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Those guys needed a top QB to play with but never got one.

I thought the drive to Portland from the Idaho state line was a fun one. You pass through every kind of environment there is in a couple hundred miles.

I guess it's a generational thing - the fact that Chinese emigres to the US in recent years have been mostly Engineers and Scientists, but I'm depressed about the loss of good Chinese restaurants in A^2. We use to have 5 or 6 places you could get a really fabulous meal, now not only they all gone, but those that remain can't out cook a Panda House.

well congrats - that makes you an upwardly mobile (by) 1%'er.

All that - and even self service gasoline!

assuming the TV deals hold until then. We don't know what's in those contracts. Can the carriers walk away if the top teams do? Just a swag here but given all the conference re-alignments I wouldn't think a broadcaster would sign a conference deal that wasn't contingent on who stayed in the conference. There is certainly a lot of pull to keep the traditional rivalries and conference identifications (and the convenience of being able to pad your schedule with sure wins!), but if money gets tight will all that matter enough even before 2030?

Your point about no weak sister ever leaving the B10 by choice is the right one. And IIRC, the charter makes it almost impossible to force a school out. So the way I would read it is that is that only choice if the OSU's and PSU's and UM's want to keep more of their own revenue is for them to leave the conference. Now, I suppose all things are negotiable - if the top schools seriously threatened to leave maybe the other schools would rather acquiesce to a charter revision than see the remnants of their conference become net unprofitable. Hard to say how it might break.

swap a guy that will fail against RHB for a guy that'll fail against LHB. Why not?

the 25 pt cut is already baked in almost everywhere. If for any reason they bail it'll be 'Panic in Detroit' 🙄

As I understand it, Congress voted to stop the clock on the emergency timer. That is the reason Trump is still in business with the tariffs. It's one thing to violate the constitution, it will quite another if the courts ultimately decide Congress or the exec can re-decide what Time is.

technically true of course, but still, the owners of the team are still major shareholders of Ford family preferred stock. I think it's safe to assume they are still pretty tuned into the team never doing anything to dent the Blue Oval since they know people outside SE Michigan probably make no distinction between the WCF branch and the rest of the Ford business.

This is true.

Even if I grant that as true, and I’d have to think about 🤔, it still doesn’t enjoy the kind of validation across the body politic needed to persuade both sides to accept the same reported facts.

This is true. Maybe is was never all it was cracked up to be, but originally you had to pledge to operate in the public interest to get an FCC license to operate a broadcast radio or later, TV transmitter. And there was a certain level of noblesse oblige that remained at work pretty much right up to the birth of cable. I think 20/20 hindsight tells us the the Reagan admin's and general GOP resistance to bringing cable TV under the jurisdiction of the FCC was the original sin for a lot of what is wrong the US media today. Because if cable had been brought under the FCC with a public service mandate, the precedent would have been set for the internet to have been as well. If there is one thing I really despair about it is that American voters don't understand that rules matter. They're always looking for the result in relative ignorance that it's the rules that produce the results. But of course rules debates generally don't work as soundbites.

there is often an appearance of agreement on objectives, but the disagreement about what is true - or alternatively - who can be believed, is pretty deep and I don't know how you paper that over easily. When the traditional cultural sources of credible knowledge (e.g. news networks and newspapers that reported straight and that everyone trusted) began to fail in the digital age, I had thought it wouldn't take that long for new trusted, authoritative sources to emerge. Man - was I wrong about that. I don't see any sign at all that any person, place, or thing is emerging to fill the chasm in the US market for trustworthy news. And of course that may be because neither side cares if one does. In the US we can usually get anything we are willing to pay for.

When I checked last week, the Tigers were more game over 500 in games started by Mize and Skubel than their overall record - thus they are sub 500 when anyone besides those two start.

apropos of this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-techs-energy-hungry-data-040203455.html

There are all kinds of studies out there to purport to show that conservatives and liberals have fundamentally different psychological profiles that draw them to various institutions that match those profiles. I guess there is always some level of chicken/egg question with those kinds of conclusions.

Wasn't the major piece of the motivation for UCLA to leave the PAC10 that their Athletic Dept was effectively bankrupt and they needed the bigger B10 payouts to stay afloat? So with Cal going to the ACC and UCLA bailing, UCal system will be out of the B1G

There is diverging sentiment between Wall Street and consumers about the future. The market thinks the future is peachy, consumer sentiment about the future is in the tank both regarding employment and inflation. Given the continuing income disparity in the US, that could be true for both, but only to a degree. In a 60%+ consumer spending driven economy, if the consumer bugs out, it will still pull down most things else eventually. I've always just rode out the drops in the past, but my horizon is a lot shorter now so IDK.

Ironically, the former does exactly help make the latter possible. Condition someone to always just accept doctrine, then suddenly remove the constraints - and the moral reasoning muscle is deeply atrophied. It may go in a lot of wrong directions before it ever (hopefully) does find its ground. I know all the modern understanding about young brains, but all the more reason they should start being challenged with taking moral responsibility for themselves early, when the stakes are still low and they can learn their own way. I always thought Judaism was onto to something then they told a 13yr old it was time to grow up and start taking responsibility for yourself. If you are 13 with half an ounce of sense, you can figure out what is right and wrong for yourself if given the chance. But that's what too many parents are afraid or, or are being taught to be afraid of by the people they allow themselves to be led by.

Society can't function when everyone is this greedy, and what I mean is that if the members of the press don't have enough solidarity with each other to boycott the event in support of one of their members who is singled out, then they all deserve to be divided and conquered. But they are too willing to see one of their own go down to make a nickel. Of course the problem is that even if they all deserve to go down, damn-little good that does the public.

They aren’t going to have enough investigators to keep up.

The one caveat is that the player is never truly an invariant source. The person may vary in time due to any of the thousand things that affect people, including his efforts to get better. And of course some guys are just more stable/consistent than others.

Yup. He’ll have a couple clean outings then go out and walk three the next day. I had been kind of hopeful because he had a couple of good outings when he came back, but he didn’t sustain it.