1984Echoes

Depends on if other teams are looking at these guys as franchise players or as a not-very-strong class. If no one seems to be a franchise guy, some teams will prefer more assets/ chances rather than just one. Just guessing though...

Close... I'm an extremely blunt, honest-to-a-fault, wildly emotional, backend boomer... Wait! Is that the same thing? Anyways, yeah... thanks for the positive comments!

One last question/ issue: Can we trade up/ afford to trade up?

I was thinking more along the lines of explanation with the possibility of opening up doors/ mind... Probably no chance of that but.. just thought I would give it a try...

The flipside is that if DraftNet is correct, then Jabari-Ivey are going 1-2 in the draft and, if we're at #3 or lower, then what does the rest of the Pistons' draft board look like? I'm just about on board with Ivey as the #2 guy. But again, Smith goes 1 and Ivey goes 2 and we're at a lower draft spot... now what? No matter what spot we're in, aside from getting #1... we've gotta be thinking on a Plan B IMO...

Let me put this a different way: I voted for Bush in 2004. After voting for Gore in 2000. Knowing that Bush was full of it with Iraq's "WMD's" and that he and his leadership team (specifically Cheney & Rumsfeld) were making total hash of Iraq on-the-ground (Sunni & Shia were in full civil war at the time...) and also that it was asinine to even be in Iraq if we were serious about going after Bin Laden and dismantling his terrorist network. So Archie, why would I have voted for Bush in 2004?

He's finding out the answer to that really quickly. Like in the past two weeks.

Trump is scum. Pure scum. Outside of Trump, my political views are closely aligned with Teddy Roosevelt Republicanism, FDR Democrat, Abraham Lincoln Republican (preservation of the Union, anti-slavery), Reagan military alignment, Fed Reserve conservatism (1st priority control inflation, 2nd priority facilitate maximum employment), collective security (NATO) and globalist economy (TPP, NAFTA, lower trade barriers, and conversely "trade" or "tariff" wars are asinine), Democratic centrist, invest in domestic infrastructure and future leading industries to the benefit of American Economic leadership in the world, atheist or strict separation of church & state, fiercely Independent... There's not a whole lot of partisan hackery in there. More closely aligned with "make the best decision for the American people/ future" than anything else. But if you want to try to find some partisan hackery in there... go for it.

That's because you wear glasses that only allow you to see one thing. And one thing only. You are blinded. Completely. To partisan hackery. Completely unable to honestly see anything except what you want to see... which is a very dishonest way of living/ discussing anything.

Who then tries to overthrow the Constitution of the United States. Our Democracy. And whose supporters still love him anyways. Maybe even because (all) of the above...

I just want the guy who makes the best decisions for this country. Not for a White Trash Bigoted/Fascist base only.

With all this multiverse stuff going on... Which Universe do you live in Archie Bunker? Because it isn't this one. Are you visiting us from MAGA Universe? Dementia Universe? Live-in-my-Mom's-Basement Universe? Partisan-Hackery-Supreme Universe? Fog-of-my-own-Farts Universe? (Last one was Jim Cowen's suggestion...). I need to know because I want to avoid your universe. There is definitely something wrong, very very wrong, with your universe. I can't quite put my finger on it...

pretty much...

I would love to have the ability to do that myself (I think we all would...) But, no... I'm in the small-denomination contribution group...

I put a chunk of money (and have kept doing it over the past 2+ months) into different oil stocks and ETF's this year... doing really well there along with other commodity stocks/ ETF's I have...

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis (born in Ukraine) are sending (have $16 mill right now) a proposed $30 mill in donations to Ukraine; although I believe they are contributing $3 mill out of that total... That's a BIG chunk of money from Leo himself. Damn! Good job!

Yeah... BIG surprise there... for everyone! Putin. NATO. EU. Germany. Ukraine. USA. No one expected Scholz to react this way... with Thor's Hammer! And he did.

The impact of that will be negligible in America. It's Europe that would get pounded by banning Russian oil/ gas. Which is why they can't do it yet. Probably not before the end of this year. Which means the U.S. banning Russian oil will have... minimal effect.

You mean since Nixon's stagflation, right?

I think they have. I thought I saw that 2022 YTD (year-to-date) was close to 0% already, or just above that. Last year 10% of our imported oil was Russian.

My 2 cents on the Blueliners would be: Seider-Staal (Staal can stay at home on D whilst Seider carries the play. But really, we need a better player for 1st pairing with Seider. I'm ready to dump Oesterle, drop Staal to 3rd or 4th pairing, and give Sebrango/ or McIsaac a shot at pairing up. Let's see what they can or cannot do (basically, let's get ready for 2022-23). Or maybe it's Juolevi here... but, I start him out with kid gloves before considering anything more). Hronek-Leddy (offense only tandem but... why not?) Lindstrom-Juolevi (I just wanna see what he's got...) Stecher-Oesterle

Oil production in the U.S. is, slowly, beginning to increase: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/110-Oil-Prompts-Private-Shale-Firms-To-Open-The-Taps.html

Holy Crap TWO!!!

Holy Crap!

That, and Ukrainian forces kicking their ass all over the place...