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Achilles can be associated with PED use, so one possibility is there is stuff out there in use which is currently undetectable. The other theory is just that guys are trained to such insane levels and play so much harder in longer playoff added seasonsthat even the biggest ligament in the body can't take.

One thing both the internet and 24 hr news programming are combining to kill is any kind of concision in the use of the English language. When all you have is time to fill, clicks to generate and influencer rep to burnish, there is never any point is using less than 2 minutes to say what can be said in 15 seconds. For a long time at least, with print, there was some motivation to be concise because there is no credit for typing (or even dictation) time, but with AI available to spew unlimited ASCII, that last bastion of efficient media communication is likely doomed as well.

Everything Buster said has been covered 16 ways to Sunday in this thread already. But the key word is value. The correct analysis for the Tigers is to establish for themselves some scale upon which to rank the value to the Tigers of Skubal in 2026 vs any proposed trade on the same value system. If the return is greater, you make the deal. When I hear people argue whether the Tigers should trade him, what it usually comes to is that the people that think he should be traded think he will fetch a huge return (e.g. Olney), while the people that say 'keep him' believe no-one is going to give up enough for one year of any pitcher to make the Tigers whole in the deal. I don't imagine many disagree with the idea that "If the trade is good enough, make, if it isn't pass." But we aren't going to see what the offers are.

yeah - same Grandma that hasn't seen a lot him but knows he must be innocent. That should be a slam dunk for aquittal before the jury as well.

LOL- every programming book I've ever had just called them "curly braces" . In scripting languages like bash, they have to make things arcane enough that it takes three kinds of parenthesis [{()}] before you can get to totally unreadable code.

I once had to re-engineer an automated VB excel system that someone else (who had quit) had put together and not documented at all. It linked to into a half a dozen external applications and generated a pretty massive monthly account summary. My worst couple of months in 50 years of paid employment. I pretty much hate programming as well, but have been lucky in that most of what I had to do over the years was instrument control stuff and those are generally small, self-contained, and you mostly don't have to work with anyone else!

as per Axios 3 days ago: Subchapter V filings, which allow firms to shed debt faster and cheaper, are up 8% from last year, Bloomberg reported, citing data from Epiq Bankruptcy Analytics. Chapter 11 filings — a process used by larger businesses — are up roughly 1% over the same time frame.

remaining options?

Stock for the Hens. With Manning gone, Montero and Melton candidates for Det, there is very little starting staff depth at Toledo after SGL for injury fill-in.

think of all the good that money could have done and how little it will actually do. People are insane.

also a Randy Newman song.

What was the line from one of the early Harry Potter books? "Never trust something if you can't see where it keeps its brains"?

The greater irony in this court's redistricting jurisprudence is the the completely nonsensical idea that if you do it for partisan reasons, it's OK. How is any deviation from the concept of equality of voting power/one man one vote ever acceptable? This court has wandered so far off into the weeds of partisan self justification that it's functioning as the primary facilitator of the demise of the document they claim to be so dedicated to reading as it supposedly was intended.

Nice thought but if all it does is get Trump's back up to defend him it will not have been productive. Still if PH gets enough bad press Trump is likely to throw him overboard.

game of attrition.

Yeah - but do those asians Love LA?

when the Chinese cut off access to Western researchers to gather field samples, that pretty much guaranteed it would never be resolved beyond speculative theories. And in the end, what does it actually matter whether it jumped to a Chinese researcher gathering samples a cave or from a one critter to another or because someone mishandled a sample? Do people think any of the same things couldn't happen here? The only take away that matters is that in a world as tightly packed and constantly criss-crossed as this one, you have to be prepared to respond when nature does the predictable/inevitable, and we have a admin gutting the CDC. The rest is all distraction.

Headline seems backward though - I would read it to say Warner is splitting off the studio then being bought, but it appears to be the opposite, Netflix is buying the studio and the cable ops get thrown overboard, which makes more sense.

For a Skubal deal to happen I think they need something sort of 'from the outside' to break their way - there has been speculation that the owners think they are going to be get a better deal in the new CBA (they are probably wrong but that's beside the point) and that will hold big offers down and maybe that gives Detroit a path to a deal with Skubal. I think it will have to be some non-status quo situation like that for the door to open.

Finding ways to lose.

This is one side of the coin, but the other, which is also in play, is that these guys are intensely competitive and they see the size of the contract they pull down standing as a big marker among their peers. For some guys it's going to be the one, for others the other

this was cute

They also don't know when to quit. It's customer relations 101 that people don't like to be constantly harrassed.

Oddly enough, today I came across the fact that there were at least 3 attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria.

like I said about the coverage! The U is becoming quite the Leviathan though - it's getting pretty crazy - they just made a big deal about spending bit bucks to very carefully move a run down old frame house that Raoul Wallenberg lived in briefly to a new location several blocks away to get it clear of a site they are leveling for more student housing ( I think ), meanwhile, they announced they are tearing down a 12 story office tower they own across the street from the mall that was built in 1974 because they apparently don't like it anymore, and they opened another new hospital building in a complex where it's already quite impossible to find a place to park as a patient (not being facetious - you really can't). Between the city government being in thrall to real estate developers and the University scrambling the geography whenever and wherever they like, A^2 is getting to feel like living on a monopoly board.