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Near as I can read this, the radicals don't want McHenry, they want Jordan. Hopefully they are pushing the 'moderates', OK, correct that, there may no 'moderates', lets just call them the 'sane' caucus, closer to the embrace of Mr Jeffries.

LOLOLOL Deal for McHenry is apparently dead in the GOP caucus and Jordan is going to go for another vote.

that's a pretty sobering list to be found in the company of.

I would guess with Jordan's chances of winning the Chair directly evaporating, the Nihilism caucus has realized that it McHenry gets a bipartisan mandate they lose their leverage, so now they need to get out ahead of it - give him the gavel with just GOP votes and nothing will have changed, their leverage remains intact. Of course they may find McHenry to be a less feckless foil than McCarthy was -- maybe. In fact McHeny's power might inhere exactly in the fact he may not care if he loses the job - and thus be less willing to kowtow to keep it.

And of course the obvious point is that what we do or don't believe about Manning's (or any other player's) future is good discussion fodder, and we all like to match our predictive power as observers/fans against the eventual outcomes, but if you run the team, you let need to let your final decisions be driven by what happens on the field. Manning will either earn a spot in the rotation by pitching well enough this Spring or even for some initial weeks in Toledo or he won't. That's the place the decision needs to be made.

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The single biggest tragedy was Arafat's refusal to take the deal at Camp David. The Palestinian leadership couldn't let go of their dream of reversing the UN mandate and here we are.

I guess 'Slurve' has been banished to the dictionary's 'archaic' headings.

Fate seems to conspire against some, but with pitchers career enders come out of the blue so often anyway how do you predict? In 2006, did Zumaya look like a candidate to be out of baseball in 3 yrs with a blown elbow? I think all you can do is see whether he pitches his way into the rotation and if he does you cross your fingers like you have to for every pitcher. If his inconsistency allows other pitchers to beat him out of a spot that solves your problem as well.

he's been known to play a little D as well, something the Pistons have also lacked prior to this year but you'd hope that with Cade, Ausar and Duren out there and better fit in the coaches chair, that will change

does what you are seeing discriminate between trying to throw harder sliders vs just harder fastballs? There has certainly been an uptick in very hard sliders in recent years, though the sudden rage for the 'sweeper' does seem to be a move back the other way.

In the 3rd I thought it took them too long to figure out they were getting too many people too deep and leaving the trailer wide open on every Pit rush. They seemed to finally start picking him up after the 3rd Pit goal, plus it helped the Wings that the Pit #1 line was reaching their energy limit on their last shift or two. It was also sort of funny that each team's first goal was almost a mirror image of the same across the slot pass play, with the Pens losing track of Debrincat just like the Wings lost track of Malkin. So much bad passing by the Wings in the 1st period though. Need to be less sloppy opening the game.

the Cavs won 41 games in two years before the 20 draft, the Piston had won 40. A big piece of why Mobley played on a better team is because he made it better. So sure, let's say outside the draft the Pistons' FO was more incompetent than the Cavs, that's still been cold comfort for the fans.

injuries that cluster to one position have killed more than one football team. They aren't going to go 16-1 and if they do lose this one it doesn't have terrible downstream implications, as long as they get something back at RB soon. But it will be interesting to see what kind of rabbits Campbell can pull out his hat through. He's proving to be a creative coach so he'll have something cooked up, whether or not it works!

possibly, but it will be interesting to see what Mobley's ceiling is going to be once in his mid twenties when 7 footers often start hitting their stride. Full disclosure, I was hoping for Mobley in that draft. The danger with Cade seemed to be that he would be a 'tweener'. That didn't turn out to be the the problem, instead it's been the injuries, and he still has to shoot better when he does get on the court if he's going to be franchise player.

2020 Draft win shares: Mobley: 13.7 Greene. 2.5 Cunningham: -0.6 You are what your record says you are until you change it.

Jordan did turn 2 to his side, but lost 4 he had yesterday so the net is 2 more down.

lost two more. Will the fact that he's going backward mean the conference decides to go another was without more votes? We can only hope.

And she'd be a good choice.

yeah - I'm not sure I'm seeing what they want the tackler to do differently either, but you assume that must have something more specific in mind - maybe just don't roll up on him?

does this make any sense? Or should we ever expect that from McCarthy?

probably. But if it gets to a bipartisan deal, what will matter is not the person but the rules package that comes with him. But McHenry works well enough.

Hope he enjoys Canada.

Manning tends to be as good as his fastball is on any given outing and his mechanics were not consistent from start to start last season so his fast ball was up and down. There was a pretty good inverse correlation between his velocity and his results. If he ever gets a chance to pitch more regularly, and his ability to access more consistent velocity straightens out, I think you will see a more consistent pitcher. And sure he might not, but if a guy has shown he has the arm to throw hard at least half the time do you really want to bet that another team isn't going to unlock that as soon as you move him? It's a much more straightforward task than fixing a bad breaking ball.

Never root for OSU. Just...never.