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yup. 'JR was listenable pretty much 24 hrs a day if you happened to be somewhere with something else to be doing at the same time. The only connection left that I know of left to those days is that Mike Whorf's son Peter is now on air at WRCJ.

I'll be honest, at the time of the Crimean annexation I thought the issues were much more grey. Ukraine's gov was barely any better than Moscow's and Crimea is/was majority ethic Russian and Russian speaking and the history was that Stalin only made Crimea part of Ukraine in one his made for show federation moves - it had been core Russian for a long time prior. My view then was that if Putin weren't so ham handed (and loath to do anything democratic) he probably could have won a Russian preference plebiscite in Crimea. So I wasn't particularly then and really still am not all that worked up over Crimea. But Ukraine has morphed into a bigger issue for the overall future of Europe

Frank did a good job for a long time with Detroit teams, but he lost me when he started doing UM games. I never cared for the way he ingratiated himself into a tradition he had actually never been a part of, and then later he went off the deep end as conservative political commentator, so not to speak ill of the almost dead, but he was pretty tarnished to me by the end.

still MTU - there is still a universe of space from the extremes of not caring about something (giving a shit) and being willing to start WWIII over it. Case in point was a story today in the NYT about Finns rejecting 'Finlandization' as positive historical outcome. But no-one bothered to challenge those Finns who thought that Finlandization was so bad with the comparison with the actual alternative of having been forced into occupation and Soviet satellite status and how much further ahead Finland is today for not having suffered that fate. You push back as hard as possible with every tool possible and you make is as costly for them as possible, but in the end if the Russians are willing to start shooting on a large scale, we can't opt for a cure that will both be worse than the disease because it will destroy the country, and which also presupposes American's care enough about Ukraine to see their sons and daughters die there, which is again a much higher bar than simply 'not caring', If it's the welfare of Ukrainians we value, than destroying the country is certainly a worse outcome than anything the Russians will do it between now and Putin's eventual demise. That may be cynical, but it's also true.

I don't like the trend to 15 second competitions judged on 2 second subset of that. FIgure skating has gotten that way - the whole performance wins or loses based on a single feat spit second action. It's some form of entertainment but is it actually sport? There are a whole bunch of events - esp in the winter olympics but more in the summer as well, that are all just variations of dance competitions - some in the air above the snow, some on the ice, or on mats - but basically still all just dance competitions with different geometries. I have a pretty limited taste for any of that any more. Give me a biathlon or even curling match and I'll call that sport over the rest.

I wouldn't let the statement "history isn't relevant" pass without a comment on the fact that it's an asinine thing to say. History is ALWAYS relevant. Whether it should be determinative in any given case may be an open question, but not the relevance.

The most complex cases were/are always dual nationals, primarily people born in country that have become naturalized US citizens and are back either because of family, NGO or US sponsored work.

Granting that the practical effect of a lottery given the uncertainty with baseball draft picks is questionable, in theory if you make rebuilding more difficult, maybe teams in the position that the Tigers were in circa 2015 will think a little harder about their willingness to mortgage the future for one more try at the brass ring. IMO that is what puts teams a the kind of really deep hole the Tigers got into and those decisions were actually made long before the team was bad and trying to dig out.

Prince Charles tests positive after seeing the Queen recently. He's getting desperate enough to try to kill the old bag now.

Washtenaw County checks in at 103 cases and 0 deaths this morning - that is under 30/100K for the 1st time since October.

yeah - lets see how well that statement ages.

True, but the counter point would be that the Lion's run game suffered more from an OL that was not built to run block than the lack of a RB behind it.

of course the value also depends on last change. You might line up differently home/road.

it's was an odd symmetry that the Ilitchs ended up with Kenny Holland and Dave Dombrowski, who were both so dismissive the right/left balance of their teams in the two sports where it makes such a big difference. The lack of right side shots alone had to have been a big piece of the years of RW power play ineptitude.

we'll, lets see how many more times they can make 57% of their threes.

this from an Atlantic article a few yrs ago when the Russians moved into Donbass. There has been time enough that there has no-doubt been some shifting, but you see the basis of Putin channeling Hitler's Sudetenland ambitions.

If you look at history, you could argue that as a practical matter, empires are too expensive to maintain over disaffected populations without chattel slavery or at least feudalism, it's what held up most empires. Short of enslavement, captive populations will not be economically vibrant given that their ambitions become so crimped. Of course Xi thinks he is clever enough to find the way around that - we'll see what Hong Kong looks like in another 10 yrs.

M with a huge 82-58 beat down of #3 Purdue. Who saw that coming?

River front is wasted on a stadium, plus it means you can only have road access on one side. Open/park/walkable spaces make for a better riverfront -- roads on all sides make better stadiums. But the big thing is that all the stadiums built in the 60's turned out to be terrible - the mulitpurpose idea was dominant then and all those parks were monstrosities. We'd have had to have torn it down by now, just like StL, Philly, Cinci, etc.

there would have been a riverfront cookie cutter round stadium, which time would have proved to have been a terrible idea.

How did anyone on the team miss getting it on the last round? Another example of Hronek not being able to catch anything.

why do you want to be disadvantaged 60% of the game? Put your great offensive players together for the synergy, split your great defenders so each anchors a strong pairing.

most likely this. Many truckers own their own rig and are independent operators. That still leaves the question of whose trailers they are pulling - though the lease charges on trailers are not very high and any operator would have connection to pick one up if it was worth it to him/her.

If Edvinnsson is anything like Sieder is will be pretty nice to have one of them out there for 50 of every 60min.

I agree he looks like he is progressing some, but of course you have to keep the opposition in perspective. Philly made everyone look good last night.