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Contracts are getting extreme, but the teams giving them away don't seem to be losing money yet - the teams that can't afford those contracts so far have been disciplined about not giving them away. The net result is that there probably are not enough teams under enough financial duress right now to make the owners dig in their heels about claw backs, which would be one thing that would drive to a strike. The other possibility is that the majority of owners gang up on NY/LA and demand the system be made more equitable - that would probably also set off the players because it would almost certainly involve some kind of cap - which they won't accept even if a more equitable $ distribution across the league would almost certainly be in the players' long term interest. But OTOH, the other owners have had a 100 yrs to do that and never have.

really. Not going to throw back any wins but you have to wonder if any other NBA team has had their record winning streak against so many teams missing so many players.

didn't see this one but 4 goals on 23 shots? Was Talbot off his feed or just a high ratio of high quality chances for the Devils?

I actually want to see more of Elmer, but we haven't because he went to the IR today - retroactive to the 9th https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/hockey/news/red-wings-elmer-soderblom-lands-on-ir/

I don't much like Hamonic or Holl, but they are down a Dman in Simon so sadly somebody is going to be playing we'd rather not

I hope you are right. The take is imminently rational. That doesn't seem to be enough in too many spheres anymore.

LOL - the avatar is from Harry Nilsson's "the Point", the artwork for it was by Gary Lund. This forum SW doesn't do sig lines, but when I adopted the "Rockman", it was because his tag line was "you see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear." and so that was the sig line that went with the Avatar. I did drop Rockman for Trumps 1st term in favor of the Queen of Diamonds, in honor of the "Manchurian Candidate". if anyone is interested, there are two versions of 'the Point' out there, one narrated by Ringo, the other by Nilsson himself. Nilsson's is better -- IMHO.

well, maybe the outline of a concept of a plan.

LOL - Kelly should remind Hesgeth to take care he doesn't leave himself subject to war crimes prosecution in the future. He's already at a lot more risk than Kelly is.

that's football today. You build a team, then all you can do is watch to see how much of it survives the season.

Bonds was a nut but he could write copy.

11 pitchers in history have 3 or more Cy Youngs. The odds of Skubal not regressing are not good, but not impossible.

ETTD

yeah - planned roll outs should not be that hard. Either they aren't in the play book, Goff just doesn't like to do it, or the thought is that with the turnover on the 0-line and TE it's an added level of complexity they think might lead to more breakdowns.

But Goffs problem isn't straight line speed, it's manueverability. 🦛

the GOP could have, but you know they wouldn't have. So what? If the Trump admin had another billion to spend the only people that would have benefited were more of his cronies - you know it as well as I do. And what could help those vets are all the VA, drug treatment and social services Trump and the GOP have been cutting and trying to cut, So my blood isn't boiling over the scam in MN at all, at least not compared to how much it already boils over the much, much bigger scam in DC.

It's all relative. You can probably see more on a galaxy Z-fold than on this guy - which is what I watched my 1st Tiger games on.....👀

Not exactly a bunt to break up a no-hitter.😱

JB looks looks like he's comfortable doing more mixing and matching instead of playing fixed rotations, which is as it should be since every team you play presents different match-up issues.

Blower

Wha? Ryan Helsley? Have I got the wrong guy? 31 yrs old, has never started, sort of fell apart as reliever after trade to the Mets last season. In what universe is that a potential starter?

The SO and I went round all the options on the boat. For a boat big enough to live on, she didn't want to risk having to handle a sail boat if I went over, I'm not sure I could alone either. OTOH, 35' foot (or more) twin screw power boat is going to burn a little less than 20gal/hr of gas, less if it's diesel - but owning diesels is a whole added level of frustrations. It becomes one of those things where you'd like be there, but you don't necessarily want to live there. 🙄

I love Superior. I half-wish I had spent the money a few years ago and bought a boat up there when the SO and I were still in condition to manage one. Not that we aren't healthy enough (knock knock) but I don't have the energy/ambition anymore for the amount of work maintaining a boat big enough for Superior is. At the time I enjoyed my work and didn't really want to quit. And TBH, I could never quite wrap my head around spending a grand to fill the gas tank! C'est la vie 🤷‍♂️

here are all Goldberg's quotes pulled from Petzold's column in the Freep:

they won't come close to 60 seats, but it would be nice if they at least retake the majority.