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it would be nice if his long range shooting started to look more like Luka's.

So even if you take the Russians at their word, they've just been forced to use a claim of one kind of incompetence to try to head off reporting of the fact of another. Also, as per the Russians (not the Ukrainians), the crew has abandoned ship. Not, "the crew is on board putting out the fire", or "the crew is restoring the situation to normal". Naval crews generally abandon ships that are going to sink. https://news.usni.org/2022/04/13/russian-navy-confirms-severe-damage-to-black-sea-cruiser-moskva-crew-abandoned-ship

Ironically enough, the ship was built in Ukraine before the fall, and originally named 'Slava' (Glory).

yes - as per above - Russian navy has confirmed fire on board, claims it was an ammunition accident. Riiiiiiight. https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/ukraine-claims-to-have-struck-the-flagship-of-russia-s-black-sea-fleet

hopefully the difference is that the year after they drafted Hill, they had the 58th pick. This draft is an odd one, but the odds are still decent the Pistons get a much better player to go with Cade than Don Reid.

I-275, the New Woodward Ave.

IDK, 8th doesn't seem like that big a deal. Does the average 1st round net 10 pro bowlers?

really. Even going to a perfectly reasonable number like 500 would make a big difference. There is a concept out there that I don't remember the name for - 'Wyoming Rule' or something like that where you make size of the House District no larger than the population of the smallest state. IIRC, if that were implemented the size of the House would still be reasonable.

right. one needs to understand the context. If all he wants to do is spend his time getting better and playing the game and he sees the dog and pony media aspects as wasting his time, that wouldn't bother me. But sure, if it's just a general resistance to 'getting with the program' that can certainly be a problem - particularly with the typical NFL football coach! Be hard to know which unless you get to know to guy and what makes him tick. The Media types can only shoot from the hip on this kind of stuff.

TBF, it depends on how you slice things. To be one of the 32 starting TE, you are already above the average pro TE since most teams carry at least two. WRT Hockenson, I'm not so much depressed that the #8 pick become a solid starter, that's OK. What is depressing is that that stands out as one of the best outcomes in Lion's recent history up to Sewell.

I have been thinking this very this thought myself.. Also: This line: "Having sought to upend the notion of truth in the West, they now fall victim to their own pervasive untruths." Almost verbatim said also by Volodymyr Yermolenko in his Ezra Klein interview. As the Grey Pilgrim observed: "A treacherous weapon is ever a danger to the hand..."

go figure.... https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-02-26/card/german-power-operators-reject-calls-to-keep-nuclear-plants-running-despite-ukraine-war-4u3kJkDIz9CSmqYUUviA

The weakness in any of these analyses that include or center around China if of course, that Under Xi, China's international position now has little or nothing to do with actual Chinese historical or cultural beliefs/tendencies. It's become a one man show, just as Putin's Russia is. The issue in Russia and China vs the West is not North vs South, but the persistence in those places of an internal acclimation to imperial rul.e.

Ezra Klein's last podcast was with Volodymyr Yermolenko, he made the point that while everyone underestimated Ukrainian military capability going in, we can't overestimate it now and let up on the level of support. Putin needs to lose this war.

Valenti was running through one on one win/loss stats today that put Thibs within a spit of Hutchinson and everyone else (D-line wise) in second class.

they will remain hopeless until they have the personnel to play aggressively enough to get pucks back in their own end. You can't recover possession when you are constantly two steps behind and sagging back off puck carriers, and you can't win without possession.

Hronek with a 2 stride lead still gets beaten to the puck in the corner by the Senator. /...sigh..../

Nice talk, but I'd rather hear that Biden is getting the necessary materiál into Ukraine.

Hey! I turn my back for 20 min and someone let Boston Score? Someone needs to talk to management!

I don't think it would be Skubal. If it were me, I'd try something different. Put Alexander on 6 days rest and have him split start with each of the 5 starters every fifth start. Sort of like an anti bullpen day. It's a way to increase his innings and decrease BP innings in an orderly manner not so dependent on random chance. In the end you want your best pitchers to work the most innings. How you do it matters less than that you do it.

I think Cabrera's sac line drive was 111, but that was not a base hit, so true enough.

Javy.. ....bueno en el beisbol

fair point

He may think that, and you *may* get an army to fight on that basis defending their own homes, but it will be an interesting experiment in human motivation to see if you can get one to fight that way in a foreign leadership adventure, especially in a army with little or no unit level leadership. If I had to guess, I fear it the way it will go is that Russian ground units will remain largely ineffective but Russian over the horizon firepower will continue to wreak havoc.