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He accidentally said one of those quiet parts out loud. The kids weren't supposed to be listening. "Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil."

👍 LOL - Pretty much anything he did at any time last year didn't do anything to save his job!

But that was not Avila so it doesn't bear on whether *his* impatience contributed to him being or was a reflection of him being a poor dealer.

so they gave him the 'goodbye' game. Almost seems to be some kind of Wings' tradition to give a bencher the game before they send him out.

Correct. And the history drives the point that moving fast hasn't necessarily yielded positive results.

Yup. Low class move. If the Lions weren't a classy org themselves (which they pretty much are, despite the losing and Calvin Johnson's opinion), they would get down and dirty with NE and force them into court to defend themselves against the fraud charge. But I'm sure Goodell doesn't want to see that.

there is plenty of time left to climb back into if they are going to start playing better with Elmer, Vrana and Fabbri all available. That's the tough call to guess at now though.

His attachment to a yahoo like Patricia certainly should ding his credibility with anyone who's been following the Lions and seen Patricia up close.

shopping Czarnik?

For me it doesn't have anything to do with it being the Lions. The fans may have long memories of bad experiences, the players don't. I don't care who you are in the NFL, winning 6 straight at any time isn't a cinch, less so with 2 of last 3 on the road and less than that with one in the cold in GB. Sure they may do it, but they may not. I'd put it at about 50/50 - like it would be for almost any mid-level or even upper tier NFL team asked to do the same. If they get to 9-8 and end up at home, I'll still call it great season coming after 3 wins, and be excited to see what Holmes can do with another set of picks. If they get further, I'll still be rooting.

yeah - the over exubernce is to be expected, but the over/under on the next three is probably really more like about 1.5. Still, who's complaining that the the conversation is even possible?

Was Solderbom a healthy scratch or is he not 100% again after Saturday's game?

28 1/2 min for Seider?!?!

interesting speculation, but if you beat an IF shift it's going to be worth one base. If you beat an OF shift it's probably going to be two. That is a lot more incentive and on first take I would guess would probably change batters' approach in a way the IF shift didn't.

IDK. There seems to be some opinion forming that he is already old news to a short attention span US public. But who knows?

Don't they normally negotiate a 'surrender' at the courthouse for a hearing, at which point the high profile prep posts bond and goes back home? Might be hard to get Trump to do even that though. I suppose they could conveniently not watch the FLA airports and just let him flee the country. Once under indictment I'm pretty sure he would never come back.

still wouldn't get my hopes up.

right - this is pretty much just for the record. The criminal referrals matter. DOJ will not change hands in January!

Russia seems to be putting everything they can into Bakhmut and the recent rounds of missile strikes. Putin has been searching desperately for victory to hang on the wall - apparently to the point of dodging his normal public appearances waiting for one. The missile strategy has probably reached its point of decreasing returns because of depletion on the Russian side, increased AD resources going to theater and because Ukrainian coping strategies will evolve and improve. If Russia fails to produce a ground victory in Bakhmut, what will Putin's next spin on the narrative be?

yeah - this too. But IMHO, Tesla stockholders were doomed before Elon ever got involved with Twitter even if his conduct there has become the current focus for them.

Maybe, but I wouldn't dawel on the possibility.

I think this is spot on. I don't think it's even a question that if they thought he would produce 3 WAR he'd have been back. But to the first part, I agree that from the fan's view, all that matters is whether he is replaced by a better player - or at least the move somewhat directly opens to door to some combination of better players even if not specifically at 3b, rather than what the team is paying whom. If the Tigers miraculously put a winning team on the field next season I can't see very many fans who will repudiate their fanship in outrage over the fact that we will have probably the least productive player per dollar in the majors on our roster.

Well, Zero Covid is over in China. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/world/asia/china-zero-covid-xi-jinping.html One can hope that Xi, having actually backed off one irrational course, may be rethinking other approaches he has recently been wed to.

Waiting to see what Elon does with his poll where the twits chose for him to step away from twitter. I think there are a couple of ways to read this. One is that he had become egomaniacal enough that he thought the twits would support him overwhelmingly and he could use the poll to club his opponents. But the other reading would be be that thrown in the real and terribly complex morass of content moderation, he has begun to figure out that he needs to put some people in charge in who know what they are doing and step away himself, and losing the poll gives him the perfect cover to do it in a style that works for him. We'll see which is the case.

Every league should apply this.