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I've never been that big believer in the value of offensive SOG, if a team controls the puck and works for grade A chances as compared to making dump-ins at the goalie (e.g.), I don't have a problem with that, but defensive SOG against volume is a pretty good marker for the opposition's quality time advantage in your zone, and they were definitely too high.

Is it even #1? They have reservoirs that were damaged by the atmospheric river last yr, they have parts of US1 that are unstable and would cut off thousands of people in case of total failure, There are water management issues in the Central valley and also with the Salton sea. CA is a place that doesn't lack for high priority issues related to geography! Maybe the programs cut weren't effective, maybe they had to spend it somewhere else, maybe they were idiots - but there is no way to determine what the choices were or the fine details of the facts from the sniping of advocacy press and social media posts.

Of course, if Chip Roy were in Sacramento he would have supported all those cuts and more wouldn't he? Politics is always choices.

I think splitting Seider and Edvinsson was important. I thought from the beginning that was a mistake by Lalonde. Having at least one defender that can hit and handle the puck in the ice for 45 minutes is way more valuable than having two on the ice for 23. And with Chiarot on the 3rd pair you have a player with some size/grit on each pair. The decision that I think is going to be interesting is when Petry is ready. Johanssen makes some mistakes but he plays faster and harder than Petry.

Ha! - I didn't think Gleyber was a particularly good fit! I can only assume they've seen something in Gleyber's glove work they think they can fix or more likely they only see him as a rental anyway.

It is ironic that Baines apparently got in on longevity only, yet as Lee points out, Whitaker doesn't get a nibble. I heard it said LaRussa had lobbied hard for Baines - I have no idea how much influence that accounted for. After Sparky passed there certainly wasn't anyone in ranks of Tiger management or FO with the stature to have much influence on voters - at least until Dombrowski, and I don't remember anything about DD being interested in Lou's HOF cause. I don't know where the cut off should be, or if there needs to any kind of strict one, but I think we almost go overboard with cumulative counting stats now. I think if a player clearly dominates his position for 7-10 years that's a memorable and impactful player and I have no problem with players like that being voted in - which is exactly what should have gotten Freehan in.

I don't think so just because that would run counter to his owner's avowed objective, which is a team that wins over time, but you never know. Just because C I. spent a lot of energy preaching that line in the past is no guarantee he hasn't changed his mind. Getting a little more greedy as things get closer to fruition is not exactly a rare human reaction.

Imagine that Lalonde had said to his players "Every time you are about to make a pass, forecheck, or take a shot, you are to freeze and count "one mississippi, two mississippi, and *then* do it". And McLellan came in and said, "forget all that" and it would pretty much capture it. Of course that is isn't what happened, but it is what *looked* like happened. More specifically I can take a guess at one specific thing which probably is directly tied to coaching scheme - which is that under Lalonde, the Wings *never* reversed the puck to keep possession - it was always straight ahead whether there was anything there or not. Now the wings better skaters like Edvinssion, Seider, Raymon, Larkin, Kane, are using their skating talent, reversing the puck to get their break outs organized, and amazingly enough, the team's passing, puck possession and facility at breaking the other team's forecheck has improved by leaps and bounds. They suddenly don't look like a poor skating hockey team anymore. I don't know if they are all just on a high and will not be able to keep this pace of play up, but so far so good.

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I guess they needed a new coach.

He's only half right. There is nothing wrong with spending the money if you are willing to raise it. The real problem is that most of the GOP wants to spend money just as much as the dems, they just don't want to take the responsibility for raising any.

Kulfan with a story about the Wings shooting the puck more, which is great, but I think he's missing part of the story. I'm sure one reason the Wings wouldn't shoot the puck without a perfect chance in the past was because they couldn't get pucks back after shots. That always makes an offense reluctant to shoot. A big key to getting them to shoot more was in getting them to skate harder to recover pucks. Also liked McLellan talking about changing up lines to match-up with the opposition. Kulfan quotes him as saying he likes to keep pairs of forward (e.g. Larkin and Raymond) mostly together but then rotate the third player for some immediate objective/matchup.

why does anyone think the asylum system got backed-up by the millions? - Because no-one would pay the bill to expand the ability to process people. Lack of funding has been at the heart of immigration chaos since Reagan. Passing more laws will pretty much make no difference if funding doesn't materialize for them to executed.

If you've ever watched the dynamics between men vs between women in the workplace, they are different, and I don't imagine that even in the rarefied air of SCOTUS, in the end, things are so different than the rest of the world in that regard. I will venture the supposition that over time the three women on the court will have more influence on each other, despite any initial ideological differences, than the male members of the court generally have on each other.

It would be nice but I'm not sure it's in the cards for him. The TS he should be able to improve though and no excuse not to shoot >80% from the stripe.

Yeah - starting with listening to him..

Nailed it - exactly.

That's beyond silly. Nobody who approaches investing on such a dogmatic basis should have a platform to be giving advice to anyone. Debt is financial tool, it has no more intrinsic moral nature than a hammer - only particular debts or purchases can have any moral value and the moral value doesn't even relate in any consistent way to whether a particular use is profitable or not. All separate issues.

Anyone who says there is such a rule is just straight up wrong. It's *always* a matter of comparative returns. If the interest rate on you mortgage is higher than your likely return, pay it first, if not, don't. In general over the last couple of decades it has not been hard to find investments that pay substantially more than the interest on most mortgages. That may not be true for small investors right now, but the point is that it's a situation that has to be constantly evaluated.

Of course, obesity is so epidemic in the US now that even a 150lb 'fireman's carry' req still leaves more than half of citizens in line to be toasted. The ship has sailed on that concept. (average body wt for both men and women >170lb! - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm)

Is that a Judge or a parole board recommendation? TBH, I don't know what the complaint is, PizzaGate ended up as a property crime and 1st time offenders for property crimes are generally not hammered that hard. My question is what parole was he violating now? Was he still on parole from 2017 or something since? - Story didn't say. Pretty stupid thing to pull a gun on a Cop over a parole violation unless you're looking at some kind of heavy time.

seems to be some debate - NBC and NYT articles say he got 4 yrs. Suspended later maybe? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/pizzagate-shooter-killed-police.html

It was interesting to hear him talk about trying to get guys who were having success in the minors to fix things before they were exposed at the next level, holding back Madden because he hadn't, and then thinking about the contrast to Torkelson, who the previous regime kept promoting on the basis of his ability to hit the long ball without ever forcing him to become a better hitter. I also wonder if Torkelson is or is not in the group of guys who he referenced as 'coming back' from their private coaches to more reliance on the team's people.

yeah - Alito flaunts his privileged immunities in a more unseemly way than any member of the SCOTUS in my lifetime. He's worse than Thomas in a lot of ways.

FWIW, I also saw Skubal projected at $11M last week.