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the mere wind of it knocked Garcia off his feet. 🌪️

True story - I got a job replacing a guy who had quit to day trade. It was small field and everyone in the biz knew of everyone else at maybe a max of 3 degrees of separation. Anyway, it was maybe 3 years later we heard he was back working for a living in a similar gig for one of our competitors.

Sadly - University of Michigan President designate Kent Syverud is undergoing cancer treatment. Will not be taking the post. https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2026/04/kent-syverud-no-longer-becoming-next-university-of-michigan-president.html

Don't understand what you mean by 'different technology.' So I do imagine there is a difference for people who connect to MLB directly, because that is one less step, but from a marketing importance standpoint to the Tigers, the largest part of the market is people in the Metro area who are getting it through their TV distributor (mostly DirectTV & Comcast, Youtube, etc) so the situation I experience applies.

I'll give you an example why I don't think the Tigers could control this even if they wanted to. (and whether they want to is questionable - they want you listening to the broadcast as they are selling audio reads in it) I have fiber from ATT and DirectTV. If I start watching my cloud 'DVR' of a game say 1/2 hr after the game starts, and slice out dead time to catch up, when I get to 'live' from the DVR link, I'm 10-20 seconds ahead - that is closer to real time, than if I drop off the DVR link and go pick the game from the linear broadcast guide. This behavior makes no obvious sense, but it is completely reproducible, has been true for multiple seasons, and even more significantly, did NOT change with the Tigers move to MLB production. The 20 seconds or lack thereof - is purely a function of DirectTV's handling of the feed. There is no way the Tigers have anything to do with it. The last leg of network link to you is going to be subject to buffering that is out of control of the originator and the Tigers are sending the game to multiple distributors with different HW systems. I suppose if you buy directly from MLB that's one less step, but you still don't know what your ISP may be doing with MLB feeds.

That's the kind of play Ras should have made a 100 times in his career by now but hasn't. But Ras is still a Wing and Soderblom isn't. Go figure.

so on the topic of KM and in a nod to the discussion up thread about gloves - I've noted that KM does use a very small SS and an open pocket 3b glove that looks somewhat but maybe not max length. And I would just note that he did have trouble with the transfer from the 3b mitt in the 1st inning yesterday. The runner was erased on a DP so no harm, no foul, but just a point that there is no free-lunch, each glove is a trade off for what you want to do most at that position.

Aryan Jesus - of course. And Trump with every hair he's lost in 40 yrs restored. A miracle.

They are working Workman all across the IF now. He could be a decent utility guy if he's finally controlling his K's. IDK what the odds of that happening at his age are, but he's still got a chance to show this year.

I think is is accurate. The problem for the Times is that they are no-doubt a militantly secular culture (other than Op-Ed writers Douthat and French) and so I doubt most Times journalists take the Papacy and the RCC very seriously.

the difference is that the stakes were higher for Canada. You know the old saw about 'academic politics are the worst because there is so little at stake" - the same paradigm exists in real politics. Only when the perceived stakes are low do people spend a lot time arguing about symbolic votes and windmill tilts at policies that have no chance of adoption and stabbing their own needed allies in the back. It's the perception of real danger that finally straightens out people's thinking and ultimately results in an empowered broad based opposition. The US is so fat and happy, the various people who don't like Trump still have not internalized the level of risk enough to be willing to bury their micro-political cultural biases and work together strategically. Now you would think it's pretty hard to be alive with a brain in the US and not understand the risk of the direction we are going, but the objective evidence tells us it hasn't sunk in everywhere - yet.

we lost a wall off the local indoor ice rink (about a mile from here), the UM Hockey Arena lost part of its roof. The high winds were very localized - we had incredible sheeting rain but very little wind at our house.

n word was still in very wide currency in '50s America.

Nothing is real time anymore. Over the air radio is probably closest but even that probably goes through an IP link to the transmitter so you have an opportunity for buffering. Hi-res video is always going to be buffered, possibly multiple times before it gets to you, so synchronization on any two sources is going to be mostly luck.

Development system rankings get elevated by depth, but pro results depend the smaller number of exceptional players.

looking at where they were in the standings a month ago vs their goal differential you could argue they actually had to be a very lucky team.

voting against appointments from the minority doesn't actually accomplish anything - it's nice symbolism, but does it matter? I'd guess most members make those votes because they are hoping to bank some goodwill capital to get something later that will be worth more than a symbolic no vote that doesn't stop anything. I guess there is a level where more 'symbol' can be good thing but in the end, stuff that doesn't make a difference, doesn't make a difference. OTOH, if any of those votes could have stopped one of those appointments, then I agree with you.

I see little route for them to improve much. None of the players likely to come up from GR have shown much indication any of them are going to be more than younger versions of the same kind of middling players they are going to replace. They might have a goalie in either Augustine or Cossa, but it still looks like a mediocre team with little chance to do any more than get washed out of an early cup round. The D is good, yes, but they need more help on the lines than I see any way for them to generate.

Crikey - SGL and Hanifee combine to give up 11 ER in 5 IP.

6 K's total in this game. Can't remember last time I saw a game with that few Ks.

Kane is toast. This rebuild has already failed, they have to get worse to get better again.

how is he not ejected? NBA officiating is a joke.

tigers with only 4 hits but they took 6 walks. Torkelson with a silly 208/397 BA/OBP

Parker Meadows has surgery on his broken radius. That could mean the fracture was more complex than normal, or just that they decided they could cut down recovery time with in 'internal fixature'. He was moved to the 60day. Hinch said he expects him back this season. https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/parker-meadows-left-arm-surgery-60-day-il

I get all that, but in general voters in CA aren't that dumb. If it were a presidential year the idea of 'autopilot' voters picking any name they had heard before seems like it could be a more serious risk. Dems splitting the vote is a risk in general, and they have to figure that out with or without Swalwell additional name on the ballot.