Dr. Who

I don't buy it. I don't think Dahlin is uncertain about the future of the team. He's part of it, he knows the pipeline is filled with young and emerging talent. The holdup is calculating term when the cap is likely going to escalate and payoff if you're not locked in for eight years.

I hope Elam has gotten enough confidence back to play man coverage, because they need his speed to cover Hill. He's their best press cb, so unless Elam is a total lost cause, I expect he will not be a healthy scratch on Sunday. Miami's oline is not great, but Tua is getting rid of the ball so quickly. The scheme is helping them. Have to find a way to make him hesitate just a bit. I think if that happens, the Dline will cause him problems. Still not confident about how Dorsey is calling a game. I am glad that he is genuinely incorporating the rbs, though. Cook, Murray, and Harris each bring something to the table. I think Cook could be a star, actually, but I am a biased UGA fan. I hope Kincaid gets more play than last week. We need those yards out of the slot position. Overall, I am cautiously optimistic. Folks are going to hype Miami after 70. The Broncos are bad and they gave up. It should be a different story against a D that is starting to hit on all cylinders.

I hate those Fife-Flyers almost as much as I hate the Bruins. Nasty, thuggish brutes. No taste in single-malt Scotch.

If it is a penalty, according to the proposal, a goal is awarded. Don't know about judgement calls, but that is the trouble spot in the idea. Right now, it's either a goal or not. I think the idea here is terrific and it closes down the excessive slow play (though I don't mind that when it benefits the Sabres, I'm fickle that way), but now you introduce a gray area and I don't generally want to let a ref's interpretation intrude if you can avoid it.

Very nicely done. I agree with pretty much all of his aesthetic judgments.

I don't have high hopes for Bernard, but it appears they thought of him as a real consideration at MLB. The hamstring injury early on has kept him out the entire preseason. We'll have to see if he can play better than most expect. Dodson had his best game against the Bears, which isn't a high bar. They should have brought in a free agent who can at least play the position at NFL mediocre level. Maybe someone will shake loose after the cutdowns, but it's not a great situation. Elam was never a good fit for what McD typically asks of his corners. I think it's up to the coaching staff to find a way to use him to his strengths. They've tried to turn him into a different player and now he has regressed because he's thinking too much and has lost confidence. That's on Beane and McD more than the player, imo. 2022 looks like a terrible draft, though I believe Cook is going to be solid. 2023 appears promising. Kincaid and Torrence could both turn out well. Overall, Beane needs to hit more, especially on day 2 picks. The Bills are still a very strong team. MLB, OT depth, and QB2 ought to be where one hopes they can scavenge some kind of improvement through trade or waiver pick ups.

If you execute them, everyone respects you, but it's harder to sign free agents.

Rather astute use of analogical reasoning. I do think KA needs to "let go" a bit. The desire to control everything for optimum outcome is an unrealistic ambition. It could also foster a spirit of fear, lest you lose out on "maximum efficiency." It's a fault of an age of anxiety.

1) It is easy to ask a glib, enigmatic question in pithy manner. Long to expound what could encompass a monograph or even a book length exposition. Economy is ultimately a function of metaphysics. Ontology discovers the capacity of beings. Efficiency as it is now generally understood normally follows a univocal, pragmatic utilitarian criteria that is inattentive to the equivocities of Being. At another level, the modern project judges efficiency as one aspect of material and efficient causality. It leaves out Aristotle's final and formal causalities which are not addressed by the common considerations and orthodox methods apprised by institutions that propose what is normative, if not true. My views on economy and effective derive from a more robust metaphysics, though the typical response of modernity and the so-called post-modern is to call into question metaphysics of that sort as fascist. 2) It depends which arena you are talking about.

You need to turn off your redundancy echo amplifier. Ironically, it is inefficient. I have always preferred an aesthetic that allows for the drama of the unplanned. Efficiency is rooted in a rationality of control that among other things adjusts expectations for reality to what can be comprehended by method. It leaves too much of importance out. Beauty, love, wonder, none of that can genuinely be commanded, so it cannot be a product of efficiency. Gallifrey became decadent and arrogant when they forgot all that.

There's an entire race of planted aliens who are here to subvert knowledge of aliens. They undergo a thorough process of memory erasure so that they can't be subject to advanced memory recall by earth operatives. Of course, Timelords know their tells, even if they are unaware of their true provenance. One of them is a penchant to go on message boards of diverse nature -- and when triggered by the proper catalyzing declaration, eg. supposition that there might, indeed, be aliens with advanced technology, they loudly proclaim the opposite. The chief phrase in German they inevitably repeat with contempt and absolute certitude is "Es ist alles Haufen Blödsinn."

Efficiency is boring as hell.

Saw an opportunity for a joke that included quantum physics and took it.

I feel like you are struggling with the concept of these threads. OTOH, you've given voice to ambivalence with a low hum of perduring disgruntlement in an intelligent manner. OTOH, you've failed to grasp the polar-dichotomy of point-counterpoint represented by two diverse threads of this particular nature. In reality, you want to occupy an ambiguous quantum state between two universal polarities, which places you high on the Heisenberg scale with a relatively strong undercurrent of Schrödinger syndrome.

If Atlanta gets another shot (I'd be surprised, but I've read your reasoning and it's not implausible), I hope they go with something other than the Thrashers. The Flames were just perfect. (I was a kid then, but that team was very likeable and I loved the sweaters.)

Yes, but KA is going to sell him as a 50 point player. I thought that was the point, but even if it isn't, that should be the take away. Personally, I hope VO is still part of a package that brings back a veteran goalie. That concerns me way more than where we're going to find goals.

The fella who is possibly related to KA or possibly a scout or just a fake insider posted the following at that wretched Hockeybuzz site: "Another Defenseman is coming + more . They're not playing around this year" He sort of drives by and drops these bits and disappears. We'll see if it happens. If they are adding a top 4D to what they've already done, that would be pretty impressive. The + more could be anything, but I wouldn't assume that means goalie.

That would be ideal. To me, Clifton is a 4-5 tweener. He might rise to the occasion and be an excellent partner for Power, but I'd prefer to have more options there. If you truly bring in a top 4D without question marks and slot Clifton to third pair, the D would be strong, but as others have pointed out, we're reaching a level of investment cap wise on D where you're probably not paying another big salary.

Maybe complaining is his form of enjoyment.

I haven't entirely given up on a trade for Hellebuyck. The price would have to be something KA is comfortable with for a one-year rental.

You always have that nagging feeling. I sincerely hope you are wrong. (I know you do, too.) I am expecting that 4D at minimum.

What I learned over the past few weeks is that Big Macs are super expensive in Winnipeg and that there may be some correlation between how much you pay for a hamburger and how much anxiety you have over balancing handedness on your blueline.

It's a gamble. The likelihood that Michkov is there at 13 went up this weekend.

I think Kincaid is special. I was advocating for his selection over a mediocre WR class over on the football side of this board for over a month before the draft. I just don't know if you can count on him in his rookie year to be that dangerous second receiving weapon we need. I think he will make some immediate impact in opening up the entire field as something the D has to pay attention to. I think Josh will have confidence he'll catch the ball. Hopkins would help on that front. He's a much more reliable receiver to compliment Diggs. Davis should be WR3 or 4. They've done enough to bolster the IOL that I am fairly optimistic it won't be the massive open border it was for much of last year. Just getting rid of Saffold is addition by subtraction. Wish I felt better about the tackles. Dawkins was below average last year and Brown was a disaster. There were mitigating factors. I think Dawkins was affected by poor guard play next to him and Brown never got past the lost development incurred because of back problems. Beane did bring in modest competition and Edwards can play some tackle. It's possible Doyle may surprise. I hope Josh is fully recovered from the UCL injury and I also hope his inability to be accurate on short passes exacerbated by injury is the reason Dorsey did not make use of Cooks' pass catching abilities out of the backfield. You don't select Cook and add Hines if you don't plan on making that element of the game part of your habitual arsenal.