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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.

Tampa was getting too cute for their own good. It figured they were due for a mistake after all that dancing around and say what you want about whether Larkin is a top or only a midline star, there are some things he does as well as anyone, and 3 on 3 is one of them.

Yup. Sometime you need to be able to recognize when a guy is on his game and maybe pitch around him, even if it costs you one run.

A friend was a senior test engineer at Hydramatic for 20 yrs. One of the guys that would take cars to the Baja enduro rallies and beat them to bits. He had similar stories. They'd be denied approval for a $0.15 increase for better gasketing to reduce internal flow losses in a tranny. Just idiotic stuff when you consider the cost of warranty repairs. But "that's on someone else's budget!" The stupid, short sighted, put yourself out of business down the road decisions I saw made by refinery managements are just as legion. The corporate system doesn't work in the US anymore. Pick whatever theory you like for why, but it's broken in all of them.

and the thing, as I learned after the T sensor on my Chevy drifted, is that the engine computer makes a bunch of decisions based on what it thinks the temp is so you pretty much need it to be right. Back in the day if you had a bad sensor but you knew nothing was wrong, no real biggie. No such luck today. Seem to be a lot of things in today's engineering world where there is race on between increasing reliability of individual components vs decreasing fault tolerance of an increasingly complex system. We went through a long period with cars where net reliability kept getting better (solid state ignition, better instrumentation, cleaner fuels, better machining tolerances, more corrosion resistant materials, higher performance lubes) but we seem to be in danger of them going over the cliff with so many added bells and whistles that those gains could be lost.

that works too.

why is the 'all' outside the quote?