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Yeah. Baseball and Basketball maybe guys are willing to lose just to end the season. But football and hockey with the beating those guys take it's an insult. They want to win and if you have guys in those two sports that are okay with losing, then maybe you have the wrong guys. The Bears might not have the same edge, but you know Ben wants to atone for earlier this season (although that beating may have been the thing that galvanized the Bears).

that's creepy man, just creepy ♫ So Let the sun shine in, face it with a grin ♫ Great, now that's stuck in my head

Keep the division illusion alive by having the home/home vs the same teams every year. Every year Bears, Packers, Vikings twice. Everyone else is on a rotation. 18 games (because we all know that's coming) 6 vs. those Regional Rivalries with a home & home (then based on a rotation........) 6 vs. others in your conference 6 vs. the other conference. With these games, you make sure that every year you play a certain number of games West Of The Rockies, so everyone has to do the dreaded West-Coast road trip at least once or twice a year.

Wilma suffered from the whole thing that made people hate Skyler White. She tried to provide common sense and put a stop to Fred's stupidity. The Wet Blanket. But in the end, she was usually right.

I heard an interview that Jim Harbaugh did on 97.1 and as the interview was ending Harbaugh threw out there "that Barney Rubble, what an actor" and nobody got the reference. He probably had Connor Stallions tape the movie while a neighbor was watching it. "Name of the deceased, Something Polish?" comes just after this clip ends. Due to changing morals - some people might find a movie about prostitutes played for comedy in poor taste, but it's actually a pretty PG movie. Ron Howard's second film as a director (the first was Grand Theft Auto, if you can believe it). This was great for Henry Winkler too - because he couldn't get parts because people would only see him as the Fonz and he needed a friend to pull him out of that. So glad he got an Emmy for Barry, he was great in that.

Just rank them by conference. Still have divisions, but the playoff rankings are by conference. Make a rule. Even if you win a division, you don't make the playoffs with a losing record, You go 9-8 and you're in, you go 8-9 and sorry, that's on you, see you next year. Or use the Lions idea. Congratulations Panthers/Buccs, you are the 7th seed, good luck in Seattle.

An 8-9 team going to the playoffs and HOSTING a game. Pure garbage.

That Barney Rubble, what an actor ! (bonus points if you can pull that reference)

absolutely idiotic. it was a bad year. that went right last year went wrong this year. and that is often the case in NFL. The Niners didn't fire Shanahan and I think they may get back to the Super Bowl this coming season and they were 6-11 last year. Campbell can't magically make injuries better and i think Ragnow blindsided them with his timing a bit. His mistake was the OC hire. I know the D was bad at the end, but we were putting 5th string guys out in the backfield and our D-Line was very disappointing. These are all quickly-fixable things.

This game is going to cost them big time. Big time.

The moves (or lack thereof) this offseason makes me believe that the Tigers do not think they are legit contenders - that they might be able to win the Central, but nothing more. If they thought they were legit, they'd go get a couple of big pieces and go for it NOW. But no, they're biding their time and seeing what they can get for Skubal and then aiming for 2028 and beyond. If they trade well, could be much better than they are now. Can't do worse than Avila with the big piece. In the Verlander and Martinez trades combined we got Jake Rogers. Can't do that again. I swear that J.D. Martinez trade was the worst in Tiger history. Jose King, Dawel Lugo and Segrio Alcantara. All the same position, none of them were ever good enough to start an MLB game. Lugo and Sergio only made the team when they were the worst in baseball because they needed actual live bodies.

It's not HIS decision. The Tigers need to see what they have for the long haul now. They need to see if Jung, Lee, Anderson or McGonigle are viable options. The Tigers don't, and shouldn't care one bit about his offers from other teams in future years. That is not their concern. Maybe fewer games at 2b last year prevents the injury that wrecked the end of his season. They are going to look at what they have. If they don't it's incompetence. (Plus they maybe need to showcase a guy or two for possible trades). That's why they are not signing Bichette or Bergman, no matter what rumors are flying around this week. They have to know what they've got. What these guys do at Toledo or Erie doesn't matter anymore.

I feel like he's going to start 33% of his games at DH. At least.

Raymond is playing for Sweden I am guessing Seider for Germany.

So Dylan Larkin is playing for Team USA. You know what that means, right? Here comes the injury, that doesn't end his season, but has him return at less than 100% and here comes the March Dive again. I can feel it. It's all just a little bit of history repeating. That stupid Four Nations thing killed the Wings last year. Just killed them. Our guys did not come back the same after that.

This morning I logged into the music portal for work to see if anything new was released yesterday and I saw that Gwen Stefani has a new song called Rich Girl and I wanted to see, just see, if it was a really bad Hall & Oates remake, so I found the song and listened and it's not. But I do have to tell you this, and it's been the case since 1995 or so. Gwen Stefani is the absolute worst. Musically, I dislike her more than any other artist who has ever existed. No Doubt killed the "Alternative" format. The second they started getting played the quality of the format went down the toilet. I was forced to play that No Doubt crap. Why not just play Madonna? But Madonna's better. Stefani's got that Nails on a Chalkboard voice and just everything is fake. She's so fake and artificial and no wonder she's a big star. Shouldn't have been the first thing I checked on this morning. It was like waking up and vomitting.

But with Stephen Colbert it was a tumor and a botched surgery. With Brian his father hit him with a board (Murry was a real bastard). I don't know what's going on here. I was getting ready to go to sleep, no trauma, just gone. I can hear rustling a little bit when I rub the outside of my ear canal and it's a little stronger every day, but it's not like natural hearing, it's like a contact thing. I am going to go into the shower with a shower cap on over that ear because when water hits that cap it's loud and I want to know if I can hear it on that side. But today I am starting to deal with some nasty Vertigo, so I am a little worried about trying to stand in the tub. Does Vertigo this late mean something is changing? I had a little at the start, but it's profound now. Went to the movies yesterday and looked at the carpet with these swirly patterns and almost fell and almost gerfed too. I just took the 4th steroid dose this morning, they gave me a ten-day run which ends the morning of my follow up apt next Thursday. Maybe I'm just being impatient. Maybe they specified 10 days of steroids for a reason. My ear does feel blocked in a weird way. Like something wants to go POP. And I hear these tones all the time, but that's my brain searching for a signal. For someone who is 61 and has used headphones in my job for years and years, my hearing was really good. I could be in a crowded restaurant and the people I was with couldn't hear the overhead music over the people talking and I could tell you the actual song that was playing. I would do that all the time and people would say "I don't hear any music at all" and I'm like "that's McFadden & Whitehead, Ain't No Stoppin Us Now".

There's the little cheating on things that most of do in one way or another and then there is the blatant need to steal or ruin someone's website by infecting it or infecting a computer to lock it and demand a ransom. People like that - there's no use in the world for them, in my opinion. Of course many of those people run things now, so why would they ever stop? Cheaters prosper all the time. If only they didn't. If only we really punished people for it. I saw some documentary on You Tube about phone scammers in India. Many of them get suckered into thinking it's a sales job and then when they start they realize that no, they are scamming people and the folks that hired them had them sign these ridiculous contracts that basically allow their employers to take everything from them if they quit the job or don't meet certain demands, so they just do it. LIke trying to create sympathy for the guy that calls himself "Dave" on the that got roped into it. Sorry, no sympathy from me. They get away with it because the scammer overlords pay off cops and judges. That's why they never get shut down. Burn them all down. All of them. Sorry you got lied to as a working person, but you're trying to steal from my mom and you should suffer for it.

Yep, and one of the reasons Brian shut down in the 70s was the move to stereo. He couldn't deal with it.

Because he probably had someone stealing the defense's signals

SPOILERS There is one big gripe I have about the finale. So this other world is descending upon ours and time is running out and people are having conversations and just standing there. We can't walk and talk?

SPOILERS I enjoyed it too, and I guessed a few things where I was close. Like there would be a lot after the fight ended. I was wrong about Henry being redeemed, but it was close Wrong about Hop dying. Kali did not betray anyone I thought someone from the party would certain die to hit the audience harder, and I don't count Kali No timeline reset, but they did play a game of D&D in the basement I was right about Dustin going to M.I.T. I was right about them flashing forward to the Graduation. And I predicted will would write the stories but it wound up being Mike and I like the fact that Karen Wheeler refuses to cover up her scars. And I'm glad Ted's alright. Hope he gets his bacon every morning. Good ol Ted. I don't think EL is dead, we did not see her get blown away with the upside down, Her image vanished before that and here's another reason why. You talked about Hop being okay with it. Hop knows she's alive, but he has no idea where because he realizes they can't ever know to keep her safe, but he told Mike before the Graduation and that's why Mike was calmer in the last scene in the basement. As far as no jail time for killing soldiers, because they have to keep it quiet. Keep in mind that there are other Stranger Things stories coming, but nothing to do with this story, but Dr. Kay could be behind something else. They probably made some deal with the govt to stay quiet about the hundreds of deaths they caused - if everyone got left alone. I am worried Nancy going to turn into a killing vigilante. She did not seem right in the end. I think it took so long for this to come out because they really did wait about 18 months to film the last sequence. Those kids looked quite a bit older. Especially Lucas, who looks 30 (he's only 24). I am a little disappointed because when they were showing the graphic novel version of the characters they showed a lot of characters from previous seasons, dead and alive, but no Argylle. Unless it was super fast and I missed it. Someone oughta get schmacked for that. I liked the finale. Fun little show Best Line Joyce "You ****ed with the wrong family" 2nd Best Delightful Derek to Henry "suck my big fat one" And I expect Purple Rain to re-enter the Billboard Hot 100 next week. I should do a whole segment on the air next week with songs from the finale. I can do that without spoiling it. END SPOILERS

Had an MRI on my head. Ain't nothing in there. No clots, no tumors. Funny that they asked what kind of music I wanted on the headphones and I picked Bossa Nova (neither tech ever heard of it) because it chills me out the most and I can still hear in the right ear. About 20 minutes into the scan a song came on and the rhythm of the machine and the song were in PERFECT UNISON and I started to laugh and they must have a camera on my face because they thought I was having a panic attack, but I told them it was just laughing. I thought I'd have to start over. I am a bit claustrophobic, but that wasn't the problem, it was so painful on my neck in that position. So - No perforations in the ear canal or ear drum In fact, the doc says my eardrum looks great, perfect color, no swelling. No blockages, almost NO earwax, there was actually more on the right side, the good ear, and the sucked it out (and it kinda hurt). So the theory is - at this point - that I have a virus that is causing major inflammation right on the nerve, behind the eardrum. That's not likely to show up on an MRI. So they've given me a high dose oral steroid, I took the first dose Tuesday afternoon and the last two mornings. Tuesday, rubbing my finger around the ear, I could not hear a thing. Yesterday, the finger test - I could faintly hear something deep in my head if I blocked the right ear, Today I can hear slight rustling in the left ear when I rub my ear without blocking my right ear. So maybe this is actually getting better. I think I'll know if this is the answer by Saturday. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to go see Stranger Things in a theatre today because it's VERY loud, but I got Vertigo about 4 times at the AMC Livonia. The carpet has these swirly patterns and when I looked down I got Vertigo. Then I went to look at the menu, but I tried to read it using reading glasses which made me really really dizzy. Driving was fine, however. I am hoping to be able to hear actual sound by Saturday. This is so scary. Music is like the absolutely #1 joy in my life and I miss hearing it the way I am supposed to. Regarding the steroids, I am waking up in the morning with absolutely NO PAIN. That's kind of nice.

People who use the internet to scam and steal should have their damn hands cut off. Discussing with our radio station engineer and IT guy that fact that pretty much EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE is infected with viruses, and most of the time the actual host of the website has nothing to do with it and no knowlege. So by going to any and I mean ANY music-oriented website, or You Tube or anything is now risky and our company might start actually blocking sites that we need to use for research every single day. They don't want to do this, but it's gotten so bad that they are considering it. I just really hate dishonest people. Just go earn a living not ****ing someone over, please. It can be done.

Is he the new Homer? What happened to Marco Kasper. It's kind of an alarming drop off. Looked so promising last year. The Wings are having a nice season but they are extremely top-heavy. Larkin, DeBrincat, Raymond, Seider, then a big cliff. They're in first, but still only 7 points from missing the playoffs. Better keep those guys healthy.