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Torkelson has been beyond stellar at 1B. Of course you can't play a 1B for his D but it;s just another reason they have to make his bat work because he is an absolute difference maker saving throws. I remember at one point last season Hinch said there were too many voices in his head. I think the best thing that could happen is if Hinch included himself in that total and they just left him alone completely. He is still too indecisive about what he should swing at. I would tell him to forget all the game planning/scouting/data and go with his natural instincts which seem pretty good when he trusts them. He's basically been taking too many pitches he could/should be hammering.

Though he never talked about, it turns out my father kept a log of things he knew he couldn't put in letters home. One of the things he noted is that they most definitely did not pick up any ditched Japanese Zero pilots.

LBs are RBs are running game players so I guess it depends on how much the running game figures in the league in a given era. It's at a pretty low point now but the pendulum may swing back - good coaches are alwasy looking to change things up. I'm almost little surprised hybrid runner/receivers like Gibbs aren't more the norm in today's game.

It's a long way back but the guy that comes to mind for me would be Jim Plunkett. ROY then pretty much nothing much at all statistically or win wise for a number of years. Now I suppose the original question is a little misput because you can't be 'horrible' and stay in the league but for a number of years no-one thought a team led by Plunkett was likely to win anything - then two SB wins after age 32.

Hard to fathom. My father was older than most GIs when he went because he had had a defense deferment as a machine tool operator in war production. He's a lesson in why you send the youngest men you can to war. His eyes were too open to what the war was and he came home pretty down on the concept for the rest of his life. The only thing I ever remember him saying about the war was that the young men on neither side deserved it.

It's a measure of both the Russian sense of projection and their misunderstand the Ukrainians that assassination attempt is their first reading. Listen to any of the Ukrainian leadership, unlike we Americans who focus on personality, they don't care about Putin at all. They see Putin as simply the organic and thus likely completely reproducible product of the state of Russian society. If this drone was Ulrainian - and of course given Putin's amply demonstrated willing to kill and create chaos to gin up public sentiment who knows? - they certainly weren't trying to kill Putin - they were just sending Moscovites Spring greetings.

Yeah - I don't see CNN being able to recapture any of the MAGA crowd. Especially if Licht claims his ambition is to be a better news network because better news is true news and the MAGA aren't interesting in that. For Licht - and the rest of the US media - the first illusion they have to part with to be more valuable to viewers as news sources is that a good news organization gives falsehood equal time to truth. It's that misapprehension that has put much of the US media in the toilet with viewers to begin with. In the future the social function for a 'good' news org in a deeply propagandized world is being an honest broker for reality. The first org to embrace that role fully has its market waiting for it. Licht's real problem at CNN is that MSNBC is out competing them in the real news area. He's conflating the issue of MSNBC's dem advocacy with the fact they are doing the better job in other areas as well. The audience he needs back to succeed commerically is what he has lost to MSNBC (he can't get back Fox's) and the issue for CCN is less about moving away from advocating either side than in doing a better job on the news period.

it could get interesting over the next few years if CNN tries to move right and Rupert passes from the scene. You'd think Lachan will want to put his own stamp on things af Fox but who knows what direction that might take.

It's looks like the focus was the trolley system. Love that the one out Grand River is called 'Orchard Lake" - classic human stupidity that it's all gone. One of my early memories was that the tracks were still in the road on Grand River at Oakman when I was young and we went to the Sears there. I suppose they are probably still there, just paved over a few times now.

Note the trolley system! But what it shows is bit older than '34. In '34 my mother lived in a house on the near west side that doesn't show the streets as platted yet on this map.

LOL - had the same thought.

I believe Murdock wants to be done with Trump so he needs a new media ally. Looks like he's already figured out how to play Licht.

LOL. This is a reach - sounds more like a backhanded sales pitch for Eurofighters. The F-16 is operated in more places than probably any western fighter aircraft. If its FOD issue are marginally worse than say, an F15 (and FOD is an issue for every jet engine), whatever its limitations, it's a platform that dozens of countries, including ones with lots of sand blowing around, have managed quite well.

If the Lions are good enough to be challenging for a Championship I could see both Goff and the Lions deciding to live with one another even in the absence of any agreement going forward because both want a shot at the Brass Ring badly enough put concerns about '25 on the shelf.

The Tigers are where hitters come to die.

Three brothers. One already past draft age, one drafted into the Navy, one lied his way into the Marines at 17 to get away from home. The Patriarch was a shoe-maker and the eldest son had a business in custom orthopedic shoes. When each of his younger brothers went off to war he hand made them a leather wrapped handle assault style knife about the same size as the standard issue Navy MK-I. Youngest son disappeared into the PTO and never wrote home. At some point the Dept of the Navy informed the family that he had been wounded in action but they knew nothing beyond that. 2nd son posted to a ship also in the PTO and on one return to Pearl Harbor someone stops him and asks him where he got the unique knife he was wearing because he had just seen another just like it. And that is how my father found his wounded brother half way around the world in the middle of WWII. I still have both my father's MK-1 and the knife my uncle made him, and I'm sure my children will someday have no idea why there will be two old knives in a box at the estate sale.

yup - Football season predictions are matters of caution and also crossed fingers, because In the end, a football season turns about as much on injuries as anything else. No matter how well a team projects it can be done in by a cluster of injuries - esp if they concentrate in one position group.

Civility is an ethical statement, not a political one. Any democracy loses the ability to make that distinction at its peril.

Licht strikes again. Trump always finds suckers in the US media to supply his oxygen.

Interesting. Do you suppose in CA there was more of a 'Euro' sense of being 'in history' and the echo of a deeper sense of peril for England than maybe I grew up with in the US? Maybe another factor looking back in the US is that by the time we were finishing grade school, WWII was already 2 US wars away. Was Korea much of a thing in CA?

I have a PP&M cover of this on this on an old album, had never heard GL sing it himself.

I don't know what is left of either org, but post WWII, American Legion and the VFW were different orgs. Any vet could join the AL, VFW membership was only open to those that had served in overseas confict. I pretty much grew up in a VFW hall. But going back the to my OP about the perception of time, I didn't mean to imply the in 1960 WWII seemed distant to my parents generation - I just meant the way time compresses as you age. When you and I were young in the 60's, 1945 seemed impossibly long ago to *us*, even though we were indeed surrounded by its echoes daily. In one sense it's a trivial thing to say since at 15 yrs old you don't have any 20 yr memories of your own. And I guess that is really the point I meant to make, which is that 20 yrs ago is a long time when you have to use someone else's memory to access it, but your in your *own* memories, the linearity of time can tend to disappear completely and 20 yrs in your own experience as an adult can have no sense of distance at all. And the related idea that Chas brought up about whether the presistance of - or ability to - access all history as a single flat database that the 'net provides changes how people experience that -- or not.

Could be, but the counterpoint to that is that Hollywood spent the 1st 20 yrs or so replaying the war in our theaters and the TV in a way unlike the more recent experience. You literally can't count the number of WWII films that were released beginning during the war and right through the 50's and into the 60's. Plus TV series like 'Combat', 12 OClock High, Rat Patrol, Black Sheep Squadron (into the 70's there) and even send ups like 'McHales Navy' and 'Hogan's Heroes' For a couple of decades at least, you could never be very far from a WWII reference in the popular media. But certainly the *immediacy* of media our access to current history has completely changed. In WWII there were weekly newsreels and no lack of radio, newspaper and magazine reportage from the field - it was just a few days/weeks (at least!) old before it was seen/heard. But was very present . Maybe the big difference is as you note - the internet preserves it all - and in that sense it keeps it all present tense. So today you can easily pull up or run into something from 20 yrs ago (or facebook pulls it up for you). By 1966 there was no way for anyone but an ambitious researcher to access a MovieTone newsreel from WWII.

If you haven't used your monthy free article on 'the Atlantic', use to read Ann Applebaun and Jeff Goldberg on why Ukraine matters.

for evey million EV's sold, about 20 million barrels/yr are removed from world oil demand (as reference that's about one day's US consumption). OPEC is trying to maximize the value of their day in the Sun, because for them the clouds on the horizon are dark.