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Michigan secondary looking like OSU's last week.

THese guys in the booth are idiots. It wasn't that a bad play, it was there but he overthrew it badly.

sort of a chip off the old block.. a smaller, smarter, way cheaper to fly version of the B2

That penalty is declinable and Purdue did.

You can't replace the scale of Foxxconn's production in any hurry. If they can get it to less than 50% in the next 36mo I'll be surprised.

this game was lost from the minute nobody on Larkin's line bothered to get back on the Eichel goal. Listless performance by virtually every Wing on the ice tonight other than maybe Husso.

attention, revenge, and money. All good.

I guess the other thing that worries me in Jeimer's 2021 is that a chunk of his performance is doubles, and doubles can be a really noisy stat - there is just a lot of luck getting balls down the line and his doubles rate that season is an outlier that stands in opposition of other peripherals like his K rate which were more stable. Conversely, the fall-off in his walk rate from a pretty steady career average in '22 was worrisome. I think you can look at Jeimer's last two seasons and draw any conclusion you want and provide reasonable justification. What we don't know is the inside information of what he may have been trying to do/coached to do approach wise and how that may argue in his favor or not, or as noted before, if there was or wasn't any nagging physical issue that the team understood but was never public.

Placido was a head scratcher. Sure he was getting old for 2B but he still put in two more decent years. Maybe he was demanding more years than the Tigers would offer, but he took one year in the end from Philly.

ain't it the truth? I think one thing that has gotten even worse though is that through most of US history reformers have been able to go back to those aspirational ideas to challenge society to be better. Today the public seems either to jaded or disengaged or just numb to even feel the disconnect. They've bought into 'Murica! think - nothing is wrong, leave me alone.

Jeesh - Utah outscored USC 44-7 from a point early in the 2nd Qtr.

Turn out the lights, This party's over....

"that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," It amazes me that America has bought into so much right wing business propaganda claptrap about inviolability of the market etc., that we can't even figure out that an abuse like this is *exactly* what our particular government *is* supposed to exist to deal with.

LOL - that didn't last long.

signs of life from USC.....1 possession game

yessiree bob.

yeah - this was a long time coming - the Dems had\ve been fools for letting states they weren't going to carry nominate their candidate. This is also Biden's work. The man knows a thing or two about how to do politics correctly. This is the kind of change Obama could have gotten if he had had a better sense of party building.

I still tend to believe that while the Fed interest rate moves have certainly been enough to affect housing and also take the froth off the stock markets, people are still confusing rapid increases in rates with high rates. Even though there have been rapid increaeses, actual interest rates are still not high by any historical standard, so they are not producing the kind of drag that created the recessions in 1960's/60's/80's when Fed increases were pushing rates to >10%

because voters vote for Republicans.

I don't think it's always black and white. Every kind of pain has its price doesn't it? If management thinks a guy is just 'sort of' of problem, they may have a number where they will live with it.

The interestst of workers and Investors only line up together when you take the extreme macro view. At the micro level workers and investors are direct competitors for the same income and as such, its reasonable and inevitable that a measure of investor health would move conversely to one of worker health.

Karma. Didn't get on the ice when he could last year - can't get on the ice when he would this year.....

The history is that different managements - different owners, have wildly varying opionions on what a clubhouse needs to look like. I would go so far to say that there are sports managements for whom being too *nice* a guy in the clubhouse could create a negative bias (I only want guys with fire in their belly!--etc) . So in general, it's a good point that other factors beside the two objective ones of money and performance can go into roster decisions and that in the main, we will never see the effect of that other than in a few extreme cases where a player ends up in public trouble.

right - the value goes up at the margin for a winning team - but the Tigers aren't at that margin yet - unless we believe Harris really is going to work some miracles in the next 12 weeks! 🤣

Yup, assuming we could have engineered that kind of evolution in Iraqi society, or whether the effort itself would simply have empowered the radicals at the grass roots - an open question to me. Islam creates a strong built in bias against pacification by 'the Infidel'. But regardless of that, of course the political imperative was *elections* because that is what we think we have a mandate to do. Even the good guys can have ideological blind spots. Once there was a free election, the die was cast for chaos. And to be fair, the Iraqi's are slowly and haltingly trying to build some kind of civil consensus now. Hopefully they get there before some other form of autocracy emerges and strangles it.