gehringer_2

weird hot and cold team. But good to be on the hot side.

I was never under any illusions that Roberts was a conservative, but I did think that he did have some concern for the legitimacy and integrity of the court as an institution, but as this all emerges it sadly evident that he has been MIA as an honest adminstrator of this court and at this point has retreated to full scale CYA. I suppose that constitutionally he may not have any explicit power over other justices, but if had been at all interested he could have done a lot to institutionalize a higher ethics standard - esp in the early years when the court was more balanced. Disappointing.

Veralander has always given up hard contact - comes with being a 4 seam fastball guy. I'm just amazed the guy still has 95 and even a bit more at 40. That pretty much puts him a the company of Nolan Ryan.....and maybe no-one else?

Torkelson banging the ball all over the park, nothing to show.

That's why Max wanted out. In retrospect it can't be denied it was a managerial fail for Leyland. Maybe there was no way the two could ever keep pitching together, but Leyland's approach to Max was basically "Shut up and be second fiddle." which was a sure fire way to help make sure Max didn't want to stay.

The admin has no direct control over what the Fed does other than sparing with them rhetorically in public, which ususally has marginal effect at best. Deficit spending has some effect on inflation - not as much as what the fed does - but the big fiscal (non FED) driver for this inflation was the money the Congress doled out for Covid and that is now all over. The infrastructure spending is inflationary, it's also pretty vital as the country is falling apart. Thus the answer to that conundrum is that the deficit needs to be closed on the revenue side today far more than on the spending side. There is no such thing a modern society on the cheap. The GOP always knows that when they are in power, but they have the public bamboozled enough to keep using the arg when they are out.

Torkelson has been beyond stellar at 1B. Of course you can't play a 1B for his D but it;s just another reason they have to make his bat work because he is an absolute difference maker saving throws. I remember at one point last season Hinch said there were too many voices in his head. I think the best thing that could happen is if Hinch included himself in that total and they just left him alone completely. He is still too indecisive about what he should swing at. I would tell him to forget all the game planning/scouting/data and go with his natural instincts which seem pretty good when he trusts them. He's basically been taking too many pitches he could/should be hammering.

Though he never talked about, it turns out my father kept a log of things he knew he couldn't put in letters home. One of the things he noted is that they most definitely did not pick up any ditched Japanese Zero pilots.

LBs are RBs are running game players so I guess it depends on how much the running game figures in the league in a given era. It's at a pretty low point now but the pendulum may swing back - good coaches are alwasy looking to change things up. I'm almost little surprised hybrid runner/receivers like Gibbs aren't more the norm in today's game.

It's a long way back but the guy that comes to mind for me would be Jim Plunkett. ROY then pretty much nothing much at all statistically or win wise for a number of years. Now I suppose the original question is a little misput because you can't be 'horrible' and stay in the league but for a number of years no-one thought a team led by Plunkett was likely to win anything - then two SB wins after age 32.

Hard to fathom. My father was older than most GIs when he went because he had had a defense deferment as a machine tool operator in war production. He's a lesson in why you send the youngest men you can to war. His eyes were too open to what the war was and he came home pretty down on the concept for the rest of his life. The only thing I ever remember him saying about the war was that the young men on neither side deserved it.

It's a measure of both the Russian sense of projection and their misunderstand the Ukrainians that assassination attempt is their first reading. Listen to any of the Ukrainian leadership, unlike we Americans who focus on personality, they don't care about Putin at all. They see Putin as simply the organic and thus likely completely reproducible product of the state of Russian society. If this drone was Ulrainian - and of course given Putin's amply demonstrated willing to kill and create chaos to gin up public sentiment who knows? - they certainly weren't trying to kill Putin - they were just sending Moscovites Spring greetings.

Yeah - I don't see CNN being able to recapture any of the MAGA crowd. Especially if Licht claims his ambition is to be a better news network because better news is true news and the MAGA aren't interesting in that. For Licht - and the rest of the US media - the first illusion they have to part with to be more valuable to viewers as news sources is that a good news organization gives falsehood equal time to truth. It's that misapprehension that has put much of the US media in the toilet with viewers to begin with. In the future the social function for a 'good' news org in a deeply propagandized world is being an honest broker for reality. The first org to embrace that role fully has its market waiting for it. Licht's real problem at CNN is that MSNBC is out competing them in the real news area. He's conflating the issue of MSNBC's dem advocacy with the fact they are doing the better job in other areas as well. The audience he needs back to succeed commerically is what he has lost to MSNBC (he can't get back Fox's) and the issue for CCN is less about moving away from advocating either side than in doing a better job on the news period.

it could get interesting over the next few years if CNN tries to move right and Rupert passes from the scene. You'd think Lachan will want to put his own stamp on things af Fox but who knows what direction that might take.

It's looks like the focus was the trolley system. Love that the one out Grand River is called 'Orchard Lake" - classic human stupidity that it's all gone. One of my early memories was that the tracks were still in the road on Grand River at Oakman when I was young and we went to the Sears there. I suppose they are probably still there, just paved over a few times now.

Note the trolley system! But what it shows is bit older than '34. In '34 my mother lived in a house on the near west side that doesn't show the streets as platted yet on this map.

LOL - had the same thought.

I believe Murdock wants to be done with Trump so he needs a new media ally. Looks like he's already figured out how to play Licht.

LOL. This is a reach - sounds more like a backhanded sales pitch for Eurofighters. The F-16 is operated in more places than probably any western fighter aircraft. If its FOD issue are marginally worse than say, an F15 (and FOD is an issue for every jet engine), whatever its limitations, it's a platform that dozens of countries, including ones with lots of sand blowing around, have managed quite well.

If the Lions are good enough to be challenging for a Championship I could see both Goff and the Lions deciding to live with one another even in the absence of any agreement going forward because both want a shot at the Brass Ring badly enough put concerns about '25 on the shelf.

The Tigers are where hitters come to die.

Three brothers. One already past draft age, one drafted into the Navy, one lied his way into the Marines at 17 to get away from home. The Patriarch was a shoe-maker and the eldest son had a business in custom orthopedic shoes. When each of his younger brothers went off to war he hand made them a leather wrapped handle assault style knife about the same size as the standard issue Navy MK-I. Youngest son disappeared into the PTO and never wrote home. At some point the Dept of the Navy informed the family that he had been wounded in action but they knew nothing beyond that. 2nd son posted to a ship also in the PTO and on one return to Pearl Harbor someone stops him and asks him where he got the unique knife he was wearing because he had just seen another just like it. And that is how my father found his wounded brother half way around the world in the middle of WWII. I still have both my father's MK-1 and the knife my uncle made him, and I'm sure my children will someday have no idea why there will be two old knives in a box at the estate sale.

yup - Football season predictions are matters of caution and also crossed fingers, because In the end, a football season turns about as much on injuries as anything else. No matter how well a team projects it can be done in by a cluster of injuries - esp if they concentrate in one position group.

Civility is an ethical statement, not a political one. Any democracy loses the ability to make that distinction at its peril.

Licht strikes again. Trump always finds suckers in the US media to supply his oxygen.