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Zadina could very occasional flash some good wheels, but then as soon as you saw it, it was gone again. Like there was a better skater in there but the cardio wasn't there to support it for more than a few seconds or something.

there are a hundred ways the US could be working within existing norms and institutions to bring US power to bear to remove Maduro with international legal backing. Instead he doing everything humanly possible to be the bad guy and turn Maduro into the victim.

I wonder if he kept Stew on the bench as a lesson in keeping his cool. He was a little too emotionally out of control in this one - it was a quick whistle crew but they were abusing Boston too so just shut up and play on.

LOL - Scalise arguing to make medical insurance more like one of the worst and most complained about insurance systems out there - ie car insurance. Surely just what we need are animated reptiles and Mr Mayhem working in the health field.

correct. It's not the laying out of fact and arguing from cause to effect and from actual circumstance to analogy that's indicative of derangement, neither is the strength of advocacy for the real over the false.

Undersized but calls a good game?

yeah - I'd have judged both of those guys to be eminently replaceable also. Probably Hinch likes having guys like Jones on the bench who had already failed to make the cut somewhere else who have to just be grateful to be there - makes for less discontent among the role players even if there might be a somewhat better player for the slot but who wouldn't want to stay in it.

sure - but it doesn't matter how great the arguments are that we concoct for revenue sharing, the rich teams have heard them all before and said "nice talk, no thanks" repeatedly. The question isn't whether revenue equalization would be wonderful for the sport, it's how do you move the sport in that direction in less than another 100 yrs? Sadly the union has been zero help in this regard because their perspective is that they want Dodgers and Yankees bidding up the pay schedule even if that means the gains for their membership are a mile high and only an inch wide.

There are parallels between post WWI Germany and the US. Germany is a country that had actually just been badly defeated and felt it, in the US the defeat has been economic across the lower 2/3 of the income spectrum but the discontent over it produces the same sense of political alienation. Culturally both countries had moved into a period of increasing cultural coarseness. And much like then the politics of blaming minorities for larger societal failures has increased traction.

So she is still in place as of today? Bizarre.

probably closer to 6 - Mets, Boston, SF and the Cubs would also likely be on the other side on the question. But the question is why revenue equalization is any more likely to happen now when it hasn't in 100years? You'd think maybe with two teams playing in minor league parks there might be more sense of crises in the sport, but there doesn't seem to be.

and there has probably been 7-10% devaluation of the dollar since those were signed.

tough night for Duren

Indeed, not noblesse oblige, Trump is rather driven by "L'état, c'est moi." The only reason for Trump to hold that Rob Reiner was bad for America in clear contradiction to his significant contribution to American Art and Culture, was simply because he did not support Trump.

certainly the optimum system to produce a balanced league, but unfortunately also the least likely outcome possible in the current reality. If you are NY or LA your message to the other owners is "go find your own 15 million local fans"

Cade decided he was a 3pt shooter tonight.

Pistons have missed 7 FTs, 6 by Ausar. 😡

Europe came close a couple of years ago but backed away from banning the so called 'proof-of-work' system of Bitcoin's which is what sucks so much power. It may yet happen though.

I think it only works if you have some way to force teams to spend it on their own FAs, otherwise the money just disappears into their budget like current lux tax payments and does nothing to insure teams are actually using it to keep players.

the devil you already know

Very simple. TO in the last 3 min are 10sec. You get a clock stoppage and substitution and the the ball goes back into play. If a coach has to be teaching his team new plays in the last two minutes of a game he needs to run his practices better.

Best possible outcome -- Warde is out there finding replacements for both Moore and himself. I think I said it before, but it seems to me that only way Warde comes through this without being too wounded in the org is if it's know on the inside that Moore was not his 1st choice. And that just doesn't seem likely to have been the case.

I think that is Detroit's best hope to sign him - that the owners have a clear vision of changes coming that will make teams reluctant to bid against Det for Skubal. The problem is that by the same token, if that's true Ilitch may not want to bid against himself either. I could certainly see MLB trying to ban contracts longer than 5 yrs and maybe settling for 7, since there is precedent for that in other sports. Who knows if/how long the players would go to the mat over that?

he is the avatar of Tribal identity for millions who apparently don't know where else to anchor themselves.

they need to decide Warde's fate quickly, and I assume they realize that.