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Unreal. I thought when the ball went over on downs after the 2 mintue warning and TB receivers were dropping everything Brady threw there was no chance.

I don't have any hope of Xi being on the side of the Angels, but he can at least not be on the side of crazy. Progress - I think.

Brady has no-one that can make a catch.

I think non-competes depend more on the illusion that they are enforceable than the degree to which they are.

Well, I have no beef with Carlos getting paid. I am skeptical it will be by Detroit so it's purely a rooting interest.

well it's an interesting question. You'd think at 100. 200 billion, you wouldn't care about the $, but it never seems to go that way. Maybe it's just the competiveness about not being a 'loser', and Musk is potentially a huge loser on Tesla stock, which I really have a hard time believing is not going to drop another 75% before it's done. So I still tend to think that somehow he wants to turn Twitter into a win financially. Which is not to say it might not be a totally different product once he's done with it.

It's the model. Owners are strongly copy-cat to what is currently producing winners. Houston's success is an example of letting guys walk/not over paying and still winning. Also interesting that on balance on the the board, Avila's obsession with building through pitching seems in disrepute, but again, Houston is a strongly pitching first franchise. That doesn't absolve Avila for not doing a very good job, but it's alway important to keep the evalution of strategy and execution in their separate lanes.

He's got a ring from the Dodgers in '81, thought that was not a full season. Great team though.

what makes teams anymore likely to an offer this year that no-one made last year? Not a snide question, but seriously - something would have to be different for the outcome to be different? Maybe that Correa played a full season. OTOH, it can't help his case that the team that wouldn't pay him just won a WS with his rookie replacement.

doesn't matter what he thinks his audience is, it doesn't change that advertisers pay his bills. He can certainly change that but he can't change it and maintain more than a fraction of the media presence Twitter has now.

It's the draft and the Pistons.

I know the personnel is better, but they are so much more aggressive to the puck than last year you'd hardly know you were watching the same team. That said, Husso kept this one from being about 6-3 Islanders.

RSV is a currenlty a nationwilde story. NYT last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/nyregion/nyc-hospitalizations-covid-flu-rsv.html?searchResultPosition=1

Nate must be so burned by his previous misses he can't bring himself to see anything but red.

Kubelik has been quite the pick-up so far.

Parise with bonehead play of the game taking out his own goalie.

why would I dream about a guy playing for the Lakers?

it makes no sense. His social media 'audience' does not pay his bills. I certainly don't care if he burns down Twitter and loses tens of $billions in the process, other than the inconvenience of waiting for another platform for real time news aggregation to arise I have no dog in Elon's fight.

He asked a question, he got an answer. Case closed.

You never know - some guys are big and yet have pretty 'normal' physiology - thinking about Chamberlain for example, who was a track and field star even at his size in HS. You are talking real super outliers in the population to find that though.

her star is fading with Trump's? (hoping anyway!)

Maybe I just saw an outlier sample but didn't Hayes have a couple decent performances in the pre-season? Guess that goes to show what that's worth!

I didn't know they were selling cars that did not allow you to disable it. Ick. Then again, we rented a kia recently with start/stop and it tuned out all you had to do was have the AC turned on and it was disabled. Go figure.

and ours is gnerally lower than most places.

good point. And I would guess there is a difference between pitchers and hitters in this regard. A hitter's performance on almost any hitting metric (except maybe RBI) is not very much limited by the quality of his team. A pitcher's is. Even something like FIP does not exist in a vaccuum to team performance because there are real effects of longer innings, extra outs given up, more time in the stretch, contstantly being under the pressure of being behind, that are very real for pitchers and don't really show up in any metric. It is harder for a pitcher to excel on a bad team - Steve Carlton being the exception I suppose!