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Actually it’s a bad look to assume a criticism of a female writer is based on something “romantic” rather than the work itself. she’s not immune from criticism because of her gender. She’s redundant. “Win streak reached eight straight”. Uses emojis and hashtags unnecessarily and often lifts other people’s work. Nobody suggests a criticism of Mccosky is because he turned down a date.

So I did it. I waited for the “Mother’s Day“ sale or whatever the heck it is to get mlb.tv for half price. $69.99 now let’s watch the team go into a nose dive and make me regret it. In all honesty I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Pretty sure McCosky never got asked on a date.

Benetti and Dirks are peak TV broadcasting. 10/10, no notes.

I don't think he would have any idea. I think all he would "know" is that hockey = Canada.

True. He is more 'of the moon'.

This. It has become an impossible job at most major universities. You have a wealthy alumni donor base that wants the university experience like it was in the good old days of their past. Many of the wealthiest are also very conservative in their political views. There is a highly intelligent faculty that is about research and education. They hate the big money machine that’s needed to keep the doors open, except when it comes to their grants, they love that money machine. Of course, there is the student body, who are typically much more liberal than their alumni counterparts. They are also more demonstrative and can change influence on a whim as they are in a growth and exploration stage of their life. There is also a board of regents that acts as a check and balance on the President. These boards are often a disagreeing mess in the own right and can rarely form a consensus about anything. Topping it all off is sports. We’ve made this into such a big part of the landscape that it’s become the main marketing and branding vehicles to publicize and promote the university to the general public. Not a fun job to say the least.

On my iPhone, I asked a question about why the Japanese baseball season was shorter than the American season and this is what Google AI told me: AI Overview “Japanese baseball seasons are shorter than American (MLB) seasons primarily because they have fewer games…” At least they didn’t charge me for this sterling insight.

Surprise... I got one space related but its a good one. Today in 1968 we almost lost one of our most celebreated astronauts about a year before he made history. To simulate flying the lunar module, NASA had arranged to build Lunar Lander Research Vehicles (LLRV) and Lunar Lander Test Vehicles (LLTV). These vehicles used a turbofan to simulate the moon's 1/6 gravity so that the astronauts could learn how to navigate the controls when trying to land. on May 6, 1968 Neil Armstrong was flying the LLRV when a malfunction caused it to go haywire and at 200 feet Neil had to eject. He was about a half second from death. And in a vehicle like that which can turn many ways ejection could have been fatal. The video below shows the crash... and it's slowed down a little bit. In real time it looks scarier. He got a busted lip and went back to the office. This was the third time he almost died when flying a space related task. (He flew combat missions in Korea so who knows how many times that happened to him then).

Yea i think amash has way way more integrity

Trump is the Birdbrain of Alcatraz.

He did that in 62 games and was hurt heading into the playoffs if Phoenix had made it. And that is a legit injury, not a tank since Phoenix is sending this year's first round pick to Houston. But since his injury he had played 35, 55, 47, 75, and 62. Again, I would rather gamble on Zion. As far as draft picks go. The new CBA really punishes apron teams so staying out of that area is going to be key. You do that by adding cheap talent to your roster, and 1st round picks are the way to do that. They are about to get a lot more valuable. Not saying don't trade them. Just saying, you better get something good when/if you do trade them.

Vance was in India a couple weeks ago, btw. I guess bumping off the Pope wasn’t enough for him, he had to help kickstart WW3 as a treat. (Forgive me, folks. I take my gallows humor where I can find it.)

India is doing a genocide on Pakistan. I demand Trump call for a ceasefire or else I'm not voting. I'm also going to **** in the halls of Wayne State and play in traffic on 696.

Human nature. I'm on a committee currently where a few folks want to change a policy that will have an obvious, inevitable, bad result, and they refuse to see it (they are trying to send a virtue signal instead of actually achieving virtue). It's not a end-of-the-world issue but one where the aims they hope to accomplish will actually be set back. Magic thinking? Lack of thinking? And of course you are the bad guy who must be the evil side of the issue.

We are in the court of public opinion here, not a court of law. There are different standards here.

You'd think he of all people would know Ovechkin's, of all players, nationality.

True, but they are never going to have a trial, so we'll never get any closure on perhaps the most foundational issue on which this country is based. Thus, we have to decide for ourselves what happened which means that we are left with a very large proportion (perhaps as much as half) of the country thinking that our president attempted a coup and thus is not a legitimate President.

This is sounding more and more like my brother in law after his fifth or sixth beer of the day

I do care if they lose two seasons. At my age, I don't want them to lose any seasons. I think the argument about about large market teams dominating the game is overblown. People have been saying this my whole life, but the game has remained competitive and popular. I don't think it's worth losing seasons. That being said, I think a salary floor is more important to the health of the game than a salary cap. I think teams slashing their budgets and not even attempting to win is a bigger problem than teams spending more than everyone else.

Rumors are even Amash's neighbors like him.

He wants this only because he thinks it is maximally cruel.

One of my childhood neighbors played for the Grand Rapids Chicks. Dolly was very kind to me always. RIP https://www.mlive.com/sports/2018/09/connie_konwinski_grand_rapids.html

No, I mean player opt out. I'm certain they wouldn't accept a team opt out

I believe that's Cernownyk's 1st at bats in 20 months. drafted in 23, played 2 games, hurt knee, hurt elbow in 24. was a guy identified early on by Lynn Henning as a borderline HOF player.

he looked terrified at the line.

Just a minute. Carson Kelly has 8 home runs in 61 at bats? Carson Kelly? Not to mention 17 walks against 7 strikeouts? This will be the day that I will always remember, the day that I realized that AI was deliberately distorting baseball stats, just to f*ck with us.

As far as Duren goes. I think he was lucky they played the Knicks and he could be hidden on Hart the entire series. If he was forced to actually guard someone, I think the pitchforks might be out.

I don't want Durant within a hundred miles of this young team. Why do that to Cade? That is just an opinion. But here is a more practical and fact based reason you do not want Durant on this team. He isn't the missing piece. He will be 37 years old when the season starts and the Pistons would still be building. You would give up a bunch of player and draft capital to get him, and he doesn't turn them into a contender. So what do you do in 2-3 years when he retires/declines? He should go to a team that just needs a little kick to get over the hump. Indiana, Minnesota, Denver. Not a team that is quite a ways away from winning it.

Nice article on Ranier's exit velo https://www.si.com/mlb/tigers/news/detroit-tigers-star-prospect-receives-wild-praise-from-scout-after-hot-start

no doubt cost discipline is terrible, which is big shift from my undergrad days when people were still pretty cost conscious., but when you have 115K applications, 9000 applications just to the Law school, it's pretty clear the discipline isn't going to come from the customers!

just in time to get bounced by rick carlisle and the pacers.

It’s time for Darren McCarty to confront Gary Bettman.

Finally got around watching the 7th episode of Apple TV’s THE STUDIO where Continental Studio’s team tries to come up with a movie cast that won't offend anyone for their stupid KOOL-AID product placement cash grab movie. The bad possibilities kept getting worse and God it was hilarious. Also watched last night’s 4th episode of season 2 of HBO-MAX’s THE LAST OF US. Its fidelity to the game was at times quite distinct and where it wasn’t it distilled the essence of the game. There were some very intense scenes. Some of them truly horrific. There are only going to be 7 episodes for this season while there were 9 the first season. I think there’s supposed to be one more season so they’re going to have to collapse a lot of action into three more episodes this year to get to the halfway point of the second game, and however many more it takes to finish the story.

Reger on 97.1 thinks they should try to trade Harris, Stew ans 2 1st round picks to the Suns for Durant No thank you

I agree. They just have to pick the right player. Btw, Is it wrong of me to discount the opinion of any national correspondent when they gloss Duren as a budding star and key part of the future core. I get they look at stats and see highlights and it looks good from afar. They don’t see the many flaws that are exposed often. He’s young and he has talent but I don’t see how he ever does more on offense than catch lobs. It’s a 50/50 chance that he’s able to control a bounce pass into the lane. He’s improved but he’s still a serious liability man to man guarding. He’s got value but he’s not someone we should commit money and term to keep. It shouldn’t be that hard to find a big that can dunk a lob from Cade, block the shot of a smaller player driving the lane, and grabbing an uncontested rebound.

Riley Green is the American League player of the week thanks to his display of home run hitting prowess.

I enjoy baseball movies, but Hoosiers is my favorite sports movie

SO, because it is an off day I'm going to share the glove I designed and ordered for myself on Rico Gloves website as part of my winning an auction at my softball program's spring celebration. I chose the livery aka color scheme from the TACP beret flash which combines blue for the Air Force, Green for the Army units we support and red for the firepower we coordinate. My son called the glove heinous. Before too long it will be covered in dirt and unrecognizable.

aka Street clothes.

you look at how much vote totals have increased recently though and it is a different electorate. I buy the argument that making voting easier has increased the electorate - and I don't think that has played well for the dems. I don't think the Dems, who have for many decades been the party of the more engaged voter, have figured out how to reach the lower information, lower interest voter that has joined the electorate. This is why I think the Dems best hope is that Trump voter buyer's remorse simply shrinks the electorate in the next cycle as those people stay home realizing they were incompetent voters. If Dunning-Kruger holds the Dems will have a tougher go.

He got no due process for attempting a coup though.

This is a good book. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004X7TM14/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title You are right about the racial aspect... from memory places like Baltimore and San Fran and Detroit (I 375 in particular). Get all the white people out of town fast... tear down the black neighborhoods while you are at it. But aside from that it was a fun read, it isn't so serious all the time. One tidbit is I've heard people lament the interstates and speak of the joy of the "back roads"... but that misses the point. That joy on the back roads is because of the interstates. Before the interstates that back road was full of trucks.

Yeah, I have some older relatives that are very Catholic, including one who is a deacon, and I know they voted for Trump in the past. Between this stunt and the recent commentary by the cunt from Georgia, I'm curious how they try to explain this away. And however they try, I ain't buying it.

This is on the Post of the Year nominee short list.

Wanna talk about weird? Insulting and celebrating the demise of all hard working federal employees on the other board. That's weird, and i stand by my response, and regret that I peaked behind the ignore shield here.