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Mid-tier cities and bit city outer ring suburbs. Whoda-thunk?

Haven't found this to be an issue with pickup. The store prefers you to pickup to having you take up the space in the building so they generally want to make sure you are happy with what you get. Of that doesn't mean any particular stores are not incompetent.

the difference between 2% and 3% is prices going up 50% in a generation vs prices doubling in a generation. It's enough to notice - esp in a population already sensitized to price increases.

LOL - we bitched an moaned for years about watching the Holls and Petry's, so now we get to bitch and moan because they let the young guys play through the pain. I don't see any plan B for this season. Me thinks they are going to sink or swim with most of these kids. Remember that Soderblom got a handful of games and then wasn't seen again for a long time....

Retail shopping decisions/loyalty can be as paper thin as retail margins - as Target has found out the hard way. It's very easy for people to go somewhere else once and then it's an easy habit.

Well, you wouldn't think they'd all be spending the night before the game out on the town midweek in Buffalo.....

The other one I wonder about is that after Brock and Henderson and Coleman pitchers all started cutting back on their deliveries and I wonder how much of that more compact delivery style results in even more arm stress. I think it's actually great to see a guy like Skubal go back to the big leg kick. I can't make any kind of kinesiological argument, but it sure seems that extra energy stored in the keg kick kick should somehow be convertible into into added pitch energy. I guess we'll see how well Skubal lasts. And of course a sample of one wouldn't mean much anyway.

someone has to go when Danielson is ready. I was hoping for Rasmussen when the season started, but for whatever reason management doesn't seem inclined to give up on him yet and maybe he is playing a little better - maybe.

I guess it's just the thrill of pulling it off.

yup. Hitting probably benefits less from the advances in strength and training than the rest of the game. Not saying it doesn't benefit at all - but the best hitters are still good because of visual acuity and reflex speed, and so far they haven't come up with much that changes that, In fact with pitch velo up, pure reflex speed is an even bigger component for hitters than ever.

who manages to produces this kind of hardware without the details leaking? Or maybe that's what happened -

It's all about pricing. In general people like the idea of electric cars, esp if they are a two car household and one can be dedicated to primarily local use. They just don't like how expensive they are. The end of the subsidy produced an big sales over run in the 3rd quarter so there is going to be big drop off next quarter and everyone will be doomcasting. But one of two, or maybe three things will happen - less expensive 'ground up' EV platforms from US builders will get to market that cost less and market growth will continue, or they will appear overseas (in fact already have) and they will either show up in the US or be tariffed out of the market (at least until 2028 prolly) and thus US sales will fall (more likely), and the rest of world will continue to build and sell a larger % of the market to EV and it will just be another tech where the Chinese (and by then probably the Germans) will be miles ahead of us.

I think the Wings were prepared for ASP to have some tough games. He has played a grand total of 2 hr and 15 minute of NHL hockey in his lifetime. It's still early for large scale panic...😱

he's a strange dude. Did you see him score the empty netter the other night? Hardly even watched it into the net, turned around with his head down and sort of slunk back to the bench looking like his dog had just died and his bunions were acting up. Maybe the weirdest reaction I'd ever seen in a hockey player that had just iced a game for his team. I guess he wins faceoffs but he still floats around a lot. I'm not going to say anything about how his mates must take him, because I don't know. Maybe they love him for other reasons, but it would seem hard to believe it's for anything he does on the ice for his teammates' benefit.

that is the way umpires call it today so I assume that is what the computer will be set to. But the umps usually give away even more than that to the outside, which is why I'm going to be happy to see it get automated. Too many umps call a zone so wide the batters really have no fair chance.

+1 I've read some about Origen, one of the most renowned teachers of the early church, may have been the single person most responsible for the selection of the canon. Today the church doesn't talk about him because a lot of what he believed is not current orthodoxy. But Origen himself was cool about it, freely said he wasn't sure about a lot things but he'd tell you what made sense to him, take it or leave it.

I find this one hard to fathom. At assembly plants the cars normally have to be driven to the rail or truck ramp, - and certainly get driven around the dealer lot prior to sale - and *backed* into spaces. How on earth do flaws in the RV camera system not get noticed before those cars get sold?!?!

the last bit about Protestant Hispanics was interesting. I'm old enough to remember when non-Catholic Hispanics would not have been a large enough group to care about (politically that is!) but Google just told that Catholicism among Hispanics fell from 67% to 43% in just the 12yrs from 2010 to 2022, Apparently 2nd generation Hispanics leaving the RCC in droves. That's an amazingly rapid shift.

It's funny how memory gets skewed. I have this firm recollection about being unhappy that Wells picked Detroit to have the worst year of his career. Of course he didn't. I guess I must have just tuned in mostly to his losses to get that impression - but it remains.

Probably true in a lot of denoms. Apropos that Tater posted that lecture by Watts above where he makes the excellent point that a person can only talk about things in the forms/images/language they have particular access and experience in, IOW that your communication is all culturally conditioned. Paul is pretty revolutionary when you filter him through the lens of what he was - an upper class(probably), Pharasaic Jew of the Roman Empire. Of course by today's culture he still appears in places as reactionary. I don't think that's the best take, but YMMV. I always look back to the story told in Acts about Peter and Paul disagreeing on doctrine. I am always astounded the curators of the NT let that story slip through because to me it is the most salient episode in all of post resurrection writing and blows-up every church's claim to interpretive authority. You are not an evil person because you disagree on doctrine. If Peter and Paul do not, nobody ever will, no-one really has any better claim to it than anyone else. (yeah - they'd probably have burned me at the stake as Gnostic heretic too )

Obviously, for a long time the Wings were too small and too slow and a lot of teams tried to come out and intimidate them early, and that's been Yzerman's job one since he got here. I suppose it's just habit now for the Oilers to keep on trying it. Not the same team any more though. I also remember Seider's rookie season the 1st time we played Edmonton McDavid took a run at Seider and Moritz put him on his rear. You knew then we had the 1st piece of the turnaround.

Watt's brand of spiritualism had a kind of revival a couple of decades ago - guys like Deepak Chopra enjoyed a lot of popularity. I don't know if that's faded more recently or if I just pay less attention. Of course Watts probably would have been burned at the stake as a Gnostic or Catharite heretic under the inquisition. 🔥 😱

LOL - Al sometimes gave the impression of being the last innocent man in Sodom.

Meaningless management speak. Nothing else he can say really, or at least nothing else he can say which isn't even more foolish to say that that was.

we can hope they peaked too soon.