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the other half of the joke being that supposedly they pulled Tork from 3rd because his arm is not major league, and then happily gave Harold-noodle-arm-Castro 25 games there.

Yeah - Hosmer is not a bad baseball player, he's just not the player SD paid to get. At 32 ie might have a year or two left to bridge a gap. But the Tigers have left themselves in a box by not maintaining Tork's flexibility to at least fill in at 3rd and Cabrera stuck at DH. If you had some flexibility to swing Tork to third maybe once a week against a heavy LHH team, and DH was open, you could carry an insurance policy like Hosmer, but right now, you are in a situation where if Torkelson starts to hit, you have no place to give a Hosmer ABs at all.

especially since Al Avila said so many of those same things and then didn't deliver.

So what might happen if you had wide outs that aren't very good at beating NFL quality corners but just maybe you have an inside receiver that really good at getting open? Just asking for a friend. 🤔

correct, the theory is that with surgery he should be good to go next year.

Adam Dunn got 4/56M, they let Sale go, Abreu was 3/50M and then they let him walk.

Obama's legacy will the 2 big things: The first Black Pres and the nomalization of health care as part of the social contract. Those are two pretty huge things and history should never underestimate them and how much those two things limited the rest of his scope of action. But he did have plenty of faults as well - he was naive, or at least lacked sufficient depth of perspective on many foreign policy issues, ignored the health of his political party, was too conventional, even conservative in his economics - leading to the red party getting the best of him on too many economic issues. Still, he was one of few presidents to actually move the country on a major policy issue, and for that he can be forgiven a lot. And maybe, hopely, in the end the country ends up better for having to look in the mirror over the backlash his presidency unleashed.

yeah I guess. Always seemed about two levels of indirection too many.

just did a quick search - apparently healing time without intervention is usually successful but can take up to 12 months. Adding some kind of plate or banding can cut it to 12 weeks.

I've still never gotten the connection to the horse's head.

I remember Obama couldn't get to 1st base with you after his inept special olympics attempt at humor so any drift wasn't helped there!

LOL - classic strawman spin rhetoric though. Set up a non-relevant or marginally relevant piece you can shoot down and call it a day.

I'm hoping Lipcius turns out the be a late bloomer/sleeper out of that draft. At the end of '21 he was probably off any list anyone wanted to make, but got better instead of disappearing - so maybe he can keep finding more untapped upside.

I suppose you could call a coffin a small cell. 🤔

I'm sure in Trump's inflated self-image religious grifting is too far down the Grift Hierachy for someone who's had so much prior success with the more upscale political girft.

Tiger stadium was basically a square field, when the Lions played there it was pretty much a mile to the the seats along either sideline. Hard to imagine that in its early days the the NFL was such a poor sister that a lot of teams played a lot years in terrible venues.

Aren't there some consent decress attached to Twitters conduct? Given his increasingly illogical behavior, the other possibiliby that I suppose has to be broached is that Twitter, now being both private, which means much less financial disclosure, and under serious financial pressure, that you have exactly the kind of situation that the Russians might have decided to drop a few billion into in order buy some Western social chaos.

reality bites.

It's a different coaching philosophy. I don't know if there is a right or wrong to it, McVay won his SB but what if he could not have dealt for Stafford? If you only want guys for your system then that is one more hurdle you've created for yourself before you can win. But if you do find those guys you might also end up looking like a genius.

It'a also not like Stafford never had a decent offensive cast around him in any of his good Det years either. In 2011 he had a HOF receiver, TE with more than 80 catches, they could run it a little (1500 yds as team) and maybe most notable for the Lions, that year the O-line more or less held together - between the 5 starters there was only one one missed start all season I think anyone would stipulate that Stafford has more arm talent than Goff, in fact more than most QBs playing, but there is more to playing QB that just that, though granted it's the most important for "wow" factor.

but no trading cards? Bah!

The last reel was mostly the light show, and light shows were a very in thing then - there was no IMAX, CGI, there were no wall sized HDTVs. That all seems quaint now, but you probably had literally never seen any of that kind of visual before if you were watching the movie in 1968. And of course, Clark and Kubrick had very different ideas about that the 'story' was, so Clark released his novella and Kubrick made his movie and any resemblance between them thematically is purely coincidental....

A football program always exists somewhere on a contiuum between two theoretical poles: one where teams draft and trade for the best general overall talent they can find and then design around the strengths of the players they have; and at the other extreme coaches who have a particular system they want to play who draft and trade for the players they think fit that system. It can be harder to get the talent you want in the second case, but *if* your system is good enough -esp if it's new and the rest of the league hasn't figured it out, it can certainly work. McVay got his QB and he did win. I suppose you could say Bill Walsh had particular system and it certainly won. Of course Patricia drafted to some kind of defensive theory and it was an abysmal failure, so it can go either way! But it would seem a natural corollary that there will be guys who end up leaving one place to have more success in another. Of course the flip side of coin is that if Goff does continue to be successful this year and through next, the Lions may not want to pay what will be needed to keep him!

'Contextualizing' should at least rate a change in lustre, or maybe even lumenescence

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