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the last bit about Protestant Hispanics was interesting. I'm old enough to remember when non-Catholic Hispanics would not have been a large enough group to care about (politically that is!) but Google just told that Catholicism among Hispanics fell from 67% to 43% in just the 12yrs from 2010 to 2022, Apparently 2nd generation Hispanics leaving the RCC in droves. That's an amazingly rapid shift.

It's funny how memory gets skewed. I have this firm recollection about being unhappy that Wells picked Detroit to have the worst year of his career. Of course he didn't. I guess I must have just tuned in mostly to his losses to get that impression - but it remains.

Probably true in a lot of denoms. Apropos that Tater posted that lecture by Watts above where he makes the excellent point that a person can only talk about things in the forms/images/language they have particular access and experience in, IOW that your communication is all culturally conditioned. Paul is pretty revolutionary when you filter him through the lens of what he was - an upper class(probably), Pharasaic Jew of the Roman Empire. Of course by today's culture he still appears in places as reactionary. I don't think that's the best take, but YMMV. I always look back to the story told in Acts about Peter and Paul disagreeing on doctrine. I am always astounded the curators of the NT let that story slip through because to me it is the most salient episode in all of post resurrection writing and blows-up every church's claim to interpretive authority. You are not an evil person because you disagree on doctrine. If Peter and Paul do not, nobody ever will, no-one really has any better claim to it than anyone else. (yeah - they'd probably have burned me at the stake as Gnostic heretic too )

Obviously, for a long time the Wings were too small and too slow and a lot of teams tried to come out and intimidate them early, and that's been Yzerman's job one since he got here. I suppose it's just habit now for the Oilers to keep on trying it. Not the same team any more though. I also remember Seider's rookie season the 1st time we played Edmonton McDavid took a run at Seider and Moritz put him on his rear. You knew then we had the 1st piece of the turnaround.

Watt's brand of spiritualism had a kind of revival a couple of decades ago - guys like Deepak Chopra enjoyed a lot of popularity. I don't know if that's faded more recently or if I just pay less attention. Of course Watts probably would have been burned at the stake as a Gnostic or Catharite heretic under the inquisition. 🔥 😱

LOL - Al sometimes gave the impression of being the last innocent man in Sodom.

Meaningless management speak. Nothing else he can say really, or at least nothing else he can say which isn't even more foolish to say that that was.

we can hope they peaked too soon.

yes - that or the inverse, they trade the prospect blocked by their 4 win guy and he turns out to be a 4 win guy too. I'm really curious to see whether Harris can be a guy that separates himself from the pack in player acquisition in baseball to the degree Holmes has in football. If he can pick from a team's MilB offer list with the kind of acumen that landed a McGonigle, then I'm all for a trade. But if his judgment is no better than they've been with the MLB acquisitions (Maeda, etc), then maybe not so much!

yeah - we laugh about Campbell being a goof, or a guy that likes to 'hide his light', but being entertaining and being able to roll with the losses was no small part of what bought him time at the beginning. There were a lot ways that Campbell was the perfect coach for the Lions when he got here. Not many hires are going to be that kind of match.

Wing are actually at 52% as a team. Even my buddy Rasmussen at at 59%. Copp is in the rear at 38%. Maybe it seems they lose more than they do because they are still not good at maintaining possession after a defensive zone face-off win. They still lose a lot of pucks because they don't move the win on the draw successfully.

I don't follow soccer so I can't include them, but something about football seems to bring out the crazy in people more than other sports. Part of the fun for the rest of us. 🫠

LOL - Lions beat a 5-1 team without the outcome even being at doubt at any time in the 4th quarter and we're firing assistants over game strategy? Tough crowd.

One might note the slight difference between the example of some terrible 'lefty' person being a nobody randomly found on the internet, and a terrible 'righty' person being some one this government is trying to put into a position of official authority.

Ernie knew there would be flak and set it up anyway. It was great.

I don't have the numbers but I think the lions must be running fewer plays per game because Gibbs touches are not up, Goff's attempts are not up, but Montgomery's carries are down. Seems that has to add up to fewer total plays. They are averaging two fewer 1st downs per game. It does seem the power ground game is less effective with the o-Line loses, so maybe that has translated into more dependence on chunk plays which is less Montgomery's game.

reminds me of the old saw about "economists have correctly predicted 7 of the last 2 recessions." Few guys do well in the majors without having shown a lot of promise - though even that does happen occasionally, but a lot of guys show a lot of promise and still don't turn into much. It might be wise to make some distinction between hitters and pitchers though. With modern instrumentation you can measure exactly what a pitcher throws, and know fairly for certain if his stuff can get out MLB hitters. It's command that is still harder to predict as they face better hitters, but you do have a pretty good handle on stuff today that was not available in the past. But with hitters it remains harder to know how they will fare as the quality of pitching goes up because so much of hitting is mental/perceptual, and you don't know where a guy's hand/head limits are until he is tested at those limits by MLB pitching. Now that said, with pitchers the injury risk today is so high that even if you are pretty confident a guy has the stuff to succeed in the majors, whether his arm will hold together long enough to have a good career is probably just a big an unknown as the overall unknowns with hitters, maybe bigger. ⚕️

Speaking of the coaching staff, Petzold reporting Iopoce is gone. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/10/20/detroit-tigers-anthony-iapoce-first-base-coach-coaching-staff/86726134007/

same here.

The only way we could lose Skubal and be as competitive is if an MLB ready player comes back in the trade and has a break out year a la Austin Jackson at 5 WAR. There are players out there - Aiden Miller might be able to do that, *IF* you can get one back. And along with that we would still need a little luck on the home front development scene like Anderson or McGonigle showing up at >3 WAR. Is it likely, no. Possible, sure. And you generally need a little of that kind of luck to win a WS (unless you are the Dodgers anyway). We weren't supposed to get better last season after the deadline, but we did. Baseball is a very funny game. But that *IF* is still the word that matters. All this discussion boils down to "Is the return good enough to make it worth it." Of course it *could* be, but we will likely never know what was offered unless a trade is made and it plays out.

We had a home built system a UM which I thought was as good as Canvas for some things, but it wasn't as full featured and they converted sometime in the late 'teens. The class fourm addendum, 'Piazza' I was less thrilled with. Just a rather awkward piece of SW and the students did much take to it which made it rather useless.

I think what is funny is that we all have this concept that a robbery like this has to be absolutely brilliant and sophisticated - cat burglar style and all, but this was closer to a smash and grab job. Chainsaws for goodness sake!

is there any detail on what is wrong with his knee? The broken lone bone should not leave any residual deficit. Knee issues are always a worry though.

UM reported Canvas unavailability in A^2 as well.

One of Hinch's eccentricities as a manager is the degree to which he keeps his assistants buried. I don't believe we have ever had a manager who keeps his coaches away from the public to the degree Hinch does. For good or ill that means that as fans we see/hear virtually nothing about anything they do or what they think or their approaches as individuals. I find it a little odd but I guess as long as guys aren't quitting because of it...