, but if not you do at least need to be hard to play against. No question the Wings have too many players doing neither. And to me this also goes back to why you can't utilize Seider and Edvinsson more. They can't risk spending much time deep in the offensive zone if there is nobody who can/will backcheck hard.

Yes, on looking at the thread you are correct. I didn't mean to imply that - the opposite really - more that the Tigers aren't doing anything just because they have little reason to. MLB is running that show and whatever is happening there is probably out the hands of the Tigers, and the Tigers concern level about any error there isn't going to rise that high because it's not that big a piece of the total audience. If the glitch is unique to the Tigers, and esp if it's at home games, it's probably a matter of something like a data kludge they had to build in a hurry between HW they had in place and the MLB system. Something that might not be there if they had had more lead time on the transition. The Tigers were very late to the party, the last team that MLB got into place IIRC

My only point being we always said Andre was a player who couldn't get out his own way to get better when it still mattered, and this is just another sign of that.

at the ripe old age of 32, Andre has - for the 1st time in his career, learned to shot a little. He has made 32 of 90 attempted threes this season. Imagine if he had had the discipline to make himself learn that 13 years ago.

well, they had one triple and the Tigers had one three base error of a type that scorers don't count.

very polite of the Tigers to let the Royals bullpen take off pitching 9th innings.

Not a great AB for Colt. He's got to figure on something away and take it to left.

redemption for Wenceel (which autocorrect REALLY wants to make Wendell)

Perez could have caught it which means he should have called for it, but he hadn't, because he probably didn't know he could, because he's not a great fielder

hitters started out looking like they might do something against Lugo, then poof.

exactly - there is a hierarchy of imperatives. Policy debate is fundamentally secondary when preservation of the system that supports policy debate and policy choice is what is being decided. When the election is really about "one man, one vote, one time" best not to be too concerned about the tax rates.

That's funny because Arsenio was a gentleman's gentleman with his guests. Bush couldn't have topped the saxophone though. OTOH, what he could have done was offered to take Arsenio sailing and put him to work on the sheets while he manned the wheel - that could been a great interview for him. No imagination. I'm sure his handlers would have shot it down as too upper class, but that's stupid, everyone knew he was upper class. These guys never learn that you come across the best being who you are. Certainly one fault Trump never suffers with.

Read Douthat's column today, basically a radical conservative RC, he tries to make the argument that since there is all kinds of high church doctrine (thanks medieval angel on pinhead watchers!) on 'just war' that it's Leo's theology that's deficient. You can read the comments and catalog the number of ways his arg fails, but the fact that he considered its validity sufficient to put in the NYT just shows you where some people are. Another 'Christian' who prefers the convenience of the 'wisdom' of the human institution to the inconvenience of the actual Gospel.

the mere wind of it knocked Garcia off his feet. 🌪️

True story - I got a job replacing a guy who had quit to day trade. It was small field and everyone in the biz knew of everyone else at maybe a max of 3 degrees of separation. Anyway, it was maybe 3 years later we heard he was back working for a living in a similar gig for one of our competitors.

Sadly - University of Michigan President designate Kent Syverud is undergoing cancer treatment. Will not be taking the post. https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2026/04/kent-syverud-no-longer-becoming-next-university-of-michigan-president.html

Don't understand what you mean by 'different technology.' So I do imagine there is a difference for people who connect to MLB directly, because that is one less step, but from a marketing importance standpoint to the Tigers, the largest part of the market is people in the Metro area who are getting it through their TV distributor (mostly DirectTV & Comcast, Youtube, etc) so the situation I experience applies.