Ted Hoffman's Actuarials

It looks like they tried covering his hand with some bandage, then painted over it - and it still looks like shit.

Imagine how much worse it looks without all that.

Meta is a **massive** accounting fraud where advertisers and investors are lied to every day about everything. Whoever does the work to uncover it will win Pulitzers, and state AGs will line up to prosecute Zuckerburg and the company beyond oblivion.

Hopefully "is this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame worthy?" is not one of those questions.

If anyone [for some truly inexplicable reason] needed any more hints on which 3 are fully captured by Trump and the conservative right and are fervently anti-Constitution and would have been on the side of the King in 1776, they've got their answer now.

Because some other team wants to win, even if that includes getting better players from other, worse teams.

Let's encourage that and encourage highly competitive postseason and all the memories those create, not ensuring two bad teams are still 21-43 in March to avoid appearing to tank.

Unless the NBA or any other pro sports league once again in the business of telling teams who they must play on a given night and managing in-game decisions, how teams are run is left to discretion of the owner, GMs and coaches.

If they want their teams to suck, more power to them.

Screaming at bad teams to "win more, do better" ignores potentially obvious problems. Maybe it's injuries. Maybe it's poor coaching. Maybe it's poor development.

The solution for some: pretend it's all tanking, punish teams equally accordingly.

I have long said if tanking were a real problem, the solution is to strip teams of the draft pick they'd get. That *instantly* stops tanking, as there's no longer a reward for it.

Outside of an open admission, way too many people are willing to equate "bad team" with "definitely tanking."

"But fans shouldn't cheer for their team to lose." Yeah and fans shouldn't pay $250 for a seat, $25 for parking, $12 for a beer, etc.

There's no "right to win a given number of games in a season" which the anti-tank coalition implicitly argues. Some teams are going to be just bad, tank or not.

The fact is, tanking pushes better players toward better teams who are more likely to make the playoffs. That makes for a higher quality postseason, which is more entertaining, which fans care far more about.

That attracts more attention than lots of mediocrity.

If teams want to tank, fine. It's not a guarantee of success. If it doesn't work, that's the owner's problem. (And probably multiple GMs by that point.) If fans want to tolerate it, that's their money to spend. The NBA and every other league doesn't have some right to a fan's discretionary dollars.

Fans remember great playoff series, championship battles, great teams loaded with stars. That's what generates excitement, attracts casual fans. The average fan doesn't get deeply invested in a regular season game on November 16, or January 23, or March 4.

@mcuban.bsky.social is exactly right about tanking in the NBA. Or any other sport, for that matter. The "problem of tanking" is overblown.

it is of vital importance that we start calling stupid ideas and stupid questions and stupid people “stupid” again

AOC's use of 'um' twice and 'uh' once in a response to a question while in Europe raises new questions about Joe Biden's fitness for office.

Per Wikipedia: "By the mid-1980s, with a push from advertisers, the term Presidents' Day began its public appearance."

Wow ... so businesses are really to blame for ending the Fairness Doctrine that would have had Washington and Lincoln have separate days to honor their respective birthday.

"... and cleaned a dead fly out of it for me" is only part of the quintessential Waffle House experience.

At some point you have to treat these people as adults who will experience consequences for their actions. I suggest we start now.

Don't let anyone kid you. You're funny ... for a professor - current or retired.

Go back and watch the Dallas game right before the break. Defensive breakdowns throughout the 2nd, an utter meltdown on the GWG. "But the goalie should ...." what, know his defense will allow the cross-ice pass to the guy streaking down the right side that everyone ignored, and play that first?

3. He's not doing it this year because ... this Blues team sucks. Injuries or not, it's a crap roster where too many guys are waiting for someone else to lead so they can be passengers on that train. It's a collection of pieces that don't fit together; goaltending isn't saving that.

2. He's never going to be a 2.20 GAA, .920 SV% kind of guy. What he will do is elevate his game under pressure. He did that in 2019, he was doing it in 2022, he did it at the 4 Nations, he did it last year vs. Winnipeg. Similar to Grant Fuhr: never had great stats, won 4 Cups + the 1987 Canada Cup.

1. "Several seasons." He's been in the league 8. He's been arguably poor for 3 of them: 22, 23 [the Blues sucked] and this year [they suck]. '22, he supplanted Husso in the playoffs and took the Blues to a 2-1 series lead on Colorado before getting hurt. [Finished 4-1-0, 1.72, .949]

I've watched the Blues all season long. The team that plays in front of Hofer is different from the one that plays in front of Binnington. They play smarter, more efficient defense with Hofer, and frequently leave Binnington to hang.

If all you're looking at is stats, you're missing all of that.

People need to realize (yet again) that a lot of good goalies are going to look bad behind bad teams.

That's Jordan Binnington in St Louis right now.

Nikki Haley: "We will lose."

Also Nikki Haley: "I will support Trump, even if he leads this country into its death throes by attempting to become a dictator, instead of supporting a Democrat who will do nothing remotely close to those things."

We wanted to know if this was cancel culture, so we asked 3 men in their 50s at a Chick-fil-A in Indiana, Pennsylvania who were recently deported from the Dominican Republic for trying to solicit minors.

He can refuse to be silenced now, but when he had the opportunity to put an end to Trump he chose money over country and kept his mouth shut. Even knowing Trump would go on a revenge tour if he got back in power and he'd be a target, Bolton still chose to STFU for $.

Fuck John Bolton.

"There should be meatloaf, some fried chicken, ..."

Wait, let me guess - and some fruitcake for dessert, so Megyn [and that other Meghan] can say she's part of every Super Bowl party.

an older man with a beard says no i 'm not doing that ALT: an older man with a beard says no i 'm not doing that

Me watching that Salesforce commercial to solve a bunch of puzzles to win $1 million: