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Yeah - I don't like it either. I've always felt like if you are not actively getting better, you are getting worse. With a young team maybe you can bank on some improvement, but most of these guys are now already what they are going to be, maybe Dingler has some upside and maybe McGonigle makes the team and impresses, but OTOH, you can bank that some other guys are going to have worse seasons than the last one. Bottom line you should be working to upgrade the bottom 3 guys in your batting ordet, your #4/5 starters every single year, and your BP every single year.

it would be really nice to win one of these where enough people voted for it to mean something!

they are just not deep enough to play over injuries to any one of Larkin, Cat, Raymond, Seider, Edvinsson or Gibson. For those 6 guys the drop off to next man up is too big. If Simon comes back and the rest of the core stay healthy, they'll be OK, but otherwise not so much.

Simon's improvement may be the largest single contributor the the team's improvement. Lose either him or Moritiz and you are looking at the 2024/5 Wings again.

nyuck-nyuck

There certainly was a tremendous amount of noise about ARod going to third, and at the time the argument he was a better SS was a good one, but my guess is he probably wasn't going to be able to stay at short much longer anyway and the Yankees probably recognized that.

Derek Jeter is exhibit one for the fact that defense is nice, but hitting is nicer. Jeter's BR page is interesting. Hit over 330 three times and had an OBP over 400 4 times but never led the the league in either category. His best bold face numbers were leading the league in hits twice (200+ hits 8 times in his career) and runs once.

Reynolds was also one of those guys who had the thankless task of succeeding a legend. He had to go to work everyday in building with his predecessor's name on it.

it's sort of the natural result of the selection process. If you can't shoot, you aren't going to get to high levels in basketball unless you have something you can do on the court to make up for it. That's either going to be being a 7'4" rim protector or being so athletic a runner and defender you earn your keep that way. It worked for Rodman, who couldn't shoot and has 5 titles. But sure it's even tougher to be that guy in today's game.

Another take on this is that pro sports leagues are just too big today (and college conferences are following down the same wrong path). More fans would be more happy if they were rooting for a team in a smaller league that did have a better chance to win each year. The old 6 team NHL was great in that regard, as were the 7 team baseball leagues when winning a pennant was considered to mean something. It's the American obsession with having to prove (as though a short series in baseball ever does that anyway) who is the absolute top of the biggest heap which has been responsible for more and more fans being more and more unhappy about their team's lot! If I ruled baseball I'd go back to strict < 8 team divisional only play and only have an interdivisional playoff and WS every 4 years.

I don't get what bothers people over Brady doing game analysis

The bankster types I've been hearing interviews with, esp one who is one of Warsh's buddies, seem to want us to believe that he is sandbagging Trump to get the job, or at least they want to believe that themselves.

Izzo is about the sorest loser you'll ever see. Probably why he wins so much.

LOL - just what State did.

Win-Win!

the generations after the WWII generation in Europe and the US have gotten lazy, and since we have been the richest, we got the laziest. For close on 35yrs we've basically forgotten to take care of all the things that make a society work - education, fairness, citizenship, equity, truth. So here we are.

Agree. The thing is though, as much as the people one the one side would currently like it to be true, I'm afraid it is not true that the rich bad boy's club breaks particularly on political ideological grounds, which is why as much as each side talks about the other, they never quite actually get all the way to dropping the hammer.

Make it 3 Stone.' Seems only right to give the weight of a curling rock in 'stone.' And who is this 'Harris'? Haven't seen nor heard from anyone of that name.

go for it. If he can piss off Ohioans, that would put an end to GOP 2028 hopes.

I just remembered, when we were in school the SO had to take an anthro course and part if it was about some group of arctic natives and the way chief established himself was to intimidate the members of his tribe by giving them better gifts than they could give him. This guy happen to have any Innuit blood?

Ebay

the people who stood up and got arrested in the civil rights era were celebrated the rest of their lives. The same will likely happen here.

If by 'no 'single' player' he means 75% Harmon and 25% his extrapolation I'd believe him. Aside from the bat position being exactly right, the tell is the nose. Harmon had a very pointed nose and so does the logo.

Pretty sure this is true.

✅ - now yer talkin!