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IDK, it's a weird place we are in. It's not like the transgression was in 'Dilbert', is was 'on his own time' as we use to say. Would you fire the carpenter framing your house if he said what Adams did on day while he was taking a break, or would you just do what once was pretty standard procedure for anything anyone said in any unofficial capacity and chalk it up to "It's a free country" ? That's the bizarre thing about social media - there was a time when it was considered a democratic discipline to allow people the range of their private opinions. But Social Media as blown up that old consensus in a weird way. On one hand we can't resist treating social media as private discussion but then also treat it as public profession with public consequence both simultaneously.

LOL - I think something had gone wrong on my end - I got double feeds all the way through the game, and when I did listen I could pick up that the 2nd commercial was for Baltimore - so somehow my browser was playing one game stream but both commercial streams.

Having worked in the oil and chemical biz, I could give you plenty of that evidence 1st person. The people on the inside sort of work under a shared mass delusion that they are providing an indispensable service that justifies the social cost, even while taking that judgment unto themselves by concealing facts rather than allowing the society at large to make that decision for itself. (It's not about our profits.....really.....[not]) In the abstract, one must admit that given a oncoming calamity like global warming it would not be irrational for society to judge lithium battery chemistry, or for that matter nuclear power, to be acceptable risks, in the same way we have judged the necessity of personal mobility to be worth the dangers of automobiles. But a society where such decisions are reached in cool analytical deliberation with the Sun shining on the full set of facts is sadly.....utopian.

Parker Meadows the tying run at the plate! ...But not to be.

this team can't catch a break.

Gameday running two commericals at the same time on the last couple of breaks. Total nonsense of course. Will theybhave have to refund both sponsors' money?

The announcers should end up liking it. That's about 15-30min less material they need to be ready with for every game.

Oliver may be right in all respects but it's not an argument the league is going to let him win, so all he is likely to get for his efforts is a harder time for his team.

Harris is a genius -- so far.

and to be fair, some things about any given technology are going to be unknowable until they are actually rolled out into more common use. You can stress test and simulate all you want, all of which is good, but you still never know for sure if you've closed all the potential knowledge gaps until you find out you haven't. Learning curves are real.

QFT

Someone gave me this a long time ago - 50th birthday maybe? My all time fav..

I'd go long in which ever sport apparel maker hits the market with zippered batting gloves first.

This isn't the first time Adams has landed on the 'wrong' side. But I think Adams is easy to misread because Dilbert *appears* to be an anti-capitalist character, but I think Adams actually comes at it more the Ayn Rand direction - it's only the incompetence that bothers him.

yes - TD is correct - a bit of playful hysteria. (I was offline for a while......) So in their first game under the new regime they did win the battle of the strike zone. Phillies 10K 2BB, Tigers 6K 2 BB

McCluskey was gold. Joe D make one great set of trades and other than that was pretty lost. Outside of that Davidson mostly failed also. GM/President of Ops - whatever you call it, in most pro sports it's the most critical piece. We can only hope Gores finds one. It ain't Weaver.

that's true but my point is that there has *always* been an allure that you could put a QB back their that is dual threat. And you can - guys like Michaell Vick have been the passing fancy (pun intended), but in the end the concept always eventually founders on the increased injury probability. A QB is too valuable to put at risk as a RB on a regular basis. So I will predict that the current allure of Mahomes and Hurts will sooner or later founder on the same injury probability rearing it's ugly head.

Lipcius and Meadows. Here's to the future.

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Oh NOES! Colt Keith can't play 3rd?!

I'm not sure why we should give this organization any credit for knowing what they are doing. Has there been a shred of evidence they do since Gores bought the team?

Of course there was a time when you had one man in the booth on a radio broadcast. Maybe that was the reason.

Yup. You could have had Tua, could still have traded Stafford for a bunch of high picks to charge up the '22 draft, and all you would be out was Odukah. Hard to say anyone would have passed on that alternative future looking back from today's view. C'est la vie.

I think the league swings back and forth on this through time. I remember when a 'scrambler' like Fran Tarkington was all the rage and the future of football. Sure, mobile QBs are great until a few teams get burned by making huge commitments to guys who can't stay on the field or get old fast when they lose their legs and then rest get gun shy about QBs that run around again. Nothing new in this.

and yards in the air *down* the field doesn't capture it all either. Some of the throws that require the most arm strength and accuracy are across the field, where you you don't have the luxury of being able to put a lot of air under it.