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meh - you were good, nothing happened.

I wish both sides were less guilty on the 'coddling' charge but the irony still holds here.

take it easy on yourself. They are a bunch of 20 yr olds. Almost every college team can lay the occasional egg. It's what gives the college game its odd appeal. The team quality imbalances in college football are huge compared to the NFL (well, except for the Lions...) but you also have the weird level of background uncertainty where the much better team struggles for who knows why.

whether society coddles the minds or not is irrelevant. The reality is what it is. You have the plain evidence of several billion people organizing advanced liberal, democratic societies without thousands of gun deaths. The evidence is before you. It is refutable. It is real, not philosophical fantasy. Like the man said, let him with eyes to see, see.

I thought the last 5 minutes were interesting. You normally see the team behind by one goal really extend themselves, but either the Bruins couldn't bring it, or the Wings had really upped their normal forecheck. Whichever it was Boston wasn't able to bring as much pressure as I usually expect to see at the end of a one goal game.

maybe moving to the bigger ballpark in NY affected his approach. If so CoPa should have at least as much effect.

absolutely true.

yes - a little Occam's razor cuts through the BS.

this is a bit of a ret con at best. In term of guns in public places, a carry permit was nearly impossible to get in MI in the 50's. I believe you actually needed individual approval from the county based on a affidavit of need ( e.g jewel courier, etc )You could buy long guns, but you have always been able to buy long guns but there simply weren't high capacity magazine long guns commonly available on the market to buy.

any reasonably good team can stop the run if they sell out to do it, and in the past you could do that against M. And it worked esp when Patterson was QB because M could not complete even a 5 yd swing pass with more than 50% probability with Shea back there. McNamara is no John Elway but he has become an efficient short and middle distance passer and that is why the running game is so much better now against good teams than in past years when it was also Harbaugh's primary focus. The team PR narrative that the emphasis on the run game is new is nothing more than that. Harbaugh has always wanting to play smash mouth, but most years he hasn't had QB play good enough to keep good defenses even moderately honest. This year he does. Up until Cade, and other than Ruddock, QB play at M under Harbaugh has been a wasteland.

Day's NFL resume is thin and it was not with particularly successful regimes but I suppose if there is an owner out there who is an OSU fan....

I just can't process how this idiotic concept continues to have traction. You'd consign your society to living their lives in the middle of the Beirut civil war rather than give up your toys? What kind of thinking is that?

And the big party over the Merck announcement (molnupiravir) was apparently mostly hype. Actual efficacy levels apparently down in the 30% range - which is better than nothing but is way behind monoclonals and maybe the pfizer drug as well. Initial Merck press releases were talking 80% range. I hope someone is home at the SEC, but doubtful. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/11/30/1060130774/an-fda-panel-supports-merck-covid-drug-in-mixed-vote

Odd. They haven't updated the 40 on the MLB page since before Greiner became a FA. They usually keep it up to date.

I don't even know if Americans realize how insane the gun culture here is. It's gotten normalized to them. Funny thing was, in - IDK, maybe ~1970, we had a shooting at Cass Tech. A girl whose guy had jilted her brought a starters pistol to school and tried to shoot him where it hurts. Ended up wounding his thigh. But the thing is, it was *really* considered insane. As in so big an outlier it didn't even really merit consideration. No one thought "measures" had to be taken because the idea it was anything other than some kind of one in a million lightning striking was never entertained by anyone. But I think about that incident now and it make me realize how steeped in this gun culture we have become. It's not just that this America is different from the rest of the world, this America is different from even what is use to be when it comes to guns. I don't get why all these nostalgic-for-the-50s conservatives aren't more nostalgic about maybe the single biggest, most significant life changing shift in the culture, the militarization of ordinary life brought about by this insane love of firearms. Sure, school buildings are securable. Doesn't mean it isn't insane we need to.

still a $0.10 head.

Agree. We'll see if this new Jim Harbaugh can keep resisting that temptation to go off the script that is working for his team. You've got the horses Jim, you don't need anything cute in this one. Save it for Georgia if you get there.

Wings were outshot, but the Bruins were taking a lot of low % shots.

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hronek has just been epic bad in terms of giving up the puck. WTF has happened to him?

weird. I've quoted the wrong quote on a post often enough, but never quoted the right quote and had it give the wrong attribution.

par for the course.

maybe, but most people who think people on site with other guns can help are simply deluding themselves about the situational awareness issue. The initiative is *all* with the perp. He can have emptied his clip and reloaded before a crowd full of armed citizen ever figure out the heII what is going on. That is the tactical reality. It ain't like some Western where the script writer has the Sheriff anticipating the bad guy's every move. I can grant a higher probability of meeting a gun behind a counter may have some deterrent effect on a property criminal who is in it for the profit, for whom his own weapon is only a means to an end. But not at all to someone who is going out to kill someone else.

It's the Red Wing disease. I didn't see who was out there with Sieder (Leddy maybe) but at one point on one Bruin rush, Sieder took his man off the puck behind the net, gained possession, made the pass to his defense mate behind the net, who promptly passed to no-one down an empty right side for an icing. It's like they are so used to being bad that too many of them can't make the transition away from a 'just chuck it away every chance you get' mentality.

Somebody (most recent sys admin?) from the old site showed up one day to post that the archives were 'available' (for a fee? for a song? for the asking? Not clear) but if MWG opened discussions with him it was not in public.