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the change allows for self-service in addition to full service, but requires full service still be offered.

Generally in America, money talks louder than ideology and insurers know that vaccinated people are going to cost them less.

"Look before you leap" comes to mind.

I guess Hinch would like Vest to be more than he is. Wouldn't we all.

wish I had some remnant of confidence in Holton.

Don't pitch to Ramirez if anyone is on base, even if they are loaded.

exactly - the game is still hitting a round ball with round bat so the statistical noise in a 3 game series can easily end up louder than the quality of play signal, but we want to see the quality of play and a team (and management) that isn't panicking.

yup

well no doubt WCF Sr was about as old-school/old-boy as they came. Just my guess but I don't think Martha had to do any 'pushing' to get WCF Jr out of the picture because I always got the impression he never wanted to be in it with the Lions to being with, but had to humor Pops when he was alive because Sr wanted to groom Jr to take over the team.

that's about my limit as well. We did a long trip like that a couple years ago - across on the north via Montana to CA and back on a more southern route, but my sister is in SoCal so it was almost like having a few 'home' days to unwind in the middle.

LOL - we don't lack for 1st generation Chinese living in town, but you're right in the sense that it's a different profile. We don't get the type of Cantonese refugees via Hong Kong that we would have seen 40 yrs ago who would gravitate to an easier place to afford, we get professionals and academics that are already able to write their own tickets.

Those guys needed a top QB to play with but never got one.

I thought the drive to Portland from the Idaho state line was a fun one. You pass through every kind of environment there is in a couple hundred miles.

I guess it's a generational thing - the fact that Chinese emigres to the US in recent years have been mostly Engineers and Scientists, but I'm depressed about the loss of good Chinese restaurants in A^2. We use to have 5 or 6 places you could get a really fabulous meal, now not only they all gone, but those that remain can't out cook a Panda House.

well congrats - that makes you an upwardly mobile (by) 1%'er.

All that - and even self service gasoline!

assuming the TV deals hold until then. We don't know what's in those contracts. Can the carriers walk away if the top teams do? Just a swag here but given all the conference re-alignments I wouldn't think a broadcaster would sign a conference deal that wasn't contingent on who stayed in the conference. There is certainly a lot of pull to keep the traditional rivalries and conference identifications (and the convenience of being able to pad your schedule with sure wins!), but if money gets tight will all that matter enough even before 2030?

Your point about no weak sister ever leaving the B10 by choice is the right one. And IIRC, the charter makes it almost impossible to force a school out. So the way I would read it is that is that only choice if the OSU's and PSU's and UM's want to keep more of their own revenue is for them to leave the conference. Now, I suppose all things are negotiable - if the top schools seriously threatened to leave maybe the other schools would rather acquiesce to a charter revision than see the remnants of their conference become net unprofitable. Hard to say how it might break.

swap a guy that will fail against RHB for a guy that'll fail against LHB. Why not?

the 25 pt cut is already baked in almost everywhere. If for any reason they bail it'll be 'Panic in Detroit' 🙄

As I understand it, Congress voted to stop the clock on the emergency timer. That is the reason Trump is still in business with the tariffs. It's one thing to violate the constitution, it will quite another if the courts ultimately decide Congress or the exec can re-decide what Time is.

technically true of course, but still, the owners of the team are still major shareholders of Ford family preferred stock. I think it's safe to assume they are still pretty tuned into the team never doing anything to dent the Blue Oval since they know people outside SE Michigan probably make no distinction between the WCF branch and the rest of the Ford business.

This is true.

Even if I grant that as true, and I’d have to think about 🤔, it still doesn’t enjoy the kind of validation across the body politic needed to persuade both sides to accept the same reported facts.

This is true. Maybe is was never all it was cracked up to be, but originally you had to pledge to operate in the public interest to get an FCC license to operate a broadcast radio or later, TV transmitter. And there was a certain level of noblesse oblige that remained at work pretty much right up to the birth of cable. I think 20/20 hindsight tells us the the Reagan admin's and general GOP resistance to bringing cable TV under the jurisdiction of the FCC was the original sin for a lot of what is wrong the US media today. Because if cable had been brought under the FCC with a public service mandate, the precedent would have been set for the internet to have been as well. If there is one thing I really despair about it is that American voters don't understand that rules matter. They're always looking for the result in relative ignorance that it's the rules that produce the results. But of course rules debates generally don't work as soundbites.