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I hate shoot outs too.

likewise. One of the dumbest rules in the NHL. If a linesman misses an offside just play on - it was probably so close that overturning a goal because of it is just negating a good play that didn't get any material advantage by being off side by so little the linesman couldn't see it.

So is M fan taking a moment to thank Oklahoma for keeping Alabama in the playoff long enough for them to have to hire Wittingham?

maybe the specter of the work stoppage is really going to have an effect.

Maybe a little with Soderblom - they gave him an audition and then we didn't see him again for a season and a half. But in his case they still are a long way from sold even now. I thought they should have used him last night given the way the Jets were tossing Wings around but whatever.

Right now the problem with ASP is the fit. He has some NHL level talent but his skill set isn't what the Wings currently need the most from a Dman. It's the weakest part of his game the Wings are most in need of.

The roster in college ball is big enough to have more than one fall back. Sure, collecting depth is much harder in the portal era, but that is the job description.

Of course MN also wanted him to field a position so bad match all around. 🙄 I tend to take what guys say when they change teams with a grain of salt though - they always want to make the team that wanted them look better than the team that didn't. If you look at the numbers, Ortiz was pretty much the same hitter in 2003 as in 2002. The big difference was the number of HR he hit at home going from the Metrodome (5) to Fenway (17), while his road HR were almost unchanged - down one (15->14). So whether or not he liked the coaching at MN, he definitely didn't like the ballpark!

I might give him #2 and #3 as throwing it away because a pick was as likely as a catch. Of course if those guys were covered why did he throw there - what were his other options supposed to be? Who knows?

Sure - You are correct that there is personality type to whom everything but their own personal experience holds no weight. Living in a high tech world were you can't directly experience or personally 'prove' most of what is going on around you has to be a real bitch for them. Joe Rogan comes to mind. Maybe I'm not being fair, I've been steeped in a scientific method culture pretty much since I could walk. Since I can only go by myself - I don't know anyone else's thought processes but my own, I don't know how fair it is to evaluate other people's capabilties to to think about and evaluate facts, evidence, reality.

They are a little deeper than that. Kane and Edvinsson round out a decent top 6. Then a step down to Compher, Copp and Chairot - then the cliff. 😱 Though I have to say, one guy playing a little better recently is - I almost hate to admit - Rasmussen. McLelland seems to have him playing faster at least.

Even though OSU missed the FG at the end of the half, they moved the ball well and by around the time they scored in the 3rd quarter I thought the momentum on both sides of the ball had shifted to OSU to where I am bit surprised they didn't win the game.

HaHa - though to be fair, if the word 'see' is being used in the wider sense of perception in general, it would apply to instrumental measurements, so while you can't see DM visually, you can point to objective physical evidence that implies its existence. That would be the sense I meant upthread when referring to the position of an pure empiricist (I think I had used the term 'objectivist', when I should have used 'empiricist'. Objectivist would be an accurate enough word semantically but I forgot Ayn Rand hijacked that otherwise good word for her nonsense.)

we have 7 Kidde devices that do the wireless mesh thing - when one goes they all go. It's a 10yr sealed power system, when the battery dies they get tossed. But one thing I've noticed is that I switched from buying ionization detectors to optical detectors on the last round, and even on the ceiling, the optical detectors eventually pick up enough dust/whatever that they will start to give false alarms until you vacuum/blow the dust out of them.

The Larkin line hasn't been doing much 5 on 5 in Dec either according to Daniels last night, maybe because Finnie is spending too much time picking himself up after being dumped.

depending on who is left after the portal shuffling is over.

There may cold and snow in Ann Arbor tonight, but the tears in Columbus are bigger Miami 24/OSU 14.

What's the deal with Buium? Isn't he supposed to be back active soon in GR?

Touch doesn't seem to be in his repertoire - but I wonder if he would even have been there but his NIL deal probably required it. He's a fabulous athlete that can make throws few guys can, but I haven't seen much evidence yet there is actually a QB in there yet (as in between his ears).

maybe the most meaningless game to all concerned that M has ever played in December.

Not surprising. Tickets/transport to these games are generally too expensive to draw people without a deep rooting interest. When the old 'mythical National Championship' might still be in play at any of a half dozen traditional conference championship bowls that was great draw. With that gone, how many care enough to book a big trip for a tournament quarter final football game? Interest in the secondary bowl games was never much anyway - they only exist to provide a telecast . I guess people are hard up for football over the holidays, but with the NFL schedule running weeks later than it used to, that's also soaked up some the holiday football jones.

Pistons shot 42% on treys, 63% from the field overall......and 72% from the FT line. They'd have been off if they could have inbounded after Laker shooting fouls.

whole team has the yips at the FT line.

It's not worry, it's despair.

yes and no. The whole economic organization of the NFL stands as an example of the direction in which any league that wants to establish more parity among teams needs to move. That is to say that for MLB, talking about things like cap implementation is a bit of the tail wagging the dog. The problem (if you see one in terms of play parity) in MLB is the basic economic structure of the league. Until that moves in the direction more income equality (as per the NFL), there really isn't a good cap solution possible anyway.