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Ha. At least it was successful in driving forum engagement. Yes, of course there will be numerous transactions that will ultimately impact what the team looks like in 2025. This is strictly looking at the positional depth of the current organization, similar to what Baseball America does in their annual team reviews. I apologize for all of the angst and sadness my post caused. Moving forward I’ll try and post on more realistic topics, like relegation in MLB.

I'm officially announcing that I am running for Speaker of the House. Middle management is great relevant experience. Please clap.

Sharing tips for profiting off of being radical on Twitter.

I'm here for it.... it's going to be fun to watch.

This kid is a character. Enjoying watching him in Detroit.

Bligh Madris era ends without a championship, but with some great memories.

I apologize to the UM fans here for that picture. It even made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

and again, the GOP would much rather run against the size of a budget than acutally cut one, so they don't *really* care either.

So there are 19 members who really don't want to govern. And don't want anyone else to govern either. High school stuff...

Well the practical would be that Jefferies would hold the Speakership. But the Republicans have the majority so they could at any point in time call for a new vote on Speaker so... Practically speaking, Jefferies would actually be Speaker for less than a day.

but wouldn't that still stick it to them by making them have a weak speaker? Then he can deal with them. If I were them I would argue that I am doing my job but the other side is a shit show and we have to get going. Until there's a speaker then nothing happens. Having a weak GOP majority in some ways is better for Dems going into '24. Nothing will get done and they have the power so they take the blame.

a tweet like that from bacon tells me that he's 100% gone. just a matter of where.

Lame. Do your jobs

He's like a poor man's Mike Knappoli.

I don't think Jordan's speech is particularly persuasive. Almost "I came not to praise Caesar but the bury him" LOL- the Dem made the same point!

He has a Knapp for taking walks.

Same here, I don't even have a Twitter account. So without people posting screenshots here of people getting dunked on, I would have never seen the savage, devastating, one-punch knockout shot that Greta Thunberg landed.

Our generational cohort's war was Desert Storm. That wasn't so bad. In any event, I missed it despite my military service. The war i spent my adult working life fighting against the terrorists, wasn't nearly as bad as marching in the green forests of south Vietnam until your unit bumped into an ambush. Some would say it was worse...well. I don't envy the next cohort their war if the worst comes to pass. But the Boomers could have said the same about Desert Storm if the worst had come to pass.

Gen X despises the Boomers. :--) OTOH, The boomers don't now nor ever cared what Gen X thought.

I think it’s more likely they call it a no contest than a tie. Just have those two clubs have played 16 games and everyone else 17.

And he's not trustworthy and they all know it, which means no-one in the mainstream of the conference likes him enough for his support from the middle to be strong enough to force the margins along. i.e the support his does have is shallow.

This is such a glorious mess of shitheads.

His whiny voice and demeanor is not intimidating in the least. He is not a heavy presence. Doesn't command leadership or a presence. He looks small.

I'm OK with them proposing someone like Fred Upton - but only after multiple failed ballots and a **** ton of concessions. This is the GOP's mess, they should have to sort it out.

I watched Bullet Train on Netflix while on a flight. A ridiculous movie and plot in every way, but also a lot of fun. If you want a mindless action movie that doesn't take itself seriously, it will do nicely.

Oh and the Anti Vax people sure didn't wait to jump on this. Dwayne Haskins got hit by a car crossing a freeway last year, they probably blame the vaccine for that too.

Good for them, and fuck the NFL for not making the right choice on their own.

Skip is a douche who shouldn’t be on television. That tweet though? He said the quiet part out loud. Not justifying it at all, but I guarantee you those are precisely the thoughts that were running through the minds of NFL execs after this happened. The sense I am getting from Twitter is that the NFL wanted to play - or at least wait and see - and the Bills told them they could shove their game up Roger Goodell’s ass. Good for them.

Roger Goodell needs to do the right thing and call the game for now.

Lets see Malloy do 40 games at Toledo playing third, with Wenceel at second.

I think the Lions have earned a prime time game by going 7-2 in the last 9 games. However, this game got flexed because it will be playoff relevant regardless of how the other games finish. Regardless if the Lions make the playoffs or not I want to keep Rodgers out of the playoffs.

I must respond to this - good stuff and well said. I'm not good with words - they are not my bag - numbers are. But I'm going to give it a shot... What Del said above is spot on, and much of what I think is missing today and have for quite some time. Let me put it this way; I'm old (66) so I grew up in an entirely different era - my parents grew up through the Great Depression so they knew the economical pain - and they were frugal. Very frugal - and I was brought up the same way. I was taught - like so many my age - if you don't have the money to buy something - don't buy it. You did what you had to do in order to accumulate enough money to buy what you wanted (bike, car, house, etc.). It doesn't work that way anymore, and I get that, for better or worse... This is about our kids - or you might say - our youth (no matter how these survey's break them down). Our youth truly are our worlds raw materials when it comes to our (their) future. I've always believed that, and taught my kids with that belief (among other things) in mind. To take it further, in my experience, as a retired engineer by trade, now teaching our youth in a college and high school setting - I am the one who is getting the education. I admit, I am a fish out of water, not trained nor have experience in teaching young people. I did do a lot of training to fellow co-workers in the shit show known as Corporate America - the cesspool of bullshit that it is. So the only thing I have going for me is I know the material - which is a good start IMO. I've already watched the alternative where we have teachers who know jack shit about how the "real world" works - but teach school and author books. I came to the conclusion after teaching school for fun money after retirement - our educational system is a complete mess - ran by the same clueless greedy pricks who run our corporations. Huge and stupid money spent on (in the trade school setting along with the college) administration bullshit while the kids still slave away with 10 year old computer equipment, robots, CNC machines, and welding equipment . IT staffs at a bare minimum, clueless as well (they hate me), and the administration should get an Oscar for Marketing Bullshit. They treat it like an invitation to Harvard - watch for your acceptance letter - then let them play games on their phone all year. The high school kids figuring out what they want to do next year say hey, let's go here so we can fuck off all day. Truly Sister Mary Elephant - I could write a book on the daily mayhem. College will get there - I can already see it. Bad. I don't know how much longer I can last. I am not a babysitter, and will not be, even if it makes me some beer money. It's about the teaching. Our companies cannot hire good people (or enough of them) - I know because I was part of it. It's not getting any better. I don't like what I see but it is what it is. What do we do? At some point the entire shithouse is going to blow up. We don't have enough people to do what needs to be done so all of us eat. We now have HR departments so inept, they couldn't hire an ant to play in sand. But there is nobody to hire even if they knew what they were looking for, so there's that... Let's start with the kids - it is their future after all. Del's right - they are not lazy (some really are though - that can be fixed) and and they want someone to teach them. I can't stress that enough. So many of these kids are begging for attention, guidance, and love. The system (along with their parents - it all starts at home) is failing them - and they know it - but they don't know how to fix it. I don't either, but maybe I can help them. I love my classes and my kids, no matter how old they are. I really do this because I think I might be able to make a difference, and we sure as hell need that. Invest in our young. I had a kid last semester who came into class the first day when it was 95 degrees outside with a hoodie so you could only see his eyes, nose, and mouth. OK, let's see where this goes - you never know. A few weeks later he wore a hoodie with a baseball thing on the front. I asked him if he was a baseball fan. Yep. The rest is history. We eventually had a baseball in class so I could show him a curveball that would make him a 20 game winner. He did, I did, and the class got a big kick out of it. We even made a drawing of a flattened baseball cover. Turns out he was from the Bahamas. As the semester went on his hoodie ended up on the back of his head, he was asking questions, and having a ball. Really came out of his shell. Great kid, and we became buds. This is why I took great interest in this survey. People need to get into people. Fuck all this other bullshit.

the lions "earned" a primetime game by being the packers' opponent in a game the packers have to win to make the playoffs. 😉

no - the segue to the political take was the Millenial economics aspect that was a common thread connecting both the survey in SB's post and survey work reported the FT article I linked. We are afterall, in a thead called 'Politics Schmaltics'!

Maybe it’s because our ages are similar but Marisa is cuter in the spider man movies as Aunt May. By far. That’s not to downplay her hotness in the earlier years but damn Italian women age well.

I just rewatched My Cousin Vinny for the first time in maybe five or six years and was reminded why it is one of my top ten movies ever. First of all, this particular fish out of water concept is just gold. New Yorkers cluelessly making their way around Alabama is ripe with comic possibilities that the movie mines terrifically, if not exactly flawlessly. The courtroom scenes constitute a master class of just how criminal trials work. My understanding is that some beginning law classes actually assign the movie to students to closely watch for how such concepts as discovery and voir dire and cross-examination operate in practice. It’s pure genius how seamlessly and entertainingly they weave these concepts into the story, never bogging the story down with them. Marisa Tomei, as Mona Lisa Vito, just oozes sex in every scene of the movie, but especially in the hotel room scenes, when she’s dressed down, and in the final courtroom scene, when she is on the stand showing off her smarts. To me, hers is the single sexiest performance of any actress I have ever seen in any movie in my life. I simply cannot take my eyes off her whenever she’s on the screen. Lastly, and not leastly, they never ruined it all by making some terrible My Cousin Vinny 2. The movie caught lightning in a bottle in the most unexpected and delightful way.

I saw Alice at Joe Louis in the late 1980s. I don’t know what I expected, but I was surprised by how energetic they were. I remember their guitarist looked like Rambo, long hair and headband and muscles and everything. I also remember watching two girls who had been a few rows ahead of us approach the mixing board after the show and chat up the sound guy for a minute, the guy pointed them toward the stage, they walked over where they were helped up by a roadie, they all disappeared backstage, and then I left. Rock and roll, man.

How do we know they are reluctant to trade him? Maybe they just have not received an offer they like. I mentioned it will be very difficult to trade him to a contender with that contract. On top of that, there are multiple shooters on the trade block this year so that will lower his price. Burks is one of them and honestly, for a lower price I probably grab Burks. On a contender both of those guys will perform the same function. Why not snag the lower priced guy.

That survey had absolutely nothing to do with politics. I honestly don't know how you guys get that stuff from it. I thought is was some good insight into the current human thought and culture, but I guess it all has to be tribal these days.