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I think I have mentioned this before, but the reason I don't follow the NHL or root for the Red Wings is because I lived in an area that got WJR but not the backup station in the 90's (CKLW?). The Tigers only lost WJR priority when the Red Wings were in the playoffs, so naturally I rooted against them so I could listen to the Tigers.

So, next time someone sends a 'hilarious babylon bee' article ask them about the first amendment right of free assembly. Or just tell them this guy says Ashli Babbitt was a suicide.

FOMO is part of it, which is true for most trends in investing. The weak dollar is definitely another part of it. The dollar is off by about 10% since Trump took office. Flight to safety is another big driving force. People think the market is due for a downturn. Treasuries would be a normal spot to park money coming out of the market. But the president is on TV every other day demanding the Fed lower interest rates. Lower rates equal lower yields on treasuries. So some people are turning to gold. The odds of a shutdown also went up this weekend after the shooting. Democrats will not pass any funding bill that includes funding for ICE, where they probably were going to before this weekend's events. A more simple answer. Lack of confidence in US fiscal policy.

edvinsson is a big, young, strong actual defenseman. hughes is a forward playing defense. edvinsson should be able to be re-signed by detroit for long term. hughes is not signing and is likely to leave than to stay. hughes is a great player, but edvinsson's development combined with the uncertainty about re-signing hughes would make me balk at including edvinsson in any deal. i'd rather have edvinsson than zeev buium too.

Good JVL today. Calling Minnesota Trump's Gettysburg moment. Comparing Trump to another traitor named Lee... https://www.thebulwark.com/p/our-gettysburg-moment-minneapolis-trump-dhs?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=185847441&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true

I'll stick with my Allison Krauss playlist this morning, thanks

Sell all of your gold and put it in silver

sing Paul Simon's 'El Condor Pasa' to yourself to get rid of it. 😉

I mean, in his debut game in the league he blew out Matt Patricia and essentially exposed him as a fraud and a terrible coach right from game one. So he did us a Lions fans all a favor there.

I go by charts. It's hard to explain in a short paragraph what they mean. Using charts, known as technical analysis, is a long time science that started over in Japan many years ago. Charts are a visual history of how "things" trade - price. One of the main things they do is give the people in the market entry/exit points to trades. They talk about this every day on the business channels. It helps both institutional and retail investors. The best computer geeks on the planet who work for the pigmen of Wall Street write their HAL 9000 trading algorithms on this stuff. My point, some charts look normal, and then there are some that don't. Gold and Silver look like hockey sticks right now - that isn't how it works. They are going up way to fast way too quick. It kind of reminds me of back in...2007 ish... crude oil did the same thing. Went from..don't remember, around a hundred maybe to $147. It looked like a hockey stick on the chart. It became exponential. Then it was 2008 and we know what happened. Some economists think the oil shock started the credit/housing mess. I think they are right. The gold/silver thing is different. American's sucks up 20% of the worlds crude, which is our lifeblood of growth. Gold and silver isn't near as important of commodity. But a message? The gold/silver (they usually trade about the same way even though silver has industrial value) thing is about our currency. The value of the dollar trades on the world markets each and every day. Like going to Canada and the exchange rate you get. So many dollars buys so many CAD. One might say (well, many) going long Gold is shorting the currency of the United States. This topic has been argued forever in the political realm between the Keynesian's and Von Mises wings of monetary policy. The "gold bugs." Some say this is all retail moving the price. I don't know. The old intrinsic value of an asset or "specie" as they said before that kind of thing. What I do know, this ain't normal.

This is amazing

@Screwball what do you make of this?

Agree. And what’s he to do? Just get rid of them? If he had any better options he would have done it. Might as well play the cards you had.

I don't buy the narrative that Harris has any issue with the players he inherited at all. I think he been perfectly fair and rational in how he has handled everyone in the system since he arrived - both his and the prior picks. Nobody's been dumped, there have been no fire sales , no-one has been fast tracked that didn't earn it. I think he has tried to get as much out of everyone for the purpose of winning games that he could.

It isn't even accurate, from the Homeland Sec website: “In President Trump’s first year back in office, nearly 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, including an estimated 2.2 million self-deportations and more than 675,000 deportations.” And that number is just 2025

Nor were the Canucks an unstoppable juggernaut with Hughes (plus EP+Boeser+Hronek)

The other thing. Gettysburg was unquestionably favorable terrain for defense. Minneapolis with its very diverse population and scandinavian backbone seemingly not a place to be rude and unfriendly to people.

Fascinating analysis. The Union did more than win the battle, they created narratives of resistance and success they didn't have before. Antietam was one thing. Gettysburg and Picket's Charge was the 'high water mark' of the Confederacy.

The nerd who judges such things on the internet https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd Says Detroit is actually doing a great job lately. Detroit's positive growth probably has many fathers and you can't ignore the individual hipsters who choose to stake out a claim on the inner frontier but, the lesson of so many other places with transit is that if you build it, the PE and REIT dollars will come. Even if they don't know why those dollars are coming. They just do. They have to go somewhere. Here is his love letter

people love to bitch about the people mover and Q-line, which admittedly are poor shadows of what urban transit should be, but in the land General Motors you have to start somewhere.

another piece just came across my inbox about the bond markets from Axios/Bloomberg, pointing out a big shift in what is happening in Japan. Interest rates are finally starting to rise there - the long period of deflation ending. This is affecting bond markets everywhere, including the US, because the large carry trade out of Japan driven by ZIRP there was supporting bond markets everywhere, including the US.

LOL - that should send Nolan Finley right off the deep end! He wrote an OP-ED immediately after the JOA ended bitching about working for Gannett and Al Neuharth in particular. Also probably means they want to buy the other paper to close one down despite the current statements to the contrary.

I was curious what people were going to complain about now that the Wings are playing so well

Opus lives !!!! (????)

Back in the day the family was at 14 and Middlebelt and I would very rarely catch a glimpse of one around a little creek Middlebelt goes over between 12 and 13.

Kind of feel for Schwartz if his two opportunities in the NFL were the Lions and Browns.

Yeah they shoulda gone for two. Stepping back, I guess I’ll vote for the Pats to win. Vrabel was the coach I wanted for Detroit when they hired that lard Patricia and I’m reminded now that I was right.

I read that last year was the first time a sitting POTUS went to a super bowl game?

Same here. You make your own feed with your associates.

I get why they went for it, but can see either way. I think he was dumb not to go for 2 on the last TD. They don’t get it, you still need a touchdown to win, but if they got it, a FG would have tied it.

This Super Bowl is about as bad as it gets.

The TV market is apparently tiny. I find that ironic because the evolution of the hidef 16:9 format and the relatively few in game breaks has made hockey the best TV viewing sport of all.

According to this the NRA was in favor of reforms until 2A Activists pulled a coup in 1977 known as the Cincinnati revolt https://www.wideners.com/blog/history-of-the-nra/ I'm old enough to remember NRA gun education classes when I was young, mostly promoting recreation and hunting.

Gold broke through $5,000 tonight.

Norfolk, Va and environs had a major storm in 1980. I think it was late February that year. Once again a Sunday afternoon storm. The circus was in town at the big arena in Norfolk. The building also hosted minor league hockey, the Virginia Squires when the ABA was a thing and concerts. The storm was bad enough for police not to let people leave for a day or two. Her parents came to Richmond Saturday afternoon (about 2 hours away) and ended up spending 4 days. The station had a four wheel drive by then, International Harvester whose wipers broke with the first serious snow. My wife was putting in 18 hour days covering stories and ferrying employees. She wondered why she was so tired. Turned out she was five months pregnant.

Liberation Day blew over, but the decline in approval rating remained. Same with the occupation of Los Angeles, which was the moment they went started losing approval on immigration. They believe a lot of things. They think a lot of things. But what they believe and, you know, actual reality are not necessarily the same thing.

We had many people on snowmobiles, 4 wheel drive things, whatever could get through, get people to work and back so they could provide groceries and medial care for those who needed it. It was really scary.

As someone who is scared ****less of heights - this is nuts. If you have a Netflix account you can watch it.

Of note on this day in history. I dispute the date by a day, but doesn't matter. Anniversary of the Blizzard of 1978. The link is from 2022 but that's not important. Funny, we are getting our butts kicked right now if you live in Ohio or Michigan. I remember the one in 78. It was wild.

So he wasn't legally carrying and that is how they are going to try and get out of it? ICE didn't know he was illegally carrying when they shot him. Even if they did, that doesn't mean you get to shoot him.

He's not exciting. He's not the It Girl. He's Steady Eddie. He is a lot like Andy Reid, who was not exciting, until he finally found the right QB. Something tells me 42 year old Aaron Rodgers won't be it. But look at PIttsburgh's coaching record since 1969 - Only 3 - and none of them were exciting, but they just coached well. Chuck Noll's the best coach in league history in my opinion. Pittsburgh was a laughing stock like the Browns and Lions when he took over. He turned them into a world class team in 3 years and they have had very high standards since then.

Agree, and to have ditched them early just because they were "avila guys" would have been malpractice.

No one inherited a worse situation than DD did. Those were bleak days as a Tigers fan.

Of course, why is this even being debated? Even Ilitch Jr would shoot him out of a cannon if he suspected that Harris was phoning it in with the Avila holdovers.

It seems like Harris's preference is high school 5-tool guys that take some time to develop... But have the higher upside. With a focus on MUST have a high hit tool to recognize pitches and strikes (command the zone) as a priority... and power to develop as however it may (low or high... hit seems more important than power, but he's not searching for zero power guys either, it seems, at least in the earliest rounds...). That doesn't mean he won't trade for a "professional hitter" type like JHM or draft a Max Anderson... even if they don't have a glove... but those appear to be secondary options not his 1st option. And I'm not going to blame him for trying to get "professional bats" into our system that meet his strike zone criteria. It'll take a while to change the system from Avila's 45-hit 55-power (if they develop properly and can find the ball) approach into Harris's 60-Hit 55-Power (if it develops) 5-tool athlete approach. It least it seems that way to me. So, no more Jung's in the 1st... or Rey Rivera's or Stewart's in the 2nd... would he have drafted Parker? I don't think so, with that weak hit tool... doesn't fit Harris's profile... Same with Izaac Pacheco... hit tool is just too low. I've always wanted a high hit tool first over power... with excellent defense included... Harris fits my draft philosophy to a "T". But I hope he can find some pitching too...

Actually no. Mine is a pretty feisty brew of anti-Trumpism.