gehringer_2

nutty game.

So Chris would leave Weaver in place for several years, eventually buy out Williams and hire a better coach that is a better fit, finally fire Weaver and bring in a sucessful GM and maybe they win in 2030?

and to be honest, the fact that it was the Dodgers that went public with what did come out, I would not be surprised if it was some attempt at a late modification or backdown on an implied promise by them to ERod etc, that killed the deal, and they were getting their story out as CYA for their FO.

I think there are pretty much 4 possibilities: 1-Harris hadn't discussed trade options with ERod in enough detail to understand clearly what he would accept and so negotiated a deal he *could* have known ERod would refuse. (Fault Harris) 2-Harris did have detailed discussions with ERod to where he did think he understood him clearly but they simply hadn't connected completely so that despite good faith effort by both Harris and ERod, ERod ended up not liking the deal. (Fault - maybe both of them, maybe neither - stuff happens) 3-Harris did understand what ERod *said* he would accept accurately and ERod simply changed his mind. (Fault ERod) 4-ERod was non-committal in discussions with Harris, basically said "Bring me the deal and I'll decide" and things ran so close to the deadline that by the time they got back to ERod and he didn't like the deal it was just too late to do anything else. (Fault - any or all of ERod/Dodgers/Tigers) Unless someone spills the beans I find any of the above equally likely.

Maybe Williams, having discovered he doesn't have the support of his GM and in general what a dysfunctional org he has signed on with is now already trying to get himself fired/bought out. Would explain his lineups as well as anything else......🤷‍♀️

In all the years I've watched the 4 pro teams in Det, this team may well be the one that least looks like it even belongs in the arena with the teams they are playing. The Lions went winless in '08 but were still within 10pts in 7 games. The Tigers lost 119 but on any day with a good starting performance they still could still look respectable.

Weaver

A SOS that not a leader he ever talked to could trust to be telling the truth. Sounds right in tune for a Trump admin.

Hronek was the only player that I cared they gave up and the return was more than fair so the Yzerplan has been tracking pretty well in my book.

who goes out? None of the Dmen appear to be very much in the doghouse currently. Maata might be sitting at the bottom of the stack right now I guess..

Seider from the slot on the PP. 3-0.

Off-season looking pretty good at the 1/4 mark. Four of the Wings top 6 scorers are off-season acquisitions: DeBrincat, Compher, Sprong, Gotisbehere

True enough, but even that shouldn't buy you unlimited rope.

Questionable strategy to challenge a mod to leave the site. 🙄

Kant wrote a great treatise arguing that you couldn't resolve transcendental questions via empirical knowledge (Critique of Pure Reason), but then later shot his philosophical standing with posterity in the foot by trying to make an exception to his own prior conclusions in an attempt to prove the existence of God with some logical jujitsu starting from the Golden Rule (Critique of Practical Reason). The first work is pretty famous. You never hear much about the second. 😉

actually I like the way the quote is excerpted: "What came before?" No matter..."

"Steady State" was probably the prevailing theory for most of civilization. The discovery of the cosmic background radiation and the Hubble constant for red-shift blew up the possibility of Steady State. I suppose the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics argues against SS as well, but so few people (including scientists!) know anything about Thermo it probably doesn't have much traction in any other field....

There are many naturally occurring radioactive elements that produce positrons when they decay - they just annihilate themselves pretty quickly. They have a machine at CERN that can generate anti-protons.

It's more the problem of the logical regression. In the current cosmology, the big bang is the beginning of time. You both can't but can't help ask "What came before." No matter how many levels you regress on that the question just re-appears again at the next level.

the counter argument is that he could have quit, and ratted out his org. But that's easy to say in hindsight, The truth is that being right is no protection against being blackballed out of ever managing again anywhere by the 'old boy's club'

but No-Land? Not sure I want to be a receiver on his team.

Last comment on the topic then back to our regularly scheduled programming. There is only one set physical laws for the entire universe. There are no different rules for what goes on in a human brain vs what goes on in the roots of trees or the inside of stars or the egg in your frying pan. You appear to be arguing the brain plays by different rules. The only 'ghost' is consciousness itself and both physical scientists and psychologists are chasing it.

??. I think if there is any overall argument it's that origin questions are pretty pointless no matter what your theological perspective. The two questions: "Where did the big bang come from?"; and "Where did god come from?" are exactly equal and neither theology nor science can answer either. The bottom line is that there are unanswerable questions no matter what you do or don't choose to believe about them.

I'd put that under Campbell the plantation mentality was strong and the org was too cheap to keep winning right up there on their list of sins.

you have two 'inconceivables' up against one another. The first is the depth of complexity and organization we see in the world we inhabit. Not very likely things could have gotten to here. But other is how long the 10+ billion years is we've had for things to get here. In the end it's sort of a fools errand to try to assign a probability to the observed outcome.