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Ahh. This story hitting probably explains why Valenti et al were ragging on Lions ownership with particular vigor today when I heard a few minutes in the car earlier this afternoon. "Don't want to win enough", "We're good, it's good enough", "Ownership isn't driven to win", "Windows are real and they close" - and on and on and on.....

James Madison apparently a 'bleeding heart'

and watch the next generation of stadia go back out to the suburbs....

Speaking of polling/surveys being believed, I saw a reference to a book that sounded interesting by a guy named Carl Allen who has a book out called "The polls weren't wrong" that supposedly dissects all that is wrong with the way we/the media use polling data in the political process. Anybody heard of him or his work?

If this to be believed, then MSNBC is the laughable one to me. They and Fox are basically still playing on the Right/Left split inside the Boomer gen between the frats and the hippies that's been there ever since the beginning, when the potential power on the left is in generations they apparently aren't reaching.

aircraft and shipbuilding almost prove the point. US DOD ship and airplane builders aren't competitive in any other markets. The specialization required to work with DOD almost preclude their ability to function in an ordinary market. Plus the whole market development paradigm is backward. To build a commercial business you have to be market savvy - develop products that will find a home in the broad market. Defense contracting is virtually the opposite. DOD develops performance and capability requirements internally and issues RFPs for manufacturers to supply them. It's not 100% one way but the basic relation between seller and buyer is fundamentally different. In term of a 'base' DOD spending is big, but not big enough to shift the overall manufacturing base of the economy, especially since most DOD procurement is already required to be domestic.

where was any of this adjudicated? Even the drone strikes in the ME at least have a formal internal review process and the targets have to be identified as individuals. When you kill people without due process, that's murder by anybody's definition. Even any kind of police action requires suspects be given the opportunity to surrender. Were these people? You are only good with this because you feel securely beyond the reach of some arbitrary power doing it to you. But the screw has a way of turning. We are officially a rogue nation. Have a nice day.

Absolutely. In the NFL injuries are almost always what sorts out the handful of teams that start out a season with SB potential. Holmes does seem to understand this better than any Lions GM in my memory and always tries to build depth.

waste of time. Getting there to prove the capability was one thing. We didn't keep going back for a reason - which was there isn't one. Getting to the moon was not Columbus reaching the the Western Hemisphere.

Isn't the Tiger emphasis on fly ball hitting going to lower BaBIP as the cost of getting more ISO? i.e. More fly balls than ground balls are fielded for outs, but the unfielded fly ball is extra bases often enough to be worth it.

The only thing I've read by MIran is that he says that reindustrialization needs to be led by defense spending. LOL - he complains that Biden's plans subsidized inefficient producers. He obviously doesn't know as much about defense procurement as he thinks he does.

If you are going to work old style like Ernie and let the pauses lie, you need good field mic'ing to keep up the ambiance. It's like being on a digital phone system that doesn't inject noise and you're constantly wondering if your call dropped.

when do we reach harmonic convergence between the gambling books and the crypto bros?

I'm an old fogy and I'm all in on Benetti. I also like Dirks and to a lesser degree Scales, partly just because they were hitters. In recent years so many MLB analysts have been pitchers and I guess I've watched enough baseball that you can't really tell me anything I haven't already heard about what a pitcher is doing/trying to do. Getting the the perspective of hitters/fielders who have played the game relatively recently is just refreshingly informative to me. Plus TBH, Dirks explains a pitching grip as well as Petry does.

It's a symptom of a larger culture that no longer understands the value of anything beyond money. It's funny (or maybe not) that in all kinds of international cultural survey work, the US always ranks as the most religious 1st world country, yet as a nation we are completely bereft of any sense of transcendent values. Draw what conclusions you may from that contradiction.

And you probably don't want to be this old: My first student season pass to Michigan football was $21. Seven games. And as seniors we were sitting at the 45yd line because that was when the university still thought that college students should get the best seats at a college football game.

True, and Benitti recognizes that, but his response is if you keep reaching to be better - to avoid being boring and in a rut, the price is that not everything is going to work all the time. You could say Ernie Harwell is the counter to that arg, but OTOH, times/culture change, and television isn't radio.

wouldn't just killing people on the open sea be piracy by any international legal definition? Just because you do it with billion dollar ordinance instead of zodiacs like the Houthi's, is it any different?

why should we believe him, he lies about everything else?

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? they seem intent on trying to turn college football into another USFL. I know enough to always discount my own taste when it comes what is likely to be successful in the market but I can't help thinking how little I care about Michigan Football today, and in terms of ties to the University, I bleed about as blue as anyone has a right to.

This is why Dirks has been a ratings success. He dropped the one liner but then he did follow that up with a solid commentary. Of all the analysts Benetti works with, Dirks is the only one that will try to return the favor of trying to knock Jason off his stride and that creates a little more of a fun dynamic. Not to everyone's taste but it seems to be selling well. When Gibson was good, that is one of the things he would do as well - i.e. be a little more challenging to his partner, though in different ways than Dirks.

Tigers are 22 games over 500 in games started by Mize and Skubal. The rest of the staff is underwater.

Probably - though McKinstry has exceeded my expectations with his play there - of course that could mean he is ripe for regression! I was disappointed in a lack of a play by Gleyber for the 1st time in a while today. I didn't think he made much of an effort on the ball Nimmo hit in the 8th. IDK, maybe he figures Nimmo is too fast to throw out if he dives for the ball, but the effort looked lackluster.

😡 I cannot ID this Tiger. Carson Kelly maybe?

At minimum it allows Javy - who is 32, and is always playing a high stress defensive position, to get more games off against RHP.