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  1. Lyon made up for the weak goal by stoning the Kings in the shootout.
  2. and a bad one for Lyon
  3. The first LA goal is typical. Either Ras or Holl could have stayed in front of the man but they both let him go by, so Maata is forced to leave the net to pick him up and Veleno doesn't pick the man in front when Maata vacates. Kings didn't have an odd man rush but the Wings effectively played it into one.
  4. IDK. They play a much different game under Lalonde - potentially a better style IMO, but they seem to be getting sloppier whereas Blashill's team's mostly just seemed outclassed all over the ice.
  5. Isis/Iran. Two scorpions in a bottle.
  6. is that W column pitcher wins or team wins in a pitcher's start? I guess it has to be the former.... if Skubal only ends up with 11 wins the Tigers are toast....again. 😥
  7. Following probabilities in drafting would imply your org has no advantage in talent eval. But if you assume that you can likely also assume your team isn't going very far anyway. I think 84 has it right - what we are seeing is that Yzerman knows championship teams need great goaltending to he's covering as many options to find one as he can.
  8. I didn't say dead - I said probably had fallen behind Georgia and losing to a B10 ten team isn't an everyday occurrence for Saban either. Is M better, is Alabama worse? Take your pick. Sure all those things you mention matter, but doesn't money also drive them all? That was your premise wasn't it? Won't most of the best coaches and the best athletes end up at the best resourced schools? Don't they now? All I was saying is that resourcing is likely going to go through big shifts if television rights money starts flowing to athletes (which is pretty much Harbaugh's prescription isn't it?) because television $$ dwarf the sources the athletes used to have direct access to, and how that shakes out is going to matter to winners and losers. That's hardly a stretch to speculate on. I don't see as cast in stone that the schools at the top of food chain now stay there if/as the funding models change - sure they will try like hell to keep things as they are. The people that have the $$ ultimately ultimately control the outcome, and for now that's the broadcasters. I suppose to insure they get what they want the future super conferences can move (or threaten to move) all their rights into their own in-house networks then they maintain control everything.
  9. There will always be solo and small group musicians that just record what they play. But I don't begrudge modern musicians the use of the studio either. It's the modern equivalent of the 100 piece orchestra a Beethoven had or even the 30-40 that a Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey had that is just too expensive to have or tour with in today's economics. It just means some music stands on it's own as recorded first rather than as the recording of something that was first live performance.
  10. the one weakness of projections is that they favor established players who are more likely to be past the peak of their careers and underestimate the guys coming up who don't yet have track records. I mean, Kershaw is a huge asset for the Dodgers, but at this point he also has a higher probability of fall off or injury.
  11. Page's drug of choice was generally heroin. IDK, I expected to be somewhat disappointed because Page was a studio specialist/perfectionist and not a particularly inspiring improvisationalist (even assuming he was sober - as noted!). They couldn't perform a lot of their signature work very close to their recordings -especially given the tech available at the time. Bonham always got an extended drum solo in a live set but that only gets you so far. 🤣 I once heard Pat Metheny talking about how much work (and cost) it was to produce a live performance that could capture the quality of the studio work that PMG did. Takes a lot of skill and planning and extra musicians. Stevie Ray Vaughn would have been the guitar player to have seen live, but I never did.
  12. Money certainly drives a lot of recruits and right now its a fast moving target. Along that line my guess would have to be that as the money moves from under the table to above, those places like Chicago and Silicon Valley, that have more powerful economic and marketing bases to draw from, will begin to eclipse exactly those places like Alabama and LSU that have depended on relatively finite booster resources. (NYC is a weird outlier with no NCAA FB tradition) One could argue you already see some degradation in the Alabama program in comparison to the one in the more economically vibrant state of Georgia that sits nearly as close the big Atlanta market as Ann Arbor is to Detroit. Is that why, or is it just Nick getting old and slowing down?? I think a lot depends long term on what model the TV money, which ultimately has to be become the source of player funding, ends up distributed by. If it's like a baseball model where school revenue it tied initially to their current market power, the rich can remain rich or get richer, so traditional powers will be able to play on that. The future would likely be different than if it ends up like the NFL, where all the schools in the top tier get equal dollars. I think the Alabama types could suffer under the latter system compared to the former exactly because non-$$$ factors could then swing player decisions.
  13. LOL - have you spent any time there? TBF - I was marooned on the industrial end of town on a project, but definitely reminded me of the John Denver tune about spending a week in Toledo one day. But also to TBF, you are selling your own area short - Northwestern may not be a great FB power - but all things considered they occasionally manage to punch well above their weight football wise.
  14. It needs to be, Baton Rouge isn't much of a where, even if it's not too far from NOLA.
  15. I saw them earlier in the 70's but it wasn't in Pontiac. Had to have been Cobo I guess. The only thing I can still picture from that show was the absolutely huge gong on the stage.
  16. right. Bill Ford Jr tried running the company for a while, decided profits would be better if someone else did. The bit that a lot of people don't realize since Henry II's family has a low profile, is that those magic 'B' shares that control FoMoCo are held by all of Henry I's heirs, both Henry II's and WCF's, while the Lions are/will be fully owned only by WCF and Martha's heirs. Henry II's side of the family has no financial stake in the Lions.
  17. Bag bombs. Sort of indiscriminant to be Mossad, but maybe internal opposition with Mossad's help.
  18. I think in retrospect the Lions just ran the whole set-up too well. The way they choreographed Skipper running onto the field while it was Decker and Sewell actually checking in was set up so well it sucked in the official even though he had every reason and responsibility not to be. He heard Decker but he *saw* Skipper and his brain just went to autopilot. He wasn't concentrating on his job at a point where the Lions made the 'mistake' of assuming he would - because after, that is his job.
  19. This is the key to play more than any pre-snap knowledge for the D. The LB or corner only has so much time to decide where he's most needed. If Decker is able to make a serious block and still release, and the Lions present a coverage need in the other direction, odds are still very good the rest of the D moves on and the play works. Plus just with his size on a good throw away from any defender he's not an exactly an easy cover even if someone tries to pick him up. Plays to receivers or RBs that are based on making a block 1st and then releasing once coverage has moved off work all the time even with regular skill position players that are always known eligible.
  20. Napoleon is a tough cast because he had to have had a level of charisma that today's natural acting style doesn't favor in bankable leading men. He was sort of a Trump in his day - magnetic and with that total ability to pull off shamelessness. It is hard to imagine Joaquin being believable as a guy with that ability to pull people into his wake (whereas he was the perfect fit for Commodus, who we knew never would have come to power by his own talents of power/persuasion). When I saw the trailer I tried to think of who I would have cast and didn't come up with anyone.
  21. True. It would be hard to make a serious journalistic argument that TikTok is any less valuable as a news source than most AM radio or cable 'news' programming. It would be hard to top the basic ignorance of most of what they are talking about of 90% of the talking heads in US media. The imperative to cover everything practically before it even happens leads to a kind of complete 'know-nothing' level of reporting anyway. It might as well be a teenager with an iphone. An example struck me this AM when the SO has a network news report going about the Earthquakes in Japan and there was a very breathless report about the potential for a 4ft Tsunami. So yes - this could possibly be a fairly damaging event or a total nothing burger depending on the whether it's happening at low or high tide. But a know-nothing blow-dried on scene reporter doesn't have even enough basic knowledge of the ocean or time to have checked out that very basic fact that would have actually informed what he was talking about. Almost none-of it is worth listening to.
  22. In 2000 US military spending had fallen to 3% of GDP and it probably wasn't going to stay there anyway. By 2009 it was up to 5% but fell back to 4% under Obama which is probably about the rough equilibrium value though we are again a bit below it. So maybe 1% of GDP for 3-4 yrs tops - which is close to the 1 trillion rough number you often hear quoted. In retrospect it *might* yet turn out to have some lasting + impact in Iraq, hard to see any at all in Afghanistan and I wouldn't venture a guess at how the costs divided between the two. Unless Trump gets re-elected I would guess we will end up spending as much for Ukraine in the end- that's a war which is burning through material in a way Iraq and Afghanistan didn't. I don't think we increased the size of the armed forces in any big way under Bush and given the asymmetry of the opponent we didn't build out any expensive new weapons systems expressly for those conflicts. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US
  23. good to win but the team D is just deteriorating by the night. Lalonde needs to start singing them a new song or something. I hope these guys realize they are playing themselves itself into another big deadline firesale by Yzerman.
  24. Ras ENG. Should do it.
  25. can they hang on?....
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