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Could also be the perception of what it means to lead the league in passing has changed. Back in the day if you threw a lot it meant you were losing a lot. The shift in the idea that throwing a lot could mean winning maybe started to change with Fouts and Air Coryell, which runs into Elway's years.

It didn't help Bo's case that Ernie was a lot better at his job with the Tigers than Bo was at his.

Reporting making the rounds that Murdoch has told Trump that Fox will not support him in another run. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/15/murdoch-press-turns-on-donald-trump-in-favour-of-defuture-ron-desantis I found this response amusing

No doubt comparing counting stats between eras is a dubious exercise. Elway was a unicorn in terms of his arm talent compared to his comtemporaries. He was to other throwers then what Justin Fields is to other running QBs right now. That separation from the pack on the skill that matters sure didn't hurt his cause.

There are really three options on a rule 5: Stick, get offered back, work out a trade. If he's still blocked in Tx they can also work out a trade. I don't recall if the Tigers have worked deals on R5s in the past, but you can bring a rule 5 guy - get a look at him and then decide what you might offer his old team if you decide you actually like him - all with the cost of the preview capped at $50K.

yeah - this is a pretty simple bottom line - one party would have forced the company to provide the days, the other stopped it. There is nothing more to it than that. Work stoppage is/was a non-issue once the administration decided to go to Congress. If Congress wants to short circuit collective bargaining they darn well can and that is that.* The only possible work stoppage issue was if the workers wild-cat, but again that would have been (will be if it happens) the result of GOP Senators not agreeing to the more worker friendly settlement. *And don't get me started again on how assinine a Supreme court is that knows full well that the Congress when it cares to use it, has complete authority over the operations of corporations (and unions FTM) in the US in such a fundamental process as collective bargaining but is then somehow thwarted by some kind of imputed personhood when it comes to corporate political spending.

That doesn't bother me. I think 420 to dead center is fine. If they wanted to replace the CF 'corners' - which are probably about 430, with a curving wall at a constant 420 it wouldn't bother me, but I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with a park that says CF is the pitcher's place. To hit a HR you either have to get around on him enough to pull or else inside-out it at least somewhat --- or get lucky enough to get a ball on the live side of the distribution....

gotta start somewhere. To be within one generation in 4 yrs would be a pretty deal I think. The majority of chips that make the world go round - that go into IOT and garden variety 'smart' hardware - stuff like what MicroChip Tech makes - aren't at the cutting edge anyway but there are still profitable and an economic security issue.

This is purely out-of-left-field speculation, but it also makes me wonder if working faster if going to sort of naturally push them away from max-effort-on-every-pitch. It would be ironic if after all the decades of calling for a pitch clock, another benefit of finally having one turns out to be that it's good for pitchers' health.

the first thing you have to do *after* you make any contribution is unsubscribe from your candidate....

and the thing is, with the shift banned, LHH will be free to put even more emphasis on pulling the ball, and the park is plenty HR friendly to LHH pull hitters.

probably when someone other than Abrams runs. She's a great force, but I'm guessing Georgia is burned out a bit on her.

yeah - NYT count had Walker still numerically ahead at 89% reporting but their lean needle was pegged for Warnock. When a vote drop pushed the total to 94% Warnock moved ahead in the absolute count and I guess that was about when everyone called it.

Still have forwards going passive in the defensive zone, and I'm still waiting to see Walman actually show some the skating he is supposedly so noted for. But even given that, we now have maybe 6 forwards on a given night playing at an NHL level instead of 2 or 3, Maata has been great, Chariot OK, and Hronek playing like a new man the quality of the D core is up by at least 100%. Bummed Solderblom is not back yet though. Team could also crash over the goalie situation if Nedeljkovic can't get going a little before Husso inevitably cools off.

IOW - go suck wind Lynn.

funny we are talking about Berggren and then he goes out there and was probably the best Wings player on the ice tonight.

I like that Lalonde mixes and matches a bit. I know the risk is sometimes you may give up a little potential with your 'best' line, but OTOH I don't think there is any double that on some nights you try something and some guys just click together ever if it's only short term. Maybe one of the things Blashell was too rigid about. Scotty was never shy about trying different guys together - can't have a higher recommendation than that.

How hard could it be? Robert's Rules of Order isn't a very big book..... 😄

some say since the Constitution doesn't explicitly say the SOTH must be a member that the House is free to elect anyone, including a non-member. The counter is that the model for what the writers would have been assuming as the default meaning would primariliy have been the English Parliament, and the speaker there is chosen from the membership.

Hearing the same thing out of Israel that Netanyahu wants the judiciary defanged to where they would not have have review power over legislation - or cases against PMs.

That is St Paul's in the left foreground which puts the pic just about at Warren so I would say that's a good call. There has always been good sized radio/TV mast on that building. Maybe someone had gone up the antenna to do maintenance and grabbed the shot. LOL - and the stonework on Book tower was already sooted black in '42.

He gets a lot of praise from Mickey for making smart small detail plays that most young players don't - for instance just a little extra delay move to kill time on clearing pass while the rest of team was make a line change. My impression has been that he is pretty consistent is making his presence felt when he is out there.

well enough done though. You sure can't see the edit at twitter resolution.

sort of hard to figure how he'd get PO's with the coaching staff while he's hasn't been playing. Could be they either did or did not want him partipating in things that he either did or didn't want to. Or he was unsatisfied with the medical people, or a teammate - who knows?

Clearly not an easy team to read. THey weren't nearly as bad as we feared they might be at 1-6 and they probably aren't as good as we hope they might be after last week. I think winning out is still a bridge too far, but at least it's now a lot more fun finding out.