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When the DH first came into use, it did extend a lot of careers, and you did see a lot of guys move to DH their as their gloves got worse, but that was in an era where everyone who made the bigs made them as a position player somewhere. Since then, the DH has been available for players who from the beginning of their careers were poor defenders but hit well enough to hold down DH, so the profile of the DH has shifted. Sure a few guys still end up there when they lose their fielding (Cabrera) but as many or maybe more start there - JHM for example (assuming he were to return to the Tigers and stick as some point). The availability of younger no-glove players, who are lower cost, means holding on to your old players as DH's is less attractive then in the first generation of the DH.

I expect to see this on TruthSocial by Monday. 🤣

And to give my avatar a plug, the way the RockMan put it was: "You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear"

I'm going to guess RV didn't meant Trump would suicide himself, but that he would "suicide" Maxwell, as in have her murdered in deniable circumstances..

They do make for even more complex standings and playoff tie-breaker possibilities, which I would generally assume only deepens fan interest.

the injury rate in football is so high I can understand wanting to add as few plays from scrimmage to end the game as possible. What I guess I don't understand is how the sport survived 100 yrs perfectly well with ties. Maybe it goes back to the gamblers, but I thought in the old days the bookmakers made out well in ties.

or she may have psychotic breakdown trying to avoid ever closing her eyes....

It lost it for me when I went to a couple of UM games in recent years and the game was like a sideshow to all the unrelated media they were blasting at you for 4 hours - I used to like going to a football game to watch a football game, but at the game it has become almost an afterthought, any drama or momentum you might expect is a sporting event is deftly drained away but the commercial time-out official who is ultimate arbiter when anything can happen regardless of the game flow. It's been pretty much downhill from there. The truth is that big money ruins the value of most thing for most people. When you are under constant pressure to separate yourself from every dollar you possess, it's hard to have a good time and that's what big time sports has become across the board. But the operators have no choice, the system they've created is one where they don't survive if they don't keep taking every opportunity they can invent to separate an additional dime from a fan. </rant>

It's Heisenberg's universe, we just live here.

so only now they figure this out?

Yup. I haven't felt like part of the target audience since my most preferred vendor was Mattel.

Most recently, GLP-1 drugs have blown through everyone's health care budgets. As the articles state, insurers are scurrying to remove as much coverage for them as they can. Of course, if we had a real market in prescription drugs - one where the most power buyers were actually allowed to use their leverage, the price probably would have come down by now.

.....guess you had to be there.... 😉

True. The libs do have to stop believing women are going to save them from the GOP. Has has plenty of chances to happen and hasn't

I can see this distinction, OTOH, my recollections of Rush was that he was misogynistic enough I doubt he had a large proportion of female fans. The idea that Rogan trends younger among males than Rush I can see.

whether he's just lying or just can't remember doesn't make that much difference in the end to the fact that his fans don't care but should. Actually in this case, I don't think he meant to get it wrong because he was sort of backtracking when he shifted to "Biden reappointed him" but Trump being Trump, he wasn't going to correct himself, because if half the people didn't know the difference, he wasn't going to help them see it. So very deliberate in that sense.

Right - the question is did they already see the makings of a goalie there that happened to be big, or did they just draft a big kid who played in goal hoping he could turn into a goalie?

Lance is almost 70, made $12M when that was still pretty good money. If he hasn't been foolish he should be past worrying about his future employment prospects.

A year into his 2nd term, a President is already becoming a declining asset to the future hopefuls in his party. That's political truth that probably hasn't changed.

Not sure any goalie has a particularly high floor - but I get the idea. 😉

Well, depending on how you define confused. By my definition most of them have been confused from the very beginning, but if you want to take a narrower definition for this case, I guess you can say they are more confused now.

Yup. Maybe it's just something that has always fallen to the older gen, or maybe boomers, who have always had so much brought to them on a silver platter are late to the party of real social responsibility, but there are a lot of good things in life that only exist because people are willing to pay for them for each other, and 'people' most definitely doesn't always mean the gov.

but he has been a cultural icon in the culture that Red America is reactionary toward. In that sense, of course he doesn't influence red America.

right. If he's with the team he probably has a clean uni, or at a team warm up jersey in the locker room to put on. But I'd guess - especially for a 1st timer, he probably only had one uni-with him, and he's not going to put that back on after pitching in it.

And Stewart is exactly the kind of holier than thou lib that make Red America vote the way they do, so he could at least have made himself practically useful to the blue side, which he didn't.