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Yup. You can deny reality for a long time if you work at it - and MAGA works harder at it than anything I've seen in my lifetime, but in the end reality always wins. And the longer you have been in denial, the more brutal the defeat ultimately is.

IOW, total chaos. No adults anywhere to be seen in the mangement of college sports.

the one thing to keep in mind is that refineries don't set up to run heavy crude because they prefer to, but because heavy crude traditionally sells a discount to Saudi or WTI. There is a market price at which the added cost of production for hard to process oil means that it can't be sold at a large enough discount for refiners to be interested. The other complication is that once a refiner configures a refinery for heavy crude, they will not be as efficient if they switch back. But in general, it's still easier to run light crude or a lighter net blend in a refinery configured for heavy than vice-versa.

and they won without him. It was 4 sec, but one sec is a stupid thing to get tossed for.

there is no lack of stuff circulating now. I've heard from people in the area that have had Flu A, Flu B, and Covid all in the last month, and if Edman is correct that Adenovirus is out there too, the more the merrier.

Don't forget that Andre's other big problem was he was just intimidated by other big guys who put a body on him. Who can forget Embiid getting in his head? I think any player out there would think twice before trying that on Duren.

so over 81 games Duren project to 2.6 VORP? Andre could rebound, you can't fault him on that.

He can't run the US government competently, I'm sure the Venezuelans can't wait to see how he runs them.

Wilma was supposed to have edge. The Flinstones was more or less (mostly more) an animated remake of the Honeymooners. so Wilma was modeled on Audrey Meadows' Alice, who was a tough cookie.

It's par for the course. From all available evidence, Trump's brain stopped processing changes in the world in about 1970.

I would say this is a bit of an unfair comparison though because from every indication, including his own admissions in recent years, Andre was not interested in being a better player when he still had the chance to be. I don't follow the pistons anything like some of you guys do but has anybody ever accused Duren of not working hard on his game?

Numbers on the chart in this story don't seem to tell a consistent story. They do indicate that capital/wafer is roughly double in the US, which is bad enough, but it's quite unclear how they get from 100% more capital cost to 700% more depreciation cost/wafer. Unless what they are capturing is a difference in depreciation schedules between Taiwan and the US. If true that would have been worth noting.

The fact that a GM and a coaching staff sit down and try to figure how to survive the wreckage and limp home after moving a bunch of pitching just isn't grounds in my book for giving that GM credit for his players exceeding every reasonable and unreasonable expectation. It's like saying the Doc that put a bandaid on a patient gets credit for a subsequent spontaneous cancer remission.

We better hope that isn't true of Harris. Any GM that evaluates talent based on whether it has his name on it is an egotistical fool and is going to be a loser as a result.

Haiti - the unspeakably corrupt hereditary dictatorship of Francios (PapaDoc) and Jean-Claude (babyDoc) Duvalier

the claim that Vz has world's largest oil reserves is a bit of a misdirection. Most of the oil in Vz is in the ground in forms that cannot be recovered economically with today's tech - and given the general move away from hydrocarbons in the world economy, will likely never be recovered before they are obsolete.

this is what is wrong with American libel law. Anyone who thinks jurisprudence that protects libels like these is a good idea is an idiot, plain and simple. And unfortunately too many of those idiots sit at 1 First St NE, Washington, DC

it's always projection.

Nobody in Vz was willing to die for Maduro. The parallel to Iraq is right there. We are at the point where basically everyone is happy the tyrant is dead (or equivalent). How long the peace lasts depends on how long it takes the US to bungle it.

They are a weird team. I go back and forth over whether McLellan is just a really great coach that has them playing way over their talent level most of the time, or that they have just been lucky playing a lot of teams that are off their game or maybe Gibson is just really playing well; because when I watch them play, I just don't see enough above average hockey players on the ice to be a 1st place team.

this. guys make it to the big leagues based on hitting. There literally thousands of guys who can field as well as a lot major leaguers but can't hit their way out of a batting cage. The flip side of that is that once that ultra-selective hitting filter is applied, a lot of guys that are left just are not natural, fluid guys with the glove. When you have one, absolutely develop him as far as you can, but when you have a guy for whom every ground ball is going to be an adventure (Casty), I agree the best thing you can do is let him percolate at one spot and get as good as he can.

also Barney Rubble and Barney Fife for the gens before that.

If McGonigle shows up some infielder is going to be doing some DH'ing for sure. Which will make like tougher for the 5th OF too. But unfortunately these kinds of potential problems tend to work themselves out via the IL.

Jung has shown fair power in the minors but it hasn't translated. He's not a high enough contact guy to make it unless he can hit for some power against MLB pitching. That's his hurdle.

yeah - I really wish the Wings had leaned on him not to go. A team would not normally be on fair ground doing that but given what happened last season the Wings would be completely justified.