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There have only ever been two scenarios that made sense: A) a left winger released it to help drum up fund-raising. The fly in the ointment here is that it only had any impact in the period up to the decision's actual release, which was still well before the election. So early release really wasn't strategically needful. And of course as noted, Roberts would have no qualms about finding and outing any lib responsible B) Alito leaked it to freeze the internal court debate on the decision because Roberts was lobbying for a more incremental approach. This has always been the most logically sound scenario and the fact that Roberts is not willing to expose any such finding if he had found it is also completely predictable.

here you go https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2019/08/14/how-unlikely-alliance-helped-steer-detroit-tigers-toward-prospect-tarik-skubal/2007574001/

LOL - TPM concludes that the report never states whether they investigated the justices themselves but implies they didn't. If that's the case, there just might have been a small flaw in the strategy.....🤔

but we are talking about a particular DE's stats/standing/talking head love. If he is drawing the double, other guys get the numbers, good for team, not so much for the player's image if you are just a casual fan counting sacks. Of course if he draws a double the whole line should preform better in aggregate, but even that won't happen if the other guys can't even beat their man solo - so no matter how you count things, Hutch will look better if: the team gets more sacks because the other guys can take advantage of him being doubled and he gets proper credit for that (which he still might not for people who don't look deeper), or he will get more sacks because other guys also draw an occasional double. In all cases, the better players next to him will make him look better too.

that the park would be a problem was baked in as soon as it was decided to have the OF facing South. All the other architectural and fence issues follow from that.

what does it mean to 'reduce' a dog?

If it was simply incompetence the 1st time around, maybe he's learned a few things. And you do have to wonder how close it came. If Trump were not such a physically lazy SOB and had been willing to just get out of the limo and walk to the Capitol that day, where might we be?

It does appear Mike set it up for Chris not to have to worry about the sibs. I suppose there is still the question of whether any of the current arrangements are upset again when Marion passes.

The extreme narrowness of Harbaugh's focus, which may serve him well as a coach, may end up his undoing if it means he is starting to take too blind an eye toward the off field conduct of his players and coaches. Manuel may need to work a Zampolit into Jim's circle to protect him from himself.

I do like a well tailored suit, but have never sprung for Brooks Brothers....

The truth is a sports org is a different animal than your normal business. You can sustain and prosper in the average business venture with a lot of average people doing average level work, you don't have to constantly churn your organization searching for only the highest performers (in fact that becomes counter productive in most orgs in most cases) as long as your business model is not too greedy (i.e. you don't wake up every morning with a new plan to conquer the world) your are fine. But of course that's not how it works with a pro sports team if you have any interest in winning championships. It is by nature the most greedy business model. You spend your adult life on one side of that equation, could be figuring out how to run on the other side might be a matter of some trial and error.

Goalie probably would want that one back, but a start for Vrana, hopefully

Somewhere recently (maybe here) I read a reminder that Erdogan is a Turk and so you don't get anything (like Sweden's admission to NATO) without a good haggle - it's cooked into the culture. Various reports in the twitterverse indicating that apparently the US has figured out that F-16s are the thing to tease to Erdogan with at the bazaar.

Maybe. I tend to think we get no useful response from Putin until he makes his last throw later this year. I think he still thinks he can achieve his maximum goals, that he will have enough troops mobilized by some time after winter to break through Ukrainian defenses. He may be completely delusional in that belief, but short of defeat I'm not sure anyone will persuade him of that.

Producer Price Index report out today - *down* 0.5% https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-producer-prices-fall-more-than-expected-december-2023-01-18/ I would note that I found this reported nowhere that I could find in the NYT, WAPO or DetNews. Inflation is apparently yesterday's news unless it's $7.00 eggs.

And another step - a munition that would allow the Ukrainians to target almost all Russian assets in occupied Eastern Ukraine. The GLSDB is not quite ATACMS, but it's another next step in giving Ukraine's forces more reach and will again force the Russians to reconfigure rear area assets they thought they had moved out of range of Himars.

They tried to grill him for a confession, but he kept rare form in the interview.

yeah - even if the basic strategy can work, the Packers missed on the timing - they were at least two or three years too soon with Love.

If the report is half accurate, it says someone was hacking into other people's e-mail. What would you do with access to someone else's e-mail? Maybe steal various account credentials there? Doesn't seem to make much sense that an assistant FB coach would be involved in relatively low level larceny though - they are pretty well paid, so I have no other immediate guess.

where the heII is Elko?

Aside from Favre and Rodgers another top level team to let their winning QB walk for an understudy would have been SFO under Walsh. They let Montana go because it was time to play Steve Young or he was going to walk. Montana had a couple more good years with KC and got to the play-offs, but Young had more and won a SB for SFO, so it was the right move for them.

They knew he'd already made the team.

TBF, a great corner can do more than that - they also seal the ability to run wide and may even provide the occasional blitz. But any defensive player's impact is always also tied to the team. One DE's impact is largely driven by whether his line-mates are also good enough to make doubling him costly. Likewise the impact of a great corner is driven whether the other side of field is soft enough you never have to throw his way. I still like having a great CB about as much as I like a great DE.

When it happened I assumed Shepherd was a stop gap and that they would eventually go get a pro. Disappointing that they seem to think he is actually up to the task. Or maybe they are too cheap to land a top talent. I get the impression they have drawn the wrong conclusion from the historic success of George Kell and Al Kaline. They were not loved because they were folksy locals, although that did happed to be true, but because they did a good baseball broadcast - even despite Al's questionable elocution.

No doubt. No argument running the scenarios, that's basic. But one of the things that has emerged again with Ukraine is the gulf between our military 'hard' capabilities intelligence resources and our 'soft' or human strategic ones. Not to knock the former, its value is clear. But the human SW questions remain - and I suppose it's been a perenial argument ever since the first satellite was launched about whether we make sufficient effort to get inside our enemys' (and friends') heads to match that to get inside their physical capabilities.