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If the Lions were more of a 3-4 team you wonder if they wouldn't have already thought about having him lose a few pounds and making him rush/WIL

LOL, stupid fingers. K to Y isn't even that close. I guess that was the brain starting out to say 'Rookie of the Year" and the fingers saying - 'this here 'k' is enough mate'

no - the segue to the political take was the Millenial economics aspect that was a common thread connecting both the survey in SB's post and survey work reported the FT article I linked. We are afterall, in a thead called 'Politics Schmaltics'!

It does dovetail with the FT article though - measures the same sentiment. The FT piece interprets it as the Millennials having far less confidence in conventional ideas about market capitalism because they began their economic lives with the great crash in '09 and this long era of stagnant wage growth. That has affected both their actual economic security (as noted in the Pru survey) and their sense of their potential economic future outlook. But that sense also has political fallout because it will be a big factor in how they vote.

It's just a pet peeve of mine that the flower children/protesters of the 60/70 are presented historically as the whole representation of their generation when the reality is while there was a big leftward movement driven largely by the War - there were a LOT of boomers and the conventional folks were still the majority of their generation. To understand this correctly takes some of the supposed mystery out of why the Fox News cohort (which is mostly boomers) are what they are. The boomers founded the SDS, but they also were the "Young Republicans for Nixon" and the heart of the 60s-70s Christian Pentacostal movement which laid the groundwork for today's version of Conservative American Evangelicalism. I suppose part of this disconnect is because in recent culture, the literary and historian classes tend to come primary from liberal arts culture, which sits leftward from the full truth of their own era as they chose to remember and record it.

are you looking for him to lead the league in scoring? Seider played 49 games at GR, 22pts and a -5. Granted he was a year younger, but then again no-one expects to Edvinsson to equal Seider -- hoping for at least a 2nd line level, but asking for another ROK is little much.

I'm thinking along the line of what the Tigers might be in the process of starting to do (if some of the recent hirings mean what they might) which would be a serious effort to develop a quantitative understanding of the drivers of pitching arm injuries. For a long time now there have been theories and speculations and various teams have had different approaches (more and less long toss etc, pitching per inning limits, per game limits, per yr limits) and of course Pedro famously pegged Mize for TJ for his inverted 'W', but no-one has ever had much science or data to back it up. To me 'next big thing' means teams going down the path of finally footing the bill for working up some pitching health science

On the cohort topic, this is notable - maybe: Millennials are not aging into conservatism like older cohorts

I'm not sure this is true. The thing to remember about the boomers is that their cultural signatures were provided by a minority of the cohort. Millions of boomers that were never flower children or counter culture kids went off to war, or went from State U to main stream corporate America, especially the older end the cohort. Those rather studious young people got married early, had their kids, and did exactly what the man told Benjamin Braddock to do - they went in to plastics - learned to play golf and made careers. That's why so many of them are deep red repubs today. They been disliking the libs since the long haired kid next to them in math class in '68 tried to crib a test answer (or worse, stole *his* girl!)

the next big thing.

Edvinsson's results are captive to the fact that GR is pretty terrible right now. His +/- is negative but only 5 below the team lead. And among D men his 10 pts is one behind McIssac - 4yrs his senior, and Kempfer - a 34 yr old journeyman. He's doing fine.

Yzerman is starting to collect guys who have some puck handling skills in tight spaces (mostly just meaning some quicks) . It's only one skill among many for a team but it's one the Wings have mostly lacked - Larkin used to be it and is still head and shoulders above the rest, but now with Perron, Berggren, Soderblom they are starting to get a little more if it.

Defensive breakdown was always lurking there as possibility with this team, but for me the killer was that after the first play, the O-line didn't move anyone all night - in the second half even though the O was scoring it was too fast, leaving the D still spending too much time on the field.

Don't look now but Joe Veleno has a 6 game point streak going. Or maybe it's just playing with Soderblom, who had a hand in 4 of them.

Sending Berggren or Soderblom down looking like a worse option by the day.

The level of play throught the 1st 5 isn't too bad so we can aspire to one more D man (Edvinnson?) that would give us 3 pairs without a bad drop off. TBH though, when I've watched the Wings struggle this season, it's more often a group of forwards being useless in their own end than out right bad defenseman play.

Maata/Osterle will not be good, but Osterle/Anyone would probably not be good. It will be interesting to see if the Hronek/Chairot pair can avoid both getting caught up ice at the same time.

I think the way the portal started out was probably a fair system - you get one "free" transfer but a second after that and it costs you a year sitting out. But of course since those rules were rational they have been tossed to the side... I'd go a step further - you have to decide at the end of your 1st year - it's either the right program for you or it isn't - after that no free moves. But at this point I don't see the system going back to being more restrictive - so it's going to be more chaos until whatever eventually replaces the NCAA takes shape.

The lower tier bowls have always lost seniors who were going pro - I can't really argue with that, it's the 1600 guys in the portal that really made a mockery of some of this year's bowls. I'm guessing they end up changing the portal access dates.

Maybe nagging injury but could also fit the profile of a guy who sold out for HR's/launch angle and it backfired because he started missing the ball too much. His FB % and pull & were up but his LD % was way down along with the higher Ks.

it's not even that the fees are hidden, it's never been a secret that the credit card co takes a cut of every purchase. The question is whether having more COs in the market is actually likely to reduce the fees. You have 4 large ones now - if that is not enough the keep each other honest is 10 going to be? Maybe - but I don't think it's necessarily any kind of foregone conclusion. I have a suspicion this will turn out to be like the AT&T breakup. You initially had a bunch of new entries but then slowly the market re-agglomerated to a small number of carriers because that's just the nature of the market. Credit cards benefit from their universality - if there are too many of them that would inevitably be lost. Then eventually the more successful cards re-emerge and re-establish universality and the others would pretty much disappear- at least I see that as one possible outcome. The real beneficiary's of this bill might really just be other banks that want the chance because they think they could displace the one of the current 4 big four in the same basic system.

Not at all. it's funny. I guess once you work for a corporation once, there shouldn't be any mystery. The only reason a business exists is to part you from your money while giving up as little in return as possible. That is the basic set up, no-one should ever be surprised by that. Your job as a consumer is to do everything you can to pit every business you can against each other so you can get as much for your money as you can. Seller/buyer. It's just your basic predator/prey relationship the species has been dealing with for 100000 yrs cast into constantly evolving settings. The only thing that surprises me is when people don't get it. My SO has this eternal optimism that some-one out there selling something really wants to give her something for free. I've tried to persuade her otherwise over the years, and she's been disappointed by enough sales come-ons at this point to know better herself --- makes no difference. Something in human nature I guess.

did I see Morris will be playing? He's maybe the single biggest difference maker on that D. Assuming Edwards is nearly 100% by now, having Morris back is a bigger deal than missing Corum.

pretty rank stupidity. what other outcome did he think was possible? And that was not even a slip of the tongue or moment of confusion, that was a thoroughly premeditated drop. I think it happens when you travel in circles where a lot of people talk that way most of the time. It's like the line about telling the truth because it's the easiest story to remember - If you are a decent person all the time you don't have to keep remembering not to be jerk in your professional life.....

one thing that would help would be a reform of corporate governance structures mandated by corporate charters. I think in the modern world we are now sophisticated enough to know that investors are not the only stakeholders in American corporations and their exclusive representation on corporate boards is an anachronism. Half the managers at least at any corporation know that they are not managing their operation for its optimum long term growth but have no alternative because the governing imperative is short term profit. That is not an inevitability, it's simply a political choice we have made, or allowed to happen.