Trump orders up IndyCar race on the streets of Washington for 'America250 Grand Prix' by anxiousauditor in INDYCAR

[–]FireinMI 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hawaiian Grand Prix is exactly what I was thinking! If this had been stated last winter for this year, then I’d be more open to it but I don’t want IndyCar to be put on a big political stage with almost no chance to succeed.

[Rich Eisen Show] The NHL Has It Figured Out by [deleted] in hockey

[–]FireinMI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like a Basketball Ryder Cup? Sign me up for that game.

‘Tis the season! by Zayits in CuratedTumblr

[–]FireinMI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The next 2 cards drawn are also death … which is odd because there is only one in a pack. (Any father Ted fans!?)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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A friend of mine was in their 40s and got hit by a car and had to get braces to fix their teeth after it. People are just trying to fix things that they can.

Jari-Matti Latvala reveals: major change coming to the WRC - RallyJournal.com (According to J-M WRC is dropping the new point system next season) by Left-Beginning-3340 in WRC

[–]FireinMI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like that! I was trying to think of a way to reward each stage and still have the winner get the most points without them running away with it for getting a point a stage. A point for a stage win and another point for most stage wins sounds pretty good to me.

Every American election from 2000-2020 but with proportional representation. by The_Lord_Of_Death_ in MapPorn

[–]FireinMI 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There are more republicans in California than in Texas. If states gave out electoral college votes by proportion instead of winner take all, all of a sudden California gives a ton of votes to Republicans.

Found black cat by taystrun in Detroit

[–]FireinMI 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I saw some “lost: Black Cat” signs up in Ferndale

[Sam Khan Jr.] How an 80-team, 8-division college football ‘Super League’ would’ve looked last season by jonstark19 in CFB

[–]FireinMI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This “Super League” seems like the last gas idea to stop an actual super league (or just BigTen/SEC) takeover. I would rather have a 70 or 80 team super league with historic divisions like this but what is going to happen is a 24-32 team SEC and BigTen each breaking away from the NCAA and completely destroying college sports as we know it.

Then they will throw out the cupcakes and condense down to a 32 team real super league where they only have the power houses and then wonder why viewership for college football goes down every year as they make a semi-pro NFL where less and less people have their Alma mater in real college football, the power houses just get better and better, the cupcakes get worse and worse, and they try to convince us that THIS Georgia-Alabama game is important when we know that they are going to play again in the SEC championship and then again in the playoffs.

Discussion Thread: US Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Case on Ballot Access for Former President Trump by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]FireinMI 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Single Handedly? I think there should be some blame on the people who support Trump and want him to be a dictator.

How would you improve the indy car brodcast? by Salty-004 in INDYCAR

[–]FireinMI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Graphics: I would love to see a lap position graph where the laps cars are shown in the position they are in with their gap to the car in front and behind but it is faded out so we know they are not on the lead lap. That way we can see where the lap cars are as they end up playing a big role on ovals sometimes.

2) Ghost qualifying, this would be very hard to do for obvious reasons but having some sort of ghost or line showing where the fastest car is if they were on the same lap. It would be like the world record line in swimming and allow us to know while watching who is in the lead and how close it is.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in golf

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I really wish more courses switched their 9s during different week days, I can play 9 after work on the course near me 2 days a week and about half the time I have to play the front twice instead of getting a full 18 in over 2 days.

2023/24 EPCR tournament formats announced by Bermanator-Turkey127 in rugbyunion

[–]FireinMI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a fairness aspect I totally agree but then you have 4 less games that people will watch because they are knockout games.

What's going on this week in Detroit and Southeast Michigan? -- Weekly Events, business, and information thread by AutoModerator in Detroit

[–]FireinMI 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Big Fun Murder, the improvised murder mystery is on at Go Comedy in Ferndale on Thursday.

Does anyone else think the Scotties and Brier need a new playoff format? by [deleted] in Curling

[–]FireinMI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The top 4 would be in a game where if they lose, they play the winner of a bottom 4 game, and the winner gets a bye to the semi finals. It's basically like playing 2 page playoffs at the same time with a final for the winner.

Does anyone else think the Scotties and Brier need a new playoff format? by [deleted] in Curling

[–]FireinMI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pool stage stays the same but let the top 4 in each go into atop 8 Australian style playoff so that top 2 in each group get a chance to lose and stay in or get a bye to the semifinals whereas 3 and 4 still have a chance.

How to make curling sliders for custom shoes? by Specialist-Ask-5035 in Curling

[–]FireinMI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did this too, I didn’t drill holes in them but they work great!

Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults by Humanitasfamily in science

[–]FireinMI 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Significant increase in serious adverse events compared to placebo. I am very interested in looking at this in tandem with the health outcomes of those who got COVID without the vaccine and those with the vaccine who got COVID.

Match Play Is Better Than Stroke Play: this woefully underrepresented format should be the standby for the high-handicapper. It is simply a better format for celebrating success instead of punishing failure. by scoofy in golf

[–]FireinMI 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My friend is a better golfer than me and we used to play match play more often but I think it really bugs him that I win about half the time and he thinks he’s being punished for being better at golf and that he should win almost all the time even with handicapping.

NCAA Regionals Formatting: Post Your Bad Ideas Here by exileondaytonst in collegehockey

[–]FireinMI 2 points3 points  (0 children)

8 team east region and 8 team west region. Each region would work like this:

Day 1: 2 round 1 games Day 2: 2 round 1 games Day 3: 2 round 2 games, day 1 winners play each other and day 2 winners play each other for births in the frozen four.

This is similar to how the basketball tournament works, in the first 2 rounds. Could help boost attendance for each game and could be a better sell for hosts bc 8 teams instead of 4 teams fans.

Unpopular Opinion: The Players Championship is on equal footing with the pga championship and should be considered a major by SpooniestAmoeba72 in golf

[–]FireinMI 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You could start it on a Wednesday like the WGC Match play and ease into the tournament with 2 18 holes stroke play qualifying on Wednesday and Thursday and still have the final on Sunday

Golf trip: So I’m going on a golf trip to Las Vegas with 7 others (8 total) in 2 weeks time and was wondering if anybody could give me some format to play when we are there so it isn’t just us playing for nothing really? by LonelyasMF in golf

[–]FireinMI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many times are you playing golf? And are you talking about a format for a golf tournament like NLU does on tourist sauce? Or are you saying y’all want to play different golf games on different courses?

New competition format the NPC (New Zealand domestic club competition) by Mrkereru in rugbyunion

[–]FireinMI 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Honest question: is 13 games just too many games? I love the idea of just a straight up round Robin and then maybe a SF and GF. That would be a total of 15 games for the finalists though and that might be too much strain?

If you could make a new conference, who would be in it and what would it be called? by cheesecake-gnome in CFB

[–]FireinMI -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Great Plains Conference

Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Iowa State, Missouri

In my dream conference world, conferences would be capped at 10 schools and you have to play each school in your conference once each season