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Funny thing is that the mic went dead just as he was about the say the word 'Tariff'. Maybe an inside job on the part of his handlers to slow him down on the subject!

Guy writing this sounds like he doesn't think it's going to be much of a loss for the Jays. 🤔

Some more documented capitalism fail here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/17/private-equity-steward-hospital-bankruptcy/

Right. The system magnifies the differences. Reagan polled 50.7% and won 44 states. Even with no 3rd party votes, Bush I won 40 states with only a 53.7% majority

Yup. Harris has run pretty much a mistake free campaign, has hit all the marks, dotted all the i's, and the party supposedly has a ground game in place. The last candidate to do that was Obama in 2008.

lets not be naive, though they paid for the banner, Bally was never a presence. I'd have to guess there is little chance that will be true of FanDuel, who seem more likely to try to monetize every square inch of your screen and every line of dialog in the PBP.

I'm not sure if I just hit the right live feed but appears the Mics have gone dead on Trump in Det

There has to be a lot of contention about the value of the Tigers' rights. Diamond probably complaining the current rights fee is a money loser and team countering that going forward a winning team in Det will be a gold mine....

So Ilitch re-upped the Wings but not the Tigers. Gonna be a long lonely summer for the FanDuel channel with no baseball....

Certainly novel, but hard to prove since the counter arg is that reducing population increases per capita wealth for the remainder, which undercuts any argument to the detrimental side.

And that he’s gone in a week? 🤬 at least that offers some hope the general level of play may have some upside.

The UM regents, in a moment of sanity have struck a blow against virtue signaling and have adopted an institutional neutrality bylaw. Students and staff should get a reprieve from inboxes full pronouncements from their Deans , managers and administrators about every issue of day that have nothing to do with their mission.

Kid better perform or we are going to look dumb!

The best government corporations can buy!!

I'm not questioning that they have a couple very good players now in Raymond & Larkin. They don't have enough dominant ones and that's what I was referring to wrt the players in the pipeline. Kasper should be good, will he be dominant? Sure Seider is a dominant player, but he is .....one guy (and even there I'm not sure Lalonde knows how to use him). Larkin is an occasionally dominant player and it would be nice if he started channeling it because as you have noted, he isn't right now. If you are only working with 'good' players, you need almost every one to be good, and I don't see yet that either.

what I find frustrating is that they seem to be stuck in purgatory. They aren't bad enough to get high picks, but basically haven't improved much in the last three years either. There are some nice pieces working their way through the system but none of them strike me as likely all-stars. I suppose Cossa is the one guy that at least in theory has an outside shot at becoming a beast and so we turn into what the Sabres were with Hasek, a bad team that can win more than it should. Obviously the NHL isn't the MLB, but the Wings haven't been able to build much roster value by rehabbing guys or trade turnarounds like the Tigers have. Hronek for the picks will yet pan out we hope. Maybe they'll shake off a poor start and be better, but soon would be nice.

Just to play Devils advocate for a minute - The counter point to going after Bregman is that you have a 3 WAR player in Vierling who may not have a place to play if Carpenter, Meadows and Greene stay healthy or Wenceel improves a little more or AHM locks down DH. Now granted, Vierling's D in the OF is plus while his play at 3rd is maybe average at best, but even given that, how much are you willing to commit for an upgrade that may be not be that big (WAR wise, Bregman was 4.1 last season, Vierling 2.9) if it turns out he's replacing Vierling instead of Jung?

It seem to me the other question is how desperate would Taiwan be? How much revenge will they extract in a lost cause? There have to be 400 million Chinese living cheek by jowl along the Pacific coast, does the PLA have the air defenses to keep Taiwan from killing literally hundreds of thousands of mainlanders before they go down? People tend to talk about wars in much neater terms than they actually happen.

Detroit vote is going to sink Trump in MI. He's committed political malpractice here. This isn't 1980, there is energy in the city today and a reflection of that is that they are going to vote.

It's like a self reinforcing downward spiral. Maybe because of low confidence in the goaltending, Lalonde wants them to play 'simple' north-south, but you don't beat anyone decent doing that. One play that stuck in my mind from Monday was Wing Dman (Gustafson I think) was at the left board and the Ranger was closing on him, Larkin was to right, open but maybe 10 feet deeper in the Dzone. Our man just shoveled the puck up the boards into a change of possession. It's the Wings play in a nutshell, work hard to get the puck, play without vision or creativity and give it right back.

Ned may not have been meeting their expectations when they cut him loose but in point of fact they haven't done any better for it. And BTW - Rasmusson still falls down more than an NHL skater should. 💭

I think ironically, if they had intended to play both clips, and Harris had gone the path going after the way he shades and trims and double backs on what he says, it may all have worked and been true, but I think in the end less effective than leaving the field open for Harris to able run with putting the worst spin on the enemies comment (since everyone know he had said something like that) and have it look like Fox was just being dishonest in their clip selection.

LOL - if it hadn't run the way he intended he would have known and could have called for the right clip at the time. The one saving grace with dishonest people is that they do start believing their own narratives and end up overplaying their hand, which is what I believe happened here. They were hoping to ambush Harris with a clip that showed Trump being reasonable and instead she stood her ground, called them out, and just wasn't having it. Probably not the response they believed they would get.

sounds wonderful, guess I'm glad I can't watch this one. But from what I've seen so far the team has taken a big step back. They aren't doing anything well.

Fair point. Though there can be some cognitive dissonance going on as well - say he knows what the numbers really were but never accepts that the 'numbers' are honest ones. I think it's no doubt is true that Trump is a much more complex character than most of us usually give him credit for simply because he presents to obviously as a caricature, but that said, that doesn't mean he is any less pathological!