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oddly enough, Hoover ended up being quite influential in his post presidential life. Chaired a government re-org program for Truman but probably more his establishment (pre presidency) and fundraising (post presidency) for the Hoover Institution - which has had enduring influence on US politics.

I wouldn't knock the number of caddies Gerald Ford may have put through school...... ⛳

Taking a bad contract and 'Fixing' an under performing player maybe the only way the Wings acquire a top talent. Risky business though.

still in all, he was a much better ex-president than president. He was overconfident and unprepared in 1976 and by 1980 he was pretty much in a state of paralysis in both foreign and economic policy. I'm glad he found personal redemption in his life, but as a purely political calculation it would have been nice if he hadn't done so much to grease the skids for Reagan.

exactly. I think the program assumed it was going to be a throw away year but in hindsight the season turned out to be a missed opportunity all because they didn't come up with a QB.

well -- now we can flush this season out of the memory bank.

If they had put a sign up for tryouts on the bulletin board at the UGLI in August they probably could have come up with a better QB than Warren or Orji.

with no Edwards or Mullings they should have just promoted Orji to running back.

seems likely, but assuming the big 5 aren't interested and the big money isn't there, he might decide playing for a winner is at least a consolation prize. Of course, it's not a foregone conclusion anyone yet considers the Tigs a likely winner.

I think all athletes are driven to 'win' but there does seem to be a spectrum from the athletes whose idea of 'win' is their salary ranking and those for whom the idea of 'win' is games/championships. And you see a good number of guys from the 1st group decide later they wanted to be in the 2nd group.

Scoring big is just a matter of good planning. You simply have to have the foresight to be a FA in the year that the Mets, Dodgers and Yankees all have a need at your position.

Also easy enough to see that the Angels were a bad choice in hindsight, but when Ohtani signed they were only a couple years out from being a solid winning org.

this is all part of a larger societal conflict over food production. 1st world consumers want food produced by 'non-industrial' processes, but that's fundamentally at conflict with the need to feed 7 billion people from earth's available agricultural base. Basically the rich are willing to price the poor out of the ability to feed themselves. If you are in favor of kinder/gentler agriculture you better be in favor of either population reduction or at least big reductions in meat consumption (which is the biggest resource consumer) or you are holding to contradictory economic ideas.

I just read an interesting twist, which is that the states that were transitioning to cage-free had been doing marginally better against H1N1, but now are being hit as hard as non-cage free operations as the virulence increases. So you may be seeing the cage free states just catching up to the rest of rest of country in bird flu impact. So cage-free may be a factor in why a price increase now, but not the cost issue per se. https://www.fooddive.com/news/post-holdings-egg-business-impacted-by-bird-flu-as-prices-rise/735694/#:~:text=Michael Foods%2C responsible for brands,about 14% of Post's supply.

And those were both bad ints. Not like good throws off his receiver’s hands. One was an out of control throw, one was bad field vision to not see Kirby sitting on the route, so totally on Purdy in both cases.

Agree - I think Anzalone's loss has been a bigger deal than generally recognized.

The general public has this idea that nature is cut and dried black/white male/female and it just isn't so. Chromosomes do lots of out of the ordinary things and there are other occurrences were nature decides not to play to simple cultural boxes, like embryos that are genetically male that end up with a hormone receptor block and you get a female phenotype with a male genotype. Nature is pretty sloppy actually. I don't remember which sports org it was, but their rule was which ever sex you went through puberty in was where you were assigned. That actually makes some sense because development of secondary sexual strength characteristic probably ties closer to testosterone in puberty than anything else. Maybe there are downsides to that criterion as well but it seemed like a fair starting point. That does rule out adults who transition (the cases that generates most of the heat) but allows a place for those whose genetics happen not to be bowtie neat.

I wonder if it just goes back to him not being 'strong' on his skates. I don't think he has the balance as a skater to try to play much of a physical game without ending up on his butt all the time.

the schools may have signed into who knows what kind of binding covenants when they joined their conferences or NCAA so I imagine there will be some kind of legal arguments, but in the end that all goes away once the leaving teams pay a suitable ransom for their freedom.

More likely bird flu. The recent reporting is mostly about it jumping into the cows (and then people) but if cows are getting it its because it's still going around in chicken flocks.

Bregman's glove is obviously good, Sweeney seemed OK as far as it went. If Keith can be a solid 1B then maybe living with Torres at 2B will be tolerable -- IF they land Bregman.

we really haven't had normal looking yield curves since mid '22. Things are beginning to look a little more normal now - at least from 1 to 20 years rates now increase continuously (monotonic) - you should get a larger premium on a longer term investment. Curve is still goofy from zero to 1 yr though. I'd guess a lot of investors believe the new admin will drive up inflation, which belief usually puts upward pressure on long term rates. I would also guess the Fed isn't too unhappy with the way it's trending though because if long term rates are holding or even floating up, they can cut short term rates more, which will make their political overlords happy, but wont have much inflationary effect if longer term rates stay up.

so only ....4 yrs to fill?

they best hope McGonigle can stay at SS because if not the pickings are pretty slim.

Each side in the Torres deal is using the other as a partner of convenience. He has no intention of being here in '26, the Tigers no intention of paying him what he is going to want if he does have a successful '25. Keith's tenure at 1st could be a short one.