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Bring back Mario. Just put his name on his damn chair.

I don’t think that it was me that turned it into “choosing the Russian narrative”.

i am very surprised he's staying. i thought for sure he was gone this time. word is that the contract will make assurances that michigan will become nil competitive, and harbaugh will be paid like the top football coach he is. i mean, maybe not mel tucker money, but who can match mel for his success at msu? that guy is in demand... but i digress. this is great news for michigan on the nil front and the immediate success of the program front. they should be a top 5 program next year and - dare i say it - favorites to three peat. if the nfl really passed up on harbaugh again, its baffling to me. otoh, if his agent did a nice job of setting up "interviews" and releasing tid bits of information on "interest" as well as "the AD sucks" tweets, then he did a masterful job.

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If the Bears want to sign all the free agents, then the Lions objective is clear: drive up the price so the Bears grossly overpay.

Get rid of both of them and Shep too.

I don’t think the Lions trading up and drafting Anthony Richardson at 15 or so would be the same as the Packers trading up and drafting Jordan Love at 26. Richardson has the highest ceiling of all the QB prospects in this draft (IMO). His athleticism and arm strength is off the charts and I could understand why a team with good scouts and good coaching like the Lions would be intrigued. In the perfect situation, he could easily become the QB1 of the draft, and an absolute steal to a team that picks him as the 4th QB off the board. He could also bust and be out of the league in two years if he’s put into the wrong situation. The latter is probably much more likely, as I think a team in the top ten reaches a bit for him and tries to make him start out of the gate. He desperately needs to sit for a season if he’s going to have success at the NFL level. Jordan Love never had close to the upside that Richardson has. Additionally, Jared Goff is not Aaron Rodgers. Goff has proven his worth, and I like him a lot, but he’s not a Hall of Fame prima donna QB who just signed a long-term extension. If you see the next 21/22yo top-five QB sliding down the draft board, I don’t have an issue drafting over Goff. But damn, you better freaking be right. All said, I don’t think it’s going to happen. For either the Lions to make the move, or Richardson to slide. I think the Lions are very happy with Goff, and that he will sign something of a restructured extension this off-season that ensures he’s here at least through 2024.

Yeah... I'm going to do the opposite. Holmes has earned my trust. He's able to spot talent, full stop. I'm just going to trust whatever draft decisions he makes because... what do I know? If he drafts Richardson in the 1st round... I'm just going to trust him that he thinks in a couple years AR can be a dynamic QB and push Goff. I have my preferences, and it's to not draft a QB or RB in the 1st round. I will offer my opinions, my mocks, guys I like the most and why... But in the end... in Brad Holmes I trust.

Sort of reminds me of Utah years ago. Even when the Pistons were going to the ECF's every year it seemed like Utah was just an automatic 2 losses each year.

I saw this it and assumed it was a great troll account. This is real. That is sensational from Santa even if it’s a little M on M crime.

I don't think the Lions should draft a QB at all. After Holmes found players like Rodriguez and Houston in the 6th round, I would rather he not draft a QB who is most likely not to play at all. The Lions have a top 10 QB who is 28 and signed to a very reasonable contract. I haven't seen a fanbase want to move on from a young top 10 QB since Matthew Stafford.

I will jump off the Brad Holmes bandwagon if he drafts a backup QB in the 1st round. This whole backup thing is overblown. Goff didn't miss a snap this season. He's missed a total of 5 games the past 6 seasons and only 3 were due to injury. One was because the Rams had everything locked up and another was due to COVID. Just sign a veteran.

PS: Just a guess... Schoop gets pushed out the door relatively quickly this season...

How dare you besmirch waffle makers! Now china on the other hand...

If Trump had backed someone other than McCarthy I don't think that person would have had a shot.

Probably wouldn't happen and he may not want it, but Greg Gania (from the Erie broadcasts) is really really good at what he does and would do well on the TV Broadcasts imo. Even when he does spot-work for DD, he sounds better informed on the team and org than the typical crew Bally would run back.

The McDonald's double drive through strikes again! When I'm in a rush, I'll order stuff on the McD app. The other morning I pull in and there is a semi making a delivery. It is partially blocking one lane but I can squeeze in. I pull up to the speaker expecting to tell them my mobile order number. After a long delay, a voice comes over and says "the lane is closed because the truck is in the way". I said, "oh, well, I'm already here and I have a mobile order" (or something to that effect - not rude or offputting). "The lane is closed because the truck is in the way" the voices repeats because I obviously didn't catch that the first time. "So you can't take my order?" "The lane is closed because the truck is in the way". I drove off and canceled my order. Then I thought of @pfife.

It's a great time to buy CD's. I bought 2 (through Fidelity on my IRA) at 5.1% that were not call protected, and 4 at 4.4% that are protected. I think they are both 3 years or so.

Lebron had 25 points, 9 assists, and 6 rebounds that game. Jabari Smith did not play. https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200310290SAC.html

I ain't gonna sweep the ocean at the shore. Legalize it and then let public approbation create the market correction for the unseemly things it brings. Unless people become violent flesh eating zombies from it. I'm against that.

The Bear had already been renewed for season 2.

Well, there are at least two of us. I always listen to the games as well. In fact, I don't own a TV anymore either.

What I really would want in a broadcast team is two people talking baseball. I don't want over the top analysis or jock speak. Give me someone who can give me insight in a normal way. Treat the broadcast as if you're talking to another adult. And no over the top gushing. That may be the thing that I enjoyed the few times I've listened to Dickerson and Avila last season, it was two guys just talking baseball between the PBP. You don't need all the ball and strike stuff on TV. Give me the facts and a little insight.

Honestly, I don't think having Craig Monroe in place of Jack Morris is any kind of upgrade. He may be a nicer guy than Morris and also tick certain boxes, but his style is super off-putting to me. It's not just the homerism which, yes, is bad. But even worse to me is his whole I'm-still-in-the-game schtick: referring to The Guys by their cutesy-poo clubhouse nicknames; acting as a cheerleader and an apologist for The Guys; leaning hard on jock-talk crutches; and, of course, his general lack of actual insight for which he's apparently relying on his memory of what it was like when he was a player on the inside, rather than studying up on the game as an informed outsider. In other words, he comes off like a YouTube or TikTok amateur, not as a broadcast professional. Consequently, that might be just the kind of thing that appeals to Millennials and Zoomers. Can't wait until he talks about The Guys' social media feeds and red carpet walks.

You draft Scoot and don't think twice about it.

Happy MLK Day! That the man had a dream about how little kids of all colors can play together gets repeated ad infinitum, but he also had a vision about everything else that doesn't get repeated nearly as much. Here's a reminder of that vision now. “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” —A Time to Break the Silence: April 4, 1967 “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power”. —King to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) board on March 30, 1967. “…the price that America must pay for the continued oppression of the Negro and other minority groups is the price of its own destruction.” —The American Dream: July 4, 1965 “White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society.” —Where Do We Go from Here? 1967 “Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn. The reality of substantial investment to assist Negroes into the twentieth century, adjusting to Negro neighbors and genuine school integration, is still a nightmare for all too many white Americans…These are the deepest causes for contemporary abrasions between the races. Loose and easy language about equality, resonant resolutions about brotherhood fall pleasantly on the ear, but for the Negro there is a credibility gap he cannot overlook. He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.” — Where Do We Go From Here: 1967 “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” —Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963 “Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.” —The Three Evils speech, 1967

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/16/george-santos-andrew-intrater-columbus-nova/ The Republican congressman known as George Santos is part of Vladdie's machine.

Mercy.

Joe Rogan is a piece of shit. He's Tucker Carlson for people under the age of 60.

And Patrick Beverley.