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it's not going to happen but it would be very rich if the Scotus were to find itself in opposition to an actual majority of the state Supreme Courts around the nation.

IDK how you sum it up. Maybe it's that the internet has given us all permission to be our worst selves.

Nothing wrong with the cheese part tho....

yeah - the idea that forcing a #4 DB to go against a #1 level receiver would be a big advantage isn't wrong per se, but it ignores that a football team is a 'weakest link' enterprise, and that if you don't spend your draft capital to shore up your weakest areas, you will be the one being over matched in those areas of the game and you will never get to where your receiver mismatch wins you any games. And of course as noted, he was doomed anyway because he drafted bad receivers.

well, to stay with the nautical metaphors - ANY PORT IN A STORM!

This is a tough call. Russ Thomas may have been the most irritating, but Russ was actually succeeding in doing what he and WCF wanted to do, which was keep enough flash (Owens/Sims/Sanders etc) on the team to keep 'fannies in the seats' without he or WCF ever having to work hard at the actual details of team building. So his failure was as much by design. So it comes down to Millen vs Weaver - who have in common that neither had/has the slightest clue how to build a team for the league their team is in, always a solid 1st step toward ignominy for anyone arriving at a GM gig. Millen of course has the longer tenure to his (dis)credit, but three of Millen's teams were merely mediocre as opposed to terrible. Weaver OTOH, took a bad team and then managed to take it the rest of the way to terrible and then made it incrementally worse each year since, while simultaneously gutting the team's prospects to ever get out of the hole he has dug. This combination of feats, in the end, stands alone and above all the other GM ineptitude in Detroit history despite his having achieved it in a mere 4 yrs.

yeah - I think I had his 22/23 stats reversed and was thinking he was coming off a 230 BA at AA. Lots of walks in his OBP, (esp at AFL) which is both good and bad. Great that he walks, always questionable how much of the walk rate will translate against better pitching. That they are grooming him for 3rd should help get him to Det quick. Tigers don't have much cooking at 3b unless Vierling is able to run with a chance there.

They have a group of gifted young athletes, but not a one of them can shoot the basketball, which means that whatever else they may be, they will never be the 'core' of a competitive NBA basketball team until/unless they can.

I know there is plenty of potential in Clark and Jung, but until they put up some OBP numbers somewhere there are still 'over the horizon' guys. Keith, Malloy, Bigbie are of most immediate interest, and of the new guys McGonigle is the one who has hit the ground running.

It's hard to conceive that Cunningham is willing to stay with the Pistons, in which case at some point they are going to have to preserve some value by trading him.

And what is with all the breakaways they are giving up? Don't remember seeing that last season or even earlier this year. Yeesh

2-1 at the end of 2. Should be at least 3-1. Reimer has had to stop multiple wide open breakaways. And through two coaching regimes and a ton of players that have come and gone, and it remains true that the Wings are consistently terrible in the last minute of play of a period.

He is one more made 3 per roughly 15 attempts away from being a great player. Doesn't seem like much when you put it that way, but it's a mountain he's having trouble climbing. (OK maybe he needs a better handle as well.)

Well, that is a little complicated - it varies. Salmonella (biggest threat with Chicken) and their toxin is destroyed by cooking, Staph Aureus toxin (also common) is not.

and they had the best years of Dennis Rodman's career, which was certainly something to behold, though whether iconic is appropriate I couldn't say.... TBF - someone else besides Detroit gave the Bad Boys props as 4 players from 88-89 are in the Hall of Fame -- though Dantley was gone at mid-season.

need to mod that graphic to have thrown connecting rods....

And that is why the Pistons and Lions get 'storied' - because they are pre-expansion/charter members of their leagues. Maybe 'legacy' would be the more accurate word but that's the sense in which many commentators use the language.

What has changed that the consumer doesn't see is how meat is processed before you get it. I know where those train of thoughts come from because I'm old enough to remember when supermarkets actually butchered their own sides of beef, everything you bought in the store had been cut there and probably within the last few hrs. Under those circumstances things like whole cuts of beef were safe to the point of not worrying about it. Today almost everything is cut and packaged in a processing plant who knows where; contamination can get spread across huge volumes of product by bad washdown procedures or a sloppy employee. You don't even want to talk about the way chicken is processed in the US. So basically there is no such thing as too careful anymore unless you have a now rare corner butcher shop.

Will need to lose some of that leg kick.

Why not, he's likely to win more games....

A new GM could get a little creative - like hire a set of assistants to do what needs to be done and tell Monty he can either get with the program or sit and watch. There is always a way if there is a will, few smarts and little strategic ego massaging. But the Piston aren't close on 1 and 2 yet.

And the thing is, where is the way out? They have no excess trade-able assets, and no accumulated draft capital. They really only have one conceivable path and that is a new coach who can completely break down the few young athletic players like Thompson, Duren and Ivey and teach them to how play the game they need to play in the NBA - which would probably also include the most intense shooting clinic in the history of the NBA. That coach is not Williams and the man to hire him is not Weaver.

It's a long shot, but he's a pretty special bat. When you win in baseball it's often because you got some break or break through you didn't expect so here's hoping...

Carpenter's power has been inconsistent but maybe he can do more this season - but he might not play every day. What they really need is for Keith make the team out of ST and provide the opposite side power bat to pair with Tork. The longer shot is Meadows, who also has plenty of power but hasn't proven he can produce.

Hard to imagine he would entertain the thought of staying with the Pistons for more than about 10 milliseconds if Gores still owns the team and Weaver is still in place when his deal is up.