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they get in the habit of just continually falling back on D instead of pressuring the puck. You can watch 5 minutes of Wings game and see exactly how it's going to go by whether they are pressuring the puck aggressively on defense.

Ha! Didn't someone once say something about eye's of needles or something? 😉

being torched in France is the least of Telsa's problems given the torching it's getting on Wall Street. Pretty much all of the "how good is it for Telsa for Musk to be Trump's boy" post election run up has been wiped out as of today.

why does Trump think Ukraine needs the US to sell it's minerals? The quid pro quo was going the other way, the minerals deal was Ukraine's piece in return for US support. No support, no need for Ukraine to make a minerals deal.

On rereading - the sentence was poorly constructed - I was trying to get to the level of uncertainty about everything in the US 3 yrs out vs the long lead times to do something like plan an Olympics somewhere else if the rest of the world wanted to make the statement.

Undoubtedly. If you grew up in Georgia when Cobb did, the ordinary everyday language that *everyone* used would sound outrageous today. Even in Michigan in the 50's the everyday language was harshly racist, the 'N' word as as common as dirt anywhere you went. Not all those people were racist in any active sense, they were just reflecting the milieu in which they existed. It's an ethical fallacy to charge people of the past for simply living in the culture they found themselves in. To me, if you victimized people - like Jefferson did, then those acts can always be judged by their particular cruelty, or inhumanity.

so is there a penalty in the NBA for flopping? I think it was William who did an oscar worthy performance to draw an offensive foul against Cade. Would that have been reviewable if the Pistons had asked?

I don't think Guantanamo is big enough for all the end-a-sentence-with-a-preposition violators though. Would have to find another place to send them to.

this would be perfect if the games were going to be during his term, but who knows where we are in '28?

and even the second one is optional.

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Today Jobe looking like the guy everyone has been talking about.

this sounds painfully familiar but I'm only up to about 6 months and it does seem to be improving but ridiculously slowly. It's not lumbar sciatica here either, the back is fine. As you suspect in your case - I think I compressed or over stretched it on a long ride late last summer.

'Appears'? Methinks Lisa needs a trip to the Optometrist

The Hall of Fame is based on whatever the voters decide it's based on. That's sort of what makes it interesting. If we think having people use their judgement to decide is problematic, formulate any kind of hard criteria you like and I guarantee you'd have just as many arguments that guys that did or didn't cross the bar were or weren't better choices than other guys that did or didn't. The choices could be made less ambiguous, but I doubt they would be any less controversial.

agains, it betrays how little these guys actually know once outside their particular domain. If the government buys a truck, that's just as real a piece of production as if i bought it. And if the government pays a Post office employee, the service is just as real as if that service was provided by a UPS employee paid privately. IOW, Elon doesn't know jack about what he's talking about. But of course, we knew that. I did have the advantage of having Elon's ignorance demonstrated to me a while ago as some of our kids got a hyperloop project proposal funded. Everyone at the Eng School laughed at the whole idea, but we took his money anyway. 😂

pretty much. I've had the sound off most of the 1st.

wings need to pick it up - CBJ been carrying the play for too much time. also - surface seems slow.

I'm waiting to see if the appearance of machines that can emulate real pitchers (trajekt etc) begin to do anything close for for hitters what Rhapsodo etc has done for pitchers. I've often wondered if one of the reasons (beside better pitching overall) that modern hitters don't manage the BA and OBP of prior eras is the degree to which it's harder to face pitchers with whom you are not familiar. In Kaline's day, you played 162 games against the same 8 teams - in a year or two you'd seen every pitcher dozens of times, today you maybe see a guy twice in a season. That had to be a big advantage - well you would think anyway. So maybe the pitching robots answer the question on that: If you can take 50 AB against everything a particular pitcher throws before you have to face him live, is he going to be easier to hit or not in the real world?

Got some chase and lazy flies on the high fastball, probably left too many sliders in the middle of the plate for next month. Will need to keep the breaking balls down a bit more. But a good outing for now.

The other aspect with Torkelson is that his senior year was also pretty much a development loss because nobody would pitch to him. So he actually has had two semi-non useful years out of his career.

All we need is for the Gardener to have been charged with the double homicide by the over zealous sheriff and you'd have a Quincy episode.

exactly. They had almost a Bobsey twin PR thing going with Greene and Torkelson, but Greene was a more advanced hitter. Torkelson was never given the time/forced to improve his contact skill to a sustainable level before he was called up. Sort of points to how you can't just grade MiLB players by their productions stats. Just because Tork could hit the long ball and pump up his OPS didn't mean was as ready as Greene.

Say hello to Wenceel Perez, Tiger centerfielder.