gehringer_2
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Look at this this way: If you are ever getting more than half a loaf at a time from the democratic process, there is probably something failing in the system.
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right. You wan't a situation where no-one really thinks a team that got that short end had any chance at winning through anyway. The problem in football is that you are up against the time it takes to get through a tournament at one game per week and the attrition rate for football players as seasons lengthen. In the pros the playoffs are already as much about surviving injuries as who was able to assemble the better team that summer.
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teams improve for certain, but do they improve for who they have played or simply because the players are practicing and maturing? A college team spends most of it's time playing against itself in practice. Having great players to practice against is probably more important that getting beat a few times by an opposition player on a Saturday one or twice in the season. I think back to all those teams Bo had that couldn't defend the pass. They didn't get better by being beat and they couldn't get better because they were practicing against Ricky Leach at QB!
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Only fans liked the SoS component, and only some of them. The general wailing and gnashing of teeth from most of the football establishment about putting teams with worse records higher in the rankings because of "computers" leaves me doubtful we'll ever see it again.
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It's true, I 'or'd your logical 'and', but there haven't been many recent years one of the two aren't there.
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aren't they? 🤷♀️
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Exactly. If there is no more profit in playing a better team, why take the risk? And it's probably a fallacy that playing better teams makes you better. What makes you better is better players and you get better players by recruiting and you get better recruits when you win a lot, so I'm really not sure playing better teams even improves your odds of being able to win the last one. you would play the better teams if you were interested in sports for the sportmanship, but get real, this is the 21st century. Sports is about $$
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The change is to 12 years in one office as opposed to a max of 14 spread across two. I think we will get more expertise if people stay put longer in one place, especially in the House, which at this point is just treated as a launching off point to something else so while I'm not a fan of limits either I think this is a net - though small, improvement. So given the added disclosure req's I'm in.
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If it's alt-hist (what might have been) I'd vote Zumaya in there.
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Cabrera never had great range at 1st, but he had good hands on anything hit to him, was excellent at starting the 3-5-3(1) turn and was blessed with a lot of reach being as big as he is and was always very good at saving throws which is the single most important thing for 1b.. He was not a liability at 1b relative to the average league 1b for a good bit of his time there for the Tigers despite never having a good DRS. Later on, sure.
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We've talked about all this before, but it's interesting to look at it from a slightly different perspective. If the land line telephone had never been invented in way it was, would we ever had even had accurate political polling? When you think about it, the landline phone as initially invented (i.e., no caller ID, no answering machines, regional numbering, no robo calling) was extremely unique in that it demanded that you answer it in a way that no device before or after has. So maybe we look at it a little backward and shouldn't assume there is any reason for population polling to be accurate given the essential dissappearance of the single technology that made it possible in the first place.
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you can hope, but can you cite any precedent for a power 5 school suffering for going 11-0 into their rivalry game? There are only two games on any UM schedule that matter, they could play Pioneer for the other 10 and no-one would really care.
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had they been offered contracts?
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It's amazing how good Larkin is when there is open ice. The wings are able dominate most OT's during his shifts, even more so when he is paired with Seider. Of course we have to hope the Wings can score in OTs because you don't really care to see them go to shoot outs. Not real impressive there, esp without Vrana and Bertuzzi.
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Like many capitalists, Musks wants desperately to believe that employees are fungible and that expertise is just a commodity that can be purchased at need. And the latter is certainly true sometims. But in others you will end up paying many times over to regenerate what you casually tossed away.
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Had DVR'd this one and just realized the recording probably ended before OT, turned it back on just in time to see the goal. They are to 16 pts 4 games ahead of last season.
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Week Nine: Green Bay Packers (3-5) @ Detroit Lions (1-6)
gehringer_2 replied to MichiganCardinal's topic in Detroit Lions
Unreal. I thought when the ball went over on downs after the 2 mintue warning and TB receivers were dropping everything Brady threw there was no chance. -
I don't have any hope of Xi being on the side of the Angels, but he can at least not be on the side of crazy. Progress - I think.
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Brady has no-one that can make a catch.
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I think non-competes depend more on the illusion that they are enforceable than the degree to which they are.
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Well, I have no beef with Carlos getting paid. I am skeptical it will be by Detroit so it's purely a rooting interest.
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well it's an interesting question. You'd think at 100. 200 billion, you wouldn't care about the $, but it never seems to go that way. Maybe it's just the competiveness about not being a 'loser', and Musk is potentially a huge loser on Tesla stock, which I really have a hard time believing is not going to drop another 75% before it's done. So I still tend to think that somehow he wants to turn Twitter into a win financially. Which is not to say it might not be a totally different product once he's done with it.
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It's the model. Owners are strongly copy-cat to what is currently producing winners. Houston's success is an example of letting guys walk/not over paying and still winning. Also interesting that on balance on the the board, Avila's obsession with building through pitching seems in disrepute, but again, Houston is a strongly pitching first franchise. That doesn't absolve Avila for not doing a very good job, but it's alway important to keep the evalution of strategy and execution in their separate lanes.
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He's got a ring from the Dodgers in '81, thought that was not a full season. Great team though.
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what makes teams anymore likely to an offer this year that no-one made last year? Not a snide question, but seriously - something would have to be different for the outcome to be different? Maybe that Correa played a full season. OTOH, it can't help his case that the team that wouldn't pay him just won a WS with his rookie replacement.
