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Will the luxury tax on Ohtani end up being more than the entire Orioles or A's payroll, or even both?

they who live by the running QB, eventually die by the running QB

It's too bad TT is such an idiot generally because the one saving grace of having a football coach in the Congress is that he was apparently working on some legislation to straighten out the NCAA, though I don't know enough about the details to have any idea if it was progress to just making a bad situation worse. But he has so devalued himself now that even if he had a good idea about something he might not find anyone willing to listen to or work with him.

If you have a power arm, that gets identified pretty early in your career, before you ever have show you have any hitting potential. That will get you to the majors without you ever having any hitting ability in the first place - so practicing it more probably won't get a lot of guys very far. Plus maybe different training methods? Developing a musculature that is optimal for hitting and pitching may not work for many guys.

Maybe. But Mike Ilitch at least was a guy who was a stand-up enough to run a reasonably honest business where he had to learn to pay some level of attention to his customers and there was never a question he loved his city. Gores is an absentee who has apparently worked at building his wealth by screwing anyone he can get a clear shot at and the more powerless they are to complain about it, the better. Hope for comparable concern about his team's fans may need to be tempered. In Gores' case, the only thing that can save the Pistons is his vanity. But maybe that will be enough, eventually

Maybe nefarious would be the wrong word, but it still displays that people as close to Desantis as his SO have a fundamental misunderstanding that elections are not just some kid of carnival cupie doll midway contest to win by any sleight of hand means possible.

think I picked a good one to miss....

We can hope, but be prepared for the worst. WCF owned the Lions for 5 decades of futility. Though at least in the Lion's case under WCF while they were mostly bad they only occasionally terrible.

True - it could be like the ARod contract. IIRC that first big deal of ARod's stood unmatched for years because there just weren't any other 1000 OPS Shortstops.

Doubly ironic in the face of all the RSNs going belly up. On the consumer end its hard to see where more media income growth can come, everyone and his uncle is looking for ways to pare down their home media costs. That is the single biggest piece of what pays sports salaries. Next few years should be interesting.

going to be very hard to turn around a franchise with poor leadership because bad decisions will continue to undercut any progress the players do make. The only way franchises with bad management this bad break through is when they get so much luck they can't screw it up, like drafting a Jokic. Pistons had their shot and Cade is no Jokic.

Yeah - he had a couple of good games then came back with a 1/5 from three with 5 TO performance. Nice assist numbers recently. One of the radio guys had some numbers along the lines that if the rest of the Pistons were league average shooters Cade would averaging something like 4 more assists/game.

Of course, to me believing in economic fairy tales like Reagonomics should be just as disqualifying to be a Congresscritter because it's just as damaging. And TBH there a lot of overlap between the two.

again - there is no such single entity. There are many churches - many of them don't regard science as a subject of theological concern at all so they have no need or interest taking 'official' positions to accept or deny any of it. If you have a particular church with a particular doctrinal stance in mind, you should say who you are talking about if you care to be accurate.

To me the story of 'the Fall' is maybe the most interesting in the entire Bible. So many possible ways to unpack it.

On a related note, the US high energy physics folks are in the midst of some kind of periodic review of what they want to ask the Feds to fund and the hot item on the wish list now is a Muon collider that will get to 100 TeV. I could only laugh at the quote by one of the lead guys when he said that this kind of work was important because we all need/want to know *why* we are here (emphasis mine of course). Guess again fella.

No question - scoring 20 in an 80 pt bad boys era win is equal to 32 in a 130pt win today

Yeah - if SJ had better finishers this game would already be out of reach.

I think the tell on Cade is how little he gets to the FT line. Teams don't have to respect his ability to at least drive and draw a foul when they close on him.

nutty game.

So Chris would leave Weaver in place for several years, eventually buy out Williams and hire a better coach that is a better fit, finally fire Weaver and bring in a sucessful GM and maybe they win in 2030?

and to be honest, the fact that it was the Dodgers that went public with what did come out, I would not be surprised if it was some attempt at a late modification or backdown on an implied promise by them to ERod etc, that killed the deal, and they were getting their story out as CYA for their FO.

I think there are pretty much 4 possibilities: 1-Harris hadn't discussed trade options with ERod in enough detail to understand clearly what he would accept and so negotiated a deal he *could* have known ERod would refuse. (Fault Harris) 2-Harris did have detailed discussions with ERod to where he did think he understood him clearly but they simply hadn't connected completely so that despite good faith effort by both Harris and ERod, ERod ended up not liking the deal. (Fault - maybe both of them, maybe neither - stuff happens) 3-Harris did understand what ERod *said* he would accept accurately and ERod simply changed his mind. (Fault ERod) 4-ERod was non-committal in discussions with Harris, basically said "Bring me the deal and I'll decide" and things ran so close to the deadline that by the time they got back to ERod and he didn't like the deal it was just too late to do anything else. (Fault - any or all of ERod/Dodgers/Tigers) Unless someone spills the beans I find any of the above equally likely.

Maybe Williams, having discovered he doesn't have the support of his GM and in general what a dysfunctional org he has signed on with is now already trying to get himself fired/bought out. Would explain his lineups as well as anything else......🤷‍♀️

In all the years I've watched the 4 pro teams in Det, this team may well be the one that least looks like it even belongs in the arena with the teams they are playing. The Lions went winless in '08 but were still within 10pts in 7 games. The Tigers lost 119 but on any day with a good starting performance they still could still look respectable.