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well, the Lions used to be a parody of a football team, but I don't think that ever helped their ratings...... 😉

I didn't find it that bad when there was a lot of traffic, you just went with it, but get out on the road where you are by yourself and you suddenly realize you've ended up on the wrong side! For me the worst thing was that a right side drive car is not mirror image to a left side drive, which is what my brain wanted it to be. If I'm sitting on the right I want the turn signal on the left!

fans can hype the %, it was still only a couple of thousand votes. In modern US politics elections are won by who shows up. When nobody shows up it just doesn't tell you much, no matter what people would like to read into it. Nobody is saying it's a bad outcome, just a fairly insignificant one.

of course you could also say that Czechoslovakia took from 1968 to 1989.

when you start driving west from Sydney, the geographies change pretty dramatically and pretty fast going from habitable to a lot less habitable. A bit like driving up the Columbia river from the Pacific to Idaho.

Nice. Pulling things out of datasets that were only in there implicitly was something I did a lot of when I worked as a process engineer. You could amplify the time calc a little bit by subtracting the minimum 2min per half inning inning break from every game (minimum of 34 min for a home team win) plus a couple of extra minutes twice in each game for brooming the field.(maybe 5 min) which is guaranteed dead time - the order wouldn't change but the %difference and the net time per pitch would be closer - but still not that close given all the umpire time-outs, to the real number. The other thing that *might* play into this is the amount of foul territory in the ball park. If park has a small foul area, there probably is less time spent after a ball goes out of play, than if the foul ball stays on the field and either a play is made or it has to be retrieved by a ball boy or player. But this factor would follow the park, not the team.

less than one in ten registered D's were motivated to vote. I find the apathy pretty appalling. Dems could have lost this if the GOP had thought to call a couple of MAGA preachers and ask for a good word.

Sorokin just wasn't using his head.

ESPN has a non-paywalled story on the Hughes trade to the Wild. You almost wonder if as good as Quinn is, if you get him signed you might have second thoughts about taking on the drama that will come when the brothers become FA's and the pressure is on to bring them together, maybe when there isn't actually a productive fit. It's the kind of thing that could become a soap opera for what ever team has any of the brothers at that point.

1st is good.

IIRC corectly, early on it was Exxon that was in the middle of the argument over embargoing Vz oil because they had spent big $$ to outfit at least one of their gulf coast refineries to run it (it's very heavy stock - fairly unique processing requirements) and were unhappy about the prospect of having an unusable multi-billion $ investment if the flow from VZ stopped. That was a number of years ago when Maduro was beginning to make himself an outcast, but that's the kind situation where money, corporate political pull and Secretaries of State that are ex Oil Co CEO's reduce the likely hood that the US is actually going to pursue productive foreign policies.

Unfortunately looks like this was a nobody cared election: 5178 votes cast, total. There are 80K registered voters in the district. https://www.wlky.com/article/democrat-gary-clemons-wins-senate-district-37-seat/69790740 https://elect.ky.gov/Resources/Documents/voterstatsdistrict-May 2024.pdf

Just the facts, Ma'am.

yup. Neither he nor Veleno had any shooting finesse.

Wings down one after one. Goal scored on some very lazy defensive coverage by Raymond.

by most definitions a blockade is an Act of War. Maybe a bit greyer if the shipping is sanctioned, depending of whether what international legal standing the sanctions have. There certainly could or should be against Maduro, but even if there are, the Trump admin doesn't care about the regulation playbook.

yankees games did total 51 more totals runs in '25 than '24

Zadina could very occasional flash some good wheels, but then as soon as you saw it, it was gone again. Like there was a better skater in there but the cardio wasn't there to support it for more than a few seconds or something.

there are a hundred ways the US could be working within existing norms and institutions to bring US power to bear to remove Maduro with international legal backing. Instead he doing everything humanly possible to be the bad guy and turn Maduro into the victim.

I wonder if he kept Stew on the bench as a lesson in keeping his cool. He was a little too emotionally out of control in this one - it was a quick whistle crew but they were abusing Boston too so just shut up and play on.

LOL - Scalise arguing to make medical insurance more like one of the worst and most complained about insurance systems out there - ie car insurance. Surely just what we need are animated reptiles and Mr Mayhem working in the health field.

correct. It's not the laying out of fact and arguing from cause to effect and from actual circumstance to analogy that's indicative of derangement, neither is the strength of advocacy for the real over the false.

Undersized but calls a good game?

yeah - I'd have judged both of those guys to be eminently replaceable also. Probably Hinch likes having guys like Jones on the bench who had already failed to make the cut somewhere else who have to just be grateful to be there - makes for less discontent among the role players even if there might be a somewhat better player for the slot but who wouldn't want to stay in it.

sure - but it doesn't matter how great the arguments are that we concoct for revenue sharing, the rich teams have heard them all before and said "nice talk, no thanks" repeatedly. The question isn't whether revenue equalization would be wonderful for the sport, it's how do you move the sport in that direction in less than another 100 yrs? Sadly the union has been zero help in this regard because their perspective is that they want Dodgers and Yankees bidding up the pay schedule even if that means the gains for their membership are a mile high and only an inch wide.