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great summary. You can't over emphasize that they just have better players being better deployed. Edvinsson and Johansson are just better hockey players now than Petry, Holl or Gustafsson, and splitting Edvinsson and Seider gives a them a D man with more of a 200 foot game on the ice for 45+ min a night. And with McLellan letting them play a 200 ft game, that's a big difference. I'm loving watching Edvinsson. He just erases puck carriers on a rush - it's something the Wings have been missing so much for so long. the other honorable mention is that Raymond is turning into a star. He was doing well under Lalonde but his creativity has taken another step up under McLellan.

The Paredes back to Detroit idea is interesting.

of course even if he exempts oil from the tariffs, the Canadians may put a retaliatory export tax on it so the midwest has at least two scenarios to get screwed.

Jung is 24 now, he needs to be close to well done at this point!

Yeah - that has just moved from animation to live action - How many kids do you suppose have seen a John Wick before they are out of grade school?

5 will get you 10 he exempts oil.

the price of unaffordable housing will get significantly more unaffordable with any increase in the price of Canadian dimensional lumber.

A theological debate older than the selection of what went into the NT. You have Paul 'saved by faith' who got a lot coverage by Athanasius (who is believed to have suggested the current 'canon'), but James "Faith without works is useless" only got one short letter. 🤷‍♂️ For me the problem with Purgatory theology is that it comes too close to justifying torturing people on earth "for their own good."

What irks me is that since Harris arrived every move seemed to fit into a consistent plan to create a team where the players fit together well enough that the team was greater than the sum of its parts, even if some like Maeda didn't work. There will always be misses. But nothing this season feels that way. They needed a front of rotation guy, they got a likely back ender, they didn't need a 2b who is anchored to one position, they brought one in. In fact, if Mike Ilitch were alive I'd say that was likely an owner's move like Prince was - but so far we don't have any indication Chris makes that kind of interventions. Then they bring in a 35 yr old reliever as their 'swing and miss' guy - gives me visions of Joe Nathan.

On the bright side, if they are out of it, maybe they can flip Torres for something at the deadline.

and so far that is, and I'm pretty confident will remain, a terrible signing. So that's one demerit for Harris on FAs so far to go with the other successes.

It cracks me up when some supposedly devout jerk will claim an exact 100% contradiction of Jesus' teaching as 'advice' to 'Christians.' If you actually claim to be a believer and even have a vague idea where to find the NT in a Bible, you should be at least a little bit nervous about your own state of grace after doing this kind of crap. You can't even parody it, it's so ridiculous.

I guess "AI" remains the same acronym whether it's 'intelligence' or 'ignorance' 🤔

Make provocative posts, then complain about not liking provoked responses to said provocative posts. When posts are more easily construed to be entry points to civil discourse, that is probably more of what results.

As far a I have always understood, Military aircraft operating in civilian controlled airspace are in the ATC system.

Well at least he didn't make an immediate political issue out of the CA wild fires. Oh, wait...

Red Wing shoes and Red Wing pottery are both named for Red Wing Minnesota, where they were founded. The naming of the Hockey team is more derivative. The team was named the Falcons when Norris bought it. As per Wiki, Norris had been a member of sports club in Montreal that had a logo with wings and wheels. Apparently he also liked red.

confirmation hearings are a total waste of time - the appointees just lie through their teeth. Until a Congress is willing to impeach or judge or cabinet officer for having lied at a confirmation, it will just continue to get worse. There is no accountability.

Cost him his gig.

The script writes itself!

story on Yahoo news page about Federal workers POd at the buyout offer starting to band together to stay and create a real deep state within the bureaucracy who will refuse not to do their jobs.

You missed the DEI ATC controller.

True, but it doesn't have to be. They could push Gleyber to more DHing so Keith could spend more time at 2B and the D would be better. They probably won't, but they could. They have too many 2Bs. Jung may hit more with his wrist fixed, but 2B is his best position. Keith's bat is more valuable as a 2B then a 1B, and they have Gleyber who it is said is not willing to change positions. Which actually makes the fact they they pursued him all the stranger since they value multi-positional players so highly. I know I should stop complaining, maybe he'll OPS 950 and Tigers will win the W.S. but until then I'm never going to have a good feeling about that signing.

I wouldn't be crushed going into the season with only one bat added just because our hitters are at stages in their careers where more are likely to be better next season than worse - although that said - catcher could be pretty bad. Dingler has shown nothing againt MLB pitching at all - would have liked to see some kind of better backstop at backstop... But just to be the broken record again - I want more added to the starting staff than Cobb and the door is about closed on that unless Flaherty drops in our lap and I think the odds of that are <5%. As you note - a trade seems the only major thing that could happen but Harris will really have to make a jump out of his recent habits to start trading young talent.

well that's an interesting question then. Could he file a grievance that he should have been put back on the DL and not moved? Or maybe after 10yrs(~) in our system he's just as ready to go and try another org even if he had a case he could have pursued?