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JB seems to want Ivey to be a 3 & D guy but the 3's have been missing the last few of games.

I've occasionally seen Elmer do a nice job of just surrounding rushing wingers at center ice and pinching them off. It's another thing where we'd like to see more. That's the thing with Elmer - he's shown he can do a number of things, he just has to do more of them all.

well, here's hoping you aren't patient Alpha in the newest scourge.

we still have no idea if the AD is staying.

In case anyone still wonder why Dems lose elections....

Not sure how good some of the consumer tests out there are. My son and his kid came down with the same flu at the same time, their home tests that told them they had two different flus.- Possible, but very unlikely.

36 games in and the Atlantic conference leader is 2pt away from being out of the wildcard. NHL to Pete Rozelle "Hold my beer."

Unfortunately enough, even Reagan isn't the GOP 'Reagan' anymore.

It would have been interesting to see where Hillary would have governed had she been elected and how that would have changed the 'Clinton' legacy. My impression was that she was a more committed liberal than Bill ever was but talk is cheap, we don't know what she actually would have done with the office.

yup - this years flu vaccine missed a variant that was developing in the Souther Hemisphere but which is apparently now the dominant strain everywhere. I read recently that there has been quite a bit of progress in using mRNA methods for producing flu vaccine, which would allow the vaccines to be brought to the public on a much shorter time scale, i.e., before the virus has a chance to mutate as much - but of course the chances of this CDC/FDA fast tracking that tech is probably zero.

I'll say two things in Duren's defense: He's been durable, and he's only a month past his 22nd birthday. Well, maybe three - the year spent playing for Monty Williams was probably a waste of development time.

Good Dad 101. A big lesson the average modern helicopter parent could work on is that best way to have your child not be fearful about things is for you not to act like they should be.

HaHa. Those humming birds are mean little critters though. You should watch them run off interlopers near their feeders. Those Tyrannosaurus Rex genes abide.

here is the link to the rest of it. 'https://news.gallup.com/poll/699311/economic-confidence-slips-holiday-spending-plans-plummet.aspx If you are the party in power you should be at about defcon2 about now. Jobs and the cost of living are two of the few things that even Trump can't lie his was past. Everybody shops. Everybody knows when their kids or neighbors are getting laid off. UE is up by 10% and 2.7 year over years inflation is still well above the noticeable level.

Not much has changed wrt who gets the short end of the economic stick. The recent increase in the unemployment had fallen mostly on black men. The differential between white and black male unemployment which had fallen to 2%, is back up to 4%. In absolute terms, black working age male unemployment it up to 6.7%, while it's less than half of that for whites at 3%. https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-macro-9b19ff90-dce1-11f0-a9cf-f50b1e3ce38b.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmacro&stream=business

damn - didn't think of that one. I always remember that Bill Skowron was 'Moose' because a kid I was in grade school with was also a Skowron and since he was a pretty big kid he got nicknamed "Moose" as well.

LOL - "highest moral character/role model" left the building a long time ago in major college sports. What they'll actually settle for is: 'will keep us out of the tabloids for at least a year or two before anything catches up.'

Yup- People working in pairs are always safer. That's true for everything from maintenance guys working in a plant to pilots working in a cockpit.

0.5% So 201 for every 200 sold last month. At rate there might actually be good market in year or two.

Exactly. Orwell already gave us the word for this: Doublespeak. Straight out of the BigBrother playbook.

Last one I can think of is that Bill Skowron played his last game at Tiger Stadium on Oct 1, 1967. which was of course the infamous last day Sunday DH against the Angels that the Tigers needed to sweep to catch the Red Sox for 1st place.

IDK about that. Outside of Stavenhagen and Jason Beck I'm hard pressed to think of any Det baseball writer that hasn't doesn't get savaged here. Back in the day I think Tom Kowalski was pretty widely liked, but that's been about it.

Keith was more productive overall in '25, but at the expense of becoming a platoon player. In '24 he had 88 PA against LHP and OPS's at 718 - basically no platoon split - slightly negative in fact. In '25 he had only 46 PA against LHP and OPS'd 403. The eternal question arises here. Would he have sustained his hitting against LHP if he had seen more?

Ausar probably would have been at least 2 pts in the second half. JB does needs to get the team to cool it with the officials. The reffing in the NBA sucks a lot, they can't let it get to them all the time.

No question that since the cap keeps going up it does allow teams to restructure and push cap hit out into the future. The smart (and fair) thing that the NFL did was agree to a fixed revenue split with the players - which is what has been driving the cap up and bought them enough labor peace the get a cap of any kind in place. Baseball owners have always refused to operate their baseball business transparently, or even pseudo-transparently, and that will continue to cost them in terms of the level of union intransigence they face.