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the other thing that has shifted a bit is that typically guys like that also had high rebounding value. They still have some, but the higher the proportion of long shots put up, the lower the payoff to old school positional rebounding technique.

Shouldn't be too tough to DH two games with 2-3 hours to relax in between.

seems the rain out make-up has to be the 2nd game as the 1:10 game is going as per the original schedule. TBF - you never get a guarantee of what is going to happen when you buy a ticket, there really isn't anything the Tigers can do about the rain.

They're being too 'effin nice. Don't go to the evidence and let her recant in real time, let her reiterate her lies then indict her asz when her testimony is over.

Here is the radar projection for 9pm. Looks like drizzle at least. Tomorrow looks pretty perfect so I wouldn't be too surprised it they pull the plug.

So I don't know if I'm peeved about this one, or not - yet...... Have 3 yr old dishwasher - still looks/runs good as new. It just stopped mid cycle. No signs of life at all - no lights, no beeps - no nothing. We had(have?) an extended warranty so wife won't let crazy engineer me touch it. First no-one could figure out who now held the warranty. Talked to 3 different shops. One finally came out. Guys says. "I can't tell if it's the touch panel or the programmer, we'll order both". (I was not there at the time of course). Then we don't hear anything - so we called - they said: "we can't get approval for parts, we are done." This despite fact that we had gotten an email from the manufacturer saying they had approved parts. OK - call manufacturer. They review case: call back and say: "We can't *get* parts (yada-China-yada), we are going send you a check for your full purchase price." Fair enough - sort of. We are now about 3 wks in. There's just two of us, doing dishes is not a great hardship, but looking at a dead dishwasher everyday is irritating. So still waiting for check. Of course the kicker is that we paid $750 but appliance prices are way up and we can't buy the equivalent replacement for less than ~$1200. Meanwhile, I take the part numbers to the web and both say in stock and available in 48hrs. At a cost of just under $300 each. So now it makes sense. They don't want to send a guy out again and buy $600 worth of parts - they'd rather cut the check for the $750. Thing is, if *I* take the door apart and figure out for myself whether its the programmer or the panel (I have just enough know how to have a fighting chance....) I've got it fixed for under $300 bucks and pocket the remaining $450. Wish me luck......

Looking like it might slide north now

Does Ilitch has own a piece of the DMC or what? This is getting ridiculous.

at 23 we can hope Ras still has some strength to gain. He has been improving some. Not everyone reaches their full adult strength as young as a Seider clearly has 💥

he's in a funny spot. Sort of the same problem with Moskva - he'd love to use the outrage factor but it makes it hard to maintain the fiction that that this is not a serious war with serious potential consequences for Russia. My guess is sooner or later he drops any remaining pretense that Russia is winning a non-war and pivots to "we are in an existential struggle to survive" at which point it probably becomes more dangerous on all sides. Oddly enough the population probably won't even flinch at any realization they were being lied to initially - in their hearts they know they've always been lied to.

Definite weakness in the design at CoPa. Too little roof over the upper deck and upper deck concourses - you may have to go a long way to get out of the rain.

for sure.

They've been pitching well, not quite good enough given the low run support, but so far the Tigers runs against are fine - better than average for the AL. Hitting will always be more up and down than pitching and D, so maybe the bats will regress to mean. Of course that also assumes Mize and/or Manning are not out too long.

fair point. It's not as obvious what would be subject to that kind of attack at the research institute, it's not as obvious anyway as a facility with a large hackable distributed instrument control system like a chem plant. But that is one of Russia's disadvantages in this war - There are many Ukrainians with deep personal knowledge of things within Russia that has good intelligence value so there may be a lot of non-obvious vulnerabilities the Ukrainians will be able to exploit. OTOH, Ukraine has already been hardening their assets against Russian intelligence for years.

"doesn't skate as well as Rusmussen"? That's not good to hear. Although in fairness, I would say it's not Ras' skating to much per se as his lack of strength on his skates that is the issue. He can get there but he's too easy to knock of the puck once he does.

What's most fascinating to me about the evolution of basketball with the 3pt shot is how long it has taken to happen. It's an example that what people believe to be true without ever having any real evidence, is more powerful than reality. The NBA could(should?) have been playing this game within 10 yrs of 1986 (the 1st generation of players with the rule) but the belief that players couldn't hit 40% from 23 feet, and esp that big men couldn't shoot from out there (Bill Laimbeer not-withstanding) kept young players from ever teaching themselves to do. I suppose the Euro big men with outside shots also helped to finally change perceptions in the league.

Who knows? I would guess sabotage. Something like the Al Qaeda sleeper cell model? If you step back it seems reasonable to believe there are people in Russia who hate what is happening enough to act on that hatred.

America, where democracy means we get to choose sides between idiot tinpot elected officials and scam artist corporate robber barons. ...Same as it ever was.

correct. No reason at all the home crowd shouldn't feel free to boo the visiting manager for making a move to the advantage of his team.

the next big thing should be UV-C lighting in public places. It can pretty much keep the air in large stagnant places sterile without giving the occupants melanoma - a helpful feature.

Chafin pitched an inning tonight at Lakeland. We'll see if Manning misses more than one start. The rest are going to be awhile.

(Lakeland) Faedo: 4IP, 1H, 2BB, 5K (WM) Dylan Smith: 4IP, 2H, 7K, 1ER (HR) (Tol) Wentz: 4.2IP, 2H, 1ER, 4BB, 3K EDIT: should add that Carlos Pena finished the Lakeland game with 4IP of no-hit, no walk ball with 7K

It looked like someone that was probably Denise was there in one shot as well.

Chafin with 1IP at Lakeland. 1H and 3 outs. At Toledo Hill was 1/3 and played CF. Progress.

With Shea Patterson one would have expected even worse.....