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250K/yr LittleRock airport manager running a few guns on the side gets himself killed in shoot-out with ATF. Americans and guns. https://news.yahoo.com/airport-executive-shot-firefight-federal-135816972.html

Didn't someone say "It doesn't matter where you start, it's where you finish."? How they compared to each other in any given year, especially given how different they are physically, is good forum speculation fodder but probably isn't a particularly good predictor of where either ends up. Bigger guys often take longer to master the body they've grown into.

- he was on the ice for the 1st NYI goal but it was Petry that lost his man. When he goes to the boards with an opponent, he is already more likely to comes away with the puck than most Wing players.

JD to the Mets a few hours too late for us to see him today.

Larkin didn't even make honorable mention in a recent piece ESPN did on NHL centers. Hockey is still a sport poorly characterized by its measurements.

then there is this twist reported by Petzold so what can you get back in a trade if the other team knows you have to offer the player? Tigers need to hope there are at least 2 teams interested.

Edvinsson undefeated since his call up.

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yeah - that was a bad one. I wish Lalonde would just rotate guys on a more regular schedule. Neither Reimer nor Lyon is such a good goalie that trying to "ride a hot hand" for many games in a row is a good idea. Just keep everyone rested and sharp.

yeah - whether Cade would be smart to sign or bolt has been kicked around before here. If I'm following the bottom line is he can make more money if he signs then demands a trade but he's got a surer path to get away if he doesn't? I would agree Cade is confident he can get himself a max contract once he's out of Detroit. If it were me that would have to be the priority - you can't really point to a single thing or person in the org that would give a good player a reason to want to be here a minute longer.

Of course it takes a certain kind of chutzpah to steal someone's money and then when caught claim it was a gift....not that we haven't seen that kind of thing recently......🤔

OK - that's an interesting angle. While Tony remains the friend of the proletariat....

sure - I just found it unusual the boss seems to be getting a pass.

IDK - would it have been a bad story for Ohtani him if the truth was that Ohtani had paid off the guys debt for past loyalty and then fired him? I mean most PR type decisions make no sense to me anyway but how is the angle better for Ohtani to say the guy was able to steal from him as compared to Ohtani bailed him out? Whatever.... I certainly get them circling the wagons to protect Ohtani if the debts were his though...

Right, there are a lot different ways to formulate the basic concept, but the standard goes up for the guy who wants to be in charge. It always has, it always will, and it is the completely correct social requirement/outcome. And to be absolutely fair it's why the Dems were completely wrong (speaking purely strategically in the long term) to have supported Clinton once he had perjured himself, and that decision haunts them to this day in holding Trump accountable.

One would have to suppose for this guy to have access to Ohtani's money he must be more like a personal secretary than strictly an interpreter. I suppose that difference is certainly within the range of normal inexactitude of US media reporting.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jRnDAcv86yGYl1Tq6fdXD1VoGr2Ls5PiRBNEFBXHL3Y/edit?usp=drive_link this is Edman's spreadsheet. Page one says Huira is out of options, page two says he can declare FA if outrighted.

Kind of an odd story in DetNews today that the players - unhappy about the way FA has gone this year, were agitating not to replace Tony Clark, but for Clark to replace his number two guy. It's a 'who cares' issue but still an odd dynamic. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/03/19/tigers-player-rep-casey-mize-explains-why-union-is-trying-to-force-a-leadership-change/73032110007/

I think this makes a difference in the comparison?

That's just what the Twins announcer said yesterday....

They should be getting (and maybe will) get a lot credit for rebuilding Casey Mize into a power pitcher - assuming he ends up as good this season as he looks now.

you would think 'extended paternity suits' is a phrase technology would have made obsolete.

It turns out it's been his bad arm along and a finally completely healed Carson Kelley ends up a plus bat for the Tigs.

This is the Casey Mize they thought they drafted. Now, can he stay healthy? After today Olson can start looking for a place to live in Toledo. Also it was fun to hear Morneau be worried that the Tiger's have more pitching than the Twins.

There is always tensions around how to deploy resources on 'acute' vs 'diffuse' crimes. Obvious physical danger to life and limb and violence and robbery against individuals has terrible direct impact on those individuals that is absent in 'white collar' crime. But there is also a case to be made that just because effects are diffuse doesn't mean they are not real. Business corruption will rot an economy - until in the end you are Putin's Russia, and then there is no question everyone has suffered big time. I think it's a reasonable case to make that Trump's abuses are much more important to pursue exactly because he did reach the pinnacle of political power. The normalization of his business abuse become exponentially more important to push back against when his office is/was the embodiment of federal business corruption law enforcement and his person is (for better or worse) a national role model so to speak.