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I would guess he's engaged and that's the date. Though I don't know why any fool would want to get married in the winter like I did (we had a blizzard 😱). But then again it's probably going to be in FLA.

Didn't see all the game either - about 2/3. Saw at least a few plays where he used his length to break up a rush, he carried the puck with a little success. Didn't get much of a feel for how he played on defense as I hadn't memorized his number and I always find the fox/bally/fanduel production style uses too many tight shots to get get any quick sense for whether all 5 people are where they should be on the ice. I was struck at how much the team as a whole seemed to be back in fall-back mode. Tarasenko in particular. There were multiple times he could have challenged a Flyer for a loose puck at the boards at half ice but just fell back instead. I just don't get that. Maybe you can tie him up and ruin the flow - even if he beats you to the puck and gets a pass off, you've hurried him and can finish your check and take him out of the flow of whatever rush is started. Has to be better than letting him just skate away and organize his offense. The last few year's Wing's teams have done this (well failed to!) more than any hockey team i've ever watched. To me it's the biggest reason they've been bad. They don't/won't compete.

Absolutely - as a practical matter, there is a level where it doesn't matter if something happened because a well intentioned person was wrong or because a sociopathic person planned it. What happened is what happened. And mea culpa, I knew in 1980 that Carter was a better intentioned person than some of the people around Reagan, but to me that didn't excuse his governing incompetence. It was a calculated risk that Reagan himself could be talked out of some of his ignorances (which in at least some cases he was). And to this day we have no way to know if Carter might eventually have seen the light on solving inflation without starting the US down the road to middle class destruction the way Reaganomics did. So sure, the world and all choices are grey to a great extent. It's just jarring so see the ethics of any person who at least tries to in some manner to do what they think is right compared to a sociopathic sadist like Trump.

People seem desperate for simple solutions, maybe the prevalence of short attention span media conditions them that way. And what's funny is that if you ask a Trump supporting Joe-sixpack plumber or carpenter working on a project in your house "why can't you just do it this way?" he'll immediately try to make you understand how things aren't so simple and it's more complicated to do it right. It's not like people don't understand and master complexity everyday. But we all seem to carry these myths with us that everyone else's job is simple - including the government's. Just "fix" immigration or make eggs cheap again with a wave of the hand....

Indeed. What does it say about his voters? That their panic about a 4th decimal place proportion of the population not living out conventional gender roles, or that a guy fixing their roof speaks Spanish, is so great that they throw away any consideration of law and orderly political process? So that's what they see in the mirror? What we have is a nation that has been telling itself false stories for so long they've become reality for enough people to elect a charlatan like Trump. Twice.

IOW, Trump doesn't delegate, he wants to make all the decisions himself, but since he was too ****ing lazy to actually look through the cases himself - this is the result. This is a fundamental reason this admin will be a **** show just like the last one, he doesn't understand, doesn't even know actually, what a president's job is. He thinks leading is making all the decisions, when leading an org as big as the US gov is putting enough good people in place to make all the decision that have to be made that one person can't possible make by themselves even if they wanted to ( and Trump doesn't have the discipline to get into the weeds anyway). At that task he is already a total failure with this appointments. People slammed Reagan not being hands on enough - but at least he understood he had to have people doing all the stuff that needed doing that he was not going to do himself, and he largely succeeded at that. Other than his buddy Meese he always had very strong set of direct reports (and even if Haig was a little nutty, he was effective).

don't agree with the moral calculus here. It's not Biden's fault that Trump is a moral midget. If Biden had a program in place that was in process and working, even if slowly, and that any reasonable person would have left in place, then it's not his fault for not planning on Trump's perfidy or that the voters would elect the moral midget. If you want someone to blame - blame Trump voters - THEY brought you this situation - it was their choices, not Biden's. This logic is sort of like an SoCal insurance company deciding to refuse fire claims by a merchant on the grounds he should have had a 1/2 off sale to move all his stock out of the store because he knew a fire in SoCal was always a possibility. You can't conflate someone doing the right thing at less than 100% effectiveness with someone doing the 100% the wrong thing. They are not the same. Or since this a is sports forum: In a down one basket ball game, how would you evaluate the guy that took a last shot and missed, to the guy that takes the in bound pass and hands the ball to the other team?

Probably a check. Make that almost certainly a check.

Video tape must have been one of the shortest lived massively adopted technologies ever - video tape and the floppy disc maybe.

That was one thing that always stood out to me about Cabrera in his prime years: he was a hitter good enough to be capable of hitting with either a power or an OBP/RBI approach and he changed his approach based on game situation as adroitly as any hitter I've been able to see a lot of.

Our mail was not delivered today. Two days in office and already government services hit the skids.

We all know that the people that were close to him say he was capable of hitting for more OPS but he wouldn't - He was a man with an idea of what a proper ball player was and he stuck to it whether it was right or wrong!

worst 3 on 3 i've seen the Wings play in long time. And WTF is Tarasenko out there for - he's playing so tentative he's useless.

if they had brought that energy from a point a couple of minutes sooner they probably have a regulation win, but better late then never.

The story in the DetNews made it sound like Veleno was odd man out but it didn't actually say he had been sent down - I wouldn't have thought they could but I don't track that kind of stuff. At any rate, they said the line would be Soderblom, Rass and Fischer. If Ras is motivated to raise his game that could be tough group to play against - which of course is the point!

Sort of like Sears could/should have been Amazon.

OK - thanks - I misread it - thought at the 4th tier they had to pay multiples of the overage.....so still about $8M per team just from the Dodgers. Phillies, Dodgers, Mets and Yankees all over $275M AAV but the penalties depend on how many years they have been over and by how much so the total tax isn't a straightforward % of this year's overages. At any rate, it's interesting that the luxury tax payments are getting to where they are not trivial to the receiving teams.

very much.

It's downright fascinating how people can constantly believe Trump is on their side only to find out he isn't on anyone's side but his own. Been going on for 50 yrs and people still fall for it.

I llke it.

If Canada embargoed oil to the US gasoline would certainly go to over $5/gal probably more. The price of Jet Fuel would go up along with airline tickets. And trucking everything would cost more. In SE MI we'd stay warm because most heating here is nat gas, which is mostly domestic, but up North they use fuel oil a fair amount. And all for absolutely no reason. Trump is not only an idiot, he's an idiot who thinks in 19th century terms. It's not even to any advantage to the US for Canada to part of it - absolutely none. It's pure Napoleonic thinking from an age that should be dead an buried.

Not to mention it will drive every country in the world right into Xi's embrace, or worse, Putin's.

I used to spend a lot of time in Canada and I would say the idea of becoming part of US ranks somewhere between a joke and an insult to Canadians and while it's been a few years since I spent my time there, I can't imagine that sentiment has done anything but grown harder. They will not go gently into that good night.

Per the link above, the Dodgers are expected to owe something like $400M in luxury tax. If there are 15 teams getting equity payments, that $26.6M per team just in luxury tax revenue, just from the Dodgers.

We used to have the Canadians over a barrel (so to speak!) because there wasn't much they could do with the Alberta product but send it into the US Midwest. But they've completed a pipeline expansion project west to the Pacific and now can export at least a chuck of the product (~1 Mbpd) product that use to be fairly captive to the Midwest. They'd still suffer a lot themselves to cut off exports to the Midwest, but not as badly as they would have a year ago.