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The Pistons finally found themselves and restored order. The team you saw in Game 7 was the one that won the East by 4 games. Daniss finally found his place alongside Cade. BUT ... if Franz had remained healthy, Orlando holds onto that 24-point G6 lead and advances.
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@HoodiWaymo You're going to be disappointed when none of these happen
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gosh this is so embarrassing I’m sorry guys I hate being wrong
Scott Bell@sbell021
I can’t believe the Pistons blew it. I haven’t felt happiness in basketball since Michigan won the National Championship 3.5 full weeks ago.
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JUST IN: Jalen Duren is headed to the locker room due to a finger issue.
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@jFudgy_ I missed the deadline by ten minutes but think I should still be considered for this
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@MobHoops People who argue individual foul calls at any time other than the last play of the game are exhausting
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“The Pistons have no shooting”
Literally the best shooter on the team has been glued to the bench all season for some reason
Brew@IamBrewster
It’s time. Push the button JB.
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i've been thinking a lot about the game tonight and if the pistons win i think they have a shot, but if they lose i think it's over for them
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@Solipsisticly @SamaHoole True. Do it anyway. I started in my 40s. Nobody to teach me so I bought a book and a tree stand. Got two nice deer my first season and have continued to learn as I go.
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@SamaHoole Problem is that hunters are willing to teach children but not adults. Parents don't trust strangers with the children. Hunters aren't interested in teaching adults who want to learn.
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The American deer camp was, between approximately 1880 and 1990, the autumn ritual of every rural family in the upper Midwest, the Northeast, and the Appalachians.
A cabin in the woods. Three or four men, three generations sometimes, who got there on the Friday before opening day, lit the wood stove, drank coffee that had been on the burner since 4am, played cards, told the same stories they had told the year before, and went out at first light on Saturday with rifles their grandfathers had owned.
A buck taken cleanly with one shot. Field-dressed in the snow. Hung in the woodshed. Butchered the next weekend in the garage with the family. Forty pounds of venison in the chest freezer. Steaks for the winter. Sausage made by the grandfather with a recipe nobody had written down. A roast for Thanksgiving. The hide tanned and turned into mittens for the youngest grandson.
The deer was free. The freezer was full. The boys learned to shoot, to clean a rifle, to gut an animal, to butcher it, to thank the woods for the deer, to be quiet for hours at dawn in the cold and notice things.
Roughly 14 million Americans hunted in 1980. By 2020 that number was 11.5 million, and the average hunter age had risen from 35 to 51. The next generation is not coming up.
Suburbanization removed the woods from the back door. Liability fears closed private lands. Public hunting access shrank. Time pressure on working families killed the long weekend at camp. The cultural drift made hunting socially suspect, then unfashionable, then, in some quarters, taboo.
The number of American teenagers who have ever fired a rifle, gutted an animal, or watched their grandfather butcher a deer in the garage on a November Sunday afternoon is, in 2026, statistically vanishing.
The freezer that used to be full of free, lean, grass-fed wild protein is full of ground beef from a Smithfield CAFO in Iowa.
The skill is one generation deep. If the grandfather did not pass it to the father, and the father did not pass it to the son, the chain is broken. YouTube is, at the moment, where the few remaining young hunters are getting most of their training.
A small American tradition that fed families for a century, taught a sequence of practical and moral lessons no textbook can replace, and connected three generations to the land their ancestors lived on, is closing down quietly, camp by camp, season by season.
The cabin is still there. The stove still works. The buck is still in the woods.
The grandfather is in the cemetery on the hill above the cabin. He cannot take the boy himself.
Somebody else has to.
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@SamaHoole Sympathetict. However American deer now have chronic wasting disease (the deer version of mad cow disease) and it is moving rapidly across the nation. Unfortunately it is becoming very risky to eat wild deer in the USA. No one wants creutzfeldt-jakob disease the human version
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@TigersJUK .222 BA / .721 OPS over 123 PAs with Toledo so far this year. Confidence is not high.
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@yungransomm Yup, I love what he has done here in just 2 seasons but we're now seeing the playoff limitations that caused Cleveland to let him go.
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@CalicoJoeMLB Valdez and Perez are next now that all other names containing a z have been eliminated.
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If we have one more starter get hurt I am voluntarily holding tryouts on the grounds of Old Tiger Stadium
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@tigerblogger @uniformcritic Did they face a lefty starter that game? He often batted fifth.
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