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As an amusing sidenote, since Christmas I've read the Pistons forum consistently but don't know enough to contribute. But for the past couple of months I've been thinking to myself, that Buddha, does he really need to be so skeptical about Duren and the Pistons' offense beyond Cade and how play will tighten up in the playoffs. And then Game 1 hit, ha. Maybe Buddha really is a wise man ...

Well, one of them needs to be ready for heavy minutes in Detroit next season, and the other needs to get some starts in Detroit also. Id like to think that of Cossa, Postava, and Augustine, one can get traded but Gibson is only under contract for next year so they may not want to be aggressive in moving one of them. But when has Stevie been aggressive as a GM?

Virginia redistricting referendum margin of victory? Odds & Predictions 2026 Will the Virginia redistricting referendum pass? Odds & Predictions 2026 The public thinks it will pass at any rate. The margin will matter.

Watch tonight. The no vote put tons of dark money into the race and lied and cheated and stole. If the Yes vote crushes the No vote, that will tell you a lot.

Going to see Alice Cooper tonight in Toledo.

So is there any chance the Wings actually have something in goalie Michal Postava? I know nothing about him, other than his stat line, but as long as one of the Grand Rapids goalie is backing up Gibson next season I don’t care which one it is, whoever is best qualified. Postava is only 9 months older than Cossa. Sure, he was signed as an undrafted free agent and Cossa was #15 overall, but it’s like being concerned about what was someone’s SAT score when they’re now 5 years into their business career.

As buyers or sellers? Trading Flaherty for Liranzo was bigger than Soto for Vierling. As a buyer, probably Paredes for Austin Meadows. Challenge trade was porcello for cespedes. Before that you had the Jackson and smyly and adames for David price deal.

they have all their #1 picks to deal. plus duren. to your point, we dont know what other teams wanted, but duren might be enticing to people.

*ring* *ring* GM: "Hey Trajan, how's it going?" Trajan: "We want Zion/Harden/McCollum." GM: "What are you trading?" Trajan: "I was thinking we'd give you Ivey." *click* *ring tone* Trajan: "Hello? Hello?" Let's be realistic here. They weren't trading Trae Young or even Darius Garland.

Made me chuckle

because he's rich and tired of being in an organization whose goal is to make the play in every year.

He's been injured.

Warsh sounds like he fits the Trump criteria for enough corruption.

When was the last time the Tigers made a really big trade? I mean bigger than Gregory Soto trade?

Billy Donovan is leaving Chicago. Sounds like it was him stepping down, which is odd. He just signed a new extension, why walk away from that money?

Makes a lot of sense. What I'm seeing in Virginia, not just recently but from past history is that most voters these day seem to follow family/regional lines. Going back to at least 1968, if not before the trend seems seems to be "my family has always been ______> so I'm voting ______. I mention 1968 or more probably 1972 because that's when the Southern (Old time Confederate leaning Democrats "got religion" and started voting Republican. Partially thanks to George McGovern as the Presidential candidate, still some fallout with 1968's Democratic Convention riots and a popular "Democratic" Governor who made his return as a Republican. Very little has changed with the exception of what was once rural exurbs have slowly become suburban suburbs. The most "conservative" of the bunch still want lots of farmland and trees, and the Damn Yankees and halfbacks keep moving in. A lot of the "farmland" has basically been abandoned (Heirs that have moved on and have no desire for the property) And newcomers who wan the convenances of more populous areas (giant grocery stores and such)

If he is being passive, sure. But when aggressive there isn't a more talented scoring big in the league other than Jokic.

Roosevelt was particularly foolish about thinking he could charm Stalin, his generals and his ministers. According to this book I'm reading about Hitler and Stalin (author Lawrence Rees), when one of the British foreign affairs ministers went to knock on Molotov's door one night when he was in Britain for a conference, Molotov answered the door with a pistol in his hand. That environment of paranoia does not lend itself to charm offensives.

I wanted to expand on this a bit. While Ike (and Roosevelt )were probably grateful for Stalin being an ally. They did keep an eye on Joe (especially Truman and Eisenhower) and his successors. The enemy of my enemy sort of thing...

that right there is emperor not only has new clothes but he's baying at the moon stuff. Aka high on his own supply. You don't think people would check, Donald? You gonna put yourself up there with Nixon and LBJ? I think this one calls for an explanation. Nixon ended Vietnam with something like detente with the Soviets and improved relations with the PRC despite losing the political struggle to save the RVN.

as terrible as Trump has been, once you break it down to the races that matter, I'm still not seeing any forecasts that rate the Dem's chance of taking the necessary Senate seats as better than 50/50. That's were the rubber meets the road to defang Trump. Granted, some of that is reluctance to go out on a limb because along with Trump, the GOP has exceeded their past polling, but it's still telling you that there still isn't enough signal out there to be unequivocal. I'd love to see some data that Collins solidly underwater and Peltola or Talarico were a slam dunk- that's what a wave will look like.