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We are seeing the result of Trump having chased so many reasonably sane people that used to be in his orbit out of it. Oddly enough probably none with worse result than Ivanka, who being family was someone he would actually listen to, and who, despite being a spoiled wannabe, doesn't to seem to have inherited the Trump crazy gene. Of course that's no doubt the very reason she has gone to earth this term.

two counter points. The first was already mentioned - you can probably have Edvinsson for his whole career, you are only sure of a season and a half from Hughes. If you can remove that uncertainty you do drastically change the math - no argument there. Unless Yzerman or Vancouver tell us, we can only speculate how close they did or didn't come to what deal. But aside from that, you also have to look at differentials - who is he taking off the ice? The biggest improvements come when you replace the worst players on your roster with better ones. In this proposal you take Edvinsson off the ice, so you don't get half the incremental gain you might from taking a 2nd line forward or a 2nd or 3rd pairing Dman. Practically speaking, I believe you get better results team wise replacing a bad player with a good player, than replacing a very good player with a great one. Of course if you can replace a bad one with a great one, you are golden, but you can usually only get that when you hit on your own draft picks. All that said, I think Yzerman probably did all he could to make the for Hughes - but the cost was ending up too high.

Sort of chicken and egg though. The Wings fill the house, season-ticket holders know if they give them up they don't get good seats. It's easy to get good Tiger tickets because not enough are already taken. But attendance $$ isn't even the biggest financial driver anymore - it TV ratings. It's always reported the Tiger TV ratings are good, but either they aren't that good or the market just doesn't return enough $ out of those ratings to raise the value of the team.

you'd have thought that would have reversed with the Tigers making two consecutive trips to the playoffs, but it seems the fans have been slow to embrace this Tiger team. I don't know if that is a baseball in general problem or just something about this Tiger team, or maybe just the messed up TV access situation.

speaking of big strong Dmen, the network guys were comparing Sieder to Chris Pronger the other night. They didn't mean to be insulting but I were Moritz I'd be insulted. He's just as good and does it without being a dirty player.

IDK, in his 1st term I'd have believed this to be likely. With his increasing unhingedness, I'm less optimistic. If it does happen, it at least means he still has some connection with reality.

people love to bitch about the people mover and Q-line, which admittedly are poor shadows of what urban transit should be, but in the land General Motors you have to start somewhere.

another piece just came across my inbox about the bond markets from Axios/Bloomberg, pointing out a big shift in what is happening in Japan. Interest rates are finally starting to rise there - the long period of deflation ending. This is affecting bond markets everywhere, including the US, because the large carry trade out of Japan driven by ZIRP there was supporting bond markets everywhere, including the US.

LOL - that should send Nolan Finley right off the deep end! He wrote an OP-ED immediately after the JOA ended bitching about working for Gannett and Al Neuharth in particular. Also probably means they want to buy the other paper to close one down despite the current statements to the contrary.

and Luke Hughes and Edvinsson were in the same draft but Luke was gone before Yzerman took Simon.

Back in the day the family was at 14 and Middlebelt and I would very rarely catch a glimpse of one around a little creek Middlebelt goes over between 12 and 13.

sing Paul Simon's 'El Condor Pasa' to yourself to get rid of it. 😉

Just saw something run up the street towards the woods that looked for all the world like a coyote. We have fox in the neighborhood but this was too big and the tail was wrong. Haven't yet heard any though. If they are moving into the woods north of M-14 it should only be a matter or time before we do.

I think they operate under the theory that the more nervous they can make you the more likely you are to slip up if you actually trying to get by with something. I'm not sure the psychology research supports that idea all that well, but it is what it is.

if you want a clue as what Yzerman may have been thinking consider that QH has 57 blocks, 5(!) hits and 20 takeaways for the season while Simon has 104,63,18. In giving up Simon you are not just giving up a good young player - you are giving up a player that is providing exactly the what Wings teams have been the most short of for the last 10 yrs and have had to work the hardest to get back. If the Wings were not a team that has been chronically short of toughness since he got here, I could see Yzerman being more willing to give some up for Hughes.

whose side are these jokers on?

maybe the only play other than maybe investing overseas because that's the other kicker - the way they are trying to force the Fed into easier money increases the odds of losing control of inflation - if inflation goes up, higher interest rates will have to follow and any kind of long term bond gets hammered.

LOL - well if Trump didn't like Walz as governor of MN, he sure isn't going to like Amy. And TBH, probably not that big a sacrifice, Trump has driven his chances of beating Klobuchar to pretty much zero. Good statement though.

QH for Edvinsson - assuming that trade was available, would only have been a good move if Hughes was signed -- and if he is set on joining his brothers (which granted, we don't know for sure) he wasn't going to sign with Det.

In addition, the bubble in stock prices is very maldistributed. We've had a huge run up in a few now huge tech stocks that are at crazy valuations and imposssible P/Es, while the rest of the market is pretty meh. Probably won't make a difference if the tech bubble pops everyone will get hammered.

yup. Also more generally there is a lot of investable wealth chasing relatively few interesting investment opportunities - increases herd behavior and volatility in general.

well, judging from the abandonment of diamonds in MI, baseball is doing it's best to match that.

probably true, but I still think if Yzerman was going to deal he would have been able to make a better one if he had already pulled the trigger. Costs will only go up toward the deadline. Of course, the thing with Yzerman is that the current absolute silence might be the indication is he working something.....😉 The only other thing that bears - IMO, is that at least early in his tenure, Yzerman would always talk about wanting to build a team that can win a cup, not just get to the playoff. If he still believes that, I don't see him giving much of anything up to make this team marginally better when it still is too far away from actually being able to win a cup. Of course the flip side is that the pressure to at least make the playoffs only grows each season they miss.

except that this year he probably doesn't even need the marginal addition to get in, unless they lose Sieder or Edvinsson.

The TV market is apparently tiny. I find that ironic because the evolution of the hidef 16:9 format and the relatively few in game breaks has made hockey the best TV viewing sport of all.