gehringer_2

yeah. Sometimes I think people who decide to write recent history history don't have the sense to talk to the people who were there who could set them a little straighter than some of the flights of fancy you read. And you will notice as you get older it only gets worse in terms of younger academics trying to tell you what was going on that you lived through 1st hand. Which is not to say that just because you lived through an era you didn't miss anything that was happening, but on the broad brush suppositions, your experience is probably as valid as any second hand sourcing a historian can do after the fact - especially one pushing a pet thesis

Probably a thousand reasons: Business consolidation, repeal of the fairness doctrine, high quality car and home audio systems that drove people to FM where no station had the reach of the clear channel AMs and probably a dozen others you can think of. The loss to politics has been serious. JP or Warren Pierce might have had a 20 minute non-confrontational but still probing interview with the governor or a senator on any given day. You can't BS or sound bite your way through an interview that long even if the interviewer isn't Mike Wallace in attack mode.

It's probably imposssible to decribe the nature and reach of what AM radio used to be to anyone who wasn't there. Such a completely different world. And work was different as well. Untold numbers of stores and shops where having 'JR on all day long for both the workers and customers was just normal business. And it was the importance of the media (and the rules of the era) that forced all that top talent to the forefront.

so a couple/3 times a decade. Didn't think it could be very common.

so they are playing Seider in front of the net on the penalty kill and yes he's a big guy, but I still wonder if that isn't a waste of his mobility.

has a team ever played both a game where they forced no punts and a game where they did not punt in the same season?

Seatle wins.

yeah - this.

Veleno is frustrating because he shows little flashes but never maintains those moments of intensity for long. Berggren is going to produce more than Veleno or Zadina. How much? IDK.

If it's not close than either people that voted for him in Nov have changed their minds or they stay home, I'm not picky about which.

Guys in the booth talking about being excited to get Zadina back. Really?

who is this QB and what did he do with Jeff-game-manager-dink-and-dunk-Goff?

You so the one thing Avila never did, you take a bad contract that come with a good prospect. It's about the only way you can effectively buy draft picks with cash in baseball.

The scale that the Chinese work at is almost unfathomable - the roads, the cities, the whole deal. Supposedly at its peak, the Ford Rouge complex employed 100,000. Rouge in its day was probably far bigger than any single facility/complex operating in the US today (I've seen Boeing cited as the largest current US site at nearly 100 acres, Rouge was mulitples of that). Then imagine 3x that. Crazy.

just hit the hole and take 3 yds, Enough of the shake and bake ..or make 8

Not sure I want to see Edwards out there on this drive. He's been looking for the HR on every run and what they need is put your head down and get 1st downs.

that was a weird-ass play

a little good coverage goes a long way

they just need to cover someone...

they could have called a half dozen holds or illegal low blocks as well and haven't. Still M is trying pretty hard to give this away.

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.