gehringer_2

all the above said, I do expect Yzerman to make significant deals before the deadline.

I don't know if it's good strategy or not, but I think you are correct about the 1st part. I think Yzerman is always willing to pick up high picks because I believe he believes he can out scout other teams and make those picks more valuable. But for the same reason, whether he would then deal high picks is a little more questionable. He'd rather collect then move lower picks in trade. I think if you listen to Yzerman - he understands that it's really hard to get top players by any means, so I think he basically has a two track build strategy - do all the incremental things you can, draft as well as you can, and try to maximize high 1st round picks where you have a shot at a star. I could definitely see him trading a player he thinks he can replace for a 1st if he could swing it.

He doesn't have the chips that would bring the kind of players that get his team to the next level. I'm talking about a player someone else actually wants badly enough to give something good up. Danielson or Pellika have value but I don't see Yzerman trading either. Edvinsson is the only name there and he isn't really being blocked by talent, rather by a front office not doing the obvious (calling him up already) for reasons that are not. Walman and Gostibehere don't count because they aren't excess -- the team is still woefully short of competent Dmen. if you move them you just create worse holes to fill, which goes back to Edvinsson. But I don't want to trade a decent Dman to bring Edvinsson up. I don't think that gets you anywhere. To improve you need to bring Edvinsson up and dump one of the bottom Dmen but they have no trade value - so there we are. If some of the guys on the way up do more to prove themselves, then they will have something. IOW, draft well and it eventually takes care of most things.

I go back to what I've always believed about team building - which is that you generally cannot build team value by trade, because except in the rare instance of having an incompetent GM across the table, you will have to give up to get. The value of trading come when you have already developed value you can't use because of position overload. At that point trading can make you better, but much like the Tigers, the Wings are not in that position yet. So what a GM can control comes down to smart drafting, good contract management (i.e. no overpays), and strong instructional coaching that increases player value. I wonder about the last one with the Wings. A lot of players seem to have their careers die in GR. Obviously it's probably just guys hitting their ceilings, but it would be nice to see few more guys get there and accelerate.

Not today, but we inherit deep cultural habits that we may sense only subliminally and for ages in the preliterate past, statuary and iconagraphy were part of how a culture passed down and recorded it's history. That is probably part of why we have such a cultural habit of making statues. They are after all, at one level just a representational form that predates almost all others - in that sense no different than a photograph in a history book. But that's just it - for some reason statues take on much more baggage than that. Partly because they are no longer needed as memory store objects, partly because the effort to make one represents an investment in the object's significance, and also I suppose because sculpture in the hands of an artist can communicate far more than simple representation. And I guess that's where the reverence part gets generated.

Sure, but they still should understand that it was Jefferson's language in the DOI that set up the contradiction of principles with the early Constitution that was finally rectified by war and amendments. Or to pull it closer to home - I never cared much for Jim Harbaugh the man, I'm still celebrating the UM victory. So what we are left with is what is the proper mode of remembrance? Is there something inherent in statuary that necessarily puts it over the top into idolatry? Maybe - the Hebrews thought so a couple thousand years ago. 🤔 And of course we definitely don't need the statue of Bo Schembechler in Ann Arbor.

Russell Wilson had a 158 QB rating in that game on only 17 attempts.

Whatever the number it still pales in comparison with his public political impact. A person may do a great thing or even things, they may or not be a 'great' person. There is no necessary connection and to make one simply leads to pointless manufacturversy like this stuff.

Quote from Dr Andrews: "These kids are throwing 90 mph their junior year of high school,” he says. “The ligament itself can’t withstand that kind of force. We’ve learned in our research lab that baseball is a developmental sport. The Tommy John ligament matures at about age 26. In high school, the red line where the forces go beyond the tensile properties of the ligament is about 80 mph." Pretty much blows everything in the world of youth and minor league pitching out of the water right there.

the mistake is lionizing persons in history in the 1st place. We over personalize history. A lot of the finest people never do anything that makes the history books but they are probably the people that should be looked to as role models. People that do things that move history are often flawed - it's often part of what drives them to extraordinary lives. What they did should be celebrated, not who they may have been. That Jefferson may have be been a jerk in private life affected a few people in his immediate circle. What he *did* in public life has changed the lives of probably billions. There is no need to conflate the different values of the two things. Celebrate the deeds, not the man, and all these problems around the 'valuing' of historical figures largely go away.

LOL - Michigan has learned its lesson. Moore with a $5M walkaway charge in his 1st year. $5.5M base. Base totals something around $30M over 5 yrs, plus incentives.

yeah - and he probably plagiarized John Locke.....

The speed is something. That has to be all Ono. Every previous UM president in my lifetime would been 'let the process in place play out.' Nothing at UM happens this fast. Interesting. Ono didn't have any particular reputation for a glass breaker in any of the reporting when he took the job, but I think he just left a bunch of people in Athletic Dept and probably the legal department, somewhat..... shattered.

Serious question - what leverage do they (i.e. NCAA) have now to get Harbaugh to show up at a hearing if one is scheduled? What possible consequences to the the 'U' if he just refuses?

according to Sportrac, Mahomes has void years of $60M *each* in '32 and '33!

or the opposite. The Lions are a young team with cap space now - you might want to front load a contract to Goff. But the point holds either way, contract value and cap hit can be managed not to be one to one.

We can always hope that Goff would rather be Brady (most rings) than Burrow (most $) 😇

Resigning Kane seems doubtful to me. I don't think Yzerman is interested in commitment to any older players. I think Kane came here as a short term marriage of convenience. The Wings have few enough highly talented players he would be able to get into the lineup here even at less than 100% and from the Wings side the cost of the upside potential of some short term production was low. I suppose if the Wings think any offensive help in the minors is further than they had hoped, I could see another one year offer, but if Kane stays healthy the rest of the way I can't see him accepting a one yr deal.

IDK - Flashes, but I haven't yet seen Kane be pre-injury Kane consistently. Maybe he'll get there.

I thought Walman was better last night also. Maybe just getting back to 100%

Point WRT searching if they do not pre-decide on Moore: "Ease" isn't much of a factor in the looking, they hire it out. They will get as much search work as they will pay for and $$ they have. Lanning is the ideal get, but as noted, why would he leave a good gig in the same conference to walk in to NCAA issues? Don't see what moving to UM offers him.

Now, if Lalonde can get Kane to buy in to the the new found defensive intensity....

Courtesy of MotownBombers in the Lions thread

Apparently bangs and legs sell well.

285/25. So you're saying without the HR's he could be Ichero? 😉