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the draft is a crapshoot when it comes to individual players. It's like analyzing blackjack strategy on one particular hand. It's not about the individual in any one year. It's the overall body of work. I'm not saying this to defend anyone in particular. Just that you can't draw a conclusion on someone's success because of one player.

and following up on this more.... the US government also needs Musk b/c he and his companies are contractors... but does Trump care?

What does Trump need from Elon? Nothing. He needed his money and whatever else to win the election. He can't run again. He doesn't care if Repbulicans win so he doesn't care of Musk supports them. Elon needs the US Government because he's a major contractor in defense and space and all of that. There's also Tesla to consider. But to what degree does Trump help with that? I don't know the answer.

Too many dems think it's 1993.

I traced Obama's rise to the actress Jeri Ryan. She was married to a guy who was going to run against him in Illinois for Senate. But there was some kind of scandal where they got divorced because she said he wanted her to go to some sex club in Paris, so he dropped out. Bush's rise could be traced to Bud Selig. After Fay Vincent was fired some wanted him to become commissioner. He was also being wooed to run for Governor. It was Bud who was pushing him for Commish but when George asked Vincent (who was a Bush family friend b/c he was a roommate of their uncle) he was told that if Bud was leading it, it was some kind of trap, he wanted the job for himself. So he ran for Governor instead.

yeah they were bad here two years ago. To the point where you shouldn't even be outside. You could smell it. Yesterday it was evident beyond the overcast. It wasn't cloud cover but smoke. They said the air alert would expire at noon but still in the high yellow/orange metric... meaning sensitive people may have issues.

People use "literally" instead of "figuratively" all the time. It bugs me. And they often misuse "Virtually" too.

It all goes back to that bastard creator of The Apprentice. Until then Trump was a washed up guy from the 80's and early 90's that people forgot about. If there wasn't a Hollywood strike that necessitated the creation of more reality TV then he never regains his prominence. No calling into MSNBC and Fox to bitch about Obama. Nobody would have cared what he thought any more than we did David Hasselhoff. That gave him fake legitimacy to low information voters and he geniously tapped into something. I saw a clip with Scaramucci. Trump told him that as a Wall St. Democrat he had it backwards. They were conservative on economic issues but liberal on social issues. The trick is finding middle america where they are more liberal on economic issues (even if they don't call it that) but conservative on social issues. The key was on those economic issues you have to frame it a different way because those people hate liberals but are not educated enough to realize what their economics do for them.

Hopefully they got things out of their system because the Cubs are good. This will be a huge test. People still think its smoke and mirrors with the Tigers despite their record over the last 100+ games.

Did anyone really think he wasn’t in the files?

Reinsdorf beginning the process to sell the Sox to Ishiba. Going to take a piece by piece approach.

I've had some thoughts on that... I mean if you followed wrestling in the 80's like I did Paul Orndorff went back and forth a few times.

Bandstand wouldn't let performers go live. I won't go into background why I have this on my list but the comments on here are hilarious. This

Looks like it didn't work. Space is hard.

don't the producers of the TV show demand it in some cases? So they don't go off script? It doesn't bother me if they are doing a bunch of other stuff that's part of the presentation. Like if P!nk is flying around on a harness and dancing and all of that, then having backup help so that she can catch her breath.... that's fine. The extra things she does is part of performance art.

ispace inc is about to land a spacecraft on the moon... set for 3:17 pm. You can watch.

My favorite Reagan quote isn't "Tear down this wall". It's "these are the boys of Pointe Du Hoc" during his D Day Anniversary speech in 1984. It makes me teary thinking about it.

The only time I remember to go on to bluesky is to interact with someone who isn't on twitter anymore 🙂 Nothing against it but I have yet to make it a routine. After 2 minutes of scrolling i'm like 8 hours backwards so I figure I've seen it all.

I regret not going to see Rush around 2012 or something like that. Biff texted me that they had tickets on Stubhub for like $20. I was "busy" with something very unimportant now but obviously at the time a big deal. Stupid Palace. If it were in Detroit I would have went but I didnt want to add to the headache of a 45 minute drive there plus the god awful experience of trying to leave that building after a well attended event. One regret for a concert I have is INXS. Saw them in the mid 90's. My mother in law had a connection to Bill Davidson somehow and we'd sometimes get access to their suite for shows and games. We got it for INXS. Trouble is I got drunk before we even left. There was a family party with all the distant cousins going on. Beer doesn't get me drunk, vodka does. I barely remember the show. Not saying they were my favorite or anything but heck...

And there’s no reason to collude. This isn’t a mutual benefit. If some team wants that garbage and PR headache… so be it. It doesn’t affect the other teams. It’s not like he’s Ohtani or Skubal or Skenes.

Ultimately any grievance he has is for him to sort out. This isn't a public interest issue. It's not a government entity falsy accusing or holding him to a standard he may not deserve so it's not really our business. It's not about "justice". Is it a crime if an organization says "We don't want that baggage?" It's a risk they are taking in not making their team better and they weight that against public sentiment. Teams decided it's not worth it. That's how life works. He could sue them. He hasn't.

If he's a victim... why doesn't he try to sue MLB?

that community in particular is one that looks to leadership for guidance. What is being said by others may be true "in general" but in her particular case it's important to note the differences. THe lack of endorsements by her, and teh mayors of Hamtramck, Dearborn, and Dearborn Hts, played a big part in flipping MI. It's a very tribal community.