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Everything posted by gehringer_2
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Does the point finally come when the only fair thing to do is send in a Seal team and extract Maduro to Gitmo? Does the rest of the world have some kind of obligation to save the well being of the population of what was once close to a 1st world country from being completely destroyed? Same argument as Iraq I suppose, but does it make a difference that Maduro's junta is still far less well organized or funded than the Baathists or even Isis? Not easy questions.
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LOL - I loved Inception. I thought Oppenheimer was very good but occasionally it seem to hit the wrong note tone wise. Came into the middle of Tenet one night and just had to give up....Though I suppose that would have been true of Inception as well. My daughter loved Dark Knight but I pretty much dislike all superhero/super villain movies.
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the team mostly looks homer crazy - they need to reign it in and just get some hits. Jace Jung on a 1 for 15. Keith was 0 for 18 before the single in the 9th.
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Week One: Los Angeles Rams (0-0) @ Detroit Lions (0-0)
gehringer_2 replied to MichiganCardinal's topic in Detroit Lions
it's getting to where that isn't uncommon either. -
100 mph off the bat but wrong inclination
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I think I hear the fat lady singing....
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does Riley catch that?
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no magic tricks in Hinch's bag tonight.
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Michigan Football 2024 aka The Year Michigan has to Defend a Natty
gehringer_2 replied to romad1's topic in College Sports
Local fans might fall for the 'they're just not showing the playbook' line but I doubt the handicappers do. -
Tiger production crew are such amateurs. Can't get a mic for JK, and they haven't gotten the crowd sound volume mix right yet.
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the approach is all wrong - other than Vierling and Meadows. When a guy throws everything but the kitchen sink but only has 94 you have to stay back and play for contact and the tigers are mostly going big swing.
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He was trying to throw over Tatis. We've seen umps call interference for less but no such luck today.
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brainfart by Hanifee. Gotta know when the play isn't there.
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This one is quite the snoozefest so far...
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Next two batters are RH, this should be it for Holton.
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I don't suppose UPS has ever been a big sponsor?
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maybe give him a pass on taking the very first pitch of the day, but he better not take any more middle-middle at 94.
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Week One: Los Angeles Rams (0-0) @ Detroit Lions (0-0)
gehringer_2 replied to MichiganCardinal's topic in Detroit Lions
IDK, seems unlikely a guy with Decker's seniority has never played against a rookie before. Or maybe he just never prepped properly under the old regimes......🤷♀️ -
Week One: Los Angeles Rams (0-0) @ Detroit Lions (0-0)
gehringer_2 replied to MichiganCardinal's topic in Detroit Lions
Carping from Kelly? -
Not only the rhetoric, but just that he can speak about real life in ways Trump just doesn't have any experience about and Vance has lost any remembrance of. Another one the other day was someone put up a clip of Harris in a kitchen and she cracked an egg into the mixing bowl with one hand. How can middle American not love a pol who can also crack an egg one-handed?
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Michigan Football 2024 aka The Year Michigan has to Defend a Natty
gehringer_2 replied to romad1's topic in College Sports
I though Warren showed some decent accuracy short and mid-range and plenty of zip. If they give him time and someone else besides Loveland steps up and gets open he could do some damage, but as of now Mullings is the indispensable man. Lose him and they are in deep do-do. And if Orji can't complete at least a few more passes, the QB rotation will quickly get pointless. -
It's hard to know if he just has an animal instinct for or if he actually works out his rhetoric but this is an example of something Trump does which is quite clever - he hides an invalid premise/assumption behind a question that has a more reasonable answer. No, no-one has ever heard of being indicted for interfering with an election - but the false premise at work here which is implicit is that you've never heard of it because it has happened but no-one has been indicted, when of course the truth is you haven't heard of it not because someone shouldn't be indicted but because it simply never happened before. So the outrageous get glossed in what appears to be a reasonable compliant. This technique is one way he is able to appear to normalize things which should never pass for normal. And, really, I don't think it's any conscious intellectual effort. I imagine is just another reflection of his narcissism and the projection that entails. Since he projects all his behaviors on others, the idea that he is unique in trying to upset an election doesn't occur to him, thus it's normal and thus to him it appears he must be being singled out for prosecution.
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One second thought though - to be fair there is nothing wrong with trying to shame people into more socially responsible behavior, that's actually not a bad role for the gov, and if it works a little it is a better long term outcome than more market regulation would be in places where it's not really a good idea.
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Ironically, if you look at Sweeney's early scouting reports, they were that he was a 'bat first' guy who it was assumed could not stay at short. At this point that has turned around. His range, hands and arm have proven out to be at least average at SS but as he has moved up the weaknesses in his bat have come to the fore: can he get the ball off the ground enough, cover enough of the zone, and can he hit LHP enough to ever play everyday?
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The problem with something the Kroger FTC hearing is that it's asking the wrong question. At a fundamental level, every price in the economy is "as far as consumers will go". If you are in business and are charging less than your customers will pay your are either an altruist or a fool, but neither of those will ever build a functioning economy. The real question is how bad does a price location need to be before it's in the public interest for the government to take a role? I would argue that inflated egg prices for a few months doesn't come close to rising to that level of importance, and any 'cure' would be far worse in the long run that the impact of what happened with eggs, i.e., bureaucratic costs plus unforeseen dislocations as business learned avoidance behaviors etc. This is just political pandering based on the general economic ignorance of the population and a chance to score political points at the expense of a corporation most people already don't like.
