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Duren is still young but his development seems stalled/painfully slow, and you don't really want that to be true between the ages of 19 and 21.

Unserious is exactly the word. It's almost funny in a way. I think about the kind of nose to the grindstone republican Paul Ryan was - and him being a big fan of Ayn Rand and her idea that the competent people keep the world running and it's the 'socialists' freeloaders that drag it down. But Rand had it wrong, at least in regard to contemporary America. It is the quiet competent people that keep the world running, but it's not socialists who are the freeloaders, it's the grifters, backslappers, influencers, the charter members of the 'good old boy' networks, the moneyed enfant terribles born on 3rd base, and all the other *unserious* people. And they are certainly having their hour. Someone needs to write an update to "Atlas Shrugged' with the real story.

He's such an incredibly petty babyman. It makes me wonder what weird pathology is at work in the people who are so attracted to him (and there absolutely are - no sense denying it). He clearly has some level of charm reserved for the people in his inner circle. But it's beyond me how anyone with his persona can make anything work for him at all.

Tag team!

I don't think the topics would have been an issue, it would be the caricatures like George Jefferson. And while liberals have always claimed AITF as an argument for their side, Lear always played a double game in the scripts. I lived in a household with a conservative older male and he (and his buds) always thought Archie was continuing to win the day in every way. You will note that while Archie was supposedly the punchline to the libs, it was was libs in the show who tended to be either unattractive (Reiner), brainless (Gloria) or obnoxious (Maude). The subtexts were no accident because conservatives also buy soap.

Someone here noted that the new 'Fanduel' deal is probably paying the Tigers something like $15M/yr less that the 'Bally' deal before the bankruptcy. Assuming that's true, I have to think that is what is really driving the increasing split between the teams that continue to commit long term money and the teams that are just refusing. I think for any number of recent decades most teams had pretty rosy projections about the rate of increase in revenue so they didn't worry a lot about committing what they knew would be dead money in the future, but if a bunch of teams have now actually seen a year to year decrease in media revenue (and I would assume that a lot of teams did worse than Detroit in the Sinclair bankruptcy) that has to be culture shock for those ownerships.

Yup. So much with a QB comes down to staying calm and of course processing speed. If you process faster you can anticipate what's coming and that reduces panic. Even when Darnold did get the ball off he was highly stressed - evidenced by him throwing behind his receiver a lot . His receivers were bailing him out with some very tough reach back catches.

Interesting. OTOH, on the other side of the ledger, shooting free throws should depress the opponent's points per possession on the following possession since FTs generally don't lead to many long rebounds and/or fast breaks - at least for a team that likes to run. Never seen a number about that though....

I can see why a conservative coach like Lalonde loved him - he doesn't make many mistakes - but that doesn't do much good if you can't get to the right play in time or if you are there and you can't win the one on one, and that's pretty much where Jeff has been. If Johansson gets sent down, you can only hope Petry turns out to have more in the tank than he was showing under Lalonde.

a lot easier to win basketball games when you have a couple guys who can make a shot.

I guess when Campbell told O'Connell he'd see him in two weeks it was because he'd invited him to a Lions post game party.

At this point, a Stafford self-destruct is the Vikings only chance.....

I guess the refs just don't care about calling Illegal procedure on O Lineman dropping in to pass protect early anymore.....

neither of these teams can get out of their own way in this quarter

Rams dodge a bullet. Make that a howitzer. But big MO is still wearing purple right now.

Torkelson was at 3rd base......

I hope they buy him out.

i was living in Minneapolis when Target opened. Enjoyed seeing the Tigers there a few times. Nice park. Also liked being able to park at MOA and hop the Hiawatha (now the Blue Line). People in Det don't know what they're missing with the lack of transit.

two points behind Columbus with a game in hand, three points behind Boston with 3 games in hand.

We are starting (finally) to see the kind of surgical offense that bringing Debrincat and Kane together with Larkin was supposed to produce, and of course Raymond is becoming as slick as any of them. McLellan nailed it in the pre-game interview though - now that they've moved forward the the trick is not slipping back.

No law says two great players can't come out of the same draft. Mobley is still young for a (near) 7 footer, we probably have not have seen his ceiling yet. And if Cade gets a handle on his handle, we haven't seen his celling either.

I think the theory of deferring does come out of an era when the probability of scoring on any given possession was low and idea was the team comes out of the locker room a little too charged up for offensive precision, while the same is good for defensive pursuit. But offenses are so good today and you see enough games with only a couple or maybe even zero punts, that 'giving away' that 1st possession probably does make less sense than it used to.

And think how valuable he'd be if he could keep it in his hands. (rimshot)

Another possible take is that JV didn't want to come back to the scene where he was such a dominant pitcher knowing he was no longer likely to be that guy but that that's what the fans would be expecting. Maybe less potentially disappointing for all concerned to just pitch somewhere that he could do the best he has left without the baggage. Add to that that JV is chasing stats (total wins) and there may be no manager in baseball less likely to help you do that than Hinch.

I liked Mobley in that draft also. And TBF, while Cade is rapidly becoming a more dominant player, Mobley has been more productive over the 1st years of their careers, and he is also still improving.