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I really don't know - I've said before I think they have a longer term perspective than the fan base and are happy to tread water - at least for a while - waiting to see where the future shakes out and being frugal until they see where inivestment give them the best shot at longer term success - but that's a pretty subliminal impression, they may just be incompetent. . the afterglow of the NC meant that income for this year was assured so I don't see where real pressure comes from at least till next season.

Act Blue is the general Dem fundraising site. Pelosi runs the Congressional campaign office. If you have a particular congressional race in mind, go straight to the candidate's website.

Yeah - Montero looks like a guy who needs perfect command to be successful. I suppose anyone could turn into the next Greg Maddux, but possible doesn't mean likely.

That's a generalization that's overbroad. As noted, curation can have value to the end consumer and there is no reason a priori for a curator not to be paid for their service if their customers see a value in it. If anything, the volume of data the internet spews makes well done curation a more valuable service than ever.

He asked the question, that is the essence of the answer, it’s no more or less than that. If you want a kinder gloss, you can say Harbaugh hamstrung his own recruiting by so publicly and constantly courting the NFL, same difference as far as the current team goes. I’m fine with the NC, I just don’t really care about it. Doesn’t make the sky in Ann Arbor any bluer. if I like a movie, I don’t care if it wins an Oscar. If a team was entertaining in a given season, they get as far as they get. It’s entertainment, the value ends there. ‘OK’ or not doesn’t really parse as a question.

What's curious is why the Dems are not releasing any. Obviously the Blue side has not stopped polling. I know they figure fundraising to hold up better if there is a requisite amount of panic out there, but it still seems to me that at some point you can over do that - you need a little good news too if you have it.

Because Harbaugh knew he was bailing and that win or lose, JJ was his last shot to win at UM. In Jim's world there was no tomorrow in Ann Arbor after JJ, so no need to have another QB ready.

I will grant that if the same poll using the same methodology shows movement over time it's significant, but I'm a bit skeptical what we are seeing recently meets that standard.

I was glad to hear what Harris said about Torkelson needing to work on handling 'shapes' which I guess is 21st century GM argot for pitch recognition, as opposed to what Hinch usually said about Tork in earlier days, which was that he needed to 'hit good pitches.' If Harris has shifted the objective for Tork away from selectivity (which I think Tork was over doing) toward hitting what the pitcher throws in the zone, that is a direction where I think progress is possible.

we don't know if they are going to operate on an innings cap and if so how hard it will be. If they are willing to let him go to 150 they can pretty much start him regularly but cap his outings at 5 IP - maybe 75-80 pitches. Last off-season they had talked about limiting Skubal but in the end let him go over 200 IP so I doubt any plans made in April aren't going to be adjustable as the season progresses. OTOH they will/should/must(!) be more careful with Jobe than they were with Skubal, given the difference in their age/career workload.

Lack of appropriate inhibition can be funny in a comedy club, unfortunately in a Presidential candidate it's a symptom of the breakdown of supervisory intellectual capacity.

So left over question: when Edvinsson scored the empty netter, he apparently skated back to our net. For some reason Redmond thought something about that was really funny and he tried to get them to cue some video of it but they never got it and Mickey never explained himself. What was the joke?

half the season to play and the title of this thread already reads as parody.

Tuttle throws a huge 4th and 18 pickup, then throws a pick.

who had 7 losses on their pre-season prediction card?

I generally don't worry about shot differentials much. The Wings take fewer 'nuisance' shots on goal than many teams. That said, no doubt they were on their heels pretty badly for about a quarter of that game.

really thought this one was over after Nashville tied it. Early in the 3rd it looked like the Wings were skating in molasses, Preds beating them to every loose puck. But it looked like the Preds overextended themselves and by the 10 min mark Nashville was losing the initiative. Seider being a big physical presence on the ice=good. Seider in the box=bad. Something he needs to watch.

Gipson-Long is the one to watch, might have some upside there if the TJ went well.

The language needs to more precise than that offered. 'Manage their system' could be administrative and have no direct connection to scouting and development, or not.

Funny thing is that the mic went dead just as he was about the say the word 'Tariff'. Maybe an inside job on the part of his handlers to slow him down on the subject!

Guy writing this sounds like he doesn't think it's going to be much of a loss for the Jays. 🤔

Some more documented capitalism fail here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/17/private-equity-steward-hospital-bankruptcy/

Right. The system magnifies the differences. Reagan polled 50.7% and won 44 states. Even with no 3rd party votes, Bush I won 40 states with only a 53.7% majority

Yup. Harris has run pretty much a mistake free campaign, has hit all the marks, dotted all the i's, and the party supposedly has a ground game in place. The last candidate to do that was Obama in 2008.

lets not be naive, though they paid for the banner, Bally was never a presence. I'd have to guess there is little chance that will be true of FanDuel, who seem more likely to try to monetize every square inch of your screen and every line of dialog in the PBP.