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TBH, most of the party (who may not admit it in public) is not going to mourn the passing of the old guard that had hung around well past its sell date.

anything is possible, though I seem to remember the Afghan Taliban claiming they had turned over a new leaf and that didn't get very far. Still, it certainly is possible that the abject defeat of many recent incarnations of Qaeda/ISIS/ISIL etc., have taken some of the steam out of the Islamic fundamentalist eschatologists and Khaliff-dar-al-Islam wannabes - at least for this generation who have now lived through the failures of those grander ambitions.

Our side was no better. What was it Barry said? Something like - act like you've won before.

you can hide one if you get to it quickly enough. Something less than an hour I think.

It too bad there aren't enough adults running these programs that this even has to be considered anywhere.

My absolute hero as a little squirt.

Syria may be done with Iran though. Alewites are going to be thoroughly disenfranchised (if not disembodied) and whether the new regime is radical or not it almost certainly is going to be Sunni.

right - it's actually the touch on the block (touch behind the line of scrimmage) that is the different rule in that is does not make it a free ball. Had never really thought about the fact that that's a bit of a unique case.

I guess the complaint by Cowboys fans that it was a bad play was that since the ball wasn't going to go very far, just take it where it's downed. Of course if he had held it and taken it for a TD, he'd be a hero.

IDK, the revenue is actually there in NYC and LA. Yankees and Dodgers have incomes well over $500-600M/yr. The sport's popularity may be waning nationally, but it still generates huge income in its best markets.

baseball being baseball, you could put the bottom team from a division in the playoff and it would still win a WS occasionally - outcomes of individual baseball games and short series are just far more random than the talent level inputs. That said, no doubt the probability of getting to the playoffs tracks salary level - that's already true, it's only the large number of teams eligible that insure some less rich team or two gets a shot at the big spenders each year the way the Tigers did. But I think you are right that the rich teams will be pushing for longer series to reduce the odds of bad bounces negating the value of their spending.

I don't even know this rule. So if no Cowboy had touched it across scrimmage, then it's just Cowboy's ball where ever it stops or is downed by Cinci?

interesting take.

or the teams negotiate NIL deals that only pay if the athlete stays or require claw backs if he leaves. I would think this must already be happening.

there is another way to look at it though. The rich franchises pay these crazy salaries that never return their value in wins, and that soaks up the revenue differential and in a backward kind of way that's an equalizing force. It's just a weird setup. In the main, your billionaires don't buy teams to make money from them, so the guys lucky enough to own the NY and LA teams are going to end up with a ton more income, and it has to go somewhere if the owner doesn't care about taking it out of the team in profit. Now in a perfect world, those LA and NY owners might realize that spreading the income around more would lead to a better league, but they are too competitive for sharing money with other owners to appeal to them. So you have a lot of money with basically no-where to go but silly salary levels for lucky athletes. Dumb set-up, but here we are.

Israel takes the opportunity of a military organization vacuum in Syria to destroy every military asset it can find on the ground in Syria - navy ships, chem weapons, military aircraft, missile, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-strikes-syria.html

right - as the PG, but then I translate the rest as "long players to go with him and that's not Ivey." But to me then it follows not Beasley either.

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Are you saying Beasley is 'longer' than Ivey? or do you just mean a long term solution that doesn't include either?

I don't think the Devil is worried about having to sharpen his skates on that one.... 🥶

I'd put it this way if I were the Tigers: as of this moment he's slated for Toledo, but he has a wide open opportunity to change that in ST.

definitely more to this than ever.

Still, the fact that the league located a team in a black hole doesn't negate the fact that the Ray's Front Office plays the hand they have been dealt as well as anyone. But the Franco situation is such a killer for the Rays if he is toast - hard to imagine a bigger blow a team could suffer organization wise than losing a young, controlled all-star caliber SS for nothing.

Freedom(dumb?), baby!

Trump word salad. We should all be used to it by now. But hey, if he can be leveraged into supporting some kind of better direct election system, I'll go for it!