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actually of that list, Lipcius held his own in his limited audition - 38PA at 103 OPS+. Possible utility guy of the future there.

this could be in 'MediaMeltdown' but I was in the car earlier this afternoon and browsed past NPR and they were announcing that 'Scalise would be the new Speaker'. Whoa? The GOP got their act together that fast? Get home later and hit the interwebs and he only has a majority of the caucus no House vote even scheduled. The recent incompetence level at NPR is sad to hear. I know they don't have the money to keep their top people anymore, but they could at least find some cheap inexperienced ones on the way up who have a future....

FIFY

They've gotten one bad year and one great year. Who knows what they get next year? If they win the WS what they got this year should assuage some of the pain if the future years look more like last year. If not, not so much!

The year plus probably the additional $35M?

I think this is fair logic but I don't know if that is how your average football coach thinks!

probably the best bet if you don't want to lose your money. 😉 I's also assume they aren't going to do anything to block Keith. If there is anyone in the system that is the real deal it's likely him.

Or take a contract to buy an MLB ready high level hitting prospect. The guy whose contract is being moved is probably being non-productive..... That's a trickier play but there are always some possibilities out there.

It's all good. Balanced schedule means he still gets to visit.

Indeed, but I suppose technically it was Wagner that had the primary prison recruitment mandate.

NCAA football as a true competitive team sport remains a joke until/unless they put stronger SOS factors back into tournament selection criteria. It's a great season of exhibition games and great spectacle and makes lots of folks big $$ - but as team competition Logan Roy said it best -- you are not serious people.

This is still working pretty well for Putin in asiatic Russia but now it's a car for the wife once you're dead.

There is quality on the pitching side though. Run prevention gets you there just as well as run scoring. Tigers should be making a hard run at Gray or Snell.

It's a big assumption that people wouldn't be just as good at finding other reasons to kill each other in the absence of organized religions - genocides by Stalin, the Khmer Rouge, Rawanda come to mind. Even the Holocaust, while it was directed at a religious group, was not a religious imperative of German Lutheranism. Religion often becomes the stalking horse to dress up more fundamental aims of conquest, greed, land, ethnicity. Still, if conquest were made a harder sell without the availability of the gloss of God's consent, that might be progress.

A guy at AEI wrote a piece this week - can't remember which paper I saw it in, argued the only way out for the GOP (and country if the 2 party system is to continue) is institute ranked choice voting in all primaries as a means to neuter the power of the fringe in the primaries. Could work. The only other thing would be to rebuild party membership back to 40/40 and 20 independents so more normal people would vote in primaries, but thats a lift I don't anyone knows an answer to.

There is no end to where you can take it. I used to assemble XL systems that pulled data from industrial instrumentation databases, process it into live real time diagnostic reports and then have those send their data into monthly financial reports. Stiffness was really problem though - when something broke..... The funny thing is that the stuff you code in VB you can at least comment. There's no neat way I ever came up that I liked to embed the documentation information about what a spreadsheet is doing inside the spreadsheet at the cellular level. You can add text to backing sheets or stash text in hidden rows and columns. Workable at some level, but all kludges. I do not remember those tasks fondly.

Right. And I would guess that since Baseball pretty much has mid-summer to itself, a 'summer championship' could easily become a bigger thing media wise and financially than the end of year tourney.

McCarthy's Speakership had only one value - it demonstrated that giving away the store to a faction creates an unstable situation. We all knew this in January, but I guess it had to be proved to the GOP. So, I would think that leaves us in a situation where the majority of the GOP realizes that they can't just duplicate the McCarthy mistake with a new face - i.e. get someone into the job only after a long negotiation that buys enough fringe votes with giveaways that another unstable, unworkable Speakership is created. This is all pretty obvious to anyone capable of 2 + 2 = 4. The problem is that those GOP members still cannot face the crisis of tribal identity that a reach across the aisle for a consensus majority requires. And as is usually the case in human affairs, psychology will win out over logic and it will get even worse before it gets better.

Part of this is that the value of possession has gone up. I think the reason long passing is dying out is because it was never high percentage, but today's QBs can hit 70% completion rates throwing the short and intermediate routes, and that means you keep the ball, and that is everything in today's game. You have to score, and you need the ball to score. Go back a generation I'd guess there were more punts, each possession was worth less, low percentage plays with high return like the long pass made more sense. Go back 2 generations and you had the old clock rules that made the game much longer and single possession even less important. So it's been a very long term trend in one direction, and it takes years for players and coaches that came up in different circumstances to all either change their ways or retire.... LOL - sort of the inverse of the disappearance of the mid-range jumper in the NBA, which still hung around decades after the 3 pt shot came in.

I'd be more interested in the series result than just the first game, though generally a 1st game win tilt the odds the rest of the way in the winner's favor. For instance, a confounding factor would be that the (better) team on the layoff may also have the single most dominant pitcher in the series, that factor could wash out all the others for the first game.

used up your freebies, eh?

always my same question about leaving hitters in AAA. I think you can get too acclimated once you reach a reasonable level of success against a certain pitching level. Doesn't a guy like Edvinsson need to see and learn to deal with offensive players who do exactly what guys in the AHL can't show him? It's one thing with a guy like McIsaac where you questioned he was ever going to make it at all (and he didn't), but the assumption has to be that Edvinsson is going to play in the NHL.

It's almost funny that the Lions have gone so 180 deg at QB. Stafford to Goff is almost whiplash: Stafford, who could make all kinds of 'wow, did you see that' plays, but often (at least early in his career) made mistakes, to the ultimate methodical, workman, almost never make a mistake surgeon where at the end of day the opposition says, "How did *that* guy beat us?"

LOL! McCarthy is so untrustworthy he can't even trust himself - throws his hat back in the ring to be re-elected speaker! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/09/house-republican-speaker/ Pointless windmill tilt though. He'd need some Dem support and I think he's just burned too many bridges there. Besides the Dems have to love having the best House GOP fund-raiser cut down. I would think if a half dozen Dems finally back a GOP speaker candidate to get the House off the snide even Scalise would be more likely than McCarthy.

Been there, done that?