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Right - a corporate NDA can only lead at most to a civil suit. If you are dealing with classified information you are subject to criminal sanctions under various Federal Statutes. FTM even if you never signed anything!

I imagine you might play 3rd with a slightly larger glove than SS but I have to wonder if switching gloves for that small a difference is even a good idea if you are playing both position a lot. The human brain is really good at learning things like how long the fingers of a glove are if you give it a lot of reps. You are giving something up to not take advantage of that spatial learning. Is that more or less advantage than the other glove can give you? I'd like to believe teams/players really know the correct answer to that, but baseball has been based on so much incorrect lore/conventional wisdom in the past for so long it's enough to give you doubts.

What's worse, they have yet to a single player to the roster who is as good a forechecker as Luke was. Again, where is the overall concept behind what players they add vs let go?

Tackiest lectern in the Western Hemisphere there.

it's coming down to the question of 'do you know how to build a winning team?' Does wings management AKA SY, actually have a plan for what properties he needs in what proportions to build a team that doesn't collapse in March, of has he just been going along collecting as much talent as he could without having a plan how the various pieces need to fit together? Sort of like Randy Smith, or generations of Lions GMS who collected players but never built a team.

is it just HR hitting or is it the more elusive capability to hang tough against good pitching as opposed to feasting periodically on bad pitching? The two things are probably correlates of one another, but I don't know they are the completely the same thing.

Back in the day you still had some huge ball parks, Cleveland, Polo grounds in center, Tigers in CF, the original LF at Yankee stadium, Fenway in RC, There was a lot more opportunity to hit balls a long way that were going to stay in play, and for those teams in those parks big OF arms were more important. And I think it's also true that guys did a lot less power training. I think the rise of cookie cutter short OF ballparks and the change in training toward pure power lifting for HR hitting just eliminated throwing as skill for most OFs for a long period. I think today with much more sophisticated training, we again see more guys who train for HR strength but maintain the elasticity needed to keep their throwing arms. And my very casual impression is that there has almost been a renaissance in the number of guys out there today who do throw well from the OF. The Tigers just don't have any of them - beyond maybe Kerry or when we put a regular SS/3B out there, and even then its not quite the same kind of throw.

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same as it ever was

Oddly enough, I think the bad reaction in the oil and stock markets is going to bedevil him more than anything else, at least if the reaction carries through when it opens in the morning. He's been able to talk the market back up several times via social media since this started, but to have his formal statements fall flat with 'his people' (i.e. investors) is going to hit him where his pride lives.

didn’t the Spurs go from 1st to worst when they lost Robinson? I think that was a default assumption of what might happen when Cade went down.

I think they are showing that the Pistons are more than Cade and the 11 Dwarves. Ausar, Duren and Tobias aren't half bad, and Daniss manages to hold his own.

'Limping away' would be more accurate.

Agree the bats have been underwhelming, yet they put up 11 runs in the last two games. But we've already had 4 different pitchers on the staff suffer melt downs, and some sloppy D. The sloppy D will probably continue because it is at least in part the downside of moving guys all around the diamond every day. There is no free lunch. Every strategy that has an upside has some downside.

I have no idea what the kind of income AI is going to generate in the end, but I can pretty much guarantee you that half of the companies extending themselves with these massive capital build outs are going to end up in the toilet, unable to get a slice of the market from whichever turn out to be the most successful players. It's the chip makers like Nvidia that are still in the catbird seat, they are going to book the sales whether the data center the HW goes in makes any money or not. In fact sentiment seems to be growing that the downturn since the war has left NVidia oversold.

they have to send the Ford home, they've gone beyond any reasonable abuse of that crew.

interesting that Jensen Huang is talking up a new generation of AI and agents running on the local machine instead of in the cloud. This should have lot of appeal for both for orgs that don't want to risk their commercial data outside their own control, and also for individuals who want build that their own customized agents based on their life profiles without risking the privacy invasion of their data being on the cloud. The ebb and flow of computing function to and from the center to local and back again continues.

it's what he does, break stuff then leave it for someone else to clean up.

well it's nice to hear him make a backhanded concession to reality for once. Iranian rope-a-dope 1, US technoblitzkrieg 0 If you want the terms of deal in a nutshell, my money is on this: Iran opens the strait with surcharges to recoup damages when the US agrees to sit on Israel to stop their operations.

I can report that the 3rd game of the SD series showed up as watchable on the DTV 'fake' DVR service - so I assume the embargo on the 1st two games was just not having all their ducks in a row yet.

The species hasn't evolved to be able to deal with the tech culture it has built.. Young people going head over heels for this or that idea/movement/vocation/avocation has always been pretty common, but in the past also usually pretty benign. 'Just a phase' you move past and maybe your best friend remembers and can tease you about it 20yrs later. Well, no more of that kind of leeway.

Carpenter throws pretty well, probably the best of the bunch with Perez in Toledo. Vierlings arm may still be good but we'll have to see. OTOH, calling Riley's arm average is a stretch. He's firmly in the noodle category.

well, practically speaking it's only a semantic quibble, but I think Trump actually has a very finely developed personal sense of right and wrong, which when seen from the outside basically goes: I'm right, and what I want is right, and if you don't agree, you are wrong. Of course he doesn't see it that way, to him it's just because the world is a rational place that all choices that happen to be right also redound to his benefit. My impression is that Trump sees the world in very black and white moral terms, it's just that his is a depraved narcissistic morality. That would be opposed to seeing him as Nietzschean sort of character who sees himself as transcending right/wrong as concepts. Opinions will vary, but that is my take if I'm going to do a little amateur pysch.

the bottom line is a trade only helps if your GM actually makes you better in the trade. That means that if he gets back picks, he has to be able to hit on those picks, if gets back players, he has to somehow get more valuable players back than he sends out. Right now how much confidence do we have that Yzerman would be that GM in either circumstance? There is just no free lunch, there is only one route to your team improving, and that is for your management team to outperform other management teams in scouting, drafting, trading, development. Absent that, all the moves for the sake of moves are just deck chairs on the Titanic - or waiting around for lightning to strike your lottery luck.

that was the nail, but I doubt he could have survived the inflation rate even without it. He was an outsider partly because he was cocky and he and his team thought they knew better. Even when that may be true you can't act like it! Later in his life he freely admitted that at that point in his life he wasn't prepared for the job. The contrast to Reagan was so striking. Carter was a very bright guy, but he and he team were not self aware of their weaknesses, Reagan was never the sharpest tool in drawer but he surrounded himself with a large number of the most competent people that have served in a admin in my lifetime: Schultz, Baker, Simon, Volker, Regan et al. (of course there were a few ringers like Meese!)