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I read that book for a book report in grade school. I don't think the teacher was happy that I chose it. But she audibly laughed when I read aloud Sparky's entry about clinching the division. He got cut by a bottle of champagne and remarked how the mixture of blood and bubbly looked good on his jersey.

Its Jackie Robinson Day.

I care less about my senator's vote for a cabinet official who would have won anyway and I care more about my senator's appeal in the rest of our state that outside of a few metro areas, can be as red as Alabama and if that vote makes it more likely they'll get some votes they otherwise wouldn't get, then fine. What Obama did in 2008 is ancient history. The world and landscape is different now and he's not running. Al-Sayed is not Obama.

One game that always gets mentioned in lists like this, outside of those with playoff implications, is the 1998 game against the Cubs. I was there and it seems like everybody else was. I had just started working, shirt and tie kind of job, recently married, and met friends there on the way home from Warren. So there I am in July at a game in a shirt and tie. Kerry Wood pitched. Matt Anderson made his MLB debut, threw one into the backstop during warmups, Sammy Sosa hit a HR breaking Rudy York's record for HR In a month. I believe he got a curtain call.

We have now beaten an American league team. I own a copy of the book above. It is not for sale.

I have no idea what you people are talking about when you’re talking about the fuzz and turtles.

You're reading too much into one 20-word or so question that took me 20 seconds to think about and write. All's fine.

Did they? Few teams were impacted less by injury than were the Wings. A few games for Edvinsson in late January, 3 games for Copp in early March, 7 games for Larkin in March. In an 82 game season that's about as uneventful as you can expect.

Wings' system was rated #5 by the Atlantic in 2025, #2 in 2024, #4 in 2023, #7 in 2022, #4 in 2021, #9 in 2020. Well past time for these rankings to finally convert into on-ice results. How did the Wings get The Athletic's #4 in 2021 and how has it turned out? In this order: Raymond, Seider, Berggren, Veleno, Wallinder, Rasmussen, Tuomisto, Albert Johansson, Niederbach, McIsaac. Nothing to get excited about beyond two top-6 overall picks. How did the Wings get The Athletic's #4 in 2021 and how is that shaping up 3 years later? In this order: Edvinsson, Kasper, Cossa, Berggren, Mazur, Wallinder, Soderblom, Buchelnikov, Albert Johansson, Buium. Again, nothing to get excited about beyond the one top-6 overall pick. Underwhelming! Well past time for these rankings to finally convert into on-ice results. I'm skeptical! Who was #4 the other years? NYR in 2020. NJ Devils in 2022. San Jose in 2024. Chicago in 2025. A mixed bag.

I turn off the audio at times too. When the giggling starts, the sound goes off.

Orlando has a star player? Must be going by contract value.

41 points and 12 assists for Avdija to put Portland into the playoffs as the 7th seed in the west.

No clue what Washington got for Avdija, but I'm guessing it wasn't enough.

voting against appointments from the minority doesn't actually accomplish anything - it's nice symbolism, but does it matter? I'd guess most members make those votes because they are hoping to bank some goodwill capital to get something later that will be worth more than a symbolic no vote that doesn't stop anything. I guess there is a level where more 'symbol' can be good thing but in the end, stuff that doesn't make a difference, doesn't make a difference. OTOH, if any of those votes could have stopped one of those appointments, then I agree with you.

Hope they all meet in the middle of it will be a frustrating season

I see little route for them to improve much. None of the players likely to come up from GR have shown much indication any of them are going to be more than younger versions of the same kind of middling players they are going to replace. They might have a goalie in either Augustine or Cossa, but it still looks like a mediocre team with little chance to do any more than get washed out of an early cup round. The D is good, yes, but they need more help on the lines than I see any way for them to generate.

I would be surprised if he was suspended. Lu Dort didn't get suspended when he hip checked Jokic earlier this season. Just a flagrant 2 and an ejection, which is exactly what Ball should have received.

I just don't want to end up with another capitulating Senator who will vote for Trump's nominees. We already have one Michigan Senator who capitulated to Trump in Elissa Slotkin. We don't need another one. Slotkin voted for 9 Trump cabinet, executive, and/or judicial nominees. Imagine voting for the nomination of someone like a Joseph Goebbels, Herman Goring, or Heinrich Himmler in the 1930s. Insanity. She thought these people like Kristi Neom and Scott Bessent were qualified enough for the job. Haley Stevens would almost assuredly vote in line with Slotkin in my view. Voting in another candidate who votes for confirming that many Trump nominees is not more of what I want. I want someone who will fiercely oppose future nominees and Trump in general. I do feel Mallory McMorrow would be good on opposing Trump's nominees and his agenda more broadly. I think she would be in line with Abdul there and above Haley Stevens. I would feel far more comfortable with McMorrow than Stevens.

92 points isn't a bad year. They had more bad luck than most.

Their system is rated #4 right now by The Athletic.

Kane is not toast. He is still a highly skilled and creative offensive player. The rebuild has not failed. When Stevie got here, the team was dead last in goals scored and last in goals allowed. Now the team is average in both categories. The team also has arguably the best defenseman in the NHL, one of the best young defensive pairings in the NHL, a top-ten goal scorer, and two promising goaltender prospects. They do not have to get worse to get better again. They might get worse but one could foresee a season where Edvinsson becomes more polished offensively and cuts out some of his defensive lapses; where a full season of Faulk allows ASP to play sheltered third line minutes and develop physically; where Kasper has a bounce back from his sophomore slump; where some of the slow, old, and uninspired bottom six forwards are replaced by young and hungry prospects; and where Cossa gives them a more reliable option at #2 than Talbot was. It is not out of the question that some, if not all, of these improvements occur, and the team improves marginally enough to make the playoffs. I would still like to see Stevie find this team’s Shanahan, and I’d like to see him make some changes in the front office (and no, I don’t want him to find this team’s Shanahan by hiring Shanahan to the front office). But I don’t think it is a terrible strategy to hold on until the CCR contracts are off the books and then plan to bring in one or two high end UFAs.

The NHL should go to the same format the NBA uses to determine the 7 & 8 seeds.

Not sure how the NBA handles things not called in the game but I would hope they could review that play and issue punishment. Suspending him for the 8th seed game would be the obvious thing.