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From the Department of The Story That Just Wouldn't Die Already: In a bid to not repeat the hubristic mistake I made a couple weeks ago with the Fox News debacle (insert joke of choice here), this time I waited for the segment to actually air before sharing it here. This three-minute interview ran on the NewsNation cable network this morning on their Morning in America program. Despite appearances, Markie Martin is not grilling me relentlessly in this thumbnail, and I am not recoiling in horror for being Dunning-Krugered. You may not care about me or the story one way or other, but I hope you at least respect that I'm properly representin' here.

52.5 points for Minnesota or both teams combined? 🤣🤣

I don’t understand how you can find fault in him. If anything, he should be praised for holding it together with a bunch of guys who were on practice squads a few weeks back.

dan campbell: coach of the year. if THIS collection of has beens and never wuzzes on defense can win the nfc, it should go down as one of the greatest coaching exhibitions in nfl history.

Great defense!! Aaron Glenn is a genius. 😅

When I die, please don’t volunteer to do my eulogy.

My impressions of his presidency were not good at the time, but I was too young to care. I was impressed by what he did after his presidency. Almost every other President either did nothing of consequence or used his past presidency to enrich himself.

A lot of those guys did suck, which is why the team was terrible. I still recall a pop foul that Jack Pierce dropped by first base. I was at the game and couldn't believe he dropped it! That said, as a 7-8 year old those were magical years for me and I cherish that time and that team. And then they added Kemp, Thompson, Leflore and Fidrych.....and the magic exploded in '76! LeFlore was my favorite player until they traded him

For someone who is looking to sign his last big contract and isn't going to be a Hall of Famer, does it matter to them what counting stats they put up? Or is total $ and fit/chance of winning more important? Meaning, if a number of Bregman's home runs become doubles in Detroit and his slugging drops but OBP rises, does that really matter that much to him if he's looking for a 7 year deal to take him to age 37? If he can only get a 4-5 year deal I get it, but if Detroit would match the Adames deal which added 1 year at the same rate Houston offered, He isn't likely to get another big deal after that one anyway.

Your last sentence makes me think you need to do a lot more research on this.

First point is that I don't actually believe you when you say you aren't looking at it from a political side.... the entire issue is political. Secondly, when you cast ballots for politicians who have a history of being hostile toward Title IX, it's very hard for me to take the histrionics and the claims of concern for female athletes seriously.... To be clear, I do think there are questions about how to navigate the issue of transgendered participation in sports and recognize that it isn't fully settled, but it's hard for me to look at any of this outside of this larger context. The GOP has historically had very tepid, if not hostile, views toward female athletes and accommodations for them, I'm not going to pretend otherwise because of this latest moral panic about trans athletes.

I just read an interesting twist, which is that the states that were transitioning to cage-free had been doing marginally better against H1N1, but now are being hit as hard as non-cage free operations as the virulence increases. So you may be seeing the cage free states just catching up to the rest of rest of country in bird flu impact. So cage-free may be a factor in why a price increase now, but not the cost issue per se. https://www.fooddive.com/news/post-holdings-egg-business-impacted-by-bird-flu-as-prices-rise/735694/#:~:text=Michael Foods%2C responsible for brands,about 14% of Post's supply.

Re: Smithfield, one of the things we agree on. Same goes here for Edward's Ham Company, a Smithfield neighbor in SE Virginia. They suffered a major fore a few years ago and ended up selling their business. As a fan of "country ham" it was a major loss.

Speaking of QBR, Aaron Rodgers had the lowest QBR of the season yesterday with a 1.2.

So Goff was 26/34 for 303 yards and 3 TDs and 0 INTs. Purdy was 27/35 for 377 and 3 TDs and 2 INTs. Purdy's QBR was 85.5 and Goff's was 73.3. So Purdy has two more INTs, but 74 more passing yards, and that equals a 12 point advantage in QBR?

That’s what she said.

The NFL re-seeds its bracket after the wildcard round, so the 1-seed plays the lowest remaining seed.

Goff has been the one QB who has solved Flores defense.

Agree - I think Anzalone's loss has been a bigger deal than generally recognized.

what a great season!

No. In fact, only nine teams have done this in NFL history. Five won the Super Bowl.

Also: Don’t look now, but the Lions held the 49ers to seven points for the first 29 minutes of the second half.

Moody kicks the onside kick thru the uprights. 😅😅

anyone who votes kevin o'connel over dan campbell for coach of the year needs their balls chopped off.

just once, try to enjoy this season. it's a ****ing christmas miracle. believe tp, BELIEVE! 😉

how big has jake bates been for this team? what a find. thanks michigan panthers!

He was out there on the 4th down TD.

All Glen's fault

Good decision, good play call, hell yes. You can't settle for 3 with this defense.

That INT was a step in the right direction. Time to show the world that the 49ers are the 49ers.

in true lions fashion, this year really really hurts. the best lions team of ALL of our lifetimes is crippled by injury. it makes me so sad i dont even like to think about it. it hurts. if they still win it will be the greatest championship in the history of michigan sports and i'll be rooting for it. but i just dont see it.

I have my own rant about that.

It's amazing how such a horribly coached team is 13-2.

I say we give relegation its first test in major American sports.

Guess I shouldn't make a joke.

I did not like that call. They needed the points.

Speaking of the short week, there really shouldn't be Monday Night Football this week, or in the wildcard round. Teams should be on even footing for the most important games.

I wish someone could shake some sense into Rasmussen that he falls into the same category of needing to be physical and mean

That should have been a personal foul against Winters.

I stay away from all centralized password managers. I use KeepassXC. That saves an encrypted password file on my PC then I use SyncTrayzor to distribute it to phone/tablet/laptop. I have it set that anytime something is plugged in to charge and is on my wifi network, it syncs the file so my phone always has my updated password file.

That is why you take the ball first……..

Watching pre-game out here in California (local sports). Everyone is begging SF to rest their starters too 😄. They have nothing whatsoever to gain with a win since it just knocks them farther down the draft order. Monday Night Football, Lions vs 49ers, who gives a sh*t

According to Wikipedia "Mr Sutherland is survived by his older bother Darrell who also sucked" https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sutheda01.shtml

I saw that '75 team on my one and only visit to Tiger Stadium. Veryzer was clearly just awful at the time but somehow Sutherland didn't seem as bad. But checking his career at b-r, yes indeed he was just as bad. Sutherland is a member of a club with no more joiners: guys who played for the Tigers and the Expos.

Exactly. What's the difference. You take guys out of certain positions you leave other guys vulnerable for injuries from missed blocks and tackles. This team has one speed and they don't let up. That's what they do and they probably shouldn't stop it because you can't stop a runaway train and if you do, you can't get it up to speed fast enough for this postseason. It's all-out all the time. They want revenge tonight.

The year I really got into the Tigers was 1976 and much of that was because of Fidrych. I was 11. I knew who Al Kaline, Willie Horton and Mickey Lolich were before that, but the Tigers went from a 19 game losing streak in 1975 to having 3 All Stars (Fidrych, LeFlore and Staub) in 1976. Sutherland was part of that team. Then the next year it was Tito Fuentes, who would flip his bat when he came up to the plate and add a little color to things. He hit over .300 his only year with the Tigers. Middle infielders had no power back then. Then after that it was the dynamic duo.