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in at least one game recently Soderblom did lead the team in hits. That may not be saying a lot for this team. The thing is, even the other team is taking you out of your offense with their physicality, that's no excuse for not pressuring the puck better when they are on O. You aren't going to get checked by the puck carrier.

LOL - you weren't the only one who didn't like the headline, they've already amended it to insert the word "opponent's" in front of "ankles".

Sadly this was another case where Biden made the mistake of thinking he had all the time in the world to practice nuance, when he should have been pedal to the metal starting in 2020, in which case Ukraine might be winning this war by now.

From what I can find, MI may be buying from CA based on price as much as need. Lights in MI may not go out but bills would go up - of course.

there are places where political policy has a direct, non-severable connection to investment policy - for instance what is happening on Tariffs. If you make a statement that you think the outcome of X (political policy) is going to be Y (economic environment outcome), I wouldn't regard that as "too much politics in the investment thread" per se. That kind of statement properly made is not advocacy either way - it's the core of trying to understand/discuss the future probabilities.

they get in the habit of just continually falling back on D instead of pressuring the puck. You can watch 5 minutes of Wings game and see exactly how it's going to go by whether they are pressuring the puck aggressively on defense.

Ha! Didn't someone once say something about eye's of needles or something? 😉

being torched in France is the least of Telsa's problems given the torching it's getting on Wall Street. Pretty much all of the "how good is it for Telsa for Musk to be Trump's boy" post election run up has been wiped out as of today.

why does Trump think Ukraine needs the US to sell it's minerals? The quid pro quo was going the other way, the minerals deal was Ukraine's piece in return for US support. No support, no need for Ukraine to make a minerals deal.

On rereading - the sentence was poorly constructed - I was trying to get to the level of uncertainty about everything in the US 3 yrs out vs the long lead times to do something like plan an Olympics somewhere else if the rest of the world wanted to make the statement.

Undoubtedly. If you grew up in Georgia when Cobb did, the ordinary everyday language that *everyone* used would sound outrageous today. Even in Michigan in the 50's the everyday language was harshly racist, the 'N' word as as common as dirt anywhere you went. Not all those people were racist in any active sense, they were just reflecting the milieu in which they existed. It's an ethical fallacy to charge people of the past for simply living in the culture they found themselves in. To me, if you victimized people - like Jefferson did, then those acts can always be judged by their particular cruelty, or inhumanity.

so is there a penalty in the NBA for flopping? I think it was William who did an oscar worthy performance to draw an offensive foul against Cade. Would that have been reviewable if the Pistons had asked?

I don't think Guantanamo is big enough for all the end-a-sentence-with-a-preposition violators though. Would have to find another place to send them to.

this would be perfect if the games were going to be during his term, but who knows where we are in '28?

and even the second one is optional.

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Today Jobe looking like the guy everyone has been talking about.

this sounds painfully familiar but I'm only up to about 6 months and it does seem to be improving but ridiculously slowly. It's not lumbar sciatica here either, the back is fine. As you suspect in your case - I think I compressed or over stretched it on a long ride late last summer.

'Appears'? Methinks Lisa needs a trip to the Optometrist

The Hall of Fame is based on whatever the voters decide it's based on. That's sort of what makes it interesting. If we think having people use their judgement to decide is problematic, formulate any kind of hard criteria you like and I guarantee you'd have just as many arguments that guys that did or didn't cross the bar were or weren't better choices than other guys that did or didn't. The choices could be made less ambiguous, but I doubt they would be any less controversial.

agains, it betrays how little these guys actually know once outside their particular domain. If the government buys a truck, that's just as real a piece of production as if i bought it. And if the government pays a Post office employee, the service is just as real as if that service was provided by a UPS employee paid privately. IOW, Elon doesn't know jack about what he's talking about. But of course, we knew that. I did have the advantage of having Elon's ignorance demonstrated to me a while ago as some of our kids got a hyperloop project proposal funded. Everyone at the Eng School laughed at the whole idea, but we took his money anyway. 😂

pretty much. I've had the sound off most of the 1st.

wings need to pick it up - CBJ been carrying the play for too much time. also - surface seems slow.

I'm waiting to see if the appearance of machines that can emulate real pitchers (trajekt etc) begin to do anything close for for hitters what Rhapsodo etc has done for pitchers. I've often wondered if one of the reasons (beside better pitching overall) that modern hitters don't manage the BA and OBP of prior eras is the degree to which it's harder to face pitchers with whom you are not familiar. In Kaline's day, you played 162 games against the same 8 teams - in a year or two you'd seen every pitcher dozens of times, today you maybe see a guy twice in a season. That had to be a big advantage - well you would think anyway. So maybe the pitching robots answer the question on that: If you can take 50 AB against everything a particular pitcher throws before you have to face him live, is he going to be easier to hit or not in the real world?

Got some chase and lazy flies on the high fastball, probably left too many sliders in the middle of the plate for next month. Will need to keep the breaking balls down a bit more. But a good outing for now.