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as bad as the 2nd was the difference in the game still came down to the TMMOTI penalty. Mickey has been harping on the sloppiness of their line changes all season. I've seen enough of this team in its current configuration. If I never see Joe Veleno's 'signature' drive-up-the-left-boards-just-to-be-erased-on hip check-and-turn-over-the-puck, or a Wing Dman blindly dumping the puck directly to an opponent skater's stick at the red line, it will be too soon.

UM consumer survey, which everyone has been fixing on, is finally starting to turn upwards ~10 point jump in Jan.

Some analysts say Trump's support actual consolidates better when he is out of the public eye as much. Given his recent performances, keep him campaigning and feeding the "he's losing it" narrative with the uncommitted and independents.

This is politics - I'm sure that statement will be fully operative right up to the moment that it's not. 🤮

Well hope so - no matter who emerges the more bruising the GOP fight the better for the remaining sane party. Trump is probably on the phone offering her VP right now. Seriously, if you are Haley, given Trump's age and increasing evidence of decline, that might your surest route to the WH.

the question is who will pay the bill? The small money goes to Trump and big GOP donors are probably scared to piss him off since he might win and come after them. Plus they've already staked DeSantis to a big pot of $$ and have zero to show for it.

And the comedy is that one of things they are the worst at is that when they do get back, they invariably end up with 4 or all five guys too deep and constantly leave trailers wide open in the slot. It's ridiculous a pro team can't figure out how to man up returning to their own end.

this. Party wise Trump is an incumbent president. Winning narrow sank LBJ in 1968.

Sad to face that Edvinsson's stock has dropped so low he not a candidate to replace one of the current turkeys.

It's not even that life changing, he's been an NFL head coach before.

Yzerman has to make some kind of move for a defenseman. This crew is the Keystone Kops.

LOL - Wings D.

yeah - the too many men penalties are getting to be a sore point. Somebody needs to take a little responsibility for so many unforced errors.

Direct payments are coming. Then how will they handle that?

Worst case would be Venezuela - where the Charismatic ruler breaks down the walls then dies, and that lets a talentless thug succeed him and really drive things into the ground.

yeah, this is a tough call when it comes to hitters - can you actually help them or better to leave well enough alone? I sort of agree that the 'control the zone' mantra could lead to guys being tentative and that is certainly fatal for a hitter. I would prefer they change their phraseology to put the onus off the player and on the org - "it's up to us to will work with you/give you tools to better control the zone", which is what I hope they really mean because I just don't believe there are many hitters who are not trying to swing at strikes, they just can't tell which pitches are going to be strikes in the time frame their mechanics allow. With Javy the theory would be if you can get him shorter to the ball his pitch recognition could - again, in theory - improve. And with Javy's base ability to track and hit pitches outside the zone you'd want to believe it's possible he could barrel up more pitches. But hitting is such an incredibly finely balance capability that there is always the risk that you just can't find a combination that is overall better for the player than what he was doing. An effective hitting coach is probably one of the rarest animals in sports.

well, we have maybe a 1 in 20 chance that Moore is just waiting to show he is the next Nick Saban.....

Jack/Jacques/John/Jean = all the same between the French and the English!

It's not even so much regularly as you have to be able to hit the ground running when you come up. Tyler got into 10 out of a 14 game stretch in April, didn't do anything with it. He was pretty much behind the 8 ball from then on. And TBF, he got 111 PA in Sept and was doing pretty well - 857 OPS, but I'd guess what did him in was that the power he flashed in Toledo never showed in Detroit - only 1 HR in that Sept run.

If he comes back it will just be rinse and repeat next year. I'd also guess that one of the things that frosts Harbaugh about Manuel is that Warde wants to up Harbaugh's reverse buyout in any new deal to something pretty painful, (it was $2.5M to start in the last one, dropping to $1.5M this year) which might be one of the things beside the arbitration panel that is a sticking point. A goofy idea, but with Harbaugh I think it's a possible one, is that I would not be surprised if Jim Harbaugh want's to wait to see if Jack Harbaugh gets to another SB and what the outcome is, while his suitors in the NFL might be demanding he decide before then..

If the refs were in the tank for KC, the obvious place would have been on the fumble out of bounds in the end zone. It was close to a 50/50 and it went touch back Buffalo, and was a 7pt swing as it would have been KC 1st and goal at the 2. IIRC, the network's pet ex-official did agree with the call -- after it was made. And it was an overturn so it would have been easy to say the evidence was not clear and convincing enough.

I don't think it's going to happen, but who knows. What the heck is the state elections commission supposed to do when the two factions of the state GOP don't even agree on whose party it is and who is running it?

Harbaugh 2nd interview with Chargers expected https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39363244/jim-harbaugh-chargers-meeting-second-interview-week

That could be a different definition of a pretzel with mustard on it....

It has gone on long cycles. Scoring increased all through the early days of the league - peaking in the early 1960's at 118 ppg, which is a bit higher than even now (and with no 3pt shot!). Then it started going down - falling to 91.6 in 1999. Then it started back upward to where it is today. I don't think I want to go back to hammer and tongs D like the bad boys - so I don't know where the ideal point is. If it were me I'd widen the court a couple of feet so the 3pt line could be moved out. I think that would open up the mid-range game and add more variety to offenses, but changing the court is probably the one thing that has zero chance of happening.