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exactly, which is why I don't get why people are dumping on Ilitch for voting against the CBT increase, which is a vote for more revenue sharing. The small market team owners seem to be the only ones who understand that the CBT number is a fantasy argument, if teams don't have the income via more revenue sharing, they can't increase payrolls to any level where the CBT would be in play. He's doing the right thing for his own fans if they want to see their team be able to compete long term. To the teams on the coasts with big money the rest of league looks like the Senators did to the Globetrotters, basically schedule fodder, it's fine with them if midwest teams never compete. Meanwhile the top players like Scherzer, who seem to control the union, are all looking for the their big paydays from the rich teams, so they don't care about competitive balance either but they're glad to play the oppressed serf card over the CBT.

right - fracking is very low capital, low barrier to entry compared to other oil production methods. It comes up and goes down much faster with price than things like offshore where there are huge capital costs that delay entry and sunk costs that delay exit.

will be hard for Putin to keep that one a secret from the relevant people - if true....

any chance this guy is related to the other General Gerasimov?

Obvious move but how dumb do they think their own public is? They don't think the average Russian sees through the fact that only bad news gets suppressed? I hope all it does is allow rumor of how bad it is to run past even the reality.

too bad, he seemed to be playing better at the end of last season but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.

I'm really losing hope for Zadina - he doesn't seem to have any skill at placing a puck in traffic, whether that is a pass in traffic or a shot on goal anywhere other than the goalie's chest.

I believe in the NFL the cap adjusts automatically to maintain a constant % of revenue split. It's the no drama solutions we can only dream the two sides getting to in baseball.

haha.. When i was flying a lot (like more than twice a month ) I soon realized that there was a small fraternity of the burned out who I would wait with on the concourse until the last boarding section was called even if our seats were in 1st class.....

Missed stuff about the back. Never good for any athlete, let alone a hockey player.... Had Covid also - but again I didn't much about how badly.

right - risk free. That's the key. It's not like the Wings are going to lose some valuable asset making a roster spot for him given the composition of the current team.

as always, when the Russians screw up, the long term danger is the West decides to overplay its hand and regrets it later. There is a huge emotional need to be punitive to Russia right now, and deservedly so, but the West's has to remember their fight is not in the main with the Russian populace. Revenge that goes beyond Putin is not a long term win.

exactly. Not matter how you slice it it always comes back to the ball. It is it advantageous to try to pull the ball *despite* the extra outs the shifted fielder makes now, because, and *only* because the HR/AB is as high as it is. Teams are not losing OBP because they have to, but because they want to.

hey, those old Lenovo's were money. They don't die. I still have a T420 (~2010 ) that's set up as a music server.

LOL - when ever I hear this my mind goes right to the Monty Python "Life of Brian" sketch "What have the Romans done for us?" Let's see, Dems have had to rescue the economy twice after the GOP put it into disaster, provided tens of millions of Americans with health care they lacked, ended participation in one of the endless wars the GOP started, repaired international security arrangements that the GOP was well along the path to shattering, and is the party working against the interests of racist white nationalists. Yeah - I guess all those things are too unAmerican to countenance - that is if you have a Trumper's view of what you want America to be.

or alternatively, you already do know the single most important thing.

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yeah - hard to say - ordered to do a bag skate - was he still rehabbing the knee, did he know it was likely to aggravate the knee? Coaches may be right, or they may be dickheads.

because having a deal with Iran is better for the US than not having a deal with Iran. Iran with IAEA inspectors running around is much better than Iran without IAEA inspectors running around. This isn't hard. Nobody's hands are clean in the ME, and that includes the US and Israel. Kacie was just posting about our client SA pretty much practicing terrorism against children in Yemen. Who is fighting *for* those children? Iran. The conflict between Iran and the US is a mile wide and 1/2" deep. We actually even had a chance to patch it up after 9/11 and Shrub botched it, both out of his own ignorance and because Cheney and his oil industry buddies were too much in thrall to the Gulf Sheikhs who made sure any openings to Iran went nowhere.

Sounds like he might still have upside if the knee problem resolved. Good to be trying something, Veleno looking like a dead-ends and Zadina not far behind.

Hmmm. D man signed, forward down? Vrana being activated and maybe Leddy gets moved?

seems to be a gap - 10 games in the NHL and 3 in the AHL? What else has he been doing? Injuries? (EDIT: yes apparently has not been healthy much of his career so far...)

I wonder if they are making him do an anger management course. It could actually help him...

I would guess pitchers will make more mistakes, which should increase offense, but OTOH, the batter has less time to prep himself as well, and maybe that will play the other way. And of course, who knows what damage it may do to offense when hitters have to start playing through having loose batting gloves......🤣

right, the guy in charge is always the last to know, and TBH, how many of the Bush II people have ever admitted they had it wrong to this day, certainly not Cheney or esp W himself.