gehringer_2

salt water crocs for the playoffs!

Duren with a shot would be something. Duren with a shot and Cade with high level 3pt % and you'd have your two requisite anchors for a championship team. We can only hope.

a new definition of a 'squeeze' play.

don't disagree in general, but there is a still a difference between a coach's public personna and his team personna. Hypothetically if he was a highly validating coach in the locker room, his players might not care what he 'performs' for the media. Not saying I have any reason to think that is true for Dieon, but it's the kind of thing that's always possible, and we know in general that it is very common for coaches to be Jekyll and Hyde wrt who they are in the media vs who they are to their players and their players know that perfectly well. As media gets more pervasive I think generally it's more common for people in all fields that have public media presence to have some intentionality in creating public personnae that optimize their marketability. How much connection those public personnae have to who they really are tends to be incidental. If Deion's players stay with him, that's the only way to know really. To your point about Narduzzi being panned for what Deion is lauded for, it's no different that different actors being appropriate for different roles. I wouldn't care for Humphrey Bogart as Hamlet, nor Olivier as Sam Spade, and watching either of them in either role tells me nothing about whether I'd want either as a mentor. Everywhere there are cameras, people eventually become actors.

Yup. Winning in Hockey is a variable blend of talent and effort. In the regular season talent will usually rise to the top of the standing eventually, but once you get into the playoffs, less talented teams always have a shot to out compete more talented teams over a short haul.

yeah - open question if they could keep up what they did the 1st week. Hopefully they find an equilibrium that's somewhere between that but better than the last couple.

It was a great trade, its value equaled only by the deficits generated by the ludicrous Willis extension and the even more ludicrous Cabrera extension. You can't argue deductively about the absence of a thing, only speculate what kinds of roster and development value they may have generated or traded for with the money they spent on Willis and all the zero WAR yrs of Cabrera.

the list of things in the OT to toss back to bible literalists has been around since long before the internet or the West Wing, so neither is particularly original on these points. The one caveat that an OT fan could throw back at you is that much of Leviticus is ritual purity rules for the priesthood ("Leviticus" = "of the Levites", Levites were the priests) and one could argue some number of these particular items were not meant to be applicable to the general population. That said, there are plenty of things such as slavery etc, that make good enough examples apart from those you could reasonably confine to some of the odder priestly rules.

legal arguments over the chain of custody of these supposed computer resources might be interesting.

one of great virtues of those late 18th century white males that cobbled together our governing systems is that they had no romantic illusions about the frailties of humanity. They tried to put together systems that could function with the state of humanity where it was. If all those conservatives really had any feel for how the founders really thought, they would agree with you that if you find yourself with a population that isn't safe with the available types of weaponry, don't count on perfecting the population, that's an idealistic bridge too far, solve the problem more practically - remove that availability.

I have no idea what "channels" are anymore either. My 'guide' shows me sources in alphabetical order, not by channel number, so I never even see them. But the 'Captive' aspect is the key I think. As much baseball and hockey as I watch, I still don't watch that many games live from the beginning. > 50% of the time I start the beginning of a recording about an hour after the game started which gets me to the end of the game just about in real time. So that's basically just over one hour to watch a baseball or hockey game instead of 2 or 2.5. When I do watch a whole ball game in real time anymore I get kind of stir crazy...... I know it's just a matter of time before they find away to stop me from doing it this way*, but I'm enjoying it while I can. *we can see the seeds of the future with some commercials being streamed right into the game already.

It's not showing up in the polling, but OTOH, the Dems success in recent special elections has been good. One can only hope that what we are seeing in polling data is just the continuing collapse in the efficacy of telephone based polling.

Other than the unique Fox/Trump pathological parasitism, I doubt any journalist would accept asking a planted question at a press conference. The granter of the conference has all the time they want to say whatever they want to and get out any message they feel they need to get out before the 1st question so there isn't any actually need to plant a question beyond Sorkin's sense of the dramatic. 🙄

Jeez Louise, I think the president has better things to do with his time than memorize the names and faces of the whole white House press corps and all their alternates. If he uses a photo sheet so he can be more polite to people and call them by name instead of asking them they are, good for him.

It's hard enough to win with a front court player in the game who can't shoot, even harder with a back court player who can't. I can understand it being hard to find multi-skilled big men, in three years it shouldn't have been that hard to find a guard somewhere with a skill set that would better complement Cade's, he doesn't need to be an all-star. I can only conclude Hayes shows stuff in practice that keeps them hoping he will eventually produce in games.

One can only hope that with Johnson, the Dems are able to score some of the success they hoped to have using Jordan as a foil to run against.

A big problem is that identifiable mental illness won't get you there. The reason it's such a problem for this particular society to be highly armed is because it's not just mental illness, it's a level of alienation that has become endemic. We are a society where a low level sociopathy has become the behavioral standard. You don't have to stray far enough from that to generate a diagnosis before ending up a killer.

And I think the sense of entitlement is about a lot more than his appointment - it's about the perceived sense of grievance he carries about his life in general. If you followed Coleman Young at all he was very explicit about this, you couldn't shame him over what he considered to be petty corruptions of power, because "it's our turn now." I see this dynamic at work in Thomas in pretty much the same way, he just adds an an Ivy league gloss on his. And what the heck, maybe he should be aggrieved, but no society can ultimately accept that as a valid excuse to being unethical yourself. To take on moral leadership in society, and where is that more the case than a judgeship, requires you to transcend your personal grievances, not play to your own lowest common denominator.

Under the "Details matter" heading, the Pistons shot 60% from the charity stripe. They score 105 at 80%.

I believe it's possible/likely that there are cases where psycho-active meds make things worse for some patients, have personal experience with people who have been through treatment and told me that. I challenge anyone to make a serious claim the we understand enough about brain chemistry and more importantly, even the nature of consciousness and volition, to be able to predict the actions of psychiatric meds with any great precision. That reality does make for a bad fit in a medical system that drives toward minimal doctor-patient time --> pharmaceutical intervention without adequate in depth follow-up. All that said, all mental health arguments are poor excuses and a trivially small part of the real issue for a nation awash in the instrumentality of death.

You never say never because who knows who may offer what - but as a general propositions I tend to doubt you will see the Tigers move young talent in trades for expensive established players. Hard to ignore all the talk about building sustainable competitiveness that we have heard since Chris Ilitch took over. Whether we agree or not it is what it is. That was Ilitch's mandate to Avila and I think it's a good bet it was exactly the same mandate to Harris. I think under C.I. we'll continue to see willingness to make middle of the road forays into the FA market but hoarding of their own young players, at least until we get to a point where we have enough talent that good players are being blocked by other good players. We're still some way from there!

Hard to understand how Killian can still be on the roster after 3yrs plus a 4th pre-season without any discernible sign of improvement. Only the FO's continuing inability to obtain any better talent.

yup. The obvious play for any other team is Cade plays decoy and your #2 choice takes the shot, but for the Pistons #2 is more like #6. OTOH, at this point a performance like that from Cade is more significant than the loss.

So close.

He also bought tickets non-UM games, SEC games etc. Sounds like maybe he was trying to build a little side business of his own.