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yeah - we know the team can't score the basketball - or play D. But strictly from an isolated player development standpoint you'd like to see the guy hit the highest possible ceiling. With a team this bad all that's left of any interest to watch is the pool on when the 1st head rolls in the front office, and how good Cade might be able to be.

If Trump loses NH the following week will the most fun we've had in US politics for a long time.

Goaltending was a big question mark coming in to the season and it's only gotten bigger.

It could easily be Mize at Toledo to start the season. But it will almost certainly resolve itself - someone will be hurt or won't get anyone out in ST.

Clearly contract wise - but I just meant health wise - as in recurring trips to DL. Zimm is the poster child for how to end a career with cervical vertebrae issues.

so they are 1.13 when Cade passes the ball and 0.86 when he keeps it? Might improve if he can start drawing more fouls.....

Yup. From 8/31: 43 batters faced, 1 BB He was lights out in Sept. Could be a great add if he stays healthy. OTOH - it was a neck injury - downside would be Zimmermann part duex.

By the time Ohtani is back, Kershaw will be that much closer to being done, Glasnow has 7 war in 7 years in the league. Yamamoto hasn't gotten a single MLB hitter out. I think they need to win while Kershaw is still good or their windows gets a lot narrower even with the signings.

FWIW - Based on some quick video clip research, Baez, who is probably the Tiger's best base runner, hits 2nd with his left foot going 1st to 3rd.

11 Piston TO's from PG position.

Pistons hammered by Kelly Olynyk. You can't make it up.

One possession game with 3 min left. Best player on the court time.

People keep getting dumber. I'm old and when we were kids we knew Jingle Bells was not a Christmas Carol.

I suppose it might make a difference whether you know your are going to the next base or not. If you are going 1st to 3rd and you try to run that as a smooth arc at max speed, you are probably better off hitting 2nd with which ever foot keeps you on stride. If I'm going straight to 2nd, then decide or am waved to 3rd, I need to make a sharper pivot and if you go inside foot to the bag you get more leverage to make the sharper turn?

People mostly 'believe' lies that make them comfortable in their pre-existing prejudices. To a degree I will defend and agree with '84 that there is a level of dishonesty at work where people are claiming 'belief' because they willfully refuse to 'let' themselves know/learn what is true. They make a conscious choice to protect themselves from the truth. I wouldn't justify people like that either.

The SO just got an all day run around from Amazon customer service on an error on a book order. The normal routine of web pages that just went in circles and chat bots that just disappeared mid-contact. Ironically enough, the last few times I dealt with ATT, which used to be totally terrible, they actually tried pretty hard. Their service people don't know what they are doing half the time, but were at least trying. 🙄

Interesting to see a story in the NYT today about Fetterman deciding he's no longer a 'progressive' and he's OK with taking flak from the left - mostly about Israel but also immigration. The Dems do need to jettison the progressive approach on immigration and make a deal on the border - the current stance hurts them a lot with voters. There are very few voters anywhere happy with a chaotic situation at the border, and there is a broad public understanding that asylum rules passed with the intent of protecting political refugees are now being routinely abused by economic advantage seekers. You can have sympathy for economic advantage seekers and still understand that the law as it exists requires a process and limits and the practical outcome of letting people into the country as political refugees when they are not is an abuse of the law. The US political consensus has not produced legal sanction to an open border and regardless of one's sympathies, it is true that for the left to try to force the border open by normalizing abuse of asylum claims is just as much an end around of the democratic process as anything the right does and it ticks off large numbers of voters in the same way.

They sucked you in and bided their time, then POW!

you have learned the hard way why you Never, Ever put any bill on autopay.

The thing that makes it look worse for Cade is that if he’s a difference maker player, the team should at least be better this year than it was without him last year- on the assumption of other things being equal. So you have to accept that the roster below Cade got materially worse, or that Williams is a disaster - but there may easily be enough truth to both to have hope for Cade.

There are two ways of looking at it, and until Weaver is gone and the roster turns over (and assuming Cade doesn't bolt) we won't be able to prove it either way: 1) Cade is great but despite that Weaver has assembled such a historically bad roster than even a great player can't lift it above a 0.100% win rate. B) If Cade were as good as his backers claim, the Piston's couldn't be this bad even if you invited 4 other guys off the street to play with him - i.e. every great NBA player lifts his team. Time will tell. I am sympathetic to the idea that Weaver has been multiple steps beyond total incompetence, and given the obviousness of that fact, it's beyond depressing that he is still employed because it means the owner is just as lost.

Same list but only 4 regular starters. Most teams can't get to 5 reliable guys anyway.

Has there ever been a GM in any big 4 sport that still had a job after 4 of 49?

polling is close to useless anymore. everyone measures the same numbers and then has to apply huge normalization factors that swamp any signal in the real data. Bottom line is all the polling is anymore is the pollster's assumptions about who is answering the poll and who is likely to turnout, and they really don't have more than a clue about either.

Good. Now lets see him do it when the Pistons are in competitive games and the other team is trying.