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It's not the what - it's the how. We've known for a year now that we can kill this thing by masking and vaccinating people and here we are in the worlds supposedly premier 1st world country with 40% of the population unvaccinated. It's not true that the it's the virus that is so clever that we can't stop it, it's that people refuse to be as 'clever' as they should already know how to be. I'm on a campus full of "irresponsible" 18-22 yr olds and we have a 5/100k infection rate while surrounded by a state with a 40/100k rate, because we are simply doing the things we all already know how to do, which is mostly getting vaccinated, but also intelligent use of masks. We can control it, we simply lack the discipline. That is not an epidemiological problem, it's a cultural one. Case rates throughout MI exactly track vaccination rates. The idea that it's still the virus that is the problem is BS.

Beach talks in the interview about how he became a different person after this happened. He was more difficult to be around, abused alcohol and drugs, and was a much worse individual than before the assault and the teams decision to do nothing about it. I think that damaged his chances at an NHL career more than being blackballed. Additionally, I am truly sickened that once again as was the case with Sandusky, Nassar, and Anderson, an organizations decision to quietly push away an abuser to avoid making a big story allowed that predator to continue adding new victims for years and years after it should’ve been stopped.

The first sentence wasn’t needed. I get frustrated too at the depths that the woken will try to take cancel culture but in this case JT messed up and deserved to get dragged. You have perfectly outlined what he needed to say and he did almost the exact opposite.

Sinema is one of his wives?

Thanks!

Amazing that the same people couldn't have cared less that 6 year olds were slaughtered are suddenly all about gun safety because it might give them the opportunity to pin it on an actor who mocked the person they worship.

I found the right thread!

Also having a PR guy doesn’t make you any less of a piece of shit, it just allows you to hide. Interestingly, your take on the people involved in the coverup and enabling of a sexual assault has me looking at you completely differently than I did yesterday.

The inactions of the Blackhawks organization lead directly to at least one other victim being sexually assaulted, likely more. Are all the "PC" folks cool with another guy forcing a BJ and jerking off on your teenage son? Or yourself? Ultimately, that's what it's all about. Not a press conference or being PC or being media savvy. If you're not okay with someone being sexually assaulted, you have to act accordingly to hold the guilty responsible and protect others.

If I find out my friend covered up a sexual assault we won’t be friends anymore. There really isn’t any wiggle room here. To me it’s like saying, “what about all the good things Hitler did?” Doesn’t matter. Of course Toews didn’t just find out. He knew about it while it was happening. He’s a piece of shit. We need hold people accountable for their actions, or inaction in this case. If he’d learned from his mistake and grown then there is some leeway. He clearly hasn’t as he’s mourning what the perpetrators have lost.

Maybe tell his teammates not to chase Beech around saying homophobic slurs? Maybe stepping up and saying wait one of our players got sexually assaulted and nothing is being done this isn't right? Maybe not focus on himself and his experience with the executives, praising them for being good people when they covered up sexual assault so they could win a Cup? Maybe not give quotes acting annoyed that players are speaking about the abuse now? If you have to be media savvy to be a decent human being then that is fucking sad.

The fact that cases are increasing is a cause for alarm because (and I don’t care if the % is small) inevitably, some of the infected WILL get sick enough to have life long issues or even die. Call me crazy, but that still matters to me.

then again, the Tigers are rehabbing Franklin Perez.....

No. Players aren’t applicable.

Tell it. For this reason I don’t really mind if he doesn’t come back to Detroit. I wasn’t really on board with Hinch being hired either. He’s a very good hire but I really don’t have much respect for the guy. It’s hard for me to look beyond what he did in Houston.

That's bullshit.

Interesting. But that could be a case of something sounding harsher than it really is. Since he’s a pending FA I can see the argument that org resources can’t be used on a guy who is contractually of no use to them at the moment. I am not sure he’s throwing shade. Just stating realities.

I tend to read a lot of stuff from authors I stumble upon by accident. I spent a lot of time reading Mary Doria Russell. A friend recommended The Sparrow. The local library’s copy was not available so I picked up Doc, a historical novel based on Doc Holiday and the events around the OK Corral. That lead to Epitaph, Wyatt Earp following the Tombstone shootout, another well researched novel. My favorite Russell novel is A Thread of Grace. It’s centered around WWII Jewish refugees and the Italian Resistance Movement. The novel is based upon account of survivors. I finally found The Sparrow, it was probably better that I read the others first. The novel is quite thought provoking. One final recommendation from Ms Russell, Women of Copper Country. It’s based on the Copper Country Strikes of 1913-14 in the UP. A good look at the Labor Movement and the mine operations.

Yeah. Why didn’t the victim arm herself? Seems we need more guns on movie sets now to prevent this.

It's absolutely fair to investigate what happened here and, as needed, for indictments to be issued. In general, my initial post was more about partisan journalists who couldn't even wait for Halyna Hutchins to reach room temperature before making shitty political humor out of it. It's pretty ghoulish and cynical.

qbs taken outside round 1: 2015: garrett grayson, sean mannion, bryce petty, brett hundley, trevor simien. 2016: paxton lynch, christian hackenberg, jacoby brissett, cody kessler, connor cook, dak prescott, cardale jones, nate sudfeld, kevin hogan, jake rudock, brandon allen, jeff driscoll, brandon doughty 2017: deshone kizer, davis webb, cj beatherd, josh dobbs, nathan peterman, brad kayaa, chad kelly 2018: mason rudolf, kyle lauletta, mike white, luke faulk, tanner lee, danny etling, alex mcgough, logan woodside. 2019: drew locke, will grier, ryan findley, jarrett stidtham, easton stick, clayton thorston, gardner minshew, trace mcsorley. how many of those guys are good nfl players? 1? 2 if you want to count minshew being ok for a few games in jacksonville? how many have been traded for multiple first round picks? or for anything of value? none. it is not a productive exercise to draft qbs outside of round 1, nor does it usually get you anything back in assets. qbs are extremely valuable. if the lions are going to find the qb of the future, the overwhelming evidence suggests they will need to do it in round 1.

Miggy doing some lobbying.

One thing I've noticed this year...if you put Larkin in between a couple of wings that have skill, vigor and pep...he looks like a true #1 center

Best football play you may ever see.

Wherever Jim spends the rest of his days, I hope it will be in a nice area.

i dont have a real issue with what kane or toews said. i am interested in how their agents allowed them to talk without vetting what they would say, especially in the social media environment. regardless of how they feel personally for stan bowman, you issue a generic statement condemning what happened and saying how you feel bad for beach. you dont open them up to questions from "journalists" who are looking for click baity headlines to stoke the moral outrage machine.