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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.

still sad though. The players will carry the stigma but it's the management that put them into the losing situation. It's the equivalent having to go to work in an office in a sick building or waiting tables in a rat infested restaurant. The money may be a lot better but the working conditions being provided by your employer still suck.

Brooklyn took themselves out of their offense by slowing down. Can't argue with Cunningham's work though.

LOL - you start with Melody, Harmony, Rhythm and Lyric. Rap already pretty much discarded Melody and Harmony. Lose the lyric and the guys outside with sticks and 5 gallon buckets can do what's left....

I find the PA at LCA just too loud to hear anything distinctly. I take 20db ear plugs with me to Wings games now. Definite improvement in the experience.

and just like that they fall apart. 3 TO and a sudden coma on defense.

the hilarious thing is that no-one on the 03-04 team averaged more than 18 ppg or 6 assists and the eFG% of their highest scorer was .462. Those are total failure numbers in today's game.

yup- all the swooning about lithium the last couple of years has been uninformed. Li is not rare, it just hadn't been looked for very much. But we are already seeing the shift - the unfounded fear that e-vehicles would end up resource constrained is now giving way to the reality of a bottleneck at the consumer end. The early adopters already have their Teslas and now you have to persuade Joe six-pack and soccer Mom that an e-vehicle is practical and that remains a big lift. Battery tech is moving at the speed of light but sustainable fast charge tech is still more promise than reality. Also used e-vehicles are dead in the resale market until someone comes up with a system to validate/warranty remaining battery life.

The get a little slack for 22 because they were doing a lot of sorting out but when it happened again last season it was more disturbing. The weird thing was that they were hitting OK in ST. It was almost as though the season started, the scouting reports started getting more detailed and the numbers guys maybe starting feeding the hitters more than they could process and everyone got too tentative. At least in Torkelson's case he sure looked too 'in-between' to me early in the season. I hope that isn't what happened, or if it was they are smart enough to avoid it happening again.

QB is in odd position to rate overall because the criteria are so slippery. It's such a mix of brain performance and body performance and talent on one side can make up for talent or lack on the other. If you were to compare QB's on a physical or style similarity scale, Jerod Goff plays more like Tom Brady than Patrick Mahomes, but while Mahomes' physical abilities make him a better QB than Goff, Brady's mental abilities made him better than both of them. Montana another guy who whose play over time proved he was 'better' than other guys that threw better or ran faster. Then you have Jalen Hurts, who probably has the season's (maybe decade's?) first QB tackle (and PF!) of a CB after running him down from behind after an INT even if it did come too late in the end zone. Don't see that too often.

Mahomes certainly has more ability to extend a play than Goff, not much comparison there and that counts for a lot. OTOH, while his ability to move is limited, when Goff does move he still makes pretty good throws. He may be a little underestimated there. The conventional wisdom, which was vindicated in the Bears loss, is that Goff gets worse faster when he doesn't have time, though the version of Mahomes that was playing yesterday looked a lot worse under pressure than he is usually thought to be!

I'm certainly not saying a state process isn't subject to review at the federal level. But you seem to be saying the state can't possibly have the authority even if their process passes a review standard. I think that is a much more open question. The federal court give states wide leeway in running elections - look at the their reticence to take on the gerrymander issue. Which as an aside, makes me wonder were the western district in MI thinks they are going by throwing out the commission redistricting....... As a practical matter, one outcome of this case would be that the court tosses what CO has done based on process defects without taking on the question of whether the state might have the authority or not.

This is exactly it. They were a 500 team last May-Oct. If that team shows up this April they don't need to be much better to get to 85-88.

yeah - If Harbaugh goes I can't see Moore as anything less than a lock.

I have no particular opinion on Manuel, other than that he keeps the lowest public profile of any UM AD in my memory. But you have to understand that a major college AD is rated by his employer on only one basis - how much money is the Athletic Dept either returning to the school of hemorrhaging from it. By the only standard that matters to the people he works for, Warde has been a big success.

Colorado had a process - I guess whether it constituted 'due process' is exactly the question?

My wild ass speculation about Harbaugh is that the worst (or best, depending on your view) combination will be UM loses in the playoff and the Ravens win another Superbowl. I don't think he would able to help himself from going back to the NFL to try and top big brother. Both those things look fairly likely right now....

Talked to a friend in SoCal today who said Harbaugh to Chargers is a hot local rumor

no arg that if Meadows' bat continues to play that is the superior outcome.