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I can see a team not wanting to change a scheme to draft one player. Even if he is a stud is he really going to bring enough to balance how much it might cost you in the performance of all your existing players who were picked for fit the current scheme? Now that is a general consideration. The Lions have so few players worth anything in the front 7 it would be perfectly reasonable to pick one great player when he's available and rebuild around the scheme that best fits him. Will Holmes/Campbell see Hutchinson (or Thibs) as that guy?

this. These are all very good ball players, all capable of putting up 5-6 WAR seasons. The last SSs we had that gave us a 6 WAR season were Trammell (6 times) Guillen (once) and we averaged 92 wins when they did.

I don't know if it was good or bad to see Harbaugh at his old weird self in that post game. He jumped up and walked out on the rest of the presser immediately after he said that BTW.

Yzerman has hit homeruns with Raymond and Seider and maybe with Edvinsson, but we're going to need to get more than one guy from those drafts...

I think Baez has some intriguing aspects. His swing seems to have a good deal of wasted motion - if he ever put his mind in to cleaning it up it could be interesting to see what he could do. Obviously at this point in his career that seems pretty unlikely.

2nd biggest take away for Michigan from this game (#1 being the score of course) is that I don't remember anyone getting hurt. A healthy M should take Iowa.

yeah, M didn't beat Stroud. He kept his composure despite the pressure he was under and they moved the ball even if M did force them to use more time on their drives than they wanted. The big win was M's O against the OSU D. Between the points and the time of possession they left even a superlative OSU O with too big a hill to climb.

Thank-you Red. And after all, we have to win at least often enough to keep it meaningful for you guys!

crypto is a contradiction in terms. The concept was take control away from any central bank's ability to manipulate it, and you can insure a stable store of value, but in practice it turns out that un-tethered from anyone trying to control its value, it becomes the ultimate speculation with no price stability whatever. Which means it can never realize any potential as an actual substitute currency. Ergo - it's just a high priced video game and haven for the black economy.

only nit to pick was that they could have burned at least another minute or two on the clock - they snapped the ball with 15-20 second left a few times. But OTOH, if the rhythm is working.....

they need another touchdown to win this. If they try to sit on the 8 point lead they lose.

did the ball hit the ground before SmithN came up with it?

actually the 'hill' was supposed to be that Javy has decent grounds for not believing he should be 5th on the list but no-one went that way with it. But that is the thing with statistics, they are what they are, but they are only as predictive as you believe the situation in the past will be the situation in the future. But if you want to argue against them, you (general sense) have the burden to argue why the situation is likely to be different. Of course with athletes you have the built in difference that every year they are a year older and everyone ages differently, so that's always a big variable all by itself.

Look at this this way, if OSU has a 2nd half like they had against State, we are in.

with a nod to the bald kid in the matrix, "There is no hook"

If you want to go by the numbers over the last 4 (3 full) seasons (2018-2021) by WAR the ranking would be. by Fangraphs Semien=19.3; Story=17.1; Baez=13.3; Correa=11.4; Seager=9.2 by BBref Semien=20.3; Story=19.9; Baez=18.3; Correa=15.7; Seager=9.2 I didn't realize how much time Seager has missed.

Washington being spanked by Washington State tonight. A win for M whose value continues to drop.

Javy probably should have taken the Cubs deal unless maybe he didn't like it there. I'd be surprised if anyone offers him 8 yrs again two years later.

The other fun one along the review line is the internet recipe review from the cook who simply loved the recipe and then proceeds to describe the 8 or 10 changes they made that meant they actually cooked up a completely different dish.

sounds like someone is lying or maybe a lot of someones are going to take a bath.

actually I think we will get the 2nd or 3rd guy. I just doubt more than 2 teams are going to offer anyone much over 200M and I can see the Tigers staying in the game to that level.

HaHa. So according to the Nature article the variant was going to be NU - as in the 13th letter of the Greek Alphabet but it's already been relabeled in this story as Omicon, skipping the Greek letters NU and XI. I guess 'NU virus or Xi virus were going to be politically unacceptable! I can understand 'NU/New' virus was going to be too messy to deal with, but I bet Trump would have jumped at the chance to call it "Xi".

I used to think the the competing rights and irreparable harm legal concepts were sufficient to get the answer. If the rights of the mother and the fetus conflict the question of which's rights prevail is answered by which suffers the most irreparable harm from the given action. By that analysis you have a straightforward call. But like most overly simple answers, I don't see it as sufficient to the question anymore.

The problem with the way you put the argument is that you can make exactly the same argument and get the opposite result if you start at the other end. Two germ cells are nothing more than 2 germ cells, they are no different that one of the millions of skin cells you shed every day. At some point you have a blastula. An undifferentiated mass not particularly biologically different from a polyp you may have snipped during a colonoscopy. Then "suddenly" its a fetus = a baby. So where is the change? You can't get an answer from 'science' here because the science only tells you that *all* cells are *alive* ( in the sense of have duplicative potential ) and carry genetic potential. To make an even more arch observation - a human fetus probably carries something like >90% of the same DNA as a rat. So the moral dimensions of the question do not really lie in the biology.

good article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03552-w Not a lot nailed down yet.