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Red Wing shoes and Red Wing pottery are both named for Red Wing Minnesota, where they were founded. The naming of the Hockey team is more derivative. The team was named the Falcons when Norris bought it. As per Wiki, Norris had been a member of sports club in Montreal that had a logo with wings and wheels. Apparently he also liked red.

confirmation hearings are a total waste of time - the appointees just lie through their teeth. Until a Congress is willing to impeach or judge or cabinet officer for having lied at a confirmation, it will just continue to get worse. There is no accountability.

Cost him his gig.

The script writes itself!

story on Yahoo news page about Federal workers POd at the buyout offer starting to band together to stay and create a real deep state within the bureaucracy who will refuse not to do their jobs.

You missed the DEI ATC controller.

True, but it doesn't have to be. They could push Gleyber to more DHing so Keith could spend more time at 2B and the D would be better. They probably won't, but they could. They have too many 2Bs. Jung may hit more with his wrist fixed, but 2B is his best position. Keith's bat is more valuable as a 2B then a 1B, and they have Gleyber who it is said is not willing to change positions. Which actually makes the fact they they pursued him all the stranger since they value multi-positional players so highly. I know I should stop complaining, maybe he'll OPS 950 and Tigers will win the W.S. but until then I'm never going to have a good feeling about that signing.

I wouldn't be crushed going into the season with only one bat added just because our hitters are at stages in their careers where more are likely to be better next season than worse - although that said - catcher could be pretty bad. Dingler has shown nothing againt MLB pitching at all - would have liked to see some kind of better backstop at backstop... But just to be the broken record again - I want more added to the starting staff than Cobb and the door is about closed on that unless Flaherty drops in our lap and I think the odds of that are <5%. As you note - a trade seems the only major thing that could happen but Harris will really have to make a jump out of his recent habits to start trading young talent.

well that's an interesting question then. Could he file a grievance that he should have been put back on the DL and not moved? Or maybe after 10yrs(~) in our system he's just as ready to go and try another org even if he had a case he could have pursued?

From what I could gather she had only served 30 days over Jan 6. The accident she was sentenced for was in 2022 so she's been out for a while.

Makes perfect sense really - If they can't get rid of birthright citizenship they will try to deport any pregnant immigrant to accomplish the same thing.

Wasn't that supposed to be a tribute to someone, but I don't remember who....Tiant maybe?

I'd have preferred Kreidler as well, as I do think Faedo will get picked up. He was walking too many but the rest of his numbers weren't bad - so exactly the kind of guy you take a flyer on. But I get the logic, if Sweeney gets hurt and Baez doesn't make it back or remains ineffective, the cupboard is too bare to let Kreidler go, though I have a hard time seeing him get claimed as well.

yes - Faedo's MiLB page says he was dl'd in August and re-activated Nov4

IIRC correctly, the whole raison-d'etre of the battles at Lexington/Concord was that each side wanted to be first to secure the colony's cache of cannon. The Brits marched out to get them and the colonists decided to stop them.

It's an interesting question because you have to make an assignment of positional value even if you don't consider your own team's positional need, and that seems a loophole big enough to drive a lot of subjective influence through. It's likely to be the case that the 2nd best QB in a draft ranks higher than the #1 OG in a draft by overall BPA, but is there really a solid way to determine if the best OT in the draft is BPA wrt the best WR?

LOL - AP report said the aircraft "sustained significant damage." I guess that's one way to describe 'totally destroyed'

LOL - I remember when Verlander has having his abdominal issues it was the early day of Brook's Baseball pitch tracking and his 'change-up' numbers would be way up during the game because the system didn't believe 90mph was JV's fastball - though it was! They'd often correct the reports a day or two later.

this is true

IIRC - (and I'm pretty sure this was Bonderman and not one of the other pitchers that had thoracic outlet surgery) but was not very widely reported that there was some nerve damage done during the outlet surgery, so he had numbness in his fingers afterward, and that makes it very hard to command any 'feel' type pitches. Since damaged long nerves grow back very slowly, something like about 6" per year, the best case was it was going to be 2-3yrs before he would even know if he was going to get back full feeling in his fingers.

This will end up in court of course. The exec has broad powers over immigration policy but selective enforcement based on exercise of free speech under the 1st amendment still might not pass even this SCOTUS.

The thing with Trump is that at his core, he craves approval. He basks in MAGA approval but anytime he does something that evokes a big enough backlash in the general population (beyond what he can chalk up to just the woke libs) he backs off.

He was a fireballer a few years ago, not so much now.

yeah - that's the short form version! 🎱

they're too busy watching the game data on their phones or texting to get rowdy.