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Without looking there had to be a couple of seasons when they were bad that the line-up turned over 65% in one off-season. OTOH- I imagine for a winning team the % drops to the lower end.

This. It's been really nice to be able to see the third pair come out and not have to immediately expect disaster. 😱

One of the funny things in this one, several times early in the game an Oiler tried to run a Wing hard in the corner of the Wings defensive zone and the Wing sidestepped him. I think I saw at least 3 times - I think once it was McDavid who ended up in a heap. Had to just add to the Oilers' frustration on the day.

Hinch made the observation in the end of season presser that you can't thinking about what you are trying to do once you are in the box, but I think that is where a lot of the team ended up - for some reason they started getting tentative, and that is just death because then you are always behind or in between. IDK - maybe when they are in that kind of funk just drop all the pregame planning for a while to switch it up and clear their minds? Or something else. But the thing that stood out to me is that we didn't hear word one about them having tried anything - so either they treat all that stuff as top secret (certainly possible, maybe likely as Hinch seems to like keeping his assistants totally underground, but why?) or they weren't doing much as a staff to change the mood. Even in the bad old days with Legendary Lloyd we would hear about Lloyd and various players working on this or that to try and help them break out of a funk.

OSU only beat UW by one more point than UM did!

Why do these people hate dogs? Noem, the border patrol, the Hortman killer. Is it because dogs are honest, loyal and most of all, can tell a creep a mile away?

Haven't the Mets actually spent more money with less to show for it? The Dodgers are both good at what they do and rich. But I think the one possibly positive outcome if they sweep right through to a WS win, is that the other big market teams are frustrated enough to throw in with the rest of the peons to force some marginal reform, but you probably have to have something happens that splits the interests of the big market team (like the Dodgers running away from the rest of them) because as a group they have enough votes to veto (I think it takes 75% for the owners to change things?) reforms put forward from the rest of the league.

they just need to pull off the win against OSU so Indiana can end up the only undefeated team in the conference.

Losing.

Don't tell George!

I don't think guys care much about that anymore. They live in their own world no matter what city they are in, and especially the guys that sign the 9 figure deals have so much money they can live where they want, keep multiple top end homes, send their kids to school where they want, basically insulate themselves as much or as little as they want from anything about the locale they don't love.

IDK, it's SOP for agents to initially try to get teams bidding against themselves. They all do it, or try to do it, so I wouldn't put much into anything that comes out publicly one way or another because it's all bargaining strategy at this point.

The deep coverage was terrible all day. Even the pick at the end was pure luck - Oden had fallen down and was out of the play when the ball fell in his gut. Underwood is real deal though. being to scramble around that much and not make bad throws/ints is impressive.

3 RS freshman lineman?

LOL - I've checked in for exactly two plays in this game. The first was the missed 4th and 1, the 2nd was the missed kick. I guess I'll let it go to DVR.

Unfortunately, the root of a lot of our problems is that election day just another Tuesday for most Americans.

Yeah - he said in the on ice interview that he was afraid someone was going to catch him from behind, but the Tampa guys had wasted so much of their own gas skating in circles they were done in too.

LOL - Let be clear here. We all know perfectly well that if he could have found a way to stop it he would have. There is an ocean of difference between something that happens 'because' of and something that happens 'in spite of'.

They sure seem to be trying to portray themselves as a 'White Knight' protecting the conference from falling into less beneficent hands.

Yup. "He that rolleth a stone" and all that. Still, it's a political persecution for something that there should probably be a shorter statue of limitations on anyway.

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I believe their motto is "Fake News You Can Trust" Epimenides would be proud.

You have that nice breeze in Chicago that blows it all to Benton Harbor. 😉

BTW, English is such a mutt of a language. We use the Latin root word 'deo' (god) for a lot our words about god/religion - so for instance 'diety' and 'diesm', and the inverse of "diesm" from that root would be more like 'adiesm' (which might still refer to non-believers in Chicago), but for who knows why English appears to revert all way back to the Greek root 'theos' when forming the word 'atheism' or 'theocratic' Go figure.

actually, religious people often fail to understand that if you don't believe in an afterlife where justice is enforced, you may feel more strongly motivated to make sure justice prevails in this life, and that can make an atheist a more socially useful soul than the one who shrugs off evils and takes no responsibility for improving their society/world because of "whatever happens is God's Will" fatalism.