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Time isn't going to help when they don't care, and they don't care about football in LA.

When you don't have guys that can't pass accurately or carry the puck past at least one defender, that's where you end up. And of course dump and chase is pointless when you don't have the speed to get there first. Offensively they are just a useless group once you get past the 1st line, which on most teams would actually be a good 2nd line. Veleno and Zadina have no more than 3rd line potential. They need to upgrade probably 6 (OK, 5 if Vrana is 1) forwards and a couple more D to be any definition of a good team. As much as it gets frustrating and you start to focus on Blashill, the truth is you watch the games and you see that even when they win, player by player the other team is putting faster more skilled players on the ice, and that makes me reconsider if there is any point to dumping on Blashill.

yes. In Washtenaw county vax rates are getting near 80% but the majority of hospital admits are still unvaxed. When you consider that vax rates are highest in the most vulnerable populations - the elderly, it's pretty clear that vaccination is helping people resist Omicron illness as well even if the they are less effective at preventing spread with Omicron than with previous variants.

Part of this is that Seider is good enough that everyone else back there is looking even worse by comparison. No argument Hronek has a problem, his skating just seems in the toilet, they all pass him like he's standing still. But it's also true that some of the forwards are so bad defensively that guys on the blue line don't get much help and I think that makes them look even worse than they are. After Larkin, Seider and Raymond, the Wings are a poor skating team and so they are going to look terrible anytime they play a team with better than average speed. They also play pretty soft physically so that means they get pushed around a lot by teams that play a hard edged style. That doesn't leave a lot a teams they can beat on a given night.

Yup, Coulter is a bona fide Aryan Nation xeonophobe. She was bound to part company with any leader unwilling to use machine guns nests at the border. Even kid's in cages wasn't enough for Oberherrin Coulter.

IDK, even if it has, that doesn't mean it should continue to be.

More proof the Dems are in disarray

Disagree. When no-one can complete a game and half the staff on every team has surgically rebuilt arms, pitchers need some help. There is something wrong with a game that guarantees half its players are fated to a serious injury no matter that they have done everything right.

Nice thought. It would be nice if there was some kind of guarantee that Igor the coach could make the Wings play like Igor the player did- it’s exactly what they need.

right - by definition you have to be "infected" before any vaccine can do anything. How effective a vaccine is can vary all the way from so effective the virus can't multiply at all (these are the cases that stop spread the best), to effective enough you may become infectious but not sick, to you may still get somewhat sick but not get as sick or die, and everywhere in between. What we have seen with COVID is that the vaccine prevented replication of alpha and delta well enough that they were pretty good at stopping spread, but they don't stop replication of Omicron effectively to stop its spread nearly as well. That does NOT mean they don't still help prevent serious Omicron illness, which evidence appears strong they do.

L. Cheney has walked back on some of the cultural warrior stuff - seems to have at least reconciled with her sister to a degree. To me the test for people who I oppose politically is are they loyal to the process. Everyone needs to be able to accept that on the issues you will win some and you will lose some. The frightening thing today how many people are out there for whom that is not good enough.

It's been said before but bears repeating, Romney's complaints with Trump were always about his personal conduct, not policy.

IIRC he's gotten up and walked out of interviews in the past, so I don't see this as anything new.

You mean watching him skate 30 seconds of circles off a power play only to then pass to a team mate that was backhand to the net doesn't impress you as inspired play?

what was the old John Denver line about Toledo? "I spent a week there one day" ?

Conceivable a change might benefit him. Less conceivable a team will give you anything for him on that basis!

pretty terrible start in the 3rd

I heard they just signed a 7'2" guy...

Also fewer pitching changes. This is all so clear that it stands as incontrovertible evidence that the people managing the game today must be total morons.

actually inning breaks in games are the one thing under pretty good control. In innings when they don't sweep the IF they hold it pretty close to 2 min, you can even watch the timer in the ballpark. A number of years ago they had drifted up to 3. The big items are batter step outs, high pitch counts and pitchers that slow to a crawl when men are on base.

two issues - one is that stars move around too much so their idea as belonging a certain context with a certain team can't get as well established, and secondarily, you have a big slice of the best players in an English speaking country whose 1st language is Spanish. Look at Cabrera - he loves to talk to the press - the Spanish speaking press. Given his personality he would be much bigger local celebrity figure and that would perculate outward - if he did his media work in English. The why's get complicated but the outcomes are what they are.

zebras call intentional grounding on a Georgia flea flicker after a receiver gives up his route. Sure Bennet was throwing it away, but intentional grounding when you overthrow to the region where you had a receiver who stopped and when you had to throw it over a rusher? Seemed ticky tack to me.

Romad, you know in your heart you are an outlier, just own it.

I don't think that is how it's going to work. M may take some marginal step by itself, but they are not going to change all their SOP, coach or not. There will be a group - prob with Wisc, ILL, PSU and OSU maybe being pulled along in spite of itself, that will move to a new set of operating guidelines to together and pull the rest of conference, and maybe even the Pac12 or another conference here or there along with them. No league anywhere survives with everyone playing under different rules - if there is going to be a league/conference its members will setup a more or less uniform system for all. And that may take a lot of time and haggling before the sausage gets pushed into the casing. And Harbaugh knows full well that is how it will have to work.