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Sell all the old guys at the deadline - restock picks, bring up GR, lose big - call this an investment year. At least that would be a plan. And maybe a new director of scouting....

IDK how good that strategy is. Once you block one the momentum to block others might might actually build instead of subside.

What's the word on Edvinsson?

actually this is another one you can blame on SCOTUS, but it was the Burger court. Ruled in 1978 that states could not prevent nationally chartered banks from charging higher rates than a state allowed by its own regs. Before that a lot of states had pretty reasonable caps. The problem in that era was that inflation was taking off, making the locally legislated caps a loser for the banks. And of course in 1978 credit cards didn't have nearly the market penetration they do now. This is why if they do something it should be more nuanced than a simple caps on rates. If you cap them at say 10% and inflation goes about 7% no bank is going to offer you credit at that low a return and suddenly you have a big drag on the economy, If you cap the rate so high that the business/inflation cycle is never a problem, it's probably too high to give consumers any serious relief.

I have to believe SY feels he was brought up too soon and he over projects about it. Plus maybe he picked up some of it from Scotty (who hated young players, esp on D) along the way. But no-one they bring up now is going to be cast into the same kind of pressure to be 'the guy' he was. There are established players on this team in Larkin, Seider, Raymond, etc. And it's a different league - with all the speed it's a younger man's game than it used to be.

no issue with anything here baseball wise but FWIW, this Sept Oregon did roll back decriminalization 👮‍♀️. Sure though, that's only one brick in a wall of political goofy out there in terms of something like a stadium project. They've already had lots of money issues over the Trailblazer's arena, and that was even with Paul Allen's money doing the driving.

Yup, just got a $5 bump from ATT also. We're now at $75 as part of a bundle with DTv, which we really should drop because we totally under use it other than Tigers and Wings games, but are too lazy to do anything about it. I got the 1G service as an early adopter and when I was working I was moving a lot of large files on and off the cloud all the time so it was appropriate. I still move a 70G backup set to the cloud but only about once/mo now so it's a good question whether I still need it. I guess at this point I'm spoiled by being able to do a MacOS system reload or Linux Release upgrade from the cloud in 10min.

What I don't understand at all is that when Lalonde arrived, I thought the team's play took a real step forward - much improved offensive flow etc., yet as time has gone by they seem to have turned right back into the team we fired Blashill for. So how does that happen? Has Yzerman leaned on Lalonde to have the team play more pedantically? Of so why not just leave Blashill there? Have Yzerman's moves with the roster actually left Lalonde with a team that can't do what the team he had 3 yrs ago could? Not good news if that is true. The whole progression - or lack thereoff, is hard for me to figure. Sure they are waiting for players, but what kind of team are they trying to build - where is it going? Right now everything seems ad hoc - like a bunch of pieces that don't fit together.

It looked like they got to 3-1 and decided they could mail it in the rest of the way. Lalonde's seat must/should be getting warmer.

didn't help that Johansson was beaten like a drum on the play either.

Seider needs to keep his ass out of the box. Tie game.

Petry can't knock down the puck then either he or Compher lose Zebras and they give up a PP goal, then the Wings immediately take another penalty....😡

seems like a little mix and match going on in the D pairings tonight.

Can't be serious? In the universe of possible Trump world options, Lindsay would be a shot out of the park. Came through the JAG office - actually practiced law in the public service. He'd probably get himself fired in 8 wks.

Sadly, I don't find it hard to believe that one out of every 8 or 10 or ten Obama/Biden voters wouldn't vote for a woman -- and when all is said and done it may have been that simple. Does seem to run counter to the logic in MI where we've elected other women, but Prez is still different from all that.

Did they maybe cut bait on Ned too soon though? He hasn't bee great since we moves him but at least he's been available, as compared to say Husso.

Granted it's hard, but whether it's hard or easy the standard has to be to do it least do it marginally better than the guys you're competing against. BTW - have we written off Wallinder?

so the schedule will all be downhill from here, right? 🤔

UCF also has a field not too far away I'm sure they'd be glad to rent out.

Sometimes the obvious just turns out to be .....obvious.

Yup. Just as an experiment, after my 'For you' suddenly went to crap earlier in the year, I just started rejecting posts to see if the algorithm would eventually get overridden. It will after you reject at least a few hundred, but even after that you now need to keep up a constant rate of 'maintenance' post rejections to keep it decent. The site isn't worth the effort any more. If I can help move the market to a better product I'm good with that.

There is a difference between pursuing things which are known to be possible but where the technical feasibility is unknown, and pursuing things that can never work.

Simon had to pick up his D partner after Rust left him in a heap on the 2nd goal. 🤣

This, sadly.

HaHa - Kyle would probably take the job more seriously.