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IDK. It's true he's not the greatest defensive Dman, but I'd hate to give up the skating. I almost fell out of my seat when one of the network guys said the Penguins had to slow the game down because they couldn't skate with the Wings. Maybe not with Larkin and Raymond, but the drop off from there to the rest of the team does not make for the Wings being an overall fast team.

Veleno and the Wings would probably both be better off without each other. Let him go.

I understand that the public communication calculus can get complicated, you don't want to give any segment of society a pass on fixing global warming, or create loopholes in the social discipline needed to address the problem, but....the truth is that the 'zero carbon' mantra is non-sensical from the planetary perspective. The planet turns over billions of tons of CO2 all the time through it 'normal' processes. All that really matters is that human generation has to return to levels that do not create a significant shift in that continuing background planetary carbon budget. That will still be a lot of campfires. But politically I'm willing to understand that that is too complex a tale to tell when you are trying to move a society from point A to point B.

appliance manufacture is a world wide business and without doing any specific research I'm going to guess they have to meet pretty much the same kind of standards in the EU/Japan etc. so yeah - they won't complain to be free of US standards but it is mostly right wing virtue signalling. OTOH, some of the eco stuff can get pretty silly. The greenhouse gas contribution from cooking a dinner on a gas cook top is a pimple on a gnat's ass. Spend the political energy where the real payoff is - the grid, transportation, utility generation, heavy industry.

I didn't hear all of it either but he said something about tying string/ribbons to the screens on the outlets. I didn't catch whether he actually succeeded and did it, or if he was just recounting that it was something he had wanted to try to do.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Petry back. He is the kind of player coaches probably love. He's almost always doing the right thing - the problem is he never does it well enough to make a difference. He gets back, but he doesn't pressure, is always 'there' but he never regains possession, he will get the puck out of the zone, but the poor outlet pass will usually lead to very short possession. I'd rather live with any mistake a guy like Edvinsson makes because the rest of time he is making an impact - he cuts off rushes, wins battles at the boards, moves the puck, etc - but plays by the other team that never happen and goals not given up don't get highlighted on the tele-strators in the film room the way a bad turn over does.

Not to mention, the lions were within one possession in 5 of 16 games, which is a higher % of competitive games than this Piston team has mustered.

He's a free agent signed from 'down under' - he was playing in a league in Auckland.

you might think that, but the bean counters that run most US corps actually hate their engineering and development staffs, wish they could do without them completely, so they hate having to rely on them for anything, and just assume that since they have spent so much effort cutting and commoditizing their own that any requirement for them to innovate will be an unalloyed advantage to their competition. So no, US execs *never* like regulation on that basis.

they did try to score enough runs for everybody.

this is modern baseball - it's all about the probabilities. Harris and Hinch are going to have the team play to the probabilities on Mother Nature's tendencies just like any other pitcher's. - Joking aside, the advanced sale tickets aren't refunded, you still have to use then later, and I'm going to guess they estimate the increase in attendance for the DH on a nice weekend day will be greater than the lost walk-up on chilly rainy school week day game - which wasn't going to be much. By calling that early they probably don't have to pay much/any of the service crew. And you buy the goodwill of the fans that would have gone downtown to sit around the park waiting for a game that did have a high probability of being called anyway.

the thing that is so ridiculous about Revelation 'interpreters' is that it's first and clearest allegory is about overcoming Roman persecution. Rome, the city of 7 hills (beast with seven horns etc) and the comedy is that pagan Rome was never defeated by Christianity in any kind of great battle at Armageddon, it simply converted! Sort of peacefully. No battles, no horsemen. So John, or whoever it was, missed the boat right out of the gate. If they had truncated Revelation after the letters to the 7 churches they would have saved the modern world a lot of grief, but apparently eschatology was already too popular 3 centuries in.

this is probably what a twisted **** like Netanyahu is hoping for as he no doubt sees a straight out conflict with Iran as good politics.

What a moran. Tom - you can write all the checks to do go works around the community you want to, there is absolutely no need to subject us all to bad basketball for that to happen.

Lakeland scores 13 runs, Clark not in the lineup.

Pens strategy was to rag the puck until Larkin and Raymond had to get off, and it worked. Wings just don't have a 2nd set of winning 3 on 3 skaters.

Not to be.

Moving a game from a wet chilly day to a warm sunny one isn't the worst outcome even if it has to be as part of a double header. Later in the year when a reschedule is just a likely to end up in worse weather maybe push harder to play it, but with the Saturday forecast in hand it probably wasn't a hard call for Harris et al.

And he trades for another old RH Dman and Edvinsson ends up there with him. 😠

OTOH - You can guess the only thing they wanted less than losing the case was to win the case with a white majority jury. If you come at it from that direction, you can say they were in a lose/lose situation, but that still doesn't excuse the California Court allowing the trial to turn into farce, regardless of what other factors came into play. Also, I think almost oddly enough an inversion on what is current today with BLM. If OJ had murdered his black wife, maybe they are more likely to convict him. 🤔

Better than a tanto in a linen wrapper I suppose...

Keith has been quite the surprise at 2b, just because everyone seemed so skeptical. He seems perfectly comfortable, decisions are good, not forcing anything. I think 3b could still be a weakness if McKinstry ends up there against LHP a lot. He's not horrible at 3B but he's not really all that good either.

Toledo now also with a Doubleheader Saturday. LOL - Will Toledo call up a pitcher from Erie while Det calls up a pitcher from Toledo (which we assume will be Manning...)

But even then, the level of incompetence evident is probably enough to torpedo a roster even with two great players to build around. The Pistons are probably doomed until Gores sells or dies, just as the Lions were with WCF. Maybe the best we can hope for is that if he finds the team enough of an embarrassment, it motivates him to sell it.

But the prosecutor's were also incredibly incompetent. Maybe in LA the idea of water falling from the sky is too foreign to keep in mind, but anyone who lives in non-desert parts of the world knows that leather gloves left in the rain shrink. If they had had any brains they could have blown up the whole Cochran glove shtick. Likewise not doing your homework on your own witnesses. Not to mention Ito letting the trial wander all over the place. I'd say the system failed as much as the poor jury. But the other lesson to take form the OJ trial is that sadly that kind of incompetence isn't that rare, and that kind of system failure leads to just as many guilty verdicts that are just as wrong.