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I think McNamara is proving to be a lot better than people are giving him credit for. I wish they would let him do a little more. There were two throws in the one series that were bad misses today but I'm going to bet his receivers had gone the wrong way both times. Funny thing is that since OSU will likely beat MSU, UM will still have 'their fate in their hands' on the 27th - for how much good that will do them!

Yup. And intelligent pacing is important in a hockey game and I think the way they opened the game dominating the play but unable to score led them to overextend themselves early and they got caught a little gassed when the Caps turned it on themselves later in the period and they couldn't answer. Once they were up by two the Caps bolted it down. Call it being rope-a-doped by a more experienced (and better overall) team.

sign of life there.

I wouldn't even run up tempo against them all the time - you can just keep it in your hip pocket because if you just spring a quick play on them occasionally you will catch them almost every time.

I remember watching the games from Montreal in the 60's on the tube as very young but avid Wings fan - that ice surface at the old Forum was something else. It looked huge and the corners seems to recede back to forever. I've nosed around on google for the dimensions of the old Forum to see if it was maybe an olympic sized rink, but have never run it down.

take a look at this source - page 38-39 https://www.jrsa.org/projects/Historical.pdf I'd try to screen cap it but the chart spans two pages. It shows US murder rates over the last 100yr. Been all over the map. Big steady increases from 1905 though to a peak in the 1930's with the organized crime sparked by prohibition. But the bigger trend might just be population surges - or maybe just youth population surges, which were huge both because of the baby boom starting with the 50's and in the huge immigration period at the beginning of the 20th century. Chart ends at 1998. As per this source https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm, murder since 2000 has pretty much leveled out - a bit of a minimum at 2014 and a trend up since then. Since population has continued to increase that would probably net out to some decrease in the per capita rate over the last two decades - but not all that much if any.

these guys are all coming to the league so young that their projection accuracy is just not all that great. Cade could hit the weight room and get stronger and better or just bigger and less athletic. But your are looking at the same kinds of questions with Mobley - can he maintain his signature quickness at 25 in his "man's" body? Who knows?

and there is still no earthly reason for anyone not a sworn LEO to be carrying *any* semi-auto weapon on the street in the US. It's what any parent back in the day would have called 'asking for trouble', which in this case is exactly the correct formulation. Maybe someday this society will wake up, look back and realize that it has been completely insane during this period. But at this point, between the addiction to personal military fantasy, religious superstition, tribalism, pop star politics and ignorance in general, my doubts increase daily this society is going to survive itself long enough to realize much of anything. Bu we shouldn't feel bad, 200 yrs a decent run for the average empire......

right. It's what the weapon is engineered to be useful for - and that is pretty obviously high-volume anti-personnel.

Looks like he's got problem not shielding his dribble. You can't go into traffic in the NBA with the ball out in front of you like he's doing without elite speed he doesn't have.

The Cavs are hardly the Globetrotters, but the Pistons still look like the Senators.

it's also inflation in the absence of much or any interest rate increase and that is significant. It's when inflation drives up interest rates and the price of car loans and mortgages head up that people really feel the pinch. When we stop hearing re-fi ads that's when the Admin will be in big trouble on inflation.

they played themselves out of gas to start the game and have been lagging ever since.

I had Faedo's rehab clock wrong - didn't realize he was 9 months behind Wentz. In Sept he was still only throwing on flat ground. He'll still be pretty much square at best by opening day - maybe not ready to cut it loose till June and then he has to find his command etc....

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Green bitches about not having been picked #1. Mobley just goes out there and plays like it.

Yes, although the Braves had such an outlier experience that they managed to discredit the truth.

why do I care if anyone remembers the good teams or great teams? They aren't remembering me.

65S from 80/90 was definitely epic.

and 7-5 Evan Mobley says "Hi.'

That was Goff.

He did get run pretty good behind the net at one point in the 1st. He sort of stopped like he said "Oh" to himself, then carried on.

T.O.T.A.L..M.O.R.O.N (This guy's J.D apparently stands for Just Dumb.)

Jeane Kirkpatrick was of a similar mold, but never ran for office (that I know of....)

FWIW, it's also true that StL missed much more performance from Pujols by letting him go than we got from Cabrera by giving him the extension.