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could we be setting the premise for.... MALICE. ?

Now the other shoe that has to drop is Bertuzzi isn't it? You've more or less raised the white flag on this season even if it is a good trade for Hronek.

Bert can play an abrasive style, but he's not big enough to create much physical 'presence.' I tend to think they would rather deal him, but he may have succeeded in torpedoing his trade value over the last year, thus I wouldn't be that surprised he does't get moved now. Afterall, even if they don't wan't him long term they can sign him and then trade him in the off-season just as well.

Angela Merkel and Neville Chamberlian can have a good talk comparing notes in the hereafter....

Seems Putin has made that choice for us.

this one is going to be more interesting. Signing Larkin was no-brainer, but I wonder more about where Bertuzzi's skill set (and baggage) rank put him SY's hierachy?

but the payoff is bigger in terms of pulling the teeth of an adversary that traditionally generates a lot of the rest of the defense budget. To the degree that it also leverages the Euros into a more active defense posture it could reduce our long term burden there as well, though whether Euro current rhetoric will be followed by concrete Euro spending is certainly still an open question.

ususally there are more teams wanting to trade down than up - we'll see if this qb crop has enough drawing power to make this year an exception.

a game with too much 'effin around before they found out.

just repeat to yourself as you sip your coffee..."It's not my money, it's not my money....."

never a doubt

in the interview clip Holmes seemed to me to be thinking purely in terms of getting a backup secured and doing it a little earlier in the process than they strung it out to last year. I'd go short on early round QB draft.

Cartoon says Manning didn't have a lot on his FB. No issue for his first start but something to track given how many guys come to camp throwing full speed today.

man, tough AB for Torkelson there. Every pitch was on a corner or just off. He did what he could do - took all the balls and swung at the strikes, but he wasn't going to do anything with any of them.

No problem. Washtenaw east of Stadium, Huron Parkway, Jackson Rd west of Wagner. All within minutes of campus....

Looking at those they also have pretty bad lawyers and marketing people, because if you hold a trademark, the quickest way to lose it is to talk about your own product incorrectly. So for instance, if the NCAA is going to avoid losing the right to the trademark "NCAA Basketball", then every time they referred to it in their own literature, they need to say, "NCAA Basketball brand Naismith game competition" or some such. (see - already impossible). IOW, if you don't use your own trademark to properly refer to your own product as a particular case of a generic thing, you lose it. If you look at Dupont literature about Teflon - it always says "Teflon brand non-stick coating" etc. As one of our alums would say - loonspuderry.

NCAA is not going to successfully sue anybody for saying dribble - or probably several others of those because they fail the 'alternative' test. You can't sustain a trademark for a term for something if it already has become the generic term for it - for instance "NCAA Basketball". For example, take 'Kleenex brand tissue." Without 'tissue' being available, they could not trademark 'Kleenex', The NCAA tournament is the thing itself - I don't see how that could pass muster. Obvious the same for dribble. OTOH, "Elite 8" is a particular term for a particular tournament quarter final. Since I can say what I just typed, 'Elite 8' is probably trademark able.

I though C.K. had a lot of useful things to say early in his career, but it seemed like Obama's determination to get the US out of lapdog status to whatever injustices Israel wanted to commit in the West Bank was more than he could handle and it seemed to drive him right into the lunatic right's arms before he passed.

I only wore a tie-back (soft cloth 'strings') when I had to wear one all day. Cannot abide elastic around my head or behind my ears for more than about 1/2 hour. Got really good at tying knots behind my head.

translation: "Leave Bibi alone to complete his putsch" ?

things look like they could start falling apart in Israel. Army people talking about refusing to be bound by orders from a Netanyahu government if he 'overrules' a Supreme Court that throws out his 'reforms' https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/opinion/netanyahu-israel-palestinians-courts.html

Yzerman doesn’t seem to have made a bad move yet. Well maybe Vrana but Mantha doesn’t appear to much of a loss. It’s been good strategy to go defense 1st because two or three bodies is all you need for a big impact. Seider and a revitalized Hronek, and now Walman and there you are. I think we are already at a point where most of the Wings trouble in the own end is weak puck pressure by our forwards.

Have to agree with pfife here. CNN wasn't trying to improve their prestige, they simply wanted to do better in the ratings wars by being less offensive to the US right wing. But that was a fool's errand anyway because they aren't going to out 'FOX' Fox. And frankly I don't know how you tell the truth - which is the 1st requirement for prestige, and court the US right wing. Which is why CNN is in a box just as bad or worse than it was before Warner's attempts to reposition it. In fact to take it a step further, Prestige and Profit in media are pretty much mutually exclusive (as the old CBS/ABC/NBC "news as loss leader" system of the past showed) and I have no doubt CNN's new overlords are far more interested in the latter than the former.

Ha - well for sure tastes vary - DD's 8 DH lineups drove me slight crazy. The Tigers need to be better but DD's style is not the answer to me. His MO isn't sustainable in a mid-teir market where the money isn't infinite, otherwise he is going to mortgage away your team's future like he did here. I think of his tenure here as a period like a crack addition. It was a high, but it came with costs. I know I'm repeating myself but pro sports is all about owners lucking into hiring the right GM. Harris seems to be banking on being able to get some of the current players to do better while he puts his systems in place for finding new ones. As a general proposition that's an uphill battle, but I think he will end up being able to claim some apparent success, but not because anything he did worked on those current players, but just because some of them will regress back to their averages after having had sub average years last season. But we won't know if the player acquisition/development org he builds works for a while.

This season Lillard is taking 1.6 more shots per game to average 8.3 more points per game. Efficient.