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Iranian hackers hit Stryker HQ in Portage. https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2026/03/iran-linked-hack-suspected-in-disruption-of-global-michigan-based-company.html

Chris Partridge (now with the Seahawks) has filed a wrongful termination suit against UM and Manuel. https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2026/03/ex-michigan-coach-sues-school-ad-warde-manuel-over-scapegoat-termination.html

Ben Afleck has sold "InterPositive", a company he built that uses AI to edit/retouch movie footage (possibly among other things) to Netflix for a reported $600M (give or take incentives) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-pay-much-600-million-194011342.html

One of these mornings after futures slip overnight and the open is down, I expect the recent pattern of bottom feeders showing up to make a morning rally is going to break and the downside is going to get tested harder.

saw this. the interesting thing is how little they figured about the drop in the cost of renewables. In engineering school they taught you how cost scaled with equipment size, but the idea that there was predictable curve for cost of technology vs production scale of that technology wasn't on any one's bingo sheet. Today it's a well developed idea in tech engineering/forecasting with correlated parameter values for various techs. We always knew it was true at some level - We always knew to build the engine in your Buick as a one-off would cost a hundred times what it cost GM to build a million of them per unit, but the idea that the same idea applied to technological progress as a whole, that innovation was also a function of scale, hadn't really stuck.

Methinks they saw the poll.

I don't know that it ever gets talked about much but the strongest arm on the Tiger IF is McKinstry's. He'll touch mid 90's.

maybe payments from future Iranian oil revenue to a numbered Swiss account whose password is "s.u.r.e.i.d.d.a.t.e.m.y.d.a.u.g.h.t.e.r.

in other news: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/ice-lawyer-congress-julie-t-le.html

Monday's Washington happy talk was an attempt to talk down prices without anything on the ground (or water if you prefer) actually changing. Today the Iranians are doing their best to remind everyone about the "nothing has changed" part.

Iran getting real serious about stopping shipping in through the gulf. CNN Ticker:

Remember Adray's fondly

TBH, I could believe (don't say I do at this point) that Trump is the type that is always like a moth to the flame of men who really are libertine, but has always been too much of coward to be one himself (it's certainly not his morality that limits him!) so he talks the part to try and act the part, then disappears when anything is happening. Saying I *could* believe that. But I would say at this point there is no credible predonderance of evidence exonerating him opposed to the claims against him. Generally those that have defended him have too much skin in that game themselves. For me though - that he is a terrible person is a given, I don't need to know he is any more beyond the pale than I already know him to be from his actions in the public sphere when the light are on. But more to the point he is a terribly incompetent and dangerous Chief Exec and that would be true if his sexual rectitude matched Mother Teresa's. I'm only interested in the case against him if it has potential to get him out of office!

Students at OSU want Wexner's name taken off some stuff. I don't see the "U" giving back the money though...🙄

all about as easy to have predicted as the Sun rising in the East.

IIRC -He hurt his shoulder going into a base while still in the minors so they swapped him and Jung 2nd and third because the shoulder. At the time they said it could take a year or two for it to regain full strength, if it did. So he was tooling along as a 2B then they signed Torres but also figured Tork was toast so he was a 1b, and then when when Tork wasn't, it was - well share the ABs as best we can, and then finally: "Well how is the arm doing now? Try 3rd again" Last year once they put him back there he seemed to be throwing OK and there were no issues, so he is back where he started. He doesn't have anything like a cannon, but he gets rid of the ball quick and he's accurate. I'm guessing some people got a little misled looking at statcast data because you just don't try to throw max effort at 2b so his throwing velo looked pretty low, but at third he was hitting upper 80s, and with regular throwing there who knows he might loosen up and be able to add to that.

Isn't Jung now Torkelson's designated backup? Even if he does it from Toledo?

Trump appears to have lost Joe Rogan on Iran. I take that as a better indicator for the Dem's prospects than some of these low turn-out primaries, though I'll take them too. Also fun but probably won't come to anything, a Dem got the most votes in the primary for MTG's seat. Big field and the GOP candidates outpolled the Dem candidates overall. It goes to a run-off.

maybe the difference is that from all reports, Max is a very likeable kid, that it's more a matter of him trying to have fun with it than the kind of ego trip Kapler was. But time will tell. I am a lot more concerned about his bat stalling out than that his personality is going to hurt him

I'd take if from a different angle. In the NFL, you have a negotiated revenue split. It's not really a 'cap' in the sense of a number that protects owners from overspending or limits what any player can be paid- every NFL team must spend the same total on players. If a team's contracts don't total the cap (within 95%) in a given year, all the players on that team get a % surcharge adjustment. If they are over they have to cut players or move spending commitments into the future. It doesn't favor any team, its just the budget number that represents each team's players right to their percentage of league revenues. If some teams do a better job of managing contracts within those rules than others, what else is new?

They are also 'normalizing' the 2.5 number by calling it 'expected' when the target is 2.0 or less. That you are expecting not to make progress doesn't really excuse not making progress.

Notice, it's not a tanker. If I can send a message without creating an environmental disaster on my coast, that might be what I do.

I don't see why people think that because contracts can be restructured, the CAP is fake. If anything, it proves that it's real. The bill still comes due on all those deferrals. If there is a complaint it would be that the CAP keeps going up, which makes deferrals less painful. But that's just because the league keeps making more money (and inflation). But if the league makes more money and today's players that are building that success get to reap some of that benefit, I don't see a problem with that either.

Crap. I thought I heard Daniels say something about that but then I couldn't find anything about it after the game.