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There were always series the Tigers played during the Leyland years where they were streamrolled by the A's or some other team in the first game and they figured it out and made corrections. Let that be the reason for the mediocrity of some of them, please.

This was a flaw with the movie Glory i recall from the time it was out. Denzel's dialogue was informed by 20th century era things and not of the period. Still, its fricking great.

I get the compromise, but I still don't like when screenwriters put 21st century dialog in he mouths of mid 20th century real people. It's good dialog but it's not terminology either of those men would have used.

I’ve got a feeling several teams have been doing this to the Tigers lately

More of Trump’s En****tification of America Here’s the definition for those inclined En****tification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.

And herrrre coooomes the lawfare.

Him claiming he didn't throw at that guy is as ridiculous as Ndamukong Suh saying he didn't stomp that Packers guy, he was just adjusting his step. Oh, **** you, Suh.

This plus 10 of his 19 shots were 3PTAs.

Let's see what Netanyahu tries to do to torpedo it.

With Stew, Duren and Ausar....we should be very tough to score on in the paint. All three of those guys are explosive athletes with wingspans 7ft or better (Stew and Duren were measured at 7-5, Ausar at 7ft). That tough interior defense is definitely becoming part of our identity. Draft Mara and we can lock up the paint for a full 48 🙂

Up until Iran, I had felt that the combination of Democratic turnout energy and GOP voter disillusionment (as in "i'm not voting for anyone") would be the bigger factor in this cycle that the number of voters that actually change sides. e.g. MB just linked a tweet from the Ohio primary claiming that participation on the GOP side of the primary was down. But depending on how Iran ends and how long it takes for gas prices to come down, I think the calculus on how many people do actively switch sides can change.

True. Once Sheed came, that last title team just took it to another level. I think people forget sometimes that before that trade the Pistons had that same feel. Gosh, they are so good, but this feels like what happened in the playoffs a year ago could very easily be the end result for what ended up being the third title season. But about two weeks after that trade for Sheed, I think most of us here knew this was going to be a tough team - at least until the NBA Finals. It's easy to forget there was a lot of doubt in this area that the Pistons could beat LA at the time.

I have been fooled before, but i'm starting to come around on Green. I don't think she's bright, but I am starting to think she went to congress for 'the right' reasons. (I'm not advocating that her 'right reasons' were good, just saying she may have truly felt she was fighting for the good) It took her some time to realize the new swamp was the same as the old swamp (possibly worse). At the time she appears to have decided to publicly go against Trump, that was still a death sentence though, especially in hard right leaning districts. So choosing to run might have actually looked like less serious action than stepping down and using the media like she has to put doubts in MAGA minds. It's not all about using Carlson and Green to flip people from red to blue either. I didn't flip to blue in 2016, but I didn't vote red either. So they may not flip folks, but it can cause them to not support the GOP either. I suspect not all of you will agree with that last statement, but man, when I point out something shady Nessel did, or something stupid Whitmer did, even though I voted for them and will continue to vote blue until a major political change within the GOP, it's met with fire. Winning over voters from another party is a home run, but disenfranchising them from their own party still puts runs on the board if you get enough of them.

Obviously, it's a contract year for him so he's trying to earn one last good payday. That said, Harris has been exactly what we need him to be in these playoffs. Someone who can score 20 pts. He's not the most efficient (mostly because of his three point shot), but it doesn't matter much. We have nobody else who can drop 20 besides Cade. He's also been very good on the boards, getting steals, and drawing fouls. We all know he's not a #2 option, yet he's been put into that role on this team. For what he is and what this team needs, he's stepped up. He didn't have a 30 pt game at all in the regular season and I don't think he even strung together two 20 point performance. He's got 6 in a row in the playoffs and has been big in big moments, delivering exactly what this team needs: scoring, "volume" or not.

for me that's the difference for this team as opposed to Isiah's or Chauncey's, I thought those teams should win the championship, whereas I think we all have a good deal of doubt that this team, despite the regular season record, is at the same level as OKC or SAS, which does make it a little more fun in a way.

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A good new story about ex-Piston Vinnie Johnson. He gets a news bit on Yahoo Finance for his automotive parts business building out new production capacity on the old Palace site. https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/former-detroit-pistons-vinnie-johnson-150432087.html