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The one call on JD was about as bad as I have seen this season. It seems pretty clear to me that the league has instructed umps to call wide this year - particularly to the outside, which seems to just to re-inforce all the worst trends in the game. It strongly favors sliders, which are the hardest pitch on pitcher's arms, it increases Ks and thus adds to the all or nothing aspect of the hitting, and it injects another huge dose of random outcome noise into a game already has enough built into it.

yeah fantasy is big. I have no sense of who gambles or how much. There are obviously a ton of folks spending a lot of money trying to attract them so someone thinks it's a big market, but who knows how many of them will survive to recoup their advertising investment?

Not sure you can judge a brand by anecdote. I've had good luck with every LG product I've bought, including a couple of displays. Not recommending them necessarily but random failures can strike everywhere, you need some stats to determine if they are relevant Also, the odds are pretty good that if your display just went right to dead with no prior degradation of the video it probably died because a $0.50 capacitor quit in the power supply circuit. Very common failure mode for electronics of all kinds. If you have a little ambition and a soldering iron.......

yeah - what's with these managers who won't let their relievers relieve?

I think the big unknown is the 1st line. If Larkin and Bertuzzi plus a new line-mate stay healthy and recapture some of what they were doing in the 2nd half of 2019, that's going to percolate down through the match-ups. They've looked good together through 4 periods, but small sample sizes apply. The other big risk is Seider somehow losing this early confidence and slumping. So far he and Leddy amount to a new #1 D pair, pushing your old #1 pairing down to having to play less against the oppositions best. That's a lot of roster improvement in one season if it holds together that way. But yeah - we have to see what it looks like against a better cross section of the opposition.

well, sure - the default reading should be to dismiss the possibility of principle being in play when people are monetizing themselves. 💰 🤑

Just watching Seider is going to be fun. I didn't see who it was but just a little play that passed with no-one noticing but a Jacket skated into Seider to check him, and just bounced off. The kid's like a Jersey barrier on skates. And the confidence to reverse the puck instead of giving up possession on blind dumps up ice.

IDK, It's still not clear Rogers is going to hit enough even with his D. He's still not played enough of a stretch to just assume he is the answer.

Hronek gave Jenner way too much room there.

I thought Larkin was going to get his stick in the Jacket player's legs and get a trip call but nooo problem...

And win the game. You wonder if the Braves just lost this series right there.....

The other thing is that given the evidence of the US middle class collapse, Reagan would have changed his economic policies. Reagan pushed Reagonomics because he honestly believed it would *increase* equity. He became a Republican because he believed the poverty policies of the left had made things worse, not so that he could pump up the 1%ers. He and the modern GOP "screw my neighbor, I've got mine" would have nothing in common.

Wings couldn't buy a goal in the 1st and then didn't capitalize on the 5 on 3. Doesn't bode well that CBJ are still in this one. And Larkin needs to take his own shot more.

It's been three rounds - 5/7/7- for a long time now hasn't it? As long as they keep each series to 2 travel days it can't really get any shorter. I guess the play in game adds a day? It is too long - I don't doubt that if they add another round they might well cross the point of decreasing returns on viewership.

Pointing out the things you liked that Trump did while president is like being happy about the fact that a guy that spent 4 yrs trying to burn down your house washed your car one day.

I guess it depends on how you define 'Republican.' As per Gallup, full party identification with the GOP is down around 25%, so 80% or more of that group would not surprise me at at. OTOH if you add in the additional 15% of 'leaners' who don't admit to affiliation but probably vote red anyway, that number would be more frightening.

Well, to be fair maybe they hadn't thought it through the 1st time and began to think it through subsequently and ended up where there are. I think one thing that is true is that when you are young, you have to choose something to believe about what motivates people and a lot of your ideas will follow from that, and you may change what you think about that any number of times. I think as you get older you form you own 1st person data about what motivates people and at that point if what you had accepted from other people eventually doesn't square with the sum of your own experience a big shift may come in your views also.

your point?

Do you think the rivalry stuff still holds as much with half your starters coming through the portal from year to year? I wonder if between NIL income, transfers, etc., NCAAF going to become professionalized to where few players have any particular tie to their teams and rivalries become things that fans and sportwriters carry on about but that the players just see as just one more game on their resume.

yeah - this is the dirty little secret of the supposedly liberal media. Campaign finance reform may be a fundamental topic for progressives, but 90 of all that campaign money is spent with 'the media' and they know all too well what happens in a system of publicly funded low cost political campaigns.

Haven't seen any clarity on when Clifford comes back for PSU, one story said maybe for OSU. I've sort of got a feel for what M is, haven't watched MSU so have zero idea what they are. On paper it looks like two teams close enough that you'd just pick the home team. Obviously M has potential to surprise on the upside if they throw the ball well, but potential is all it is.

The UM campus is running 10 cases per 100K per day and it's going down. That is with everyone vaccinated (~95%), everyone masked, and everything open including the cafeterias and in the mist of the surrounding community with an infection rate 2.5 times higher.

"I've seen the postings and the damage done A little bit of them from everyone But every forum's like the setting sun..."

I would think offers to Leddy and/or deKeyser would not be surprising depending on what they do this season. But will need need defensemen even if both of them do come back. Seider, Edvinsson, Hronek, Leddy, deKeyser is still only 5. I wouldn't put the odds real high on McIsaac or Lindstrom. Wings have scored 9 goals, the D has 6 assists.

Kewl. Merci.