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Pretty much. I just posted a link in investing to the Dan Olsen youtube that has gone viral....

in fact, immigration has cratered,

You never know. Just when you think 'everything has changed' you find out that maybe it hasn't. The truth that so much has changed in unexpected ways in 45 days only really means things can change again in unexpected ways in 45 days. All that said, I tend to agree that Putin has forced the West into a fundamental paradigm shift - I just wouldn't but all my chips on it quite yet.

Yikes?

losing Cisnero sucks. Not all that reliable but when he was on he was very good. 60 must be pretty major. So often a pitcher on the 60 is just: "try to rest and rehab but you're probably looking at a season ending repair anyway...."

Very young team.

IDK, they've been late to move at every point so far. Just because unemployment is below equilibrium and prices are rising, we can't be too hasty, someone at JP Morgan may think unflattering thoughts about us.

I don't care much about sign stealing but this should cut down on a lot of wasted time with men on base.

There is a certain irony in that being strongly ideological is sort of by definition a bad thing in a judge if you subscribe to a classical view of conservatism. Anyone who comes to a court with a particular legal ideology to push violates the very first principle of anything you can honesty call conservative jurisprudence. These people (Bork, Scalia, Thomas, Alito to highlight a few) haven't been 'conservative'; they are all ideo-warriors, and since Goldwater have mostly really just been right wingers, not conservatives. American right wingers cloak themselves in the historical patina of a classic intellectual movement with a certain level of virtue that is actually at this point completely absent from their movement, which is now more about protection of privilege and entrenched economic interests and the use of white nationalism and culture war agitprop to co-opt enough lower socio-economic class members at the ballot box to maintain their power to maintain those protections in a nominally democratic system. The newest twist being that faced with incipient failure of that enterprise, they are now ready to simply jettison the remaining trappings of democracy as well.

the Yankee broadcast was pretty complimentary to the Tigers prospects. Didn't hurt that Flaherty played for the Tigers for while and apparently has positive memories about it.

Bizarre game. Wings out played at almost every level but Boston with just enough defensive lapses for the Wings to grit it out for a win.

Zadina finally puts a puck in the net.

Fulmer with one FB at 92.4, the rest under 92.

the editors do that when they fill-in the headlines.....

It will be interesting to see what Cabrera's personal threshold is to want to keep playing. Then again, you really can't blame a guy for forcing them to cut him when it's a $32million walk-away.

But the question is more valuable for who. Part of what makes trades work is that the player you receive is more valuable *to you* than the one you gave up. Unless the team you traded with is one potentially ahead of you in the standing, it doesn't much matter what the value of the player you traded is to his new team. Tigers need a bat like Meadows a lot more than they need a player with Paredes profile. Now if Meadows turns out to be damaged goods for some reason, then Al will have blown it, but it's way premature to make that kind of negative assumption just because it was Tampa that decided to move him.

I'm sure this gives Schumer great comfort, but unfortunately no judges.... Supposedly the original sin here goes back to the Bork nomination, and I admit that for the life of me I don't understand why the Dems just didn't come out and say that his conduct the night of the Saturday Night massacre disqualified him instead undertaking a character assassination. If this is the price that has ended up being paid, it just proves what a stupid strategy it was. Maybe it has to do with the lawyers in the Congress having the mentality of not wanting to say they held Bork ethically responsible for his client's conduct, but if so that just demonstrates theirs and Bork's error all the more in not understanding their proper client was the American public and not Nixon.

I figure 6 NHL players on this team: Larking, Bertuzzi, Vrana, Seider, Raymond, Rasmussen (barely). Let's say optimistically that they have 3 NHL ready players for '22-'23 in Edvinsson, Soderblom and Berggren. That gets you to 9 out of a starting 18 (not counting goalies). You can always pick up a journeyman Dman like Staal. Sign a decent FA and you are at about 11 players that actually belong on NHL ice. Still not sure that is enough to get you to playing consistently competitive NHL hockey. Which means at least another year of futility.....

I would want the max JOTSC term to be at about 20 yrs. The theory is that time scales are the best way to smooth out transient political winds. The terms in the House are short, the Exec can serve as long 4 House terms, I would want Federal judges to have pretty much that same 4 to one ratio to a presidency - which would be a minimum of 16 yrs for one presidential term. But my take on this is a little different. I don't care that Federal judges can serve a long time, what I don't like is that each party is trying to nominate younger and younger judges to get longer effective terms and I would rather see people with deeper experience get to the SCOTUS. Term limits at about 20 yrs would at least remove the motivation to keep looking at inexperienced judges.

Yzerman needs to find whoever does the coaching some hockey players who can skate fast and handle a hockey puck.

SE MI is definitely on the high humidity end of things nationwide, so it should net out as an increase in travel as humidor balls will be drier than those left in the open air here.

could be a contribution, but we had the numbers at the time and it really was weird, lots of below average cool evenings until late in that summer. MN is usually consistently hot in the summer - avg summer temp actually exceeds FLA.

You notice it always comes down to asking the Dems not to respond in kind to make worse what the GOP has already felt free to break? Seems to be a game theory error in there somewhere.

the other thing is that despite the fact that the whole purpose of a park factor is to normalize it out, it still seems park factors go up when your team has more HR hitters and the Tigers haven't recently.

right - the Dems should make one appointment in advance while they have the majority in anticipation of the GOP sitting on the Biden's next appointment. How could your argue it would not be justified? (well at least with a straight face....)