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Unfortunately, the root of a lot of our problems is that election day just another Tuesday for most Americans.

Yeah - he said in the on ice interview that he was afraid someone was going to catch him from behind, but the Tampa guys had wasted so much of their own gas skating in circles they were done in too.

LOL - Let be clear here. We all know perfectly well that if he could have found a way to stop it he would have. There is an ocean of difference between something that happens 'because' of and something that happens 'in spite of'.

They sure seem to be trying to portray themselves as a 'White Knight' protecting the conference from falling into less beneficent hands.

Yup. "He that rolleth a stone" and all that. Still, it's a political persecution for something that there should probably be a shorter statue of limitations on anyway.

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I believe their motto is "Fake News You Can Trust" Epimenides would be proud.

You have that nice breeze in Chicago that blows it all to Benton Harbor. 😉

BTW, English is such a mutt of a language. We use the Latin root word 'deo' (god) for a lot our words about god/religion - so for instance 'diety' and 'diesm', and the inverse of "diesm" from that root would be more like 'adiesm' (which might still refer to non-believers in Chicago), but for who knows why English appears to revert all way back to the Greek root 'theos' when forming the word 'atheism' or 'theocratic' Go figure.

actually, religious people often fail to understand that if you don't believe in an afterlife where justice is enforced, you may feel more strongly motivated to make sure justice prevails in this life, and that can make an atheist a more socially useful soul than the one who shrugs off evils and takes no responsibility for improving their society/world because of "whatever happens is God's Will" fatalism.

Tampa was getting too cute for their own good. It figured they were due for a mistake after all that dancing around and say what you want about whether Larkin is a top or only a midline star, there are some things he does as well as anyone, and 3 on 3 is one of them.

Yup. Sometime you need to be able to recognize when a guy is on his game and maybe pitch around him, even if it costs you one run.

A friend was a senior test engineer at Hydramatic for 20 yrs. One of the guys that would take cars to the Baja enduro rallies and beat them to bits. He had similar stories. They'd be denied approval for a $0.15 increase for better gasketing to reduce internal flow losses in a tranny. Just idiotic stuff when you consider the cost of warranty repairs. But "that's on someone else's budget!" The stupid, short sighted, put yourself out of business down the road decisions I saw made by refinery managements are just as legion. The corporate system doesn't work in the US anymore. Pick whatever theory you like for why, but it's broken in all of them.

and the thing, as I learned after the T sensor on my Chevy drifted, is that the engine computer makes a bunch of decisions based on what it thinks the temp is so you pretty much need it to be right. Back in the day if you had a bad sensor but you knew nothing was wrong, no real biggie. No such luck today. Seem to be a lot of things in today's engineering world where there is race on between increasing reliability of individual components vs decreasing fault tolerance of an increasingly complex system. We went through a long period with cars where net reliability kept getting better (solid state ignition, better instrumentation, cleaner fuels, better machining tolerances, more corrosion resistant materials, higher performance lubes) but we seem to be in danger of them going over the cliff with so many added bells and whistles that those gains could be lost.

that works too.

why is the 'all' outside the quote?

you misspelled 'cheap'

78 chances. If a guy has enough quickness and is accurate, he can make back in handling time some of what he may give up in throw velo. In any case, he's probably going to play more 3rd and 1st going forward than he has so far, so he'll probably get ample chance to prove it on the field.

IDK - by about 2012 I though we were set for a generation with Scherzer and Verlander as anchors. Then instead of spending whatever it took to lock those to up and then staying patient on everything else, they got impatient and ended up slowly frittering it away. But '12, '13 I felt as hopeful about that team as I do about this one. But once Max walked what was over the horizon did just keep getting bleaker.

I think this one is a reasonably close call. And if he does decline do the Tigers make the QO? I think that's an easier 'yes' call. If the Tigers don't that tells me Harris is pretty confident he can do better somewhere else, but it would also make me wonder if that confidence is justified. 🐰

That would be nice news. The CW was that the arm would not play there.

Hinch was pretty clear in his statement that Melton was a starter, he just didn't say where.

Not because he is interim per se, but it another reason he's even less likely to get crosswise with the Regents. But because at UM the Regent are a governing board. They get the last word on anything they decide they want the last word on. The Prez is a direct report to them.

It would appear the one of the first true signs of senility is being convinced you are indispensable.

A friend of mine is a retired Navy command rank officer. He thinks what they are doing is likely illegal.