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shame he died before he could find the real killer...

Threatening people seems unnecessary, sir.

Not being able to insure pitcher contracts and enough teams stuck with guys on the books long term with these injuries. As long as it affects non FA eligible players then owners won't care all that much.

At least we get the Pistons tonight!

right. My point just being that max physical effort is not the key in much sports competition. A basketball player doesn't generally hurl the ball at the basket, a successful QB doesn't make every throw at max velo. Baseball is supposed to be a skill game. Any hitter that swings as hard as he can on every pitch or makes every throw in the field at max effort is also going to find himself back in the minors - effort moderated by skill is a core of baseball performance. But somehow the game has allowed itself to evolve to where there is too much performance value in max effort all the time for pitchers as compared to command, sequencing, guile, and other less physically taxing aspects of the art. So it goes back to restructuring the game so that a pitcher that keeps hitters off balance and induces a lot of weak contact and picks his spots to throw gas, can still be just as successful as a pitcher that racks up a lot of K's.

if they get better next year there is 0 chance they get fired. even if they get marginally better. with that said, i DO expect them to be better simply because it is so hard to be this bad. to do it again would be...borderline amazing. i have a lot of fears with this team. one of them is that they go all in on their cap space for lavine, thus assuring a ceiling of a play in team. then gores will tout it as a success, just like he did when the blake team made the playoffs and for all the great work theyve done in the community.

If Weaver hasn’t been fired by now, what are they waiting for. I can understand a theory for keeping Williams around. I don’t like it. But he’s been around for only one season. Weaver has his hands all over the worst stretch of the franchise. It’s been worse than “trust the process” which included intentionally hitting rock bottom. Sure, the Pistons are doing that now, and probably did so to an extent last season. But the direction of the franchise isn’t inspiring at all.

There is a primary challenger but its a long shot. She's well funded and popular in Dearborn. You would need strong turn out in Detroit, Southfield and Oak Park along with some of the moderate areas of Livonia to take her out. I suggest trying to flip MI-10 and cancel her out. Marlinga lost MI-10 but only 0.5% to John James who was much more well funded. Democrats just threw in the towel and Stevens went and carpetbagged in MI-11 and Levin chose to challenge Stevens. All though with Levin, he's just a privileged asshole and isn't much better than James.

But the prosecutor's were also incredibly incompetent. Maybe in LA the idea of water falling from the sky is too foreign to keep in mind, but anyone who lives in non-desert parts of the world knows that leather gloves left in the rain shrink. If they had had any brains they could have blown up the whole Cochran glove shtick. Likewise not doing your homework on your own witnesses. Not to mention Ito letting the trial wander all over the place. I'd say the system failed as much as the poor jury. But the other lesson to take form the OJ trial is that sadly that kind of incompetence isn't that rare, and that kind of system failure leads to just as many guilty verdicts that are just as wrong.

Stop. More is coming. Field is probably **** too.

sandin pelikka porn.

I dont know whether it's more salient than immigration or not, but this is about as clear of evidence that you will see in terms of how Trump himself sees the issue as lethal

Wow, lol. Where have I been?

But it's not in the best interest of the UFL to allow that. This isn't like the Major League/Minor League situation for a number of reasons: The minor leagues aren't relying solely on themselves to be profitable. They are subsidized by MLB to a large degree. They can lose star players without having to worry that the league could fold because not enough people are watching it. The UFL/NFL seasons don't line up. You can't have a player get his experience playing in the minor leagues and then call him up to the Majors if he's needed. Football is a much more violent sport and injuries are far more likely. An NFL team isn't going to want to "season" a player in the "minors" in football when there's a relatively high risk of that player's career ending on any given play. For these reasons the UFL doesn't want players getting poached mid-season and the NFL isn't going to want to sign a guy, but let him still playout the rest of the season in the UFL.

I’d prefer they bring back the theme where DeBrincat scores goals.

Rot in hell, OJ.

Burn in hell, OJ....

And honestly, two games in one day feels like too much. It's not because I don't have six hours I can devote to it, but rather, there are other things I like to do with my day as well.

Maybe we will get lucky and it will get rained out?

Pitchers are going to be like running backs? Use them up, kick them to the side once they've broken down with newer & cheaper editions.

41 points for Jokic last night shooting 16-20. Even more impressive since it was against Gobert.

Both are bad. Trump being suspected of at a minimum being a "useful idiot" agent of influence for the Russians is much worse.

Mr and Mrs Smith, anybody? If you like “Atlanta”, you’ll like this, since many of the same people work on both, and they both have the same feel and approach to photography and dialogue.

they aint playing

Ok. This also offends me. If the Pistons lose out they will have paid Williams $1M per win this year.

Yep. As a business owner it offends me he can run the worst shop on the block and still 10x his investment in a decade.

We'll be playing all of those except Pravda.

Yep. It won’t be it help him but some hedge fund or other anonymous outfit. “Too big to fail”. Remember a couple of years ago when regular joes messed around with game stop stock and all the hedge fund managers were like “dude… that’s not fair” I saw the beginning of a thread that asked “what are things that when poor people do if it’s considered trashy but when rich people do it it’s considered classy?” Examples like “speaking two languages at home” and “not paying taxes”. This is another case. When you or I use bad judgement or have just bad luck on a stock, that’s life. When the super rich do it then we must put in safeguards. Trickle down and such.

I've been giving this a good deal of thought, and I realize that it's possible that the pitching coaching is just far ahead of the hitting coaching. But from a smell-test standpoint, I find that less likely than another hypothesis I've been gravitating toward: as a group, our hitting prospects are simply not as good from a big-league standpoint as our pitching prospects. It's not as though all players are tabula rasas that can all be molded into Hall of Famers under the right circumstances and coaching. Different players have different ceilings. Some will indeed top out at the Hall of Fame level; others top out at the minor league level. When it comes to groups of people, that's just the way things are. My hypothesis is that when it came to player acquisition through the draft, international, minor-league free agents, trades, whatever, the Avila regime may simply have had a better idea of how to acquire pitching talent than hitting talent. I think it might have had something to do with the types of pitchers and hitting they preferred. Avila was known to draft pitchers for speed and spin toward the end, perhaps resulting from the data analysis Jay Sartori put together. But when it came to hitters, Avila always did like scrappy guys who were more run manufacturers than he did on-base guys or big boppers. That's why our system was lousy with that kind of hitter, at least until last year and this. So maybe it's not that the Hinch coaching team is incompetent when it comes to working with hitters. Maybe it's that they simply had less to work with when it came to the hitters they inherited than they had with the pitchers. Here's some more sample size fun for you: this, from FanGraphs, shows all Tigers hitters with at least 20 plate trips, ranked by wOBA: There are twelve such hitters on the Tigers. Five of the top seven are Harris acquisitions. Of the two that aren't, Carpenter was a 19th-round pick so I wouldn't consider it an Avila coup; and the other is Riley Greene, a slam-dunk 1/5 pick. All five at the bottom are Avila pickups. They have all working under the same hitting coach team who all report to A.J. Hinch since February. Again, sample size, so maybe this means nothing and will be completely disproved within the next few weeks. And TBF, this is a blunt table that doesn't take into account the commitment Harris has made to bottom-fiver Colt Keith. But I think this is at least worth watching over the next year or two.

States’ rights is practically the textbook definition of fascism, which elevates the rights of the state above the rights of the people.

Unlike Tork, @Sports_Freak doesn't miss middle middle.

Nobody said that!! 😁

Anybody use budget software for the home and personal use? I’d like to formally start doing that. I also think I could probably just fancy up a spreadsheet on my own but I’d like something my wife could use easily. I don’t care if it costs money if there’s value. Turning 50 has made me start to pay more attention to these things.