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IIRC Anhueser-Busch did not run a Budweiser ad during the SB. Is that a first in 57yrs? And was the Dodge Ram electric pickup the best or worst ad of the night?

I think if it's reasoanble to assume the action prevented the receiver from getting to where the ball was supposed to be thrown it's a good call, and holding a jersey does absolutely slow you down, so I don't have a problem with that call, but if this game did demonstrate anything about NFL rules, it's that there is no logical way to explain what is or isn't a catch.

Not his best effort. The man is clearly slipping.

well sure, but you're not going to get Taiwan's semiconductor foundries by invading them - I would guess the Taiwanese would destroy them before they let Xi have them. As Muad'dib would say "He who has the power to destroy a thing controls it absolutely"

The die was cast when the first signal/banwidth supplier agreed to pay a content provider for programming. The transaction should go the other way! The content provider receives ad revenue. They should be paying the bandwidth provider to transport their content - how it ever came to be inverted is an interesting question.

At a single point in time there you can always select of a subset of your customers willing to pay a higher price and then maximize revenue at a sales point with fewer, higher value sales. But that is at a point in time of an established market. But for pro sport its the TV that creates the market in the first place. Cut back on the wide desemination of the games and the overall customer base shrinks, and eventually the numbers willing to pay the premium price begin to fall as well. So long term it's self-defeating for the sport as a whole, even if a manager can boost his quarterley revenue short term. Given the nature of US corporate governance, it's easy to understand how this kind self-defeating strategy becomes the order of the day. People confuse 'Market Economy' and the particular organzational evolution of US corporate structure and management. They are not the same thing, and you can have a market economy and its benefits with a vastly different set legal and organizational structures than the particular ones that have evolved in the US and no doubt a better one at that.

Which make you wonder what the attraction of Taiwan is, since it has one of the lowest fetility rates in the world. Population pressure driving a decision desire to take over a place that is going to need even more services for the aged than the mainland. Brilliant.

Well you have to admit the Chinese should be amused by the asymetry of what these floaters probably cost them (assuming this last thing originated in China) and what we are spending to go get them. How could you not be? Just rolling one F22 down the runway probably costs more than whatever comprises their whole fleet of these little response magnets. I'm not knocking that we've decided to play our half of the game kinetically, but that doesn't make it less funny in the "swatting flies with a howitzer" kind of way.

Chinese NORAD detection limit test balloons? $49.99 a pop on AliBaba?

are their other kinds? 💰 🏒 💸

right, but they didn't 'get' him for the trade pieces, they 'got' him for the $dollars spent. The question was what kinds of players the Wings could expect to draw with their trade pieces, which is a bit different question from how much the Wings are willing to pay for a FA - which is the bigger part of what NY did (i.e. pay as opposed to trade) to nail down Horvat as more than a rental.

Seider's fine. They just need to get to where he isn't trying to do the work or 2 or 3 players by himself. That's one place the Wings at least have some leadership - their two best players - Larkin and Seider, are strong team guys. You couldn't blame either one for playing a more selfish game, but neither does.

We have to hope the consensus scouting report on Bertuzzi doesn't converge to: "good player on a bad team, but maybe not good enough player to be good on a better team."

Sure, but but keep in mind all NY got was a rental and the chance to negotiate from less distance with a free agent. They didn't give up that much but they didn't yet land anything like a long term piece of their future either (which is what the Wings are still looking for)

They are in a tough spot. They already have lots of middling guys - what they need -as I think you noted - are a few more top end guys and usually you get those from high picks or big FA signings. Unless you send out Larkin or Seider, which gets you nowhere they are the only upper echelon talents you have, I don't see any one on this roster bringing back enough to get the Wings what they need.

you can buy a lot of plane tickets for a couple extra million.

Wasn't Weaver just quoted as saying you win by dominating the boards? Hasn't anyone told him that when half the shots in a game are threes you can't dominate rebounding from the post because rebounds go everywhere?

Hronek took advantage of the space to come in about 10-15' closer, he'd been taking all his shots almost at the line - closer is always better!

yeah - that was a bad stretch. The Vancouver PP goal was pretty terrible also - they let him walk right down the slot. But like somebody said on a broadcast recently - the game burns so much energy it's almost impossible for any team to play a whole game without some let downs- you just hope you can still keep things to the side and your goalie is sharp. It's a tough competition between them but I wonder whether Sundqvist or Rasmussen falls down more times in one game.....🙃

IDK if I'd go *that* far. . There was a lot of frustration with Drummond from day one. If we recall, two things with young Drummond was that he didn't have strong hands, and since he couldn't hit FTs he was going to be fouled down low even if had better post moves. I don't know if Wiseman has strong enough hands to hold onto the ball better than Drummond, but he's going to start out ahead of young Drummond just by virtue of being able to hit his FTs. Assuming the deal goes through...

The lack of ability to find/develop talent that hadn't been demonstrated yet is exactly why Avila is gone. It's how a FO creates a winning team without simply buying it at premium cost, which is what you have to do to acquire talent that has been demonstrated. So one way to look at this is that we now have Harris exactly because Ilitch hopes/believes he is going have a higher batting average on the "acquire for what they could become" piece. So must we all.

It's bench minutes, but his 3pt% this sesason is over 40%. Stanley only playing for layups and treys nowadays and apparently doing better for it - highest eFG% of his career.

One must be aware of not cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. To be on the receiving end of advanced Chinese tech where we control the grounds as compared to years of being coerced into putting our tech on the ground in China where they controlled it isn't the part of US/Chinese relations I'm going to lose the most sleep over.

small detail and not about the politics, but the article appears to say Ford is planning to put Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries in vehicles as opposed to the more common "Lithium Ion" type. I've used LIP batteries - they are safer and probably will give longer lifecycles, but they are not as space/weight efficient as LI.

I think you can sacrifice a fair amount of defense at the corners for offense. A lot of teams have won a lot of games with a LF, 1B and 3B that weren't great gloves, but 2B, SS, CF probably not so much. What you don't want to do is give up offense for defense in LF and then play a SS who can't field!