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So Ilitch re-upped the Wings but not the Tigers. Gonna be a long lonely summer for the FanDuel channel with no baseball....

Certainly novel, but hard to prove since the counter arg is that reducing population increases per capita wealth for the remainder, which undercuts any argument to the detrimental side.

And that he’s gone in a week? 🤬 at least that offers some hope the general level of play may have some upside.

The UM regents, in a moment of sanity have struck a blow against virtue signaling and have adopted an institutional neutrality bylaw. Students and staff should get a reprieve from inboxes full pronouncements from their Deans , managers and administrators about every issue of day that have nothing to do with their mission.

Kid better perform or we are going to look dumb!

The best government corporations can buy!!

I'm not questioning that they have a couple very good players now in Raymond & Larkin. They don't have enough dominant ones and that's what I was referring to wrt the players in the pipeline. Kasper should be good, will he be dominant? Sure Seider is a dominant player, but he is .....one guy (and even there I'm not sure Lalonde knows how to use him). Larkin is an occasionally dominant player and it would be nice if he started channeling it because as you have noted, he isn't right now. If you are only working with 'good' players, you need almost every one to be good, and I don't see yet that either.

what I find frustrating is that they seem to be stuck in purgatory. They aren't bad enough to get high picks, but basically haven't improved much in the last three years either. There are some nice pieces working their way through the system but none of them strike me as likely all-stars. I suppose Cossa is the one guy that at least in theory has an outside shot at becoming a beast and so we turn into what the Sabres were with Hasek, a bad team that can win more than it should. Obviously the NHL isn't the MLB, but the Wings haven't been able to build much roster value by rehabbing guys or trade turnarounds like the Tigers have. Hronek for the picks will yet pan out we hope. Maybe they'll shake off a poor start and be better, but soon would be nice.

Just to play Devils advocate for a minute - The counter point to going after Bregman is that you have a 3 WAR player in Vierling who may not have a place to play if Carpenter, Meadows and Greene stay healthy or Wenceel improves a little more or AHM locks down DH. Now granted, Vierling's D in the OF is plus while his play at 3rd is maybe average at best, but even given that, how much are you willing to commit for an upgrade that may be not be that big (WAR wise, Bregman was 4.1 last season, Vierling 2.9) if it turns out he's replacing Vierling instead of Jung?

It seem to me the other question is how desperate would Taiwan be? How much revenge will they extract in a lost cause? There have to be 400 million Chinese living cheek by jowl along the Pacific coast, does the PLA have the air defenses to keep Taiwan from killing literally hundreds of thousands of mainlanders before they go down? People tend to talk about wars in much neater terms than they actually happen.

Detroit vote is going to sink Trump in MI. He's committed political malpractice here. This isn't 1980, there is energy in the city today and a reflection of that is that they are going to vote.

It's like a self reinforcing downward spiral. Maybe because of low confidence in the goaltending, Lalonde wants them to play 'simple' north-south, but you don't beat anyone decent doing that. One play that stuck in my mind from Monday was Wing Dman (Gustafson I think) was at the left board and the Ranger was closing on him, Larkin was to right, open but maybe 10 feet deeper in the Dzone. Our man just shoveled the puck up the boards into a change of possession. It's the Wings play in a nutshell, work hard to get the puck, play without vision or creativity and give it right back.

Ned may not have been meeting their expectations when they cut him loose but in point of fact they haven't done any better for it. And BTW - Rasmusson still falls down more than an NHL skater should. 💭

I think ironically, if they had intended to play both clips, and Harris had gone the path going after the way he shades and trims and double backs on what he says, it may all have worked and been true, but I think in the end less effective than leaving the field open for Harris to able run with putting the worst spin on the enemies comment (since everyone know he had said something like that) and have it look like Fox was just being dishonest in their clip selection.

LOL - if it hadn't run the way he intended he would have known and could have called for the right clip at the time. The one saving grace with dishonest people is that they do start believing their own narratives and end up overplaying their hand, which is what I believe happened here. They were hoping to ambush Harris with a clip that showed Trump being reasonable and instead she stood her ground, called them out, and just wasn't having it. Probably not the response they believed they would get.

sounds wonderful, guess I'm glad I can't watch this one. But from what I've seen so far the team has taken a big step back. They aren't doing anything well.

Fair point. Though there can be some cognitive dissonance going on as well - say he knows what the numbers really were but never accepts that the 'numbers' are honest ones. I think it's no doubt is true that Trump is a much more complex character than most of us usually give him credit for simply because he presents to obviously as a caricature, but that said, that doesn't mean he is any less pathological!

well of course, after the fact. I guess I'm missing the connection to the "something's wrong" with Trump post in the present tense. Though just to play devil's advocate, if the guns are mostly in his supporters hands - a la Saddam Hussien's Iraq.....

China's idee fixe is Taiwan. Once they are there, there won't be a whole lot the US and our allies will be able to do about it. This one is 100% about deterrence - making Taiwan such a porcupine that China will never see a point where the ledger adds up on the positive side for the attempt. But this means making big investments up front to meet a threat which will be seen as purely speculative. So in the end the problem for Taiwan is less about technology and relative military advantage between the US and China, than about their own and US politics being up to those investments.

But did he make it part of his platform in '32? In the US that's the kind of move one could only make once firmly in power. If Trump proposed any serious kind of gun ban now, Harris would approach a minimum of 350 EVs.

As this week runs toward it's close, with Bret Baier admitting that Harris "may have gotten" what *she* wanted from her Fox interview, Trump cancelling half his events and crapping the bed in the ones he did make it to, and Stormy Daniel's name resurfacing to capture a news cycle or two, if the polls don't show some movement, then one of two things must be true: Either it's no longer possible to poll a US election accurately, or political campaigns have become ineffective exercises in futility. And of course as always - maybe both.

That is one possible read, but I tend toward an alternate view. Trump is stuck in 1980 - either because of age or vascular driven neurologicala deficit leading to loss of frontal lobe integration or just because of his basic narcissistic inward view, his view of reality is fixed/regressed back to his golden boy swinging NYC idol days circa 40 yrs ago. He understands everything that was true then to be what is true now, so in his political calculation he can't lose the election because he is playing to the overwhelming majority of what that America was. His majority can't be outvoted unless people are cheating. His advisors don't know what they are talking about with their constant carping on him to go here and do this. He certainly cares if he wins because even through his thick skull it has penetrated that if he loses he's going to jail.

Not to mention that each one of those non-sequitor responses likely evaporated a quantity of kW equivalent to a mature oak tree.

I expect a lunch with Hinch to precede his signing somewhere other than Det.

The way he starts out an event with some kind of mental cohesion and then sort of deconstructs before one's eyes a few minutes later is getting pretty striking.