gehringer_2

There are parallels between post WWI Germany and the US. Germany is a country that had actually just been badly defeated and felt it, in the US the defeat has been economic across the lower 2/3 of the income spectrum but the discontent over it produces the same sense of political alienation. Culturally both countries had moved into a period of increasing cultural coarseness. And much like then the politics of blaming minorities for larger societal failures has increased traction.

So she is still in place as of today? Bizarre.

probably closer to 6 - Mets, Boston, SF and the Cubs would also likely be on the other side on the question. But the question is why revenue equalization is any more likely to happen now when it hasn't in 100years? You'd think maybe with two teams playing in minor league parks there might be more sense of crises in the sport, but there doesn't seem to be.

and there has probably been 7-10% devaluation of the dollar since those were signed.

tough night for Duren

Indeed, not noblesse oblige, Trump is rather driven by "L'état, c'est moi." The only reason for Trump to hold that Rob Reiner was bad for America in clear contradiction to his significant contribution to American Art and Culture, was simply because he did not support Trump.

certainly the optimum system to produce a balanced league, but unfortunately also the least likely outcome possible in the current reality. If you are NY or LA your message to the other owners is "go find your own 15 million local fans"

Cade decided he was a 3pt shooter tonight.

Pistons have missed 7 FTs, 6 by Ausar. 😡

Europe came close a couple of years ago but backed away from banning the so called 'proof-of-work' system of Bitcoin's which is what sucks so much power. It may yet happen though.

I think it only works if you have some way to force teams to spend it on their own FAs, otherwise the money just disappears into their budget like current lux tax payments and does nothing to insure teams are actually using it to keep players.

the devil you already know

Very simple. TO in the last 3 min are 10sec. You get a clock stoppage and substitution and the the ball goes back into play. If a coach has to be teaching his team new plays in the last two minutes of a game he needs to run his practices better.

Best possible outcome -- Warde is out there finding replacements for both Moore and himself. I think I said it before, but it seems to me that only way Warde comes through this without being too wounded in the org is if it's know on the inside that Moore was not his 1st choice. And that just doesn't seem likely to have been the case.

I think that is Detroit's best hope to sign him - that the owners have a clear vision of changes coming that will make teams reluctant to bid against Det for Skubal. The problem is that by the same token, if that's true Ilitch may not want to bid against himself either. I could certainly see MLB trying to ban contracts longer than 5 yrs and maybe settling for 7, since there is precedent for that in other sports. Who knows if/how long the players would go to the mat over that?

he is the avatar of Tribal identity for millions who apparently don't know where else to anchor themselves.

they need to decide Warde's fate quickly, and I assume they realize that.

velocity makes everything play better but some guys can get away without it better than others. Depends on how much life they can muster on a fastball at 95 as compared to 99. JV could throw his FB across a range of different speeds short of full out and it played well enough to set up his off-speed, but JV was JV. And even he has said he doesn't think he could pitch in today's game the way he did in 2006.

And it's not only Trump exposing himself as a terrible person, it's the fact that it's demonstrating the loss of supervisory function in his psyche. He may have always been a creep, but throughout his life he was capable mostly hiding it, at least in public. He had learned to be suave. It not unusual for developing dementia to be manifested in various forms of inhibition loss. We are seeing that in spades. In the case of Trump it's the bruised child ego that has always been there expressing its rages with all higher order supervision falling away. That's a much more dangerous prognosis for the rest of us than the occasional neural time out we got from a McConnell or Biden. I'll take a mind which is intact but slowed down over one which may be quick but which is descending into unconstrained Id.

well, there is nothing I'd love to see more than for Trumpers to have to have to win back their standing in decent society by making their appearances before an American version of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to explain what they were thinking. Well, a guy can dream.

Trump will end up being like Vichy France or the Vietnam War. After WWII ended every Frenchman claimed to have hated Vichy and supported le Resistance, almost all imaginary. By 1980 in the US you couldn't find anyone that admitted having supported the war in SE Asia even though Nixon won the election on a pure hawk platform. In 15 yrs you won't be able find anyone who will admit to have voted for Trump. They will expunge it from their ledgers.

to me the word that fits for Trump is just "Vile." Short, concise, apt. The apotheosis of a vile human being.

I'd like to see Cade shot % broken down by quarters. Just an impression but it seems like he comes out cold a lot of nights and picks it up later.

well we can only hope this is true because the front end was was supposed to the be easy part of the schedule I think,

sure - a good way to obscure your real direction is to move in all directions.