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one of the only teams that has been able to make the Wings look fast.

Sure. In Australian school economics inflation makes your money swirl down the drain counterclockwise.

Brady has played to age 44 to get there. But in the same way, all the guys that won rings since Brady will be remembered more for those than all the guys that signed bigger contracts than Stafford will be remembered for that. It appears fandom does regard successful careers as those that win more than those that generate the biggest contracts even if players often opt for the latter. The counter would be that Arod was pretty famous for the having the biggest contract in baseball for a few years, but as he was also maybe the best player in baseball for a number of years his fame was justified either way.

another way to look at it is that in terms of football legacy, Tom Brady will be longer remembered for his SB wins that Matt Stafford will be for having signed a contract making him the highest paid QB. If Stafford's objective in playing pro ball was to be the highest paid, that should be fine with him. Clearly that has not been Brady's focus, and that's been fine with him too.

yeah - to me this seems so clear. The threat of a single bullet is generally sufficient for self defense, and single shot weapons are perfectly adequate for hunting. What need is there in society for any semi-auto weapon, long or handheld, beyond the presence of other semi-auto weapons?

he might have been more famous, but for his failure to communicate.

Well it means he managed to salvage it despite his fate of being drafted by the Lions. But the common factor with all three of these guys is that the took a bigger nickle to stay in Det (or in Suh's case in Miami, which was also not a place to go to win ) instead of getting out sooner - so sure no sympathy is warranted. It's probably no accident the GOAT has never tried to be the highest paid QB. You can center your chase on the rings or the dollars - only occasionally do they line up together.

Not accepting verified positive tests does seem pointless. But when all you need to do to get around someone else's dumbness is just get the damn shot, it doesn't get you off the hook to me.

He wouldn't have ridden Matt Stafford's if he had gotten one in Det? Of course he's not the player he was at 25 but Suh's numbers in 2020 were fine - 44 tackles isn't chopped liver. Has-beens don't start 16 games for the SB winner that had a top 10 scoring D.

If you want rare - in a 17 game season 3-11-3 is now possible.

Germans were once pretty mean to Norway, won't hurt them to be nice to them from now on....

Um, define success? Suh does has a ring now and fair shot at a second. (He's also doubled his career scoring Tampa! ) And no accounting for the fact that apparently Calvin is some kind of idiot. 🤷‍♂️

How much is a kWhr worth if it's a kWhr not tied to being nice to Vladdy?

With the tiny little exception that money or not, any great player can't help but feel his career a little wasted when spent on a perennial loser.

Paul Ryan is a putz. Always was, always will be. He gained his 15 minutes of fame by wowing a segment of know-nothing journalists with a level of know-nothingness just slightly less than their own.

there will be at least some segments of the Euro politic who will think this is great because it is more incentive to get off fossil - it could even be if Germany actually has a workable plan to get off fossil.

Putin must remember how much the military involvement in Afghanistan and even the Caucasus cost Russia. But OTOH, if you've gone to the expense of moving 170000 ground troops you've done it to generate a credible threat -- and also to see how his idea of 're-uniting' greater Russia is playing in Russia itself. Also I think in Putin's case you have moved them to put yourself into a position to let yourself be goaded into using them - to set up a situation even in his own mind where the West has 'forced his hand' and is therefore the responsible party to the bloodshed.

Libertarianism should never be more than phase you pass through as you figure the world out. To remain there is arrested intellectual development. Or in cases like the Kochs, just a convenient self serving propaganda framework to push.

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Ross probably had a sense of something familiar that he never identified....

Who can forget the Avocado toast thread?

IDK - haven't heard this scenario described anywhere else.

LOL - the one day I don't see the 'Record'. Sounds like a white elephant to me. And quite the scale back from the plan for a 14 acre project at the St. Antione site to 3 acres in 'the District'. Mr Ross is apparently so hot to have his name on another building that whether it makes sense for the U is a minor concern. At least with the current siting they can sell it back to WSU after Ross dies.

Could this be the reincarnation of Ross's project? There was a story a few day ago that UM now has sole ownership of the Rackham bldg at Farnsworth near the Museum/Library area and they are going to spend 40 million to rehab it for use as what sounds like a campus extension service but it included no news about the failed UM Ross/Gilbert innovation center. I had read somewhere else that were weren't any other tracts in the size range of the Gratiot/St Antione Site (14 acres) available in DT area - that while Ilitch et al hold a good deal of developable land, nothing was contiguous in that size range. That surprised me.

What happens in a lot of regular season NBA games before the 4th doesn't mean much.